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Books first mentioned on podcasts this week
58 books were mentioned for the first time on the podcasts we follow this week. Grouped by podcast, newest first.
The Daily Stoic
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Forget the Alamo
Discussed“There's a wonderful book called "Forget the Alamo," which is a look at the history of Texas in the midst of the Alamo from a different perspective, which is written by three friends of mine here in Austin.”
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The Law of the Sublime
Recommended“Robert was here at the bookstore because he has a new book coming out, The Law of the Sublime. It's an incredible book.”
Oprah's Super Soul
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Keeping the Love You Find
Discussed“I also started applying Harville Hendrix Amago, I read Keeping the Love You Fine when I was 15. And I thought, here is a model that explains to me healthy love and active participation in both people's healing and your partner's healing.”
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Silver Chair
Discussed“the marsh wiggle um puddle glum puddle glum is like puddle glum is not even so puddle glum is supposed to be this um he's called a marsh wiggle and marsh wiggles are a you know it's like a fantasy species that lives in the reedy marshes outside of narnia to the north as their way up in the silver”
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Malachi
Discussed“well the lord says in malachi for i hate divorce so you know there's there's that too i don't know blake”
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The Acts of the Apostles
Discussed“the acts of the apostles describes many signs and wonders uh achieved by the apostles similar to the miracles of jesus that they were able to drive out demons heal people perform other miracles”
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Burn It Down
Recommended“rich barris author of burn it down everybody should check out a copy i know that book has done gangbusters rich”
Modern Wisdom
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Agency
Discussed“This is the new book. How is it different from optimism? Uh, how have you come to conceptualize that?”
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What You Can Change and what You Can't
Recommended“Well, my favorite book of yours is What You Can Change and What You Can't. And maybe not quite as obscure.”
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Discussed“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was a little bit of a shame. Because I was such a fan of the book first. And I don't know whether you ever listened to the audiobook that's behind it, but the guy that did the audiobook has just got the most brilliant, classic, sort of 1940s, posh British accent.”
This Week in Startups
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A Short Stay in Hell
Recommended“This is a 100 page novella, a short stay in hell. Stephen L. Pack, a short stay in Stephen L. Pack, a influencer who reads a lot of books, was in my feed. I may have mentioned I have a grock-bock, things to watch read and to consume or travel, whatever, like a medium, I have a media bot.”
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The Eureka Machine
Recommended“I read Richard Sotier's book, this week in AI guest. I read his book, The Eureka Machine, which is really interesting about-- Oh, really? Yeah, I have a copy. Yeah, they sent us a copy, which is why I gave him-- Any good? It's fantastic, it's really good.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The Three Trillion Dollar War
Discussed“but her and an economist called joseph stiglitz wrote a very influential book on the cost of the iraq war called the three trillion”
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Dying of Whiteness
Critiqued“This is like the most amusing thing ever is a book by professor professor Jonathan Metzel of Vanderbilt University called Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Death of Vince Foster
Discussed“That's a death of Vince Foster is a great book. What's that? I read that book in like I think that guy was on Jimmy show just recently”
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The Book of Jude
Discussed“You know why it's not in the Bible? Because of because of rabbis. Because rabbis said it didn't jive with the Torah. So they removed it from the Bible. It's in the Ethiopian Bible. But in the Book of Jude they're quoting they quote Mormon in the Old Testament.”
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Man and His Symbols
Discussed“So, I read this and I think it's called um uh I think this was in the red book, but I'm not sure or it might be I can't remember which might be man and his symbols.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Co-Existence
Discussed“In his new book, Coexistence, the next phase of AI, Malik argues that if we want to properly leverage AI's capabilities, we should rely on four robust human advantages, as he calls them.”
The Ramsey Show
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Building the Marriage You Want
Recommended“Look how pretty it is. And it's building the marriage you want. So many people end up like roommates in marriage, something you didn't sign up for and something that you keep thinking, "Oh my gosh, how did we how did we get here?"”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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I Want to Be Famous
Recommended“I'm kind of in my, my book, my reading era. Oh, well, speaking of reading. So we're going to have, we're going to have them on next week. So this is, I want to be famous when everybody and nobody is a celebrity by Bobby Finger and Lindsay Weber”
The Book Review
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Ethan Frome
Critiqued“and this woman has been brought into this world of plenty but at what cost and that is what gets peeled back in the story and I think it's really wonderfully done and I didn't think Edith Wharton could get me back after the horror of reading Ethan Fro, which I just absolutely loathe.”
