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Tim Ferriss books: every book Tim Ferriss wrote and recommended
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Books by Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss’s most recommended books
- Awareness by Anthony De Mello
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
- Of wolves and men by Barry Lopez
- The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- Getting Past No by William Ury
- More money than God by Sebastian Mallaby
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru who is known for his 4-Hour self-help book series—including The 4-Hour Work Week, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef—that focused on lifestyle optimizations, though he has since reconsidered this approach and supports scientific research into psychedelic treatments. On his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, and on Modern Wisdom, Ferriss recommended several books to his audience. He highlighted Studs Terkel's book Hard Times, explaining how it was introduced to him, and mentioned Terkel's Working as an incredible companion recommendation. Ferriss also recommended the book Awareness by Anthony De Mello as a helpful tool for introspection, internal validation, and observing one's own thinking. To improve written communication, he pointed listeners to William Zinsser's On Writing Well. Additionally, he recommended W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy for generalizable insights, Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire when discussing the co-evolution of humans and dogs, and Joe Abercrombie's fantasy series The Blade Itself while reflecting on the randomness of life and death.
Books recommended by Tim Ferriss
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Awareness
Awareness by Anthony De Mello is a widely praised spiritual and self-improvement book that offers insights into human consciousness, perception, and personal liberation.
Recommended“And there are tools I think that almost anyone can benefit from that may steer you towards introspection or more internal validation versus external validation, like some of you will recognize this, the book Awareness by Anthony de Mello.”
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Radical Acceptance
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach is a widely praised self-help and psychology book that integrates Buddhist mindfulness teachings with Western psychotherapy to help readers overcome self-doubt, shame, and emotional suffering.
Recommended“a book that helped me a lot with this and I found so much value in the first I want to say 50 to 100 pages that I wanted to get to work immediately I was like okay that's plenty of Grist for the mill let me get started was Radical acceptance by Tara Brock”
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Of wolves and men
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez is a classic, genre-busting work of non-fiction that explores the biology, history, and cultural mythology surrounding wolves and their relationship with humans.
Recommended“There's a book back there called Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez who won I believe it was the Booker or Pulitzer Prize for another of his books called Arctic Dreams.”
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The 80/20 Principle
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch is a prominent business and productivity guide that explores how a minority of efforts, inputs, or causes typically lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.
Recommended“the 8020 principle, Richard Kosh. That just never gets old. Just does not get old.”
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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“I'm thinking maybe because the impetus for this is somewhat around the connective tissue of the 4-Hour Workweek, should we just begin with how on earth you and the 4-Hour Workweek intersected?”
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout is a classic business book that outlines fundamental marketing principles and strategic positioning rules for companies seeking market dominance.
Discussed“Uh the law of category is a chapter from the 22 immutable laws of marketing. I think I put it I think I excerpted in Tools of Titans or Tribe of Mentors because that chapter had a huge impact.”
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Little, Big
Little, Big by John Crowley is an intricate, epic fantasy novel that follows the mystical, generations-spanning history of the Drinkwater family and their eccentric estate near the edge of a magical realm.
Recommended“John Crowley, also a poet, Little Big is the name of the book.”
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Bad Science
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre is an insightful examination of sensationalized medical claims, media misinformation, and the flaws in how scientific studies are communicated to the public.
Recommended“There's a book called Bad Science that I actually excerpted for the 4-Hour Body at one point just to give you an idea of what matters and what doesn't because a lot gets sensationalized in the news.”
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Getting Past No
Getting Past No by William Ury is a negotiation guide that offers practical strategies for turning difficult opponents into cooperative partners by overcoming resistance and stalemate.
Discussed“Getting Past No had a large impact on me.”
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More money than God
More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby is an expansive and entertaining history of the hedge fund industry and the influential investors who shaped modern global finance.
Discussed“And I can't recall who first recommended it. Frankly, I believe it was a hedge fund manager in New York City, but more money than God, hedge funds in the making of a new elite.”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is an insightful time-management book that confronts the finite nature of human life and challenges modern productivity obsessions.
Recommended“So 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. I love that. I think it's a phenomenal book.”
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Don't Shoot the Dog
Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor is a widely acclaimed guide to behavioral training and positive reinforcement that originally drew from the author's expertise as an aquatic mammal trainer.
Discussed“there's an amazing book called Don't Shoot the Dog, which has a terrible title. Maybe this is a good example of a book that failed, Don't Shoot the Dog, but it's written by this woman Karen Prior”
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Why We Sleep
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker is a comprehensive exploration of the neurobiology of sleep, detailing how restorative rest impacts physical health, cognitive function, and emotional well-being while warning of the severe consequences of chronic sleep deprivation.
