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Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Excerpt podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 7 episodes
Disrupt Everything
James Patterson
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Client
John Grisham
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The War on Warriors
Pete Hegseth
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Super Agency
What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
Reid Hoffman
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sold
David Greene
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Gratitude
Oliver Sacks
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Morbidly Curious
A scientist explains why we can't look away
Colton Shrivner
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
High Functioning
Judith Joseph
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Martyr
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Kaveh Akbar
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
On her game, Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
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Christine Brennan
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
107 Days
a memoir about her 107-day presidential campaign
Kamala Harris
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Genderqueer
Maia Kobabe
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The firm
John Grisham
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Finding My Way
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Malala Yousafzai
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