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Down a Dark Hall
Discussed“Um, Down Hall by Lois Duncan. It's a very gothic read. It's a girl arrives at a boarding school and soon discovers that the head mistress has nefarious intent and I think slots very neatly into the kind of tradition of teenage girls as both predator and prey in horror.”
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Bunnicula
Discussed“And the last one is Bicula by James How. Do you know Vanicula? Yes, I know Vanicula. Is that where he he's It's a vampire bunny, but vampire bunny sucks the orange out of carrots.”
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Where are You Going, where Have You Been?
Discussed“But anyway, in that class, we read Joyce Carol's Where Have Are You Going? Where Have You Been? Uh, and I'll never forget reading that and thinking, "Oh, I didn't know people wrote things like this."”
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Wounds
Discussed“Also, his novella, The Visible Filth, uh, which is now in the collection Wounds, is one of the scarier things that I've read. Um, yeah, and so, you know, Nathan's just a wonderful writer again”
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Night Jar's Promise
Recommended“And I'm thinking of Night Jars. It was pitched as Momento meets Dracula. And that's not a bad description. It has a great setup where basically this guy is handed a horrifying picture of a childhood he doesn't remember.”
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Black Arts
Recommended“I also just started a book of short fiction by Megan Giddings called The Black Arts, and I've only read the first short story in it, and I do not want to give anything away about it, but one, the writing is spectacular.”
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Afterward
Recommended“There's a short story by Edith Wharton of all people called Afterward. There's a collection, an Edith Warren collection that I believe New York Review of Books Press put out called Ghosts, and it collects all of her, she wrote many ghost stories, many more than people think.”
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Our Share of Night
Recommended“But I might if they if they look like an NPR listener, then I might direct them to Our Share of Night by I think it's Mariana. And if they're not ready to commit to a sprawling novel that is a parable for Argentine politics, then I would direct them to her short stories.”
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The Skull
Recommended“But, you know, specific to younger readers for younger young kids, like I would recommend John Clawson's The Skull, uh, which almost has like zero text. Yes. But it's one to fun.”
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The Nest
Recommended“Yeah. So, for for teen readers, uh there's a wonderful novel uh called uh The Nest by Kenneth Opel. You know, the conceit is that it's from the the point of view of of essentially like a 12-year-old boy and they have a newborn who's, you know, struggling and the parents are sort of struggling with it, too.”
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She Said Destroy
Recommended“The first I'm going to give you is Nadia Bulan. She is has so far been primarily a short story writer. She has two collections. One called she uh she said Said destroy and she writes just amazingly beautiful, challenging and disturbing.”
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North American Lake Monsters
Recommended“Uh the other author is Nathan Balenrude. He has a short story collection called North American Lake Monsters, which is just amazing. It was a briefly run, it became a briefly run show on Hulu, but the the collection is much better.”
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The Visible Filth
Recommended“Also, his novella, The Visible Filth, uh, which is now in the collection Wounds, is one of the scarier things that I've read. Um, yeah, and so, you know, Nathan's just a wonderful writer again”
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Books of Blood Volume One
Recommended“Uh, again, I'm going to split it for for two. If I could, I would give them one of Clive Barker's books of blood. It would be the one It would be It would be the one with a short story, but it's whichever one has a story in the hills, the cities.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Friedkin Connection
Discussed“I just read the William Freen book and he's talking about how Hackman just [ __ ] hates the French Connection”
Behind the Bastards
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Crossed #9
Discussed“Are you familiar with the comic series crossed, Jason? No. They're making it into a movie. It's like a kind of a zombie story, but instead of it being a zombie plague, it's this disease that causes this like cross-sape rash on people's faces.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Vibe
Recommended“Professor Grant, I love what you write and your new blockbuster vibe. This one is so good. This is on page four. There's even evidence that if we're standing with a friend, a hill looks less steep.”
