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Robert Evans books: every book Robert Evans wrote and recommended
Books by Robert Evans
Robert Evans’s most recommended books
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
- In Plain Sight by Dan Davies
- The big short by Michael Lewis
- Code Over Country by Matthew Cole
- Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
- Age of Oprah by Janice Peck
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Robert Madison Evans is an American internet broadcaster, journalist, and author who has reported on global conflicts and online extremism. A former editor at the humor website Cracked.com, Evans has also written for the investigative journalism outlet Bellingcat while working on several podcasts, including Behind the Bastards, Behind the Police, Behind the Insurrections, It Could Happen Here, The Women's War, and Worst Year Ever. In 2021 he published his first novel, After the Revolution first as a serialized podcast. Evans recommended several books on his shows, including David Philipps's Alpha, which he cited when discussing the culture of the original Frogmen. He recommended Todd Miller's Border Patrol Nation and Empire of Borders during discussions on border enforcement, and Sally Hayden's My Fourth Time, We Drowned when addressing European migration policies in Libya. He also mentioned Warren Ellis's comic book series Transmetropolitan as an early influence, recommended a book on the Durruti Column by Abel Paz, and suggested Siddhartha Kara's book about the slave ship Zong.
Books recommended by Robert Evans
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler is a notorious autobiographical manifesto outlining the author's political ideology and anti-Semitic worldview.
Discussed“Quote, 'Just because I own a copy of Minecom, does that make me a Nazi? If I own Dos Capital, does that make me a Marxist?' Unquote.”
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American Sphinx
American Sphinx by Joseph J.
Discussed“in American Sphinx Ellis estimates Jefferson's debt at several 100,000 now”
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.
Discussed“Laurence was even more explicit about his actions that day in Seven Pillars in a Madness born of the horror of tus we killed and killed even blowing in the heads of the fallen and of the animals as though their death and running blood could slake our agony”
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In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight by Dan Davies is a biographical and investigative account detailing the life and crimes of Jimmy Savile.
Discussed“And Dunncroft is an experimental facility which sought to use psychotherapy to, as Davies writes for in in his book In Plain Sight, correct the behavioral defects of the girls placed in its care.”
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The big short
The big short by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction account that explores the housing market collapse and the traders who profited from the 2008 financial crisis.
Discussed“So Jamie, speaking of great authors, 80% of this episode is [ __ ] on Michael Lewis, the author of The Big Short.”
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Code Over Country
Code Over Country by Matthew Cole is an investigative non-fiction book that explores the cultural transformation, misconduct, and history of the United States Navy SEALs, particularly focusing on units like Red Cell and Team Six.
Discussed“And this is a description by Matthew Cole from the book Code Over Country, Um, and this is based on the actual evidence of what happened in that fight. Shaw grabbed his small force, as few as seven, but no more than 10, and quietly stalked up the ridge line in the early morning hours.”
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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.
Discussed“And I'm going to quote from Annie Jacobson's book nuclear war here. No one's, and this is after they're going over the plan again to kill 600 million people.”
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Age of Oprah
Age of Oprah by Janice Peck is an insightful critical analysis that examines the cultural, economic, and psychological impact of Oprah Winfrey on American media, therapeutic culture, and public consciousness.
Discussed“and this is a point that's made very well in the book the age of Oprah By Janice peek quote inspired by a New York Times series from 2005”
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky is a massive, widely discussed fanfiction piece that reimagines the original wizarding universe through the lens of cognitive science, scientific skepticism, and strict rationality.
Discussed“Sonia was 14 when she first read Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which has set her on the path that led her to moving to the Bay Area in order to get involved in the rationalist EA set”
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Command and Control
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser is an investigative history examining the safety hazards, accidents, and near-misses associated with the American nuclear weapons arsenal.
Recommended“then command and control um among other things talks about a bunch of the different like fuckups and errors that have happened along the way. Um they're all good books.”
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Infinite loop
Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane by Michael S.
Discussed“in the book infinite Loop Malone writes quote Steve Jobs no longer cared about the two”
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Going Infinite
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book that explores the meteoric rise and subsequent collapse of cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried and his company, FTX.
Critiqued“Ah, so we've been talking around the book Going Infinite, which is Michael's terrible book on Sam.”
