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Shaan Puri's book recommendations
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Shaan Puri appears on, in one place — not just one.
Shaan Puri’s most recommended books
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
- Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- The Game by Neil Strauss
- How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
- Made to stick by Chip Heath
- Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
Shaan Puri recommended several books across various episodes of his podcast to help listeners with mindset, copywriting, and business strategy. He brought up W. Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis to support a discussion on visualization techniques and mental focus. To help a guest improve direct-response marketing and copywriting, Puri recommended David Ogilvy's Ogilvy on Advertising. He also mentioned reading a book titled Americana to discuss breakthroughs in American capitalism and recurring fears throughout history. For learning how to make ideas memorable and sticky, Puri recommended Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. When discussing customer service strategies during an interview, he brought up Will Guidara's Unreasonable Hospitality. Additionally, Puri recommended the travel book Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip about two Soviet Russians traveling through America in 1935, and Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage when discussing Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea. Finally, he brought up Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy to illustrate that constantly questioning one's happiness and purpose can lead to greater discontent.
Books recommended by Shaan Puri
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a classic self-help book focused on interpersonal communication, empathy, and building genuine human connections.
Discussed“So that's one of these things where you read a book like how to win friends and influence people and you're like duh that's obvious and it almost becomes a reminder and yet I'm like but how do you tactically make that switch where you say enjoy the relationships not seeking the outcome?”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a highly influential lifestyle design manual that challenges conventional career paths and encourages readers to automate, delegate, and escape the traditional nine-to-five grind.
Discussed“And so he read Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek book about life design. Do you remember like the concept of life life design, which is like you can build any life that you want to build, you know, but you have to map out like what does my day look like?”
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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“First, I'm just going to read you from Robert Green who came on the podcast. Really interesting guy wrote 48 Laws of Power. Law number 25. Recreate yourself.”
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Influence
Influence by Robert B.
Discussed“We discussed Robert Cialdini's Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion.”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a well-known self-improvement guide focused on habit formation, continuous improvement, and practical strategy.
Discussed“I remember I felt uh defensive of you when Atomic Habits came out because you were my guy and I'm friends with James.”
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson is a popular self-help guide that uses blunt counterintuitive wisdom to help readers prioritize what truly matters in life.
Discussed“so for example Mark Manson when he came on two or three years ago he either said this on the podcast or when I was hanging out with him his book for I think it was Penguin sold 20 million copies...”
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The Game
The Game by Neil Strauss is a non-fiction book that explores the secretive underworld of pickup artistry and social dynamics.
Discussed“When Sean and I were 14, the game the book came out and like every 14-year-old read this book called The Game. It was about pickup artists and it like it took a whole bunch of internet nerds like us.”
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How to Get Rich
How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis is a frank and practical exploration of wealth accumulation written by a successful magazine publishing mogul.
Recommended“Have you guys ever read this book called How to Get Rich? No. It's by an author called Felix Dennis. Felix Dennis, you guys have to read his book.”
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Made to stick
Chip Heath and Dan Heath's popular book Made to Stick explores the core principles behind why certain ideas capture the public imagination while others are quickly forgotten.
Recommended“If you want to learn more about this stuff, my favorite book on this topic is Made to Stick by Chip Heath. It's two brothers from Stanford and they do the best job of showing like five ways that you can make ideas stick with people.”
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Storyworthy
Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks is a practical guide to storytelling written by a multi-time Moth GrandSLAM champion, offering structured exercises to help individuals find and shape compelling narratives from their daily lives.
Recommended“Worthy storyworthy is a amazing book by this like teacher guy who's like this 20 time storytelling champion of the moth storytelling I didn't I didn't even know what this thing was”
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The Inner Game of Tennis
The Inner Game of Tennis by W.
Recommended“the inner game of tennis talks a lot about that. Great book.”
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The Mom Test
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is a concise business guide designed to help entrepreneurs extract honest feedback from potential customers by asking the right questions.
Discussed“so you um have you ever read this thing called the mom test”
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$100M Offers
$100M Offers by Alex Hormozi is a practical business guide that teaches entrepreneurs how to create irresistible, high-value product offers that practically sell themselves.
Discussed“So the first one was this is what this is kind of book one. So this is you know your $100 million offers book.”
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Zero to One
Zero to One by Peter A.
Discussed“And then I read Peter Teal's book, um what's it called? Um 0ero to one. 0ero to1.”
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Living with a SEAL
Living with a SEAL by Jesse Itzler chronicles the author's thirty-day experience inviting an intense Navy SEAL, later identified as David Goggins, to live with him and completely overhaul his physical and mental limits.