Recommended“Definitely people if they're interested in unpacking sleep, I mean, why we sleep, I believe, is the title of of Matt's book. It'll scare the [ __ ] out of you. It'll scare the [ __ ] out of you in in I think a productive way.”
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The Black Swan
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a provocative non-fiction book exploring the massive impact of rare, highly improbable events and human society's systemic blindness to uncertainty.
Discussed“i first read actually the the black swan and then went back to fool by randomists also read anti-fragile”
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Exhalation
Exhalation by Ted Chiang is a critically acclaimed collection of philosophical science fiction short stories.
Recommended“Then a second collection came out, Exhalation, and I didn't want to buy it because I didn't want to be disappointed. I was like, there's just no way... And the second is just unbelievably good.”
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Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca is a classic collection of moral epistles written by the Roman philosopher to his friend Lucilius, offering enduring practical guidance on mastering emotions, accepting mortality, and navigating daily challenges.
Recommended“I pointed out, you know, the book right behind me, Letters from a Stoic, Senica the Younger. That's the Penguins classic edition. I've probably given away 100 copies of that book.”
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The Power Law
The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby is a comprehensive non-fiction exploration of the venture capital industry and its profound influence on the modern technological landscape.
Discussed“And then certainly that was in my particular case followed by reading the power law of venture capital in the making of the new future, which I didn't expect to learn as much from because I've spent 20 years surrounded by venture capitalists”
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The Effective Executive
The Effective Executive by Peter F.
Recommended“Efficiency, and I'm borrowing from Peter Ducker here also, The Effective Executive. Everybody should read that book. Holy cow, what a great book.”
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Excellent Advice for Living
Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly is a popular book of concise maxims, rules of thumb, and wisdom covering careers, relationships, parenting, finances, and personal innovation.
Discussed“So, he had at that time, I think it was a draft of a book that he put together, this tiny book called Excellent Advice for Living, which are these pathy little quotes from Kevin that he used to put in his I think they were his birthday letters to friends where he'd be like, "Here are the 10 things”
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Essentialism
Essentialism by Greg McKeown is a practical guide that encourages readers to focus on the vital few pursuits rather than the trivial many, aiming to achieve more through deliberate elimination.
Recommended“well first of all you I'll recommend both books to everybody essentially m is one of my most highlighted Kindle books that I have”
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The other 408 books Tim Ferriss recommended or discussed, ranked
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
- Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher
- The 4-hour Chef by Timothy Ferriss
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
- The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader by W. Chan Kim
- Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
- The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Lion Tracker's Guide to Life by Boyd Varty
- The Wayfinders by Wade Davis
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Diana Chapman
- Already Free by Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT
- Built to Sell by John Warrillow
- On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Spark by John J. Ratey, Eric Hagerman
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
- The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
- The Mind of a Mnemonist by A. R. Luria
- Tribe by Sebastian Junger
- Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
- Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss by Dennis McKenna
- Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
- Mental Toughness Training for Sports by James E. Loehr
- The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- The Great Nerve by Kevin J. Tracey, MD
- Breath by James Nestor
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
- High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers
- Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
- Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
- Effortless by Greg McKeown
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- Gold by Rumi
- Good calories, bad calories by Gary Taubes
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- On Writing by Stephen King
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Outlive by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
- Spark by Timothy J. Jorgensen
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics by Dennis O'Neil
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- The Healing Journey by Claudio Naranjo
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Small Giants by Bo Burlingham
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
- The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Island by Aldous Huxley
- Lost Connections by Johann Hari
- Roger Dawson's Secrets of Power Negotiating by Roger Dawson
- Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
- The Fellowship of the River by Joseph Tafur MD
- The Game by Neil Strauss
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- The Star Principle by Richard Koch
- Think twice by Michael J. Mauboussin
- Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
- Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss
- Zero to One by Peter A. Thiel, Blake Masters
- Play Nice but Win by Michael Dell
- Trauma : the Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti
- Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
- Lucky Me by Rich Paul
