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Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Read Max podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
When the Clock Broke
Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
John Ganz
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The managerial revolution
James Burnham
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Minds make societies
Pascal Boyer
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The diamond age
Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The ethics of ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Year the Clock Broke
John Ganz
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hyper Politics
Anton Jaeger
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
It Captures at the End of the World
Werner Herzog
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
After Virtue
Alistair McIntyre
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Red Plenty
Francis Spufford
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Abundance Agenda
Derek Thompson
Ezra Klein
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Technological Republic
Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
Alex Karp
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The education of Henry Adams
an autobiography.
Henry Adams
