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The James Altucher Show

James Altucher interviews the world's leading peak performers in every area of life. But instead of giving you the typical success story, James digs deeper to find the "Choose Yourself" story - these are the moments we relate to... when someone rises up from personal struggle to reinvent themselves. The James Altucher Show brings you into the lives of peak-performers: billionaires, best-selling authors, rappers, astr

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Kamal Ravikant: Maybe a Pilgrimage Can Save Your Life [From the Archive]
Nov 2026 · 5 books
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Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Kamal Ravikant
“You had written this excellent book that so many people have loved called Love Yourself”
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Rebirth
Kamal Ravikant
“we're gonna talk about your new book. It's your first novel, Rebirth”
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
“and gone with the wind. As God is my witness, I will never go hungry again”
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
“In fact, if you read The Alchemist, the”
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Robin Sharma
“Then Robin Sharma wrote the book The Monk Who Solders Ferrari”
Chandler Bolt: How to Make Your Book Stand Out in the AI Era
Oct 2026 · 7 books
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Skip the Line
James Altucher
“We published this book called Sign In Thrive. Which I just oh is so so crazy niche that who's ever gonna read this and then it's got sixteen hundred reviews on Amazon”
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The Six Pillars of Intimacy
Alisa DiLorenzo and Tony DiLorenzo
“This is an interesting one. It's the six pillars of intimacy. So this book has done incredibly well”
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Skip the Flip: Secrets the 1% Know About Real Estate Investing
Carlton Sheets
“We had one write one”
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
“It's in The you know, how to win friends and influence people, they can all right, we can pencil that in for a couple million copies a year or whatever it is”
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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish
“I've had like the book scaling up. I bought that book and then I b proceeded to buy probably a hundred or hundreds of copies for every employee that worked for me”
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Choose Yourself!
James Altucher
“what I did for Choose yourself, which is Ten years old now”
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The Miracle Morning
Hal Elrod
“he would say, Hey, the miracle morning, it changed behavior”
Tom Bilyeu: What to Do If AI Threatens Your Career
Oct 2026
Carlos Gutierrez: ADHD Diagnosed at 65, Career Lessons
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path
Carlos Gutierrez
“His book is Sheer Will. Learning to lead when there is no path”
David Rubenstein: Why Owners Care About Winning, Not Money
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
David M. Rubenstein
“His new book is inside the owner's box, and there were two things he told me that I just can't shake”
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
“and Joe, and it was a great book by Michael Lewis”
The Art of a Great Question with Cal Fussman [From the Archive]
Oct 2026 · 4 books
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Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
“read about you in Tools of Titans”
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The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam
“David Halberstam His best book or his most well known book is the best and the brightest”
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and It's All Small
Richard Carlson
“don't sweat the small stuff, and then they then the guy wrote don't sweat the small stuff for kids”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
“The four hour work week. Yeah. Which At the very beginning I look I looked at that book and I just scratched my head”
Bill O'Reilly on Brokering a Secret Hostage Release Deal
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Confronting America: What Has to Change
Bill O'Reilly
“And that's kind of the whole book. Confronting America, what has to change”
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Confronting Evil
Bill O'Reilly
“Well, but the book before this is Confronting Evil”
Annie Duke on Why We Judge Decisions by Results, Not Logic [From the Archive]
Sep 2026 · 6 books
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smart Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke
“Now, you wrote this book, Thinking in Bets, Making Smart Decisions when you don't have all the facts. Is that the subtitle? It it is the subtitle. Yes”
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
“You know, so the 10,000 hour rule, which is sort of not quite accurate, but popularized by Malcolm Gladwell and Outliers, says it takes 10,000 hours to reach your peak potential at something”
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Every Hand Revealed
Gus Hansen
“Gus Hansen because that was probably the last poker book I read. He had such a great poker book where he just describes hand by hand what he situation he's in and what he's thinking”
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
“I'm sure you're familiar with obstacle is the way and ego is the enemy”
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
“obstacle is the way and ego is the enemy”
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Choose Yourself!