Discussed“I read your book. Uh the real The day I got really into you is when I read Living with a Seal, which is the story of you living with uh David Goggins for 30 days.”
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Grit
Grit by Angela Duckworth is a psychology-based exploration of the roles that passion and perseverance play in achieving long-term success, independent of innate talent.
Discussed“You there's this cool book called Grit. We talked about it a ton here on this podcast and you cite it a bunch.”
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The Boron Letters
The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert and Bond Halbert is a classic work on copywriting, featuring letters written by a prominent copywriter to his son from a federal prison in Boron.
Recommended“have you ever read the Boron letters years ago okay so this is uh mustre yeah uh copyrighting”
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Hooked
Hooked by Nir Eyal is a widely read business and psychology book that outlines how companies build habit-forming products by utilizing a cyclical framework known as the hook model.
Discussed“Nir Eyal, same thing when he wrote his book Hooked. Same thing, he's like, 'I first was just giving a talk somewhere. To give the talk, I had to sharpen up my thoughts. By the end of that, I was like, [ __ ] there's something to this.'”
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American Kingpin
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton is a true-crime non-fiction book that details the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht and his dark web marketplace, the Silk Road.
Discussed“Sam has been telling me about a book for probably 10 years in a row and I finally got around to reading it this year and the book is American kingpen”
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Mastery
Mastery by Robert Greene is a non-fiction book that explores the paths to true expertise by examining the lives of historical figures, contemporary masters, and the dynamics of mentorship.
Discussed“Not just because of your book, but like one of my favorite books is Mastery by Robert Greene. Yes.”
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The other 193 books Shaan Puri recommended or discussed, ranked
- Rework by Jason Fried
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Titan by Ron Chernow
- Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Die with Zero by Bill Perkins, William O. Perkins
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, Philip H. Knight
- The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Terminal List by Jack Carr
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
- Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
- Buffett: the Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- Bible by Bible
- Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
- Eat this, not that by David Zinczenko
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
- Meditations by Aurelius Marcus
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin
- Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon
- Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
- The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway
- The Victory Lab by Sasha Issenberg
- Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
- Mastermind by Maria Konnikova
- Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
- Positioning by Al Ries
- Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
- The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning by Scott Galloway
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Traction by Gabriel Weinberg
- Advertising Secrets of the Written Word by Joseph Sugarman
- Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
- Black Ivy by Jason Jules
- Built to Sell by John Warrillow
- Chief by Daryl F. Gates
- Churchill by James C. Humes
- Code by Lawrence Lessig
- Confessions of a real estate entrepreneur by James A. Randel
- Contagious by Jonah Berger
- Corporate Turnaround Artistry by Jeff Sands
- Dressing the Man by Alan Flusser
- Fight Right by Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got by Jay Abraham
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB by Aleksandra I. Ilʹf
- Just Culture Algorithm 4. 0 by David Marx
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
- Purple Cow by Seth Godin
- Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green
- Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
- Status and Culture by W. David Marx
- Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- The Americana by Unknown
- The Body by Bill Bryson
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- The Gambler by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
- The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- The messy middle by Scott Belsky
- The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
- The Operator by Robert O'Neill
- The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking by Dale Carnegie
- The Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber
- The talent code by Daniel Coyle
- The Wager by David Grann
- Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Train Hard, Win Easy by Toby Tanser
- Tribe by Sebastian Junger
- You and Your Research by Richard Wesley Hamming
- A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Amp It Up by Frank Slootman
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Asada by Bricia Lopez
- Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins
- Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das
- Be Here Now by Ram Dass
- Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Black edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
- Brothers Emanuel by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
- Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Chip War by Chris Miller
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
- Elon by Don Bolden
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Entertaining by Martha Stewart
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- From Poop to Gold by Christopher John Harrison Jones
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
- Grey by E L James
- Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Harry Potter by Unknown
- Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
- How Stuff Works by Marshall Brain
- How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- How to Not Die Alone by Logan Ury
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
- I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
- I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi
- If-- by Rudyard Kipling
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- Iron John by Robert Bly
- Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
- It's not about the bike: My journey back to life by Lance Armstrong
- Jobs Book by David DeRocco
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- Lifespan by David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook by Yoshi Abe
- Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- More money than God by Sebastian Mallaby
- Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died by Emerson Spartz
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Power Vs. Force by David R. Hawkins
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Save the cat! by Blake Snyder
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
- The 5 Love Languages for Men by Gary Chapman
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Caesars Palace Coup by Sujeet Indap
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
- The Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai
- The E-myth by Michael E. Gerber
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Happy Body by Jerzy Gregorek
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Holy Grail of Investing by Tony Robbins
- The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
- The Lazy Man's Way to Riches by Joe Karbo
- The Leangains Method by Martin Berkhan
- The Lehman Trilogy by Unknown
- The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
- The Mobile Wave by Michael Saylor
- The Outsiders by S. E Hinton
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
- The Prospect of Immortality by Robert C. W. Ettinger
- The Queen's gambit by Walter S. Tevis
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- The Science of Fear by Dan Gardner
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- The Shadow Work Journal by Keila Shaheen
- The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
- The Triple Package by Amy Chua
- The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
- Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Viral Loop by Adam L. Penenberg
- Walt Disney by A.A. Christiansen
- Water Boy by Ros Asquith
- When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Wool by Hugh Howey
- Your Word is Your Wand by Florence Scovel Shinn
Questions about Shaan Puri’s book recommendations
What book does Shaan Puri recommend most?
