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Books of