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Notes on the state of Virginia
Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson is the only book published by the Founding Father during his lifetime, originally written as an extensive defense and description of America for a French audience that encompasses geographic, social, and political observations.
Discussed“So back during his years in France, when he had written Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson had written at length his belief that black people were not mentally capable of being free.”
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Master of the mountain
Master of the Mountain by Henry Wiencek is a critical historical examination of Thomas Jefferson and the complex, deeply flawed realities of his life as a slaveholder.
Discussed“and it's uh you know all this stuff in the farm book is a big part of what weinek bases his book master of the mountain on”
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Brave Men, Dark Waters
Brave Men, Dark Waters by Orr Kelly is a military history book that chronicles the origins, evolution, and early operations of the United States Navy SEALs.
Discussed“had SEAL Team Six not been so eager to show off its skills in a real war. That's from Brave Men Dark Waters.”
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Rogue Warrior
Rogue Warrior by Richard Marcinko is a bestselling 1992 military autobiography detailing the tumultuous career of the founder of SEAL Team Six.
Discussed“In 1992, Richard Marcinko gets out of prison and publishes the book Rogue Warrior, which is the first account of life inside SEAL Team Six written by a SEAL.”
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Alpha
Alpha by David Philipps is a detailed and critical examination of the Navy SEALs, focusing particularly on the case of alleged war criminal Eddie Gallagher.
Discussed“Here's how David Phillips describes Gallagher's early life in Alpha. One morning in 1999, without telling his family, he had walked into a Navy recruiting station in a strip mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana, determined to enlist. On the wall, there was a poster of a SEAL commando coming out of the water with night vision goggles and a glistening”
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Children of the Night
Children of the Night by Paul Kenyon is a work of narrative history that explores the complex political and social dynamics of Romania.
Discussed“as Paul Kenyon describes in Children of the Night esku was one minute and 17 seconds into his address when he heard yells from somewhere in the back”
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On Stalin's team
On Stalin's Team by Sheila Fitzpatrick is a historical work that explores the inner circle of Soviet leadership surrounding Joseph Stalin and the complex dynamics of power within the regime.
Discussed“this does not deal directly with Bara, but I found a passage in Sheila Fitzpatrick's book on Stalin's team that I enjoyed too much not to share”
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream is a celebrated science fiction short story collection by Harlan Ellison that features dark themes including a malevolent artificial intelligence known as AM.
Discussed“Yedowski cares about like he believes that the Harlon Ellison short story, I have no mouth and I must but I must scream.”
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The other 552 books Robert Evans recommended or discussed, ranked
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- Win bigly by Scott Adams
- Cultish by Amanda Montell
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
- Hereditary Genius by Francis Galton
- Oprah by Kitty Kelley
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The religion war by Scott Adams
- The way of the iceman by Wim Hof
- American Crusade by Pete Hegseth
- Migra! by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
- After Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli
- Berlin Games by Guy Walters
- God's debris by Scott Adams
- Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
- The Gamblers by John Pearson
- Vanishing Act by Jerry Jamison
- Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Bible by Bible
- Island of shame by David Vine
- Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
- Nakam by Dina Porat
- Ramblin' Man by Ed Cray
- Suburban Warriors by Lisa McGirr
- Web of deceit by Mark Curtis
- Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
- The young T.E. Lawrence by Anthony Sattin
- Hitler's Personal Prisoner by Benjamin Ziemann
- Kaiser Wilhelm II by John C. G. Röhl, Nicolaus Sombart
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- My War Criminal by Jessica Stern
- Self-Styled by Alan C Logan
- The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
- The Contrarian by Max Chafkin
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, Almarie Guerra
- Mississippi Moonshine Politics by Janice Branch Tracy
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda Paramahansa
- Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
- Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged by Edward Gibbon
- Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
- Regenesis by George M. Church
- Study Guide by SuperSummary
- The Kennedys by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- The Lost City of Z by David Grann
- The Man Who Broke Capitalism by David Gelles
- King Leopold's ghost by Adam Hochschild
- Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
- City of Quartz by Mike Davis
- Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth
- JACK. STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT. by Jack Welch
- Kissinger's shadow by Greg Grandin
- Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
- The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