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Shaan Puri recommended it in 12 episodes.
How many books has Shaan Puri recommended on podcasts?
We have found 213 books Shaan Puri recommended or discussed, across 237 episodes of 3 podcasts. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Shaan Puri's reading list?
The books Shaan Puri has recommended most on podcasts are How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers, Influence by Robert B. Cialdini and Atomic Habits by James Clear. The full book list below has all 213.
What did Shaan Puri recommend on My First Million?
How to Win Friends and Influence People, The 4-Hour Workweek and The 48 Laws of Power, among 211 books in all.
What is the latest book Shaan Puri recommended?
Iron John, discussed on Modern Wisdom (2026-10-15).
People who recommend the same books
Appearances
Other mentions (97: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“By the way, you know, that seen in the big short where he's like, this is my quant. Look at him. Asian guys sitting at the table, I feel like Zuck did that with like a Gen Z kid.”
“So he's been reading this book called the Medici Effect. So this was one of his stories and I was like, wow, that's an incredible story.”
“Shout out the book. Uh sure. How Not to Invest right over there. Hard cover, paperback. You know, the last book was Bailout Nation was 15 years ago.”
“Somebody recommended on the podcast and they go it was like the time when my girlfriend bought me the book The Game before I went to college and we were going to break up and I was like, you need to learn how to talk to girls.”
“He wrote the book Power of Habit which was a big inspiration to to Atomic Habits and it was a great book.”
“They were talking about like dating and I referenced the book The Game and they were like, "What's The Game?" And I was like, "Come here, son. It's called the Old Testament."”
“I've read Harry Potter 30 times and uh when I watched the movie I was like hermayan.”
“This is the opposite of Field of Dreams, right? Instead of, you know, if we build it, they will come, it's like, if they come, then we'll build it.”
“He wrote the psychology of money the same as ever, the art of spending money.”
“He wrote the psychology of money the same as ever, the art of spending money.”
“He wrote the psychology of money the same as ever, the art of spending money.”
“our buddy Andrew Wilson wrote a book called never enough and like I kind of reject the premise”
“Have you read this There's this book I haven't read it yet, but it's called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. I don't think I'm going to be reading that one.”
“He looks like he should be studying philosophy or like giving a lecture on like man's search for meaning.”
“What's the name of the book? Called Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead.”
“I I had read your book Laughing at Wall Street. And you talked about like basically kind of like starting with like, you know, garage sailing and very simple stuff when you were a kid”
“So, if you've ever read the book Predictably Irrational, he's like one of the famous behavioral economists in the world.”
“Uh, shout out your new book. It's being edited right now. It's called Life is Lux, the Paper Boy.”
“I read the book The Game and then for like 5 years, my opening line to anybody I saw at a party was, "Hey, I need you guys to help me settle this argument I'm having with my friend."”
“Will is the author of a book called Unreasonable Hospitality.”
“So, it's Malcolm Gladwell's famous TED talk from back in the day when he was, you know, Malcolm Gladwell was the man writing uh Tipping Point and others.”
“See you at the book launch.”
“So, last week I flew to Vegas and I asked Alice to teach me the things in his new book, Money Models.”
“Almost 20 years old, 18 years old. old.”
“I know you Logan as just my good friend, but you also had a book called How Not to Die Alone.”
“Michael Bur, one of my favorite movies is The Big Short, and Michael Bur is this kind of mis mysterious character.”
“Cuz there's something in the creative process to like the bounce, as they used to call it, the pickup artist game that in in in the book The Game, they talk about this technique called the bounce.”
“like you know the what was the what was that Rob that movie that [ __ ] called what was that thing the Robert Patterson the the Twilight Twilight”
“So, There's this great Nassim Taleb quote or tweet where he Taleb who wrote Black Swan and Antifragile.”
“So, There's this great Nassim Taleb quote or tweet where he Taleb who wrote Black Swan and Antifragile.”