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Trevor Noah's book recommendations
Key facts
- Trevor Noah has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of October 17, 2024.
- Trevor Noah has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of October 17, 2024.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of October 17, 2024.
- The 3 books Trevor Noah has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 17, 2024: The Body Keeps the Score, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Trevor Noah aired on October 17, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Trevor Noah appears on, in one place — not just one.
Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He was the host of The Daily Show, an American late-night talk show and satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 2015 to 2022. Noah has won various awards, including two Primetime Emmy Awards. He was named one of The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media by The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Noah referenced Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score while discussing how the body holds onto physical responses to stress and danger even after a threat ends. He also discussed reading fiction and memoirs, comparing his own work to Charlie Mackesy's illustrated fable The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Additionally, Noah cited Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince as a source of inspiration for rediscovering childlike curiosity and imagination, and mentioned reading J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone during his youth.
Books Trevor Noah recommended or discussed
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The Body Keeps the Score
Recommended“I think I think they talk about something similar in the book of The Body Keeps the Score, but Yeah, great book.”
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Discussed“So, we'd get the fiction books like Goosebumps and then later on Harry Potter and all these books and I would never read them and I wouldn't have any interest in them.”
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition
Discussed“and it follows in the tradition of the the boy the fox in the mall it's it's books that I loved”
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The Little Prince
Discussed“you know the boy the F The Little Prince you know there's so many books like that that I think ins spired me to think about rediscovering our childlike um curiosity uh ability to to to think Beyond ourselves our imagination like almost like re-remembering yourself before many of the hurts”
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Books by Trevor Noah
Appearances
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“like I I've experienced every emotion because I mean fear was the first one the idea that this person could take away you know the life of of someone who arguably I loveed the most then like rage helplessness um even even like shame”