Guides Meditation & Mindfulness
Guide · Meditation & Mindfulness

The books experts recommend most for meditation & mindfulness

The books most recommended for meditation & mindfulness across 134 podcast episodes — ranked by how many experts and episodes vouched for each, every one linked to what was actually said. Sourced opinion, not medical advice.

The list

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Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

recommended in 13 eps · 3 experts
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Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

recommended in 13 eps · 2 experts
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Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

recommended in 12 eps · 1 expert
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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

recommended in 12 eps · 4 experts
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Awareness

Anthony de Mello

recommended in 11 eps · 1 expert
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The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long

recommended in 9 eps · 2 experts
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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

recommended in 8 eps · 3 experts
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The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts
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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts
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Exhalation

Ted Chiang

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts
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Lost Connections

Johann Hari

recommended in 5 eps · 1 expert
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Don't Shoot the Dog

Karen Pryor

recommended in 5 eps · 1 expert
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Deep Work

Cal Newport

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts
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Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

recommended in 5 eps · 3 experts
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Tao Te Ching

Laozi

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts
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Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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The Overstory

Richard Powers

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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Dune

Frank Herbert

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

Richard Feynman

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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Open

Andre Agassi

recommended in 4 eps · 3 experts
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The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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The Circadian Code

Satchin Panda

recommended in 3 eps · 2 experts