"The James Altucher Show" READING LIST (and why)

I’m really proud of my podcast. Every guest has “chosen himself” in some way and then figured out how to spread the message of how he or her did it.

So far only one guest has hung up on me. I’ll save him for the next post.

I’m going to describe more at a later point how I pick and then prepare for each guest. I always try to ask questions they’ve never been asked before.

But the first thing I do is read all of their books. Here are some of the guests and some of their books, in no particular order. I recommend all of the below books. If I didn’t like a book, I wouldn’t have them on the show.

I’ll put up a new list once a quarter. If you have suggestions for future guests or books I should read, please add them to the comments.

Also, please tell me which podcast(s) you liked the best.

TIM FERRISS
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)
• The 4-Hour Body: An uncommon guide to rapid fat-loss, incredible sex, and become superhuman
• The 4-Hour Chef: The simple path to cooking like a pro, leaning anything, and living the good life

JIM NORTON

• Happy Endings
• I Hate Your Guts

CONGRESSMAN TIM RYAN

• A Mindful Nation

PETER THIEL (coming later this month)

• Zero to One

TUCKER MAX
http://www.tuckermax.com/

• I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
• Assholes Finish First
• Hilarity Ensues
• Sloppy Seconds: The Tucker Max Leftovers

MATTHEW BERRY
http://www.rotopass.com/

• Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Guy Who’s Live It

PAUL OYER

• Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating

ROBERT GREENE
http://www.powerseductionandwar.com

• The 48 Laws of Power
• Mastery
• The 50th Law
• The Art of Seduction
• The 33 Strategies of War

RYAN HOLIDAY
http://www.ryanholiday.net/

• The Obstacle is the Way: The timeless art of turning trials into triumphs
• Trust Me I’m Lying
• Growth Hacker Marketing

SETH GODIN
http://www.sethgodin.com/sg

• Purple Cow: transform your business by being remarkable
• The Dip: A little book that teaches you when to quit (and when to stick)
• Permission Marketing: Turning strangers into friends and friends into customers
• Free Prize Inside: How to make a purple cow

STEPHEN DUBNER
http://www.stephenjdubner.com/

• Freakonomics: A Rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
• Think Like a Freak: The authors of freakonomics offer to retrain your brain
• Superfreakonomics
• Confessions of a Hero Worshipper

STEVE SCOTT
http://www.stevescottsite.com/

• Habit Stacking: 97 small life changes that take five minutes or less
• Master Evernote
• Make Money with Youtube
• Make Money Online

STEVEN KOTLER
http://www.riseofsuperman.com/

• The Rise of Superman: Decoding the science of ultimate human performance
• Abundance: The future is better than you think

TOM SHADYAC
http://www.lifesoperatingmanual.com

• Life’s Operating Manual: With the fear and truth dialogues
• Movies: Ace Ventura, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, others

GARY VAYNERCHUCK
http://www.garyvaynerchuck.com/

• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How tot ell your story in a nasty social world
• The Thank You Economy
• Crush It

GREG ZUCKERMAN
http://www.gregoryzuckerman.com/

• The Frackers
• The Greatest Trade Ever

HUGH HOWEY
http://www.hughhowey.com/

• Sand Omnibus
• Dust
• Shift
• Wool

KAMAL RAVIKANT
http://www.founderzen.com/

• Live Your Truth
• Love Yourself

LEWIS HOWES
http://www.lewishowes.com/

• The Ultimate Webinar Marketing Guide

MARC ECKO
http://www.marcecko.com/

• Unlabel: Selling you without selling out

MARK CUBAN
http://blogmaverick.com/

• How to Win at The Sports of Business: If I can do it, you can do it

ADAM BRAUN
http://www.adambraun.com/

• The Promise of a Pencil: How one ordinary person can create extraordinary change

ADAM CAROLLA
http://www.adamcarolla.com/

• President Me: The America that’s in my head
• In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks
• Not Taco Bell Material
• Rich Man, Poor Man

AJ JACOBS
http://www.ajjacobs.com/

• Drop Dead Healthy: One man’s humble quest for bodily perfection
• The Year of Living Biblically
• The Know-It-All: One man’s humble quest to become the smartest person in the world
• My Life as an Experiment: One man’s humble quest to improve himself

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

• Thrive

AUSTIN KLEON
http://www.austinkleon.com/

• Show Your Work! 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered
• Steal Like an Artist
• Newspaper Blackout

CHARLIE HOEHN
http://www.charliehoehn.com/

• Play It Away: A workaholics cure for anxiety

CLAUDIA AZULA ALTUCHER

• The Power of NO
• 21 Things You Need to Know Before Starting an Ashtanga Yoga Practice

CHRIS BROGAN
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/

• The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth
• Trust Agents

DAN HARRIS

• 10% Happier

GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
http://www.gabbyb.tv/

• Miracles Now: 108 life-changing tools for less stress
• May Cause Miracles
• Spirit Junkie: A radical road to self-love and miracles

DR. WAYNE DYER
http://www.drwaynedyer.com/

• I Can See Clearly Now
• Wishes Fulfilled
• + (40 others)