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Every book Jordan Harbinger recommended on podcasts
Jordan Harbinger’s most recommended books
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- The wisdom of psychopaths by Kevin Dutton
Jordan Harbinger is a podcaster and talk show host known for interviewing various experts and authors on The Jordan Harbinger Show. Throughout his podcast, Harbinger regularly recommended several books discussed with his guests or featured in his show notes. He mentioned Rutger Bregman's Humankind while discussing human nature and cooperation, and he recommended a previous conversation with author Robert Greene regarding The 48 Laws of Power. Harbinger also encouraged listeners to check out Scott Galloway's The Algebra of Wealth for practical tips, and he frequently brought up Dr. Becky Kennedy's book Good Inside when discussing parenting. In an episode focused on birth control, Harbinger expressed his surprise at enjoying Donna Cherniak's work and noted how F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise offered a new perspective on how birth control permeates society. Additionally, Harbinger recommended Dr. Alok Kanojia's How to Raise a Healthy Gamer, directing his audience to the show notes to find further resources and practical guides for navigating modern challenges, parenting, and personal development.
Books recommended by Jordan Harbinger
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a historical novel set in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death and centered on a young foster girl who steals books and shares them with others.
Discussed“You mentioned in the book that populism sees information as a weapon.”
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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy is a classic self-help and New Thought guide designed to help readers unlock mental potential and reshape their life outcomes by harnessing subconscious beliefs.
Discussed“I think it's even better that you chose to share that anecdote in your book instead of being embarrassed or hiding it.”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a widely praised guide on habit formation, behavior change, and systems over goals.
Discussed“This is like the James Clear Atomic Habits method, right? make it such a pain in the ass to get back into it that you have enough time and runway to stop yourself.”
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Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets is an insightful guide that applies poker strategies and decision-making frameworks to everyday life, teaching readers how to navigate uncertainty and avoid cognitive traps.
Discussed“almost like thinking in bets right have you ever read that book or heard of your book”
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The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers is a provocative guide examining historical strategies for acquiring and navigating power.
Discussed“I decided to read his entire book, which at the time I think was it was it was either the 48 laws of power or like the one after that.”
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian society characterized by perpetual surveillance, historical denial, and severe psychological manipulation.
Discussed“if I may paraphrase a line from George Orwell's 1984 to wear an improper expression on your face was itself a punishable offense”
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The Dictator's Handbook
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith is a political science text that explains how authoritarian leaders maintain power by satisfying a small coalition of essential supporters rather than the general public.
Discussed“I remember talking with oh man, his name is Alistair. He wrote the dictator's handbook.”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman explores the dual systems of the human mind that drive how people think, make choices, and commit cognitive errors.
Discussed“That stuff tends to make for good sound bites and go further, and this is sort of Daniel Kahneman’s system one thinking.”
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Principles
Principles by Ray Dalio is a practical guide to decision-making, life management, and systematic economics based on the author's decades of experience running Bridgewater Associates.
Discussed“as you do in principles you said this in a way that was genius”
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The wisdom of psychopaths
The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton is a fascinating exploration of psychopathic traits, examining how characteristics typically associated with extreme deviance can also manifest as adaptive strengths in high-achieving professions like business, law enforcement, and surgery.
Recommended“Up until I started looking into this and reading books like The Wisdom of Psychopaths, I used to just think psychopath equals serial killer, serial rapist, violent criminal underworld gang member”
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Study Guide
Study Guide by SuperSummary is a reference resource that breaks down popular literature and historical non-fiction.
Recommended“He wrote a brilliant book called The Dead Hand.”
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How to Change Your Mind
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan is a compelling non-fiction investigation into the history, science, and cultural renaissance of psychedelic substances like psilocybin and LSD in therapeutic settings.
Discussed“I read Michael pollins how to change your mind a few years ago he was on the shows episode 81 by the way and he's I was left with the impression that psychedelics are largely the cure for a lot of this stuff or could be what do you think of substances like LSD camine”
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Humankind
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman is a historical and sociological exploration arguing that human nature is fundamentally cooperative rather than inherently selfish.
Recommended“There's a book all about a lot of these things by Rutger Bregman. Have you read that? He came on the show and talked about this. I think it's called Humankind or something like that”
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Extreme Ownership
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a prominent leadership and self-improvement book written by former Navy SEAL officers that translates military combat experiences into actionable business and personal principles.
