Fiction & Literature

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   Epic of Gilgamesh

   by Anonymous, Andrew George · 4 episodes · 2 shows

   “It's the Epic of Gilgamesh. Yeah. Damn flood. The oldest story there is. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, I just, you know, people like now want to have an answer to something.”

   The Joe Rogan Experience · #2566 - Cody Tucker · 15/10/2026 · at 43:22

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   Dungeon Crawler Carl

   by Matt Dinniman · 3 episodes

   “obsessed with this. I'm wearing my new Dungeon Crawler Carl t-shirt today. Shout out to the people that know my t-shirt collection is ever expanding. And this, it's an eight-book series, at least at the moment.”

   Modern Wisdom · The Only 12 Lessons Buried In Every Self-Help Book - Spencer Greenberg - #1161 · 10/10/2026 · at 1:04:43

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   Moby-Dick, or The Whale

   by Herman Melville · 3 episodes · 3 shows

   “Well, maybe it should just be a book. Yeah. You know, there's that thought, too, that some books are so good that they have to exist only in literary form. Moby Dick. Yeah. Yeah. They have to exist only in where your imagination fills in the blanks.”

   The Joe Rogan Experience · #2575 - Sam Tallent · 03/11/2026 · at 1:31:22

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   Red Rising

   by Pierce Brown · 3 episodes · 2 shows

   “yours included. Can you do an episode just on this? Or does that exist already? Red Rising, I think I might be the biggest front end of the funnel drug dealer for people getting into Red Rising, except for the author, maybe, because it's the top of the reading list, chriswillex.com/slash books.”

   Modern Wisdom · Q&A: Becoming A Dad, Favourite Peptides & Red Rising - #1134 · 08/08/2026 · at 15:12

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   The Iliad

   by Homer · 3 episodes · 2 shows

   “just Homer, the Greeks, if you look at the older Homer, which is the Iliad, in which Achilles doesn't do it, but the gods get Achilles to do it.”

   Modern Wisdom · Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman - #1167 · 24/10/2026 · at 32:24

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   Finnegans Wake

   by James Joyce · 2 episodes · 2 shows

   “Okay, so I can link this back. All right, so there's a book called Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. It's like arguably the greatest work of literature in the Western canon. It's a wonderful book. And a guy called Joseph Campbell studied it for his PhD.”

   The Joe Rogan Experience · #2571 - Jimmy Carr · 28/10/2026 · at 1:35:16

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   The Culture Series

   by Iain M. Banks · 2 episodes

   “Well, I don't want to say the communism word, but you know, whatever people refer to it as. If anyone's read the culture series, right? That's like some far-future thing where AI basically handles everything. And if you choose to go and build your own house, you definitely can, but there's absolutely no economic reason to do it.”

   Modern Wisdom · AI DEBATE: “Most People Have No Idea What’s Coming” - #1138 · 17/08/2026 · at 14:40

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   The Shining

   by Stephen King · 2 episodes

   “No memory of writing the book at all. Yeah, I did. Oh, great book. King wrote it between 81 and 85 while deeply dependent on alcohol and cocaine. One of the best books. He also wrote books like The Shining, Pet Sematary, and The Top Tommy Knockers during that era while regularly consuming alcohol, cocaine, volume, Xanax, marijuana, and even mouthwash.”

   The Joe Rogan Experience · #2569 - Bill Thompson · 21/10/2026 · at 1:12:46

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   Carrie

   by Stephen King · 2 episodes

   “And he would just get blacked out and write these books. And I think it was Carrie, too, right? I'm not sure. He's got a bunch of his books where, you know, some of the best ones where he was just obliterated when he wrote them.”

   The Joe Rogan Experience · #2569 - Bill Thompson · 21/10/2026 · at 1:12:17

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