Timcast IRL
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Nothing Left
Discussed“It's it's like probably 20% people like me, disaffected Democrats, I would say maybe like 60% Republicans and then the rest were very very angry Democrats and progressives who have still been very very angry at me since this book came out.”
How I Write
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Four Quartets
Discussed“well the number one with me was T.S. Eliot not the cat poetry so much it's the wonderful cat poetry and it's amazing that the four quartets or Ashland's Day are those probably read any of them hundreds of times”
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Ash-Wednesday
Discussed“well the number one with me was T.S. Eliot not the cat poetry so much it's the wonderful cat poetry and it's amazing that the four quartets or Ashland's Day are those probably read any of them hundreds of times”
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The Blackboard Jungle
Recommended“there was a writer named Evan Hunter it wasn't his real name but he was famous he wrote the blackboard jungle and a number of famous novels under that name and he was very facile but he also was excellent dialogue”
Stuff You Should Know
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Hidden Pictures
Recommended“But I did read another pretty good one called hidden pictures. It is a horror fiction novel by Jason Rekulak. And it was a New York Times bestseller.”
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The Tao of Pooh
Discussed“There was a book in 1995 called Pooh and the Philosophers where all of the characters are sort of written about too as embodying all the famous philosophers. Plato, Kant, Descartes, Pooh was Nietzsche.”
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Pooh and the Philosophers
Discussed“There was a book in 1995 called Pooh and the Philosophers where all of the characters are sort of written about too as embodying all the famous philosophers.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Ambiguous Loss
Discussed“There's an incredible book called Ambiguous Loss which is all about learning to live with unresolved grief and the author Pauline Boss shares this that I wanted to share with you. Ambiguous loss is the most stressful kind of loss because it remains unclear.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Developing the Qualities of Success
Discussed“Oh, okay, so – and this one's called Developing the Qualities of Success. So Zig Ziglar was, like, a motivational speaker?”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Leeds, 1710 the American Almanack for the Year of Christian Account 1710. ... Fitted to the Latitude of 40 Degrees, and a Meridian of Five Hours West from London But May, Without Sensible Error
Discussed“Daniel Leeds was an Englishman who immigrated to the U.S. in 1678. Spent most of his adult life publishing The American Almanac. He created this publication as well, and it continued to print new issues until his retirement in 1716.”
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South Jersey Towns, History and Legend
Discussed“His name is Professor Fred McFadden of Coppin State University over in Baltimore. He did the work. He dug deep into everything you could find about the life of Daniel Leeds, and then also into the earliest mentions of the devil in some form in print.”
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Legend
Discussed“His name is Professor Fred McFadden of Coppin State University over in Baltimore. He did the work. He dug deep into everything you could find about the life of Daniel Leeds, and then also into the earliest mentions of the devil in some form in print.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Unreliable Boyfriend
Discussed“Because even in the story you tell in the book, the trade negotiations in Trump 1 feel like they are about trade. And they're ultimately resolved through questions of trade.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Revealing
Discussed“And this is, to your points in the book, you can't just roll in and be like, what's up, everybody?”
The Rubin Report
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Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind
Discussed“Like it's just this incredible disconnect with reality as Gadzad often points out in his new bestselling book. I think it is the number one book in the entire world this year, "Suicidal Empathy."”
Hidden Brain
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Tell Me Where It Hurts
Discussed“So when I was writing Tell Me Where It Hurts, I really went down the rabbit hole to explore the research. And I found so much science behind this.”
EconTalk
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Staring at the Sun
Discussed“Erwin Yallum has a book called, I think it's called Staring at the Sun. The sun is death. You can't look at the sun, you'd have to turn away.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Time Loops
Recommended“I'm always bringing up Dr. Eric Warga, who changed the way I think about time and how time works and multiverse. When I read his books, I recommend Time Loops.”
Huberman Lab
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The Gospel According to Mark
Discussed“We have no contemporary information whatsoever about him. The first information that we have about him is the letters of St. Paul and the gospel according to St. Mark. Both of which follow his death by about 20 years.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Death Is But a Dream
Recommended“Death is but a dream, finding hope and meaning at life's end by Dr. Christopher Kerr. I'll link this book below for anyone that would like to read it and dive deeper into these subjects.”
