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The books experts recommend most for relationships

The books most recommended for relationships across 229 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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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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The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

recommended in 12 eps · 1 expert
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Awareness

Anthony de Mello

recommended in 11 eps · 1 expert
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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

recommended in 8 eps · 3 experts
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The Real Anthony Fauci

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

recommended in 7 eps · 2 experts
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Outlive

Peter Attia

recommended in 6 eps · 3 experts
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The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts
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Little, Big

John Crowley

recommended in 6 eps · 1 expert
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Exhalation

Ted Chiang

recommended in 6 eps · 2 experts
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Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

recommended in 5 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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Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

recommended in 5 eps · 3 experts
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The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

recommended in 5 eps · 2 experts
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On Writing

Stephen King

recommended in 5 eps · 3 experts
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Nonviolent Communication

Marshall Rosenberg

recommended in 5 eps · 1 expert
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The Work

Byron Katie

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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The Overstory

Richard Powers

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert
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Mastery

Robert Greene

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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Dune

Frank Herbert

recommended in 4 eps · 2 experts
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A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

recommended in 4 eps · 3 experts
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Conscious Loving

Gay and Katie Hendricks

recommended in 4 eps · 1 expert