- The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector
- Brother Number One by David P Chandler
- Chief by Daryl F. Gates
- Das Capital Volume One by Karl Marx
- Eichmann by David Cesarani
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee by Fitzhugh Lee
- Inquiries Into Human Faculty by Francis Galton
- Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development by Francis Galton
- Iron John, a Book About Men by Robert Bly
- Kissinger by Niall Ferguson
- L.A. Noir by John Buntin
- Lives in Common by Menachem Klein
- Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith
- Murder in Brentwood by Mark Fuhrman
- Project Beta by Greg Bishop
- Quackery by Lydia Kang
- Racial hygiene by Proctor, Robert
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
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- The Game by Neil Strauss
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- The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
- The Red Network by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Dilling
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- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea
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- 1945 by Newt Gingrich
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- Algospeak by Adam Aleksic
- Bad Boy by Ronin Ro
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- Empire of Orgasm by Ellen Huet
- Fall by John Preston
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- Ten stupid things women do to mess up their lives by Laura Schlessinger
- The Cigarette Century by Allan M. Brandt
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- The Illuminati by Larry Burkett
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- Toxic Childhood by Sue Palmer
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- All Art Is Propaganda by George Orwell
- America by Dylan Rees
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- Defiance by Nechama Tec
- Durruti by Abel Paz
- Empire of Borders by Todd Miller
- Food Not Lawns by Heather Jo Flores
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- Tribe by Sebastian Junger
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- Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
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- Becoming the Iceman by Wim Hof
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- Book of the Dead by Foy Scalf
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- Brighter Than A Thousand Suns by Robert Jungk
- Brown America by Edwin Rogers Embree
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- Cambodia by George C. Hildebrand
- Camp des saints by Jean Raspail
- Cape Light by Thomas Kinkade
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Child of a King by Christopher Evans
- Clouds of Glory by Michael Korda
- Coco Chanel by Justine Picardie
- Code by Lawrence Lessig
- Colour of Murder - One Family's Horror Exposes A Nation's Anguish by Heidi Holland
- Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum
- Constantini Liber de coitu by Constantine the African
- Corydon by André Gide
- Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
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- Democrat to Deplorable by Jack Murphy
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- Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
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- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent by Richard Hakluyt
- Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Dr. Laura by Vickie L. Bane
- Dr. Spock's baby and child care by Benjamin Spock, Michael B. Rothenberg M.D.
- Drawing down the Moon by Margot Adler
- Dreams From Our Founding Fathers by Ron DeSantis
- Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
- Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition by Ashlee Vance
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- Empire of cotton by Sven Beckert
- End of Days by Sylvia Browne
- English men of science: their nature and nurture by Sir Francis Galton
- Epidemic by Meg Meeker
- Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations, Demonstrating the Existence of Spirits and Their Communion with Mortals - Doctrine of the Spirit World Respecting Heaven, Hell, Morality, and God by Robert Hare
- Experiments And Observations On Electricity by Benjamin Franklin
- Experiments And Observations On Electricity Made At Philadelphia In America by Benjamin Franklin
- Face to Face Appearances from Jesus by David E. Taylor
- Fall by Rebecca Pettiford
- Famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia by Dino Buzzati
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- First half by Toni Lamond
- First peoples by Colin G. Calloway
- Flying the line. by George E. Hopkins
- Full metal jacket by Stanley Kubrick
- Future shock by Alvin Toffler
- Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
- God's Man by Clarissa Start
- Gods and soldiers by Rob Spillman
- Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- Good Bread Is Back by Steven L. Kaplan
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
- Grey by E L James
- Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
- Grief Diaries by Lynda Cheldelin Fell
- Guerrilla leader by James J. Schneider
- Gunfight by Adam Winkler
- Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer by Shaun Kimber
- Hereditary Character and Talent: As Found Originally in Macmillan's Magazine in 1865 by Francis Galton
- Himmler by Peter Padfield
- Hitler by Ian Kershaw
- Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts by Bill Yenne
- Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
- How to Pick Up Girls! by Eric Weber
- Hugenberg's economic program by Alfred Hugenberg
- Humankind by Rutger Bregman
- Humans by Brandon Stanton
- Hunt It, Kill It, Drag It by David Roberts
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Impeachment of Man by Savitri Devi