Discussed“I would imagine extreme ownership yes yeah he he mentioned in extreme ownership that when the the CEOs would come and say hey what do you guys need a lot of the other commanders would say we need better Wi-Fi and we got you know our weights we need a squat rack because we can - he would say nothing”
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Talking to Strangers
Talking to Strangers is a nonfiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores how people misjudge interactions with unfamiliar individuals.
Discussed“I think before when I read about truth default Theory and when I read talking to strangers it was like the abstract person that maybe doesn't default by default trust others”
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Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley is a satirical novel about a tobacco lobbyist who skillfully defends the rights of Americans to consume a harmful product.
Discussed“actually one of the great Thrills of my life was corresponding with Christopher Buckley during writing this book he he wrote Thank You for Smoking”
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Unrestricted warfare
Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui is a military strategy text written by Chinese People's Liberation Army colonels that outlines unconventional, asymmetric approaches to modern conflict.
Discussed“but in the book the pla the people's Liberation Army Colonels that wrote unrestricted Warfare they they marveled at the US's use of helicopters in Desert Storm”
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Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen's nonfiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario provides a chilling, unsparing countdown and thorough examination of what a global nuclear exchange would actually look like.
Recommended“The only solution is – I have to tell you – I'm way more scared of nuclear conflict than I was before reading this book.”
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Deviate
Discussed“in the meantime here's Bolano your your book deviate in your work in large part is about the idea or the fact that we don't experience the world as it is”
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Biased
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L.
Discussed“your book starts with kind of a sad story about your own son thinking that this man might rob the plane can you take us through that”
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The other 164 books Jordan Harbinger recommended or discussed, ranked
- Jerks at Work by Tessa West
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Winning by Tim S. Grover
- The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway
- Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD
- Beyond the Pill by Jolene Brighten
- What It Takes by Stephen A. Schwarzman
- Wise Guy by Guy Kawasaki
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Authentic Happiness by Martin Elias Pete Seligman
- From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul
- How Heartbreak Can Make You Stronger: Overcoming Heartbreak with Grace by Ranjot Singh Chahal
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Silently Seduced by Kenneth M. Adams
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
- Order Out of Chaos by Scott Walker
- A Massage Therapist's Guide to Understanding, Locating and Treating Myofascial Trigger Points by Leon Chaitow
- Battlegrounds by H. R. McMaster
- Connected by Nicholas A. Christakis
- Dirty Daddy by Bob Saget
- Everything all at once by Bill Nye
- Loserthink by Scott Adams
- Machete Season by Jean Hatzfeld
- Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
- Popular by Mitch Prinstein
- Relentless by Tim Grover, Tim S. Grover, Shari Wenk
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- The Game by Neil Strauss
- The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
- The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
- The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
- Unsavory Truth by Marion Nestle
- A book about birth control by Donna Cherniak
- Aristo teles by Hermann Siebeck
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
- Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
- How to Raise a Healthy Gamer by Alok Kanojia
- Imaginable by Jane McGonigal
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott
- Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon
- Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
- Thanks A Thousand by A. J. Jacobs
- The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by Perkins, John
- The Practice by Seth Godin
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Touching the Jaguar by John Perkins
- When Reason Goes on Holiday by Neven Sesardic
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
- Abq by Bob Berg
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Afraid by Arash Javanbakht, MD
- After the Spike by Dean Spears
- AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- As Many Reps as Possible by Jason Khalipa
- Attached by Amir Levine, M.D.
