Books mentioned on Modern Wisdom

177 books from the 73 episodes we have processed, ranked by how many episodes they came up in. Sponsor reads are left out. How we check

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   The Odyssey

   by Homer · 3 episodes

   “James Joyce is actually the root of this. Yes, it's a distilled version of these things. That's brilliant. I had Alex Petkiss on the show, and he did a breakdown of The Odyssey, but because he can read the original Greek, he's able to get much more rich explanation of what's going on because sometimes words have multiple different meanings.”

   Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143 · 29/08/2026 · at 21:19

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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.”

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

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   Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

   by Bill Perkins · 3 episodes

   “I'm aware that much of this is what's your personal tolerance for risk and how much do you need and so on and so forth. But there's a certain archetype of person and Bill Perkins wrote a book about this die with zero, which is fucking fantastic. There is a certain archetype, the sort of more misery person.”

   The New Way For Ordinary People To Build Wealth - Tony Robbins - #1153 · 21/09/2026 · at 51:28

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   Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

   by David Allen, David Allen, David Allen · 3 episodes

   “design. I was a little worried when I first thought about that because I'm like, as a with a productivity background and like spending a lot of time with David Allen's getting things done and environment design, like you know, you don't want to be distracted by your phone, don't have it next to you on the table. I'm like, Don't, it can't be, it can't, it can't be.”

   Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158 · 03/10/2026 · at 24:45

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   Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

   by Nick Bostrom · 3 episodes

   “put into perspective. It's a great book, Superintelligence. Have you read that book? It's so good. So basically, the way that we process time is based somehow on how fast the brain,”

   Hunter Biden, Matt McCusker & Duncan Trussell - Mostly Wise #2 - #1136 · 13/08/2026 · at 2:20:40

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   Bible

   2 episodes

   “And your conversion to Christianity has happened after Charlie's passing. Yes. So I started feeling the urge to read the Bible again because my parents are Christian and I purposely did not become Christian. So I read the Bible properly, like I threw a context and everything.”

   Female Psychopath Explains How She Manipulates Men - Kanika Batra - #1142 · 27/08/2026 · at 30:13

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   Nuclear War: A Scenario

   by Annie Jacobsen · 2 episodes

   “I certainly don't think the AI would have had that much to do with it. Had Annie Jacobson on the show who wrote Nuclear War, a countdown scenario, and that was a fun episode. Yeah. Well, her new one is about bioweapons. It's about collably. And she said the Russians during the 80s, when we are not working on enhancing weapons to make them”

   Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 - #1143 · 29/08/2026 · at 1:04:24

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   The 48 Laws of Power

   by Robert Greene · 2 episodes

   “So I wrote the 48 Laws of Power when I was 39, essentially, and I'd been pretty much a loser up until then. Parents about to give up on me, their son who can't seem to hold a job for more than a few months.”

   “This Is The Most Important Subject I’ve Ever Covered” - Robert Greene - #1162 · 12/10/2026 · at 57:40

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   The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

   by David Deutsch · 2 episodes

   “we are all at, like I say in my book, we're all at the beginning of infinity. We're only ever at the beginning. And so we have something in common with everyone else who is also at the beginning.”

   Why Pessimism Makes Dumb Ideas Sound Smart - David Deutsch - #1164 · 17/10/2026 · at 5:14

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