- In darkest England by William Booth
- In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth
- In search of excellence by Thomas J. Peters
- Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations by Bruno Bettelheim
- Instruments of Statecraft by Michael McClintock
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
- Iron John by Robert Bly
- It by Stephen King
- It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- Jefferson and his time by Dumas Malone
- John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét
- Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System by M. Chris Fabricant
- Kampuchea by Malcolm Caldwell
- Kill Something and Drag It Home by Robin Bull
- King Richard by Michael Dobbs
- King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore
- Labor in the South by F. Ray Marshall
- Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
- Left Behind by Tim LaHaye
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- Life by Unknown
- Lifted to the Shoulders of a Mountain by Pat Turner Mitchell
- Lions & scavengers by Ben Shapiro
- Literature as exploration by Louise M. Rosenblatt
- Lives by Plutarch
- Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
- Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a "most Objectionable Nazi" And... Half-a-dozen Cats by Savitri Devi
- Looks Like a Cheetah to Me by Nick Miceli
- Lord of Flies by William Golding
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire by J. M. Thompson
- Love Is an Uphill Thing by JIMMY SAVILE
- M.I.A., Or, Mythmaking in America by Howard Bruce Franklin
- Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
- Male Fantasies by Klaus Theweleit
- Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Marjo's by H. L. Perry
- MBS by Ben Hubbard
- Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann by Leo Deuel
- Memoirs of my nervous illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
- Menachem Begin by Daniel Gordis
- Mengele by Gerald L. Posner
- Minion by John David Anderson
- Mississippi Mud by Edward Humes
- Mtg: The Story of America First by Marjorie Taylor Greene
- Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret
- Murambi, the Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop
- Murder in Greenwich by Mark Fuhrman
- Murder of a Gentle Land by John Barron
- Mussolini and Fascism by John Patrick Diggins
- Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard
- Nature's Eternal Religion by Ben Klassen
- New Religions and the Nazis by Karla O. Poewe
- Nuclear weapons and foreign policy by Henry Kissinger
- Of Other Worlds by C. S. Lewis
- Of Saints and Sinners. Native Resistance to Ottoman Expansion in Southeastern Europe, 1443-1481: George Castriota Scanderberg and Vlad III Dracula by Kurt William Treptow
- On the Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther
- On the trail of the assassins by Jim Garrison
- One World Or None by Dexter Masters
- Oswald by Kerry Thornley
- Out of control by G. Gordon Liddy
- Paraguay Under Stroessner by Paul H. Lewis
- Patriots of Treason by David Thomas Roberts
- Political Romanticism by Carl Schmitt
- Present Concerns by C. S. Lewis
- Principia Discordia by MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER
- Problems of Leninism by Joseph Stalin
- Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- Prophecy by Sylvia Browne
- Psychic by Sylvia Browne
- Red Revolution by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Dilling
- Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia by Stig Stenslie
- Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch
- Rejoice by Karen Kingsbury
- Rejoice And See What Happens Next by Kedmon Nyasha Hungwe
- Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz
- RFK Jr. by Jerry Oppenheimer
- Right-Wing Resurgence by Daryl Johnson
- Robert E. Lee by Guelzo, Allen C.
- Rogue warrior 2 by RICHARD. MARCINKO
- Rolph Scarlett by Judith Nasby
- Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
- Scivias by Hildegard Saint
- Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier
- Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by Nesta Webster
- Setting the Desert on Fire by James Barr
- Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Sleeping With the Enemy by Hal Vaughan
- Slow Sex by Nicole Daedone
- Some Historical Account of Guinea by Anthony Benezet
- Southern Horrors by Crystal N. Feimster
- Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Stalin and Europe by Timothy Snyder
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- Superior by Angela Saini
- Tearing Down The Wall of Sound by Mick Brown
- Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- Texit by Bruce McNabb
- Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
- The Adventure of the Norwood Builder by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
- The Art of Travel by Francis Galton
- The Art, Science, and Spirituality of the Female Orgasm by Nicole Daedone
- The autobiography of a race horse by L. B. Yates
- The autobiography of Benjamin Rush by Benjamin Rush
- The Bad Boy Book by John Murray
- The Blood telegram by Gary J. Bass
- The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell, John Gray
- The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross by T. K. Nakagaki
- The Business of Redemption by James Arthur Ray
- The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
- The Child to Come by Rebekah Sheldon
- The CII Model Plant by Jack Vincent Scherer
- The Clansman by Thomas Dixon
- The coal question by William Stanley Jevons, Alfred William Flux
- The Color of Violence by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
- The colour of murder by Heidi Holland
- The Command of the Air by Giulio Douhet
- The Complete Practical Joker by H. Allen Smith
- The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
- The confidence game by Maria Konnikova