- Bible by Bible
- Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo
- Candy Crush Saga: Unlimited Lives Strategy – Play Without Waiting (2026 Edition) by Karna Raju
- Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Cesar Millan's Lessons from the Pack by Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier
- Chasing Shadows by Miles Johnson
- Chatter by Ethan Kross
- Chip War by Chris Miller
- Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara
- Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults by Steven Hassan, PhD
- Containment Is Not Possible by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
- Corrupt by Penelope Douglas
- Cosmic Queries by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jame Trefil
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
- Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov
- Demystifying China's Mega Trends by Chi Lo
- Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
- Donnie Brasco by Joseph Pistone
- Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
- Everything Is F*cked by Mark Manson
- Faerie queene by Edmund Spenser
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Four Weddings and a Funeral by Unknown
- Good Profit by Charles G. Koch
- Head Strong by Dave Asprey
- Het Achterhuis by Anne Frank
- Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
- How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter
- I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi
- Invention of Lying, The by Ricky Gervais
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
- It’s Not You by Ramani Durvasula
- It's Your Ship by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- La Poetica by Aristotle
- Mastermind by Maria Konnikova
- Meditations by Aurelius Marcus
- Naked by David Sedaris
- Never Be Lied to Again by David J. Lieberman
- No Angel by Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton
- Nothing to envy by Barbara Demick
- Obesity by G. Michael Steelman
- Plato's Apology by Πλάτων
- Range by David J. Epstein
- Rationality by Steven Pinker
- Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
- Shook One by Charlamagne Tha God
- Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- Sons of Anarchy by Ed Brisson
- Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
- SuperBetter by Jane McGonigal
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- The 5 Love Languages for Men by Gary Chapman
- THE ALLIANCE by Reid Hoffman
- The Alter Ego Effect by WILLIAM H MC RAVEN, Todd Herman
- The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Biblical Characters, and Other Sages of the Quran by Ahmad Shah
- The Book of Days by Robert Chambers
- The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The city gardener's handbook by Linda Yang
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- The confidence game by Maria Konnikova
- The Daily Laws by Robert Greene
- The death of expertise by Thomas M. Nichols
- The Dictionary of Body Language by Joe Navarro
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Harder They Fall by Budd Schulberg
- The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
- The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
- The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
- The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink
- The prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella
- The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- Tiger King by Joe Exotic
- Treasury's War by Juan Zarate
- Trillion-dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Alan Eagle, Jonathan Rosenberg
- Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
- What color is your parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
- When by Daniel H. Pink
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- Win bigly by Scott Adams
- Women's bodies, women's wisdom by Christiane Northrup
- Young China by Zak Dychtwald
Appearances
Other mentions (100: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“His memoir is American Nazi, from hate to humanity.”
“My friend Olivia Fox Cabana is this author of the charisma myth, and she used to do these week-long silent meditation retreats”
“Thanks to Sean Wisswesser, the book is Tradecraft Tactics and Dirty Tricks, Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War.”
“I do know that for for my show, the big one for me was Frank Abagnale, right? The Catch Me If You Can guy.”
“It's like, 'Good luck reading War and Peace for your book report.' It's hard.”
“I wrote a book about my life in that world from basically from 911 until now. Anonymous mail. It'll be linked in the show notes.”
“He reached out to the scientist who inspired the character in Contact that Jodie Foster played. And he like he sent all these emails out. No one's responding. And he said that was a moment when he was like, "Oh my god, I just emailed the like Jodie Foster lady from Contact. Like is this true?"”
“I know the documentary has been already filmed and and it's coming out, but I don't know when. We'll link to it in the show notes cuz it's out now. On Amazon.”
“What an incredible story. We'll link to the Amazon documentary. It's called Cocaine Quarterback. Correct.”
“You and I talked about this eight years ago or so uh when we were talking about my book, A Field Guide to Lies.”
“I mean, like we've all seen the the film Conclave.”
“I mean, it's like The Handmaid's Tale.”
“By the way, the book Never Play It Safe, use the links in the show notes. It helps support the show.”
“What color is your parachute? Is that a different dabono?”
“I I remember speaking of Catcher and the Ry, there was a Mel Gibson movie. I think it was called Conspiracy Theory.”
“and I'm like using like Sam Harris's waking up app and stuff to keep my meditation going and everything thing and stuff like that helps a lot because it's like are you really aware of what's going on”
“If you enjoyed this conversation, you will love our discussion with the author of The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene.”
“It's easy to disparage these individuals in finance, akin to characters from Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' suggesting they possess plans to abandon all financial advisors; however, such roles are pivotal to maintaining trust within large-scale societies.”
“what they do like you're having The Hitchhiker guy guy to the Galaxy that they have this plan to leave all these financial advisor behind”
“I've got some great notes from the book, but like you, you're like a ninth-degree black belt at creating impactful content.”
“It's not a Fahrenheit 451 situation.”
“development as a guy I really didn't think that I would do a show on/ love a book about birth control”
“I'm sure this was a few years ago, especially because the book was written quite a while ago.”
“I read this book quite a while ago and reread it more recently.”
“You see some women—the guest wrote something in the book about this—you see women whose team wins in sports or they win an election.”
“Actually, one of the great thrills of my life was corresponding with Christopher Buckley during writing this book; he wrote 'Thank You for Smoking,' which this book definitely reminds me of.”
“That's right, the way you spun this Iraq War documentary, that's what reminded me of 'Thank You for Smoking.'”
“Available in the show notes for this episode. And if you buy the books from the show, please do do use those show notes links because it helps support the show.”
“so there was a book called The Art of War”
“I would guess it was probably about The Coddling of the American Mind. I don't know if I'm not even sure what year it was, yeah.”