- The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté, MD
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes- E-Book by Shirley Sahrmann
- The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
- Built to Move by Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Govt Cheese by Steven Pressfield
- Imaginable by Jane McGonigal
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
- Amphibious Soul by Craig Foster
- Brain Energy by Christopher M. Palmer
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Hard Times by Studs Terkel
- Hell and Other Destinations by Madeleine Albright
- How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur
- Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz
- Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Extremities, Cervical and Thoracic Spines by Shirley Sahrmann
- The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur C. Brooks
- The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs
- The Vagabond's Way by Rolf Potts
- This Is Strategy by Seth Godin
- Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
- Chess for Success by Maurice Ashley
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
- I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart
- Paranormality by Richard Wiseman
- Push the Wall by Frank Miller
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- Thanks A Thousand by A. J. Jacobs
- Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
- 80/20 Beliefs by Richard Koch
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Awakening From the Meaning Crisis by Christopher Mastropietro
- Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Become the arrow by Byron Ferguson
- blue ocean strategy by Unknown
- Body by Science by John R. Little
- Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Consilience by E. O. Wilson
- Coyote America by Dan Flores
- Deep Future by Pablos Holman
- Deluxe by Dana Thomas
- Eat Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz
- Everything Is Its Own Reward by Paul Madonna
- Fast Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz
- Fierce Intimacy by Terrence Real
- Genghis Khan by John Bankston
- Getting the love you want by Harville Hendrix
- Guerilla financing by Bruce J. Blechman
- Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson
- HOW TO STOP WORRYING & START LIVING by Dale Carnegie
- I don't want to talk about it by Terrence Real
- Japanese Death Poems by Yoel Hoffmann
- Jordan B. Peterson's Best Selling 2-Book Set (12 Rules for Life: an Antidote to Chaos & Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life) by Jordan B. Peterson
- Joy on demand by Chade-Meng Tan
- Ka by John Crowley
- Levels of the Game by John McPhee
- Lights out by Ted Koppel
- Living the 80/20 Way by Richard Koch
- Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall
- Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
- Meat Eater by Steven Rinella
- Medicine Quest by Mark J. Plotkin
- Mind Beyond Brain by David E. Presti
- Morality by Jonathan Sacks
- Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
- My Early Life by Winston Churchill
- My Life in Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
- Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
- One Blade of Grass by Henry Shukman
- ONE SIMPLE IDEA by Stephen Key
- Open Socrates by Agnes Callard
- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Pattern Breakers by Peter Ziebelman
- Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Perspectives on Strategy by Colin S. Gray
- Pihkal by Alexander Theodore Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger
- Positioning by Al Ries
- Reboot by Jerry Colonna
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson
- Search inside yourself by Chade-Meng Tan
- Secrets of Power Negotiating by Roger Dawson
- Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
- Selling to the Affluent by Thomas J. Stanley
- Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
- Speed and Scale by John Doerr
- Stop Fixing Yourself by Anthony De Mello
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Sum by David Eagleman
- The 80/20 Daily by Richard Koch
- The Age of A.I. by Henry Kissinger
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams
- The art of memoir by Mary Karr
- The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
- The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut
- The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
- The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- The Making of the Modern World by Christopher Condon
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The ONE Thing by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
- The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
- The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide by James Fadiman
- The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- The Secret Chief by Myron J. Stolaroff
- The Shaman's Apprentice by Mark J. Plotkin
- The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky
- The Vagus Nerve by Kevin Jobson
- The Varieties of Spiritual Experience by David B. Yaden
- This Is How You Lose the Time War (Deluxe Edition) by Amal El-Mohtar
- Tihkal by Alexander Shulgin
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Total Immersion by Terry Laughlin
- Tough by Terry Crews
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
- Visions of Japan by Victoria and Albert Museum
- Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
- With Nature in Mind by Andy McGeeney
- Working by Studs Terkel
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- A Good Food Day by Marco Canora
- A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
- ABC Letter Tracing Practice Workbook for Kids by Torn Siam
- Affective Computing by Rosalind W. Picard
- Against the gods by Peter L. Bernstein
- American Buffalo by Steven Rinella
- Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
- Art & Arcana by Michael Witwer
- Aspiration by Agnes Callard
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
- Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett, Glen Cordoza
- Biocentrism by Robert Lanza
- Blood and Guts by Dorian Yates
- Breakneck by Dan Wang
- Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
- Brodo by Marco Canora
- Buffett: the Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Built to Last by Collins, James C.
- Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
- Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal
- Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter
- Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Coup D'etat by Edward Luttwak
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Devotions by Mary Oliver
- Die with Zero by Bill Perkins, William O. Perkins
- Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
- Doom Guy by John Romero
- Dream Work by Mary Oliver
- Dropping ashes on the Buddha by Seung Sahn
- Dungeon Masters Guide by Gary Gygax
- Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (Core Rulebook, D&D Roleplaying Game) by Dungeons & Dragons
- Expectations Investing by Michael J. Mauboussin
- Explain Pain by David S Butler
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
- Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
- Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye 3rd Edition by Frank Miller
- Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 5: Family Values 3rd Edition by Frank Miller
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano
- Give and Take by Adam Grant
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Great Ideas for VBS by John Robert Cutshall
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- Grey by E L James
- Healing Back Pain by Dr. John E. Sarno
- Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw
- How Adam Smith can change your life by Russ Roberts
- How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- How to Lead by David M. Rubenstein
- How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
- I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max
- I Wanna Be a Producer by John Breglio
- Idea Makers by Stephen Wolfram
- If this is a Man by Primo Levi
- Incerto by NASSIM NICHOLAS. TALEB
- Infinite jest by David Foster Wallace
- Irreducible Mind by Edward F. Kelly
- Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
- Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
- Leaders by General Stanley McChrystal
- Life style of greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf
- Lit by Mary Karr
- Livewired by David Eagleman
- Living with Terror, Working with Trauma by Danielle Knafo
- Luxury by Peter McNeil
- Masterpieces of Fantasy Art by Dian Hanson
- Mastery by George Leonard
- Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren, Carlye Adler
- Meditations by Aurelius Marcus
- Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
- Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
- More Than You Know by Michael J. Mauboussin
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- Not in God's Name by Jonathan Sacks
- One River by Wade Davis
- Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen
- Operating instructions by Anne Lamott
- Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Passages by Gail Sheehy
- Practical ethics by Peter Singer
- Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide by Oss Oss
- Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott
- Risk by General Stanley McChrystal
- Ronin by Frank Miller
- Runnin' Down a Dream by Bill Gurley
- Salt to Taste by Marco Canora
- Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
- Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin
- Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- Somehow by Anne Lamott
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Tales of the Dervishes by Idries Shah
- Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts
- Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo
- Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick
- The Art of Simon Bisley by Simon Bisley
- The Art of Sin City by Frank Miller
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal by Julia Cameron
- The beginning of infinity by Deutsch, David
- The Body Electric by Robert O. Becker
- The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
- The Case Against Reality by Donald David Hoffman
- The choice by Edith Eger
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Perry Moore
- The Complacent Class by Tyler Cowen
- The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine by Allen Carr
- The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
- The Fatal Conceit by F. A. Hayek
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christina Scull
- The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Gift by Lewis Hyde
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot
- The Law of Love by Steve Young
- The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney
- The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
- The River Cottage Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
- The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
- The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven Rinella
- The Scientists by John Gribbin
- The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
- The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
- The Stopwatch Gang by Greg Weston
- The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
- The surrender experiment by Michael A. Singer
- The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity by Daniel Reid
- The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- The Truce by Primo Levi
- The Voltage Effect by John A. List
- The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan
- Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Tobacco and Shamanism in South America by Johannes Wilbert
- Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
- When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
- Whiz Mob by David W. Maurer
- Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
- Why? the Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- Wool by Hugh Howey
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Questions about Tim Ferriss’s book recommendations
What book does Tim Ferriss recommend most?
Awareness by Anthony De Mello. Tim Ferriss recommended it in 13 episodes, with 15 explicit recommendations.
How many books has Tim Ferriss recommended on podcasts?
We have found 428 books Tim Ferriss recommended or discussed, across 236 episodes of 14 podcasts. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Tim Ferriss's reading list?
The books Tim Ferriss has recommended most on podcasts are Awareness by Anthony De Mello, Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, Of wolves and men by Barry Lopez, The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch and The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries. The full book list below has all 428.
What books has Tim Ferriss written?
The 4-Hour Workweek (2006), The 4-Hour Body (2010), Tools of Titans (2016) and Tribe of Mentors (2017).
What did Tim Ferriss recommend on The Tim Ferriss Show?
Awareness, Radical Acceptance and Of wolves and men, among 399 books in all.
What is the latest book Tim Ferriss recommended?
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, discussed on The Tim Ferriss Show (2026-10-08).
People who recommend the same books
Appearances
Other mentions (556: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
Passing Working
“this is a book by studs turkle talk about a good name t-e-r-k-e-l studs turkle you won the pulitzer prize at one point i think for working might be getting the title wrong”
Passing Moonwalking with Einstein
“there was an entire book written about this called moonwalking with einstein”
Passing Fourth Wing
“i did bring up the fourth wing because this is one that was everywhere i'm sure it has like a hundred thousand picture of it”
Passing Breakfast of Champions
“kurt vonnegut wrote breakfast of champions and tons of other classics”
Passing The Lean Startup
“Was Eric Reese, I believe. Yeah. Of the lean startup.”
