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Every book Jamie Loftus recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Jamie Loftus has recommended or discussed 12 books on podcasts, as of August 7, 2025.
- Jamie Loftus has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of August 7, 2025.
- Those books came up in 10 episodes, as of August 7, 2025.
- The 3 books Jamie Loftus has mentioned in the most episodes, as of August 7, 2025: The Sexual Politics of Meat, The Blind Side and The Book of Mormon.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Jamie Loftus aired on August 7, 2025.
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Jamie Loftus’s most recommended books
- The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams, Carol Adams, Carol J. Adams
- The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
- The Book of Mormon by Unknown
- Mtg: The Story of America First by Marjorie Taylor Greene
- The Prisoner in His Palace by Will Bardenwerper
- The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Unknown
- The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati
- The big short by Michael Lewis
- The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
- The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
Jamie Loftus appeared on podcasts such as Behind the Bastards, where she discussed and recommended several books across various episodes. Loftus promoted an interview on her podcast featuring author Carol J. Adams and her book The Sexual Politics of Meat, noting that Adams had faced severe online harassment for her work. While discussing other topics, Loftus also mentioned Will Bardenwerper's The Prisoner in His Palace, stating that the story made her want to read the book, a sentiment affirmed by host Robert Evans, who called it very good. Additionally, Loftus brought up The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown to correct Evans on the title of the ancient epic poem and mentioned reading a werewolf romance novel titled The Tyrant Alpha's Rejected Mate by Archie Sanders after jokingly discussing wolf smut. Furthermore, Loftus referenced The Book of Mormon by Unknown across multiple segments while introducing the history of Mormonism, its origin stories, and its account of Jesus visiting the Americas. Through these discussions, Loftus engaged with a wide variety of literature, ranging from feminist critique and historical non-fiction to ancient epics, contemporary romance, and religious texts, often using them to contextualize broader cultural and historical conversations during her podcast appearances.
Books recommended by Jamie Loftus
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The Sexual Politics of Meat
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J.
Recommended“with Carol J Adams author of um the sexual politics of meat who was harassed and doxed for weeks and like an entire Summer by rash Limba back in the day”
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The Blind Side
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction narrative exploring the evolution of football strategy and the remarkable life of Michael Oher, which later became a blockbuster film.
Discussed“So, in the in the intervening days, I've talked about the Michael Lewis of it all with a couple different people just to see if I was like if if if I had just missed something, but every single person I talked to, I found had a similar experience to me where they did not know that he wrote The”
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The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a foundational sacred text of the Latter-day Saint movement, detailing an alternate religious history of ancient American civilizations and recounting a reported post-resurrection ministry of Jesus Christ in the Western Hemisphere.
Discussed“Though Joseph Smith releases the Book of Mormon, and the religion is formalized in 1830, but the religion's origin story connects to two incidents from the previous 10 years.”
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Mtg: The Story of America First
Discussed“I can say that just by looking at the cover I can tell that you have never opened that book just I I I I've opened it once to uh show uh a couple of our friends how cursed her signature is”
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The Prisoner in His Palace
The Prisoner in His Palace by Will Bardenwerper is a non-fiction work that chronicles the final days of Saddam Hussein through the eyes of the twelve young American soldiers tasked with guarding him in coalition custody.
Recommended“That's I want to read that book now. It's a very good book. uh the prisoner in his palace.”
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Discussed“This is from a book called The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily. Oh, nice. They take over Sicily by force.”
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Discussed“This is from a book called The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily. Oh, nice. They take over Sicily by force.”
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The big short
The Big Short by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book examining the accumulation of risk and the bursting of the housing bubble that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Discussed“and he would need to course correct on the Michael Lewis in the first place for how he directed The Big Short”
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The Chaos Machine
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher is an investigative exposé examining how modern social media algorithms are deliberately engineered to reward outrage, polarize society, and manipulate human behavior on a global scale.
Discussed“It reminds me a lot of friend of the pod Max Fischer's book, The Chaos Machine, the ways in which modern algorithms are designed to enrage.”
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Why people recommend it: Preserving ancient mythology, human ambition, and timeless existential dread, The Epic of Gilgamesh is an anonymous Mesopotamian masterpiece.
Discussed“Uh, you're talking about the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic of Gilgamesh.”
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The Jungle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a 1906 novel that serves as a harsh expose of working conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry during the Gilded Age.