James Altucher
“one of my books, Choose Yourself, is also written in that format”
The Friendliest Store in the Mall | Ron Johnson Built the Apple Store
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Shop Different
Ron Johnson
“He created all the Apple stores and he's the author of the new book, Shop Different”
Jon Morrow: The Man Who Changed the Rules [From the Archive]
Sep 2026
Carlo Rovelli: Nothing Exists Alone
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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On the Equality of All Things, Lessons on Physics and Philosophy
Carlo Rovelli
“His new book is On the Equality of All Things, Lessons on Physics and Philosophy”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Becoming Kareem, the Skyhook, and the Search for a Self [From the Archive]
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“becoming Kareem. Growing up on and off the court. really moved me”
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
“the autobiography of Malcolm X had such a strong influence on you”
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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“your experiences with Coach Wooden, who you even wrote a book about”
How You Get Rich Isn't How You Stay Rich: 300 Years of Proof | Joseph Moore
Aug 2026 · 3 books
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How to Get Rich in American History
Joseph Moore
“Literally wrote the book. How to get rich in American history and there's A thousand”
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Your Money or Your Life
Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robin
“The first financial independent retire early book that's explicitly like formulaic. is in nineteen nineteen. But the one everybody knows about is called Your Money or Your Life. And it's by Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robbins”
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The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
“It reminds me a lot of Morgan Housel's psychology of money, and Morgan's been on this podcast as well”
Seth Godin: The Smallest Viable Audience and the Work That Might Not Work [From the Archive]
Aug 2026 · 8 books
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Purple Cow
Seth Godin
“s your first book I ever read was Purple Cow, which is probably the uh many people's intro to you, which was an amazing book about marketing that still applies”
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Linchpin
Seth Godin
“Yeah, Graceful was an excerpt from Lynchpin”
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The Long Tail
Chris Anderson
“And The thing is, as Chris Anderson pointed out in his book The long tail. benefits the person who owns the platform”
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What To Do When It's Your Turn / This Is Mine (actually titled: This Is Mine / The Book / This Might Not Work)
Seth Godin
“it reminds me of your last Book which This massive, beautiful, beautiful book. And I totally forget the title. I think I have early on said Alzheimer's, but what was this might not work. This might not work. And it was just a beautiful book”
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
“this is you know Malcolm wrote about this in the tipping point, and it's been discussed a lot”
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Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
“I could think of other books like Free economics, or even my book Choose Yourself”
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Choose Yourself!
James Altucher
“I could think of other books like Free economics, or even my book Choose Yourself”
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
“that led to Steve Pressfield's The war of art, which led to the idea of the resistance”
Arianna Huffington: The Sleep Revolution, Microsteps, and the Joy of Being Awake [From the Archive]
Aug 2026 · 3 books
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The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
Ariana Huffington
“we're gonna talk about the Sleet Your Book. The Sleep Revolution transforming your life one night at a time”
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The Female Woman
Ariana Huffington
“Your book from nineteen seventy four, The Female Woman, is on sale on Amazon for one hundred fifty six”
Nancy Cartwright: Bart Simpson, Fellini, and Finding the Artist Inside [From the Archive]
Aug 2026 · 2 books
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Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches
Linda Obst
“There was a book I read, Linda Opst wrote this book called Hello, he lied. And it was about writing and producing, and it was an awesome book”
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Kevin Coates: A Hidden Architecture
Kevin Coates
“I order this book, uh just like a coffee tea, it's a big, it's a massive, it's like One inch thick of this guy's work”
Mike Massimino: Why Failure Couldn't Keep this Astronaut from Outer Space [From the Archive]
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino
“You also recently wrote the book Spaceman an astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe”
Ray Dalio: Principles, Failure, and the Formula for a Successful Life [From the Archive]
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
“My son gave me a a book in two tausen fourtin. Joseph Campbell's hero of Thousand Faces, and it came at a particular interesting point in my life”
Perfect Is Boring: Tyra Banks and Carolyn London [From the Archive]
Jul 2026 · 1 book
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Perfect Is Boring: Ten Things My Crazy Fierce Mama Taught Me About Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss
Tyra Banks and Carolyn London
“Super excited to have Tyra Banks and her mom, Carolyn London, who just wrote this excellent book called Perfect Is Boring”
Dan Harris: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics [From the Archive]
Jul 2026 · 5 books
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Ten Percent Happier
Dan Harris
“You did the New York Times bestselling book Ten Percent Happier”
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
Dan Harris
“Meditation. For fidgety sceptics. uh which he wrote with uh uh Jeff Warren”
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Tools of the Titans
Tim Ferriss
“how in Tools of the Titans, so many of the Titans he speaks to meditate”
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Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist
Stephen Batchelor
“investigate the books of a guy named Stephen Bachelor, who would by the way make a great guest ... Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist”
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Waking Up
Sam Harris
“even though he wrote an excellent book about it called Waking Up”
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