Plugged Tools of Titans
“With Tools of Titans, no, was it Tools of Titans?”
Plugged The 4-Hour Workweek
“This is something that I've recommended in The 4-Hour Workweek with respect to developing your own businesses or lifestyle muses, and I still think it applies to many, many, many different things.”
Plugged The 4-hour Chef
“And this is going to sound like I'm shilling my own bags here, but the meta learning section of the 4-Hour Chef. I think the 4-Hour Chef is a book tried to do too much, but the very first section, which is something like 80 pages on meta learning, I do think is worth a revisit if you haven't in”
Plugged The 4-Hour Body
“What workouts from The 4-Hour Body are you still prioritizing in your routines? There's There's a lot from The 4-Hour Body.”
Plugged The 4-Hour Workweek
“And then, you know, being burned out might be related to needing a vacation, and then simply having outgrown the life you've built, I would say take a mini retirement, and that is another concept from The 4-Hour Workweek.”
Plugged The 4-Hour Workweek
“So, the benefit of a mini retirement, and I'm sure people have written about this online, so you don't necessarily have to buy The 4-Hour Work Week, is that you have to set up systems and policies and improve all of that before you leave.”
Plugged The 4-hour Chef
“You probably know this already, but between 8 to 12 weeks, and not to beat a dead horse, but again, the metalearning section of The 4-Hour Chef goes into this at length.”
Plugged Protocols
“You are a podcast native and yet the author of the upcoming book protocols an operating manual for the human body. What is the structure of the book?”
Passing The man who knew
“I wanted to just give you applause for writing some of my favorite books of the last many years.”
Passing The World's Banker
“I wanted to just give you applause for writing some of my favorite books of the last many years.”
Plugged Tribe of Mentors
“And I wanted to kick this off with a thank you, believe it or not, from what you put into my last book, Tribe of Mentors.”
Plugged Tribe of Mentors
“I asked you what book or books you've given the most as a gift and why.”
Plugged The 4-Hour Body
“And I would also just point to for instance the the slow carb diet and the 4-hour body. It is not a ketogenic diet, right? You're consuming legumes, you're consuming a lot of fiber in the form of beans or lentils, etc.”
Passing High Growth Handbook
“Any other books or resources for people outside of the High Growth Handbook who specifically want to learn about boards, recruiting, incentivizing the co-founders that you couldn't hire to join the board, etc., etc.”
Plugged The 4-Hour Body
“Say you look at the 4-hour body and then the subsequent 10 15 years a lot of that played out and ended up being very very highly reinforced by science.”
Plugged Tools of Titans
“Uh the law of category is a chapter from the 22 immutable laws of marketing. I think I put it I think I excerpted in Tools of Titans or Tribe of Mentors because that chapter had a huge impact.”
Plugged Tribe of Mentors
“Uh the law of category is a chapter from the 22 immutable laws of marketing. I think I put it I think I excerpted in Tools of Titans or Tribe of Mentors because that chapter had a huge impact.”
Plugged The 4-hour Chef
“The first was the 4-hour chef, which was basically just a suicide mission of a deadline. Book that should have taken three years was done in a year and that's just physically effectively impossible.”
Plugged The 4-Hour Workweek
“And the biggest difference, I'd say the absolute biggest difference between the 4-hour chef and the books that came before it, the 4-hour work week and the 4-hour body, is that in the case of the 4-hour body, I did all of the experiments, then digested it all, combed through everything, and compiled the book.”
Plugged The 4-Hour Body
“And the biggest difference, I'd say the absolute biggest difference between the 4-hour chef and the books that came before it, the 4-hour work week and the 4-hour body, is that in the case of the 4-hour body, I did all of the experiments, then digested it all, combed through everything, and compiled the book.”
Passing Chicken Soup for the Soul
“Jack Canfield who co-created Chicken Soup for the Soul which has sold hundreds and hundreds of millions of copies and then they ultimately sold as a franchise.”
Passing What color is your parachute?
“Honestly, if I were to tell you to go buy what color is my parachute or something, you might glean something from that. But I feel like in very dynamic times...”
Passing Arctic Dreams
“Barry Lopez who won I believe it was the Booker or Pulitzer Prize for another of his books called Arctic Dreams.”
Passing How to Change Your Mind
“So I would just say probably unfairly but I would be biased towards people who have been doing this since before Michael Pollen's exceptional book how to change your mind right”
Plugged Tools of Titans
“I think they're in Tools of Titans, maybe Tribe of Mentors, but also on Tim.blog. There's a PDF with the 17 questions I most often ask myself.”