Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W12

“but you know if you've there was a 1999 novel from Tracy Chevalier uh the girl with the Pearl Earring and then the 2000 film adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson who was perfectly cast”

“They then fly back to mainland China where this kid is raised in the Communist Chinese party as a devout worshipper of the Communist regime and he wiggles his little red book in the air as he runs around playing Communist Manifesto.”

“Uh they're called the Nephilim and they were giants from the book of Enoch and they were like 20 ft high and David and Goliath, you've heard of that.”

“Uh they're called the Nephilim and they were giants from the book of Enoch and they were like 20 ft high and David and Goliath, you've heard of that.”

“this is data an uh analyst Barbara Walter hired by the the CIA to predict the likelihood of Civil Wars developing in foreign countries she believes the United States is potentially years away from another civil war”

“Oo, I'm glad you're mentioning this. Yeah, there's a great uh there's a great book by a Dartmouth economics professor named Doug Irwin. Uh he also has a great NPR interview regarding exactly what you're talking about.”

“It works in fiction. It's fun in like Tinker Taylor, Soldier Spy or whatever. But really what you want is the boring people.”

“uh and then later a guy named William Shakespeare real up incoming writer had a thing he wrote called Julius Caesar and and that's where there's a line in that where they say beware the eyeses of March”

“It's amazing what was accomplished on amphetamines. I mean, uh, Norman Oler's book, Blitz, I loved those episodes that you did with Yeah.”

“Gardner learned enough about the company by working there that he wrote a book about it called Build a Brand Like Trader Joe's.”

“this book that I just wrote How to Love better it's I personally think it's better than all the other books that I've written just because it's it's taken a long otherwise you're going the wrong direction right”

“he goes this guy probably made more money this week then catch 22 has made in its entire run and and says yeah that's true but I have something that this person will never have”

“but does your does your boy mark Rus talk about embracing impermanence”

“yeah we talk about Charles Dickens I read hard times I read hard times and this is written in the 19th century when Britain was like the industrial super of the whole world”

“I'd also highly recommend everybody to go check out the trading game because everybody's talking about this this book and I think it's what four weeks at the moment on the Sunday Times besteller list four weeks number one number one four weeks number one which is an incredible achievement”

“You've written the book on conversation argue Less Talk More”

“Derek Thompson is going to join us for an interview about his new book and the political theory that he is sharing here with Ezra Klein yeah I'm excited to talk to him this uh book taking there's a lot of discourse around it”

“so Chuck Schumer um is having a hard time selling his new book and man Ryan just keeps getting's trying to compete with Ezra Klein”

“I don't know like I'm so eclectic in you know I I read Eden blighton books I spend all the time on my bicycle thinking I was Nancy Drew or Trixie Beldon”

“I read Eden blighton books I spend all the time on my bicycle thinking I was Nancy Drew or Trixie Beldon”

“I spend all the time on my bicycle thinking I was Nancy Drew or Trixie Beldon you're looking at me blankly because you're Trixie Beldon”

“I'm we're reading a book now in the research um it's called Lost And Sound um you know the the the the beginnings of berine and the EasyJet set”

“Angus Eon and an case did a book U um he called death of Despair that that that demonstrated that these people now live on average about eight years shorter lives because of of of of alcohol and drugs and suicide”

“there Paul RoR another Nobel lat has the same thing but so you can go through and you can find ver there's a guy named Michael Pettis who's A Carnegie guy who's who's thought these things through and his he wrote a book um 10 years ago called uh trade Wars or class Wars but a guy named Matthew Klein”

“uh the book that made me want to become a journalist was from beir to Jerusalem and the book that I found most inspiring in high school when I absolutely decided to become a journalist was the future of Freedom by Fred Zakaria”

“uh the book that made me want to become a journalist was from beir to Jerusalem and the book that I found most inspiring in high school when I absolutely decided to become a journalist was the future of Freedom by Fred Zakaria”

“we're somewhat inspired by this leftist track from a couple years ago which has the best name of any book published in the past couple of decades fully automated luxury communism”

“There's a book called the God particle written about the higs boson that was written decades ago because we knew that should be there”

“Hannah Holmes wrote The Secret Life of dust from the cosmos to the kitchen table”

“uh right now it's Star Messenger Cosmic perspectives on civilization and it's signed with my fancy fountain pen with purple ink”

“I think that's you just dissed a book that I co-wrote with my producer... to infinity and beyond”

“It's a fair bit of international experience appears on the surface to be a highly credible individual And we assessed carne's ideas as put forward in his book values Uh for better or worse and I would say mostly for Worse”

“Have you read any Oliver burkman... did you get his new one meditations for Mortals”

“I'm reading this great book right now called the Great CEO within I also keep it on my desk as a reminder and it helps me lead”