Discussed“Uh, to this day it's like you know, you've got Upton Sinclair reporting on meat packing in the jungle, right? And then you've also got as recently as last year, there were those meat packing scandals”
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The Tyrant Alpha's Rejected Mate
Discussed“Here is the name of the book that I read part of, The Tyrant Alphas Rejected Mate, which is one word too many, but it's got 3.8.”
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Books Jamie Loftus wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (33: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“Check out my book, Raw Dog, The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs. And it's in paperback now, so it doesn't cost as much money.”
“Uh, my book, Raw Dog, The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs, just came out in paperback”
“Life Strategies, Self Matters, The Ultimate Weight Solution. God, I hate all of his titles. Yeah, we had them. Relationship rescue. We had that.”
“Life Strategies, Self Matters, The Ultimate Weight Solution. God, I hate all of his titles. Yeah, we had them. Relationship rescue. We had that.”
“Life Strategies, Self Matters, The Ultimate Weight Solution. God, I hate all of his titles. Yeah, we had them. Relationship rescue. We had that.”
“My house. Wow. It was next to I like clearly remember it being next to my mom's bed. Mhm. Yeah. Like, you know, it's the good book. You gota got to keep it close to you. We didn't own the Bible. We owned Life Strategies.”
“it's about uh hot dogs it's called raw dog it is out in hard cover now it'll be out in paperback next year”
“In 1932, Maxani's father died and she decided to take this as an opportunity to travel to India to seek out the truth of the ancient Aryans. It's like a Nazi version of Eat, Pray, Love.”
“you buy my book raw dog which is about hot dogs”
“Uh, you can—what else can you do? You can buy my book, Raw Dog, which is about hot dogs!”
“Well, cuz yeah, they were like, yeah, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, The Big Short.”
“Buy a copy of Raw Dog. It's my book about hot dogs. And if you don't like hot dogs, the title's funny and I think that's, you know, about 60% of the purchases I've gotten have been off that alone.”
“I think uh ilium and Olympus uh okay I forget the name of the author”
“and today it's about hot dogs and in order to talk about [laughter] hot dogs we're joined by Jamie Loftess whose new book Raw Dog the naked truth about hot dogs boldly asked the question what if a book was good.”
“Jamie, where can people find the hot dog book? Oh, you can find it uh all over the place. Uh but I would recommend getting it from bookshop.org if you're ordering online. It's a really cool website that will uh automatically purchase from your nearest independent bookstore and send it to you.”
“I um always enjoy something like that where you're like yeah you could read the like when do you find out the Wizard of Oz is an allegory for something you're like well I didn't know about these agrarian like what”
“Um so if you enjoy this episode, please buy my book that comes out next year. This is a very tiny part of it.”
“You'll just have to buy my book next year to find out, Robert.”
“set a reminder in your phone for a year from today saying, "Hey, did I pre-order Jaime's book, Raw Dog, that comes out in April 2023? I sure hope I did."”
“So I hope you read it. Check out Raw Dog. Incredible title. very excited for that.”
“I was listening to an Amityville horror audio book and just reaching down and petting my cat for 6 hours. It was a It was a real treat.”
“Relationship Rescue. We had that. It wasn't on the main shelf, but it was in the house. It was in the house.”
“We didn't own the Bible. We owned Life Strategies, the John Edward book, and that other one by that guy who said he could talk to dead people. I forget who it was.”
“my week really did devolve into Lolita ended and I'm like I can do whatever I want and it turns out whatever I want is reading Kathy comics for three straight days.”
“Um Mark's hobbies as a boy included shooting pigeons with an air rifle and reading about Adolf Hitler, who he grew to admire. It's very we need to talk about Kevin.”
“We're heading into the years of Tucker Max and The Game and that mids [ __ ] Bring it on. Yeah. And I I I don't know. I think also maybe part of the reason I didn't get as much into it is that by kind of 2004 or five”
“I keep saying anarchis ka but I'm hearing gravity's rainbow each and every time. It's it's way better book than”
“You can follow me on twitter.com at jamie loftishelp. You can listen to my new show, Lolita podcast, which p examines the legacy of the book Lolita and gets really into who the character Dolores Hayes was and how she got lost in translation p throughout the adaptations that that this book was given over the years.”
“She would have written Shades of Gray though if she had been around. I wish she had. Like it would if that's the better world.”
“I found I found a book called Lightning on the Sun. That's pretty close. It's probably Nazi. It's about a guy named Glenn who owns a store.”