- The CREATION OF DR B by Richard Pollak
- The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy by Carl Schmitt
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The dark tower, and other stories by C. S. Lewis
- The Day the Earth Stood Still by Robert Wise
- The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, Charles Francis Atkinson
- The Dilbert future by Scott Adams
- The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
- The Diversity Myth by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel
- The ego and his own by Max Stirner
- The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
- The empty fortress by Bruno Bettelheim
- The Essential Stalin by Joseph Stalin
- The First Circle by Александр Солженицын
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Game by George Howe Colt
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Great Mortality by John Kelly
- The Hidden History of Coined Words by Ralph Keyes
- The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Illuminati by Jim Marrs
- The Joy of Work by Scott Adams
- The KLF by John Higgs
- The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
- The late great planet earth by Hal Lindsey
- The Legend of Candy Claws by Aurelio Voltaire, Shamine King
- The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
- The Man-plant: Or, Scheme for Increasing and Improving the British Breed. By Vincent Miller, ... by Vincent Miller
- The mass psychology of fascism by Wilhelm Reich
- The merchant of Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham
- The Microsoft File by Wendy Goldman Rohm
- The moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Murder Business by Mark Fuhrman
- The Necessity for Choice by Henry A. Kissinger
- The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
- The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
- The NRA by Frank Smyth
- The Octopus by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Dilling
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Outsiders by S. E Hinton
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism by Carola Dietze
- The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin
- The passion of John Aspinall by Brian Masters
- The patriarch by David Nasaw
- The Peasantry as the Lifeblood of the Nordic Race by Richard Walther Darre
- The Peter Principle by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull
- The Philosopher in the Valley by Michael Steinberger
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- The proper care and feeding of marriage by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Victor, E Marsden
- The Red Network; A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Dilling
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
- The Riverkeepers by John Cronin
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
- The Roswell Incident by Marcus Draysun
- The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles
- The science of hitting by Williams, Ted
- The Search for Bridey Murphy by MOREY BERNSTEIN
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- The Secret Doctrine by Helena P. Blavatsky
- The secret world government by Cherep-Spiridovich, Arthur Count
- The shadow emperor by Alan Strauss-Schom
- The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Story of Versailles by Francis Loring Payne
- The Strangling of Persia by W. Morgan Shuster
- The Survivor by Terrence Des Pres
- The Tate Bible by Andrew Tate
- The Transit of Empire by Jodi A. Byrd
- The trap by Goldsmith, James Sir
- The trouble with Dilbert by Norman Solomon
- THE TURNER DIARIES by ANDREW MACDONALD
- The Twelfth of August by W. R. Morris
- The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler
- The Wild Man from Sugar Creek by William Anderson
- The Works of Victor Hugo: The history of a crime. Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
- The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
- The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek
- Then They Came for Me by Matthew D Hockenos
- Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann
- They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer
- Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light by Katherine Spencer
- Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade by John Newton
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
- Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
- True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro
- Trujillo: Little Caesar of the Caribbean by Germán E. Ornes
- Trump by Jerome Tuccille
- Trump and the Resurrection of America by John Michael Chambers
- Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Vax-Unvax by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Walking on by Pusser, Dwana
- Wealth & poverty by George F. Gilder
- Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder
- What doesn't kill us by Scott Carney
- What Happens Next by Claire Swinarski
- World of the John Birch Society by D. Mulloy
- Worm by Jill Bailey
- Wrestling Babylon by Irv Muchnick
- You can trust the Communists (to be Communists) by Fred Schwarz
- You Know What They Say... by Alfie Kohn
Questions about Robert Evans’s book recommendations
What book does Robert Evans recommend most?
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Robert Evans discussed it in 6 episodes.
How many books has Robert Evans recommended on podcasts?
We have found 572 books Robert Evans recommended or discussed, across 311 episodes of 1 podcast. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Robert Evans's reading list?
The books Robert Evans has recommended most on podcasts are Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence, In Plain Sight by Dan Davies and The big short by Michael Lewis. The full book list below has all 572.
What books has Robert Evans written?
A (brief) history of vice (2016) and After the Revolution (2022).
