Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast

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1984

George Orwell

6 mentions · 6 episodes

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Series:– Elon Musk

Mentioned in #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature+5 more episodes.

a brave new world

Aldous Huxley

6 mentions · 6 episodes

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Series:– Elon Musk

Mentioned in #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature+5 more episodes.

animal farm

George Orwell

4 mentions · 4 episodes

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Mentioned in #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature+3 more episodes.

Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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Mentioned in #456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom+2 more episodes.

life ascending

Nick Lane

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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Mentioned in #471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet+2 more episodes.

plague

Albert Camus

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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Mentioned in #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature+2 more episodes.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William Shirer

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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Mentioned in #456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom+2 more episodes.

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Douglas Adams

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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Series:– Elon Musk

Mentioned in #438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity+1 more episodes.

Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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Mentioned in #439 – Craig Jones: Jiu Jitsu, $2 Million Prize, CJI, ADCC, Ukraine & Trolling+1 more episodes.

mans search for meaning

Viktor Frankl

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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Mentioned in #470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles+1 more episodes.

mein kampf

Adolf Hitler

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Mentioned in #481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA+1 more episodes.

On Democracies and Death Cults

Douglas Murray

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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Mentioned in #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism+1 more episodes.

on the road

Jack Kerouac

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Mentioned in #481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA+1 more episodes.

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

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Mentioned in #460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace+1 more episodes.

The Russo-Ukrainian War

Serhii Plokhy

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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Mentioned in #456 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom+1 more episodes.

Truths: The Future of America First

Vivek Ramaswamy

2 mentions · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War.

1948

Benny Morris

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #464 – Dave Smith: Israel, Ukraine, Epstein, Mossad, Conspiracies & Antisemitism.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies.

40 More Years: How Democrats Will Never Lose An Election Again

James Carville

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics.

A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace

Roger Williams

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God.

A Century of Dishonor

Helen Hunt Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris.

A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

1 mention · 1 episode

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Series:– Andrew Huberman

Mentioned in #393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love.

A Game of Throws

Neil Adams

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #427 – Neil Adams: Judo, Olympics, Winning, Losing, and the Champion Mindset.

A History of Rome

Livy

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Mentioned in #443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome.

A nation without borders is not a nation

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #445 – Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War.

Abundance

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE.

Age of Entitlement

Christopher Caldwell

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics.

All Gas, No Brakes: A Hitchhiker's Diary

Andrew Callaghan

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones.

An American Life

Ronald Reagan

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy.

An Immense World

Ed Yong

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Series:– Andrew Huberman

Mentioned in #393 – Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, Sex, and Love.

anarchist handbook

Michael Malice

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special.

Anna and Dr. Helmy: How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler's Berlin

Ronen Steinke

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Mentioned in #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame.

Apple in China

Patrick McGee

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI.

Area 51

Annie Jacobsen

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Mentioned in #420 – Annie Jacobsen: Nuclear War, CIA, KGB, Aliens, Area 51, Roswell & Secrecy.

Arthur C. Clark

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics.

Arthur C. Clarke

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI.

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.

Basic Econ

Thomas Sowell

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Mentioned in #336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War.

Beyond Good and Evil

Nietzsche

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Mentioned in #448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning.

bhagavad gita

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Mentioned in #460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace.

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Mentioned in #483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex.

bible

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Mentioned in #397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech.

biggest ideas in the universe

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Mentioned in #428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens.

birds of peru

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Series:– Paul Rosolie

Mentioned in #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God.

black banners

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East.

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

1 mention · 1 episode

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Mentioned in #481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA.

bohemians

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Mentioned in #481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA.

bohemians the lovers who led germanys resistance against the nazis

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Mentioned in #481 – Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA.

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