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<aside> 🚢 This is the Best Books section of The Dickie’s Digest Best Of 2023 Curation.

I originally wanted to create a list of my personal favorite things of 2023—books, podcasts, purchases, habits, lessons, places I visited, etc.

But I thought it would be more fun (and valuable) instead to curate the best recommendations of a wide variety of people, rather than just me.

So below you’ll find links to the 50 most popular book episode recommendations I received after polling roughly 375,000 people on X.

Plenty here to keep you learning & listening through the holidays and into 2024!

If you enjoyed these, check out some of the links to the right to share them with a friend or with your audience. And if you have recommendations that I should add, DM me on Twitter and I’ll add it to the list!

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Relevant links

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Best Books of 2023

Book Title Amazon Link
Dopamine Nation by Dr Anna Lembke https://amzn.to/3Trkxjs
The Expectation Effect by David Robson https://amzn.to/46W2qVP
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne https://amzn.to/3RvCJpE
Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson https://amzn.to/3RHEy3V
The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous https://amzn.to/3uZK0WW
The Art of Living by Epictetus https://amzn.to/47VwzFX
Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi https://amzn.to/3trDB6p
Exactly What to Say: For Real Estate Agents https://amzn.to/3RlU4kx
Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia https://amzn.to/3RqSwps
Ultra-processed People by Chris van Tulleken https://amzn.to/3GNQwTa
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius https://amzn.to/3GJ0Iwn
Pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini https://amzn.to/48e9IFx
Atomic Habits by James Clear https://amzn.to/470XyPt
Jewish Wisdom for Business Success https://amzn.to/3GJqPU4
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara https://amzn.to/483ptQ8
Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom https://amzn.to/3uSkBhO
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand https://amzn.to/48f5u0m
Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz https://amzn.to/4af4efD
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Ph.D. https://amzn.to/4aoMGxJ
Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger https://amzn.to/3RvDsam
The Art and Business of Online Writing by Nicolas Cole https://amzn.to/3ths7lW
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho https://amzn.to/3tlbkP1
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza https://amzn.to/41qgOVq
Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland https://amzn.to/470dBNa
Good Morning Monster by Catherine Gildiner https://amzn.to/3TtxM31
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes https://amzn.to/3TlyYpd
The Land is Ours by Adv T. N Ngcukaithobi https://amzn.to/3thajYi
Essentialism by Greg McKeown https://amzn.to/3uVxdVn
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie https://amzn.to/46Zt3ZS
The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike Jr. https://amzn.to/3GNRz5y
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover https://amzn.to/3tjZHrv
Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky https://amzn.to/3v64tcA
The Discourses by Epictetus https://amzn.to/4af4OKl
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté https://amzn.to/3v1iUyR
Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson https://amzn.to/3NrC8UH
1984 by George Orwell https://amzn.to/3uVU8Qx
Unbound by Kasia Urbaniak https://amzn.to/47Yq05x
The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey https://amzn.to/3RqTt1f
Doglapan - The Hard Truth about Life and Startups by Ashneer Grover https://amzn.to/3Ro1fbZ
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron https://amzn.to/3NtulFF
Elon Musk’s Autobiography by Walter Isaacson https://amzn.to/3GNRNtq
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman https://amzn.to/47TV3zu
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss https://amzn.to/3RIE4dN
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin https://amzn.to/3RHjLgV
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl https://amzn.to/3RH8ayf
Think Again by Adam Grant https://amzn.to/3GK7geb
After Steve by Tripp Mickle & William Morrow https://amzn.to/3Tpp6KU
Factfulness by Hans Rosling https://amzn.to/474Xyxz
$100M Offers by Alex Hormozi https://amzn.to/4aipTn5
How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil https://amzn.to/41pySP7
Dotcom Secrets by Russell Brunson https://amzn.to/3RqRz0B
Broken Money by Lyn Alden https://amzn.to/3RQBti2