What did Robert Evans recommend on Behind the Bastards?
Mein Kampf, American Sphinx and Seven Pillars of Wisdom, among 572 books in all.
What is the latest book Robert Evans recommended?
Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity, discussed on Behind the Bastards (2026-10-15).
People who recommend the same books
Appearances
Other mentions (177: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
Passing Digging for Troy
“In Digging for Troy, the authors write, Schliemann was sure the site would have been unworkable if the storks hadn't eaten most of the snakes.”
Plugged The Tower
“Jamie Loftess has a book coming out called the tower.”
Plugged The Tower
“Jamie, why don't you plug your new novel, The Tower, which I just plugged, but you can plug it.”
Passing The Lord of the Rings
“Jairer Tolkien who writes "The Lord of the Rings" and is like, fucking has to fight in World War I.”
Passing The Incomparable
“reading a book right now called "Intomperable," which is about, like, Napoleon Bonaparte's the most elite, like, regiment in his entire army, the ninth infantry.”
“During research for the book Brazil that Never Was, author AJ Le happened by chance on a copy of a book titled Tommy, the British soldier on the Western Front. And as he's just doing research on Faucet, he's thumbming through this completely unrelated book and he sees Faucet's name listed in the index and he's like, "Well, I should”
Passing Killers of the Flower Moon
“If you've heard of his name or you think you've heard of his name, it's probably because he wrote the book Killers of the Flower Moon, which was turned into a widely celebrated film.”
Passing How to Be a Grown Up
“To go back into the the people who helped make Dialogue the great organization it is, the executive director of Dialogue is apparently Raffi Grinberg, and he is also the author of a self-help book titled How to Be a Grown-Up.”
Passing Fight Like Hell
“And the great Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell.”
Passing She Comes First
“One of the book jacket quotes for Slow Sex is by Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author of She Comes First.”
“Dahlia Scheindlin's book "The Crooked Timber" on Israeli democracy and the occupation”
Passing Doctor Sleep
“The episode title that I've got working is called The Real Dr. Sleep, which is the title entirely because I'm pretty sure Stephen King wrote a novel called Dr. Sleep. I don't know what it's about. I've certainly never read it.”
Passing The Godfather
“I'm always the first to be Robert, if you don't count that guy who produced The Godfather.”
Passing Border Patrol Nation
“http://www.toddmillerwriter.com/border-patrol-nation/”
Passing All They Will Call You
“https://timzhernandez.com/all-they-will-call-you/”
Passing The devil wears Prada
“So Anna is who Meyer Street's character in The Devil Wears Prada is based on, right? Like that's who this person is.”
Passing The big short
“It also came out that the guy who wrote The Big Short has been following him for 6 months.”
“Jamie Ellison has for years vocalized her diehard obsession with Harry Potter.”
Plugged After the Revolution
“You can find my novel After the Revolution by typing After the Revolution into whatever book buying site you use or just walk into a bookstore and demand it from the manager at Sword Point.”
Ad read On Tyranny
“Listen to on tyranny or something. Yeah, listen to tyranny or something.”
Passing The Blitz
“This is the same problem the guy who wrote Blitz has, right?”
Passing American Crusade
“Yeah. American Crusade.”
Passing American Crusade
“I found the free copy of this book online, by the way. I didn't pay for it. If you just Google full text free, you can find it, too.”
“there's a book about him called John Graham Convict 1824 that was published by Robert Gibbings in 1937”
Passing Jurassic Park
“and this is all the work of a of an actual like science like bioscience startup called Colossal Biosciences, which is just by name a company that could not sound more like it belonged than a Michael Brighton novel if they just called it engine, right?”
Passing Jurassic Park
“The article goes on to summarize the book that he co-wrote with Ed Regis, who it's weird to me that his co-author's name is Ed Regis because Ed Regis is also a character in the book Jurassic Park.”
Plugged Cultish
“Amanda Montel, our great guest and the author of Ctish, as soon as we finish this recording”
Passing The Mom Test
“As Fpatrick writes, Jeff Bradstreet abandoned his career as a family doctor to become a radio talk show host.”
Passing Animorphs - The Android
“Did you ever read anomorphs as a book, David? Wow. Yes.”
Plugged I Hate Everyone But You
“you are the co-author of the book I hate everyone but you which was a New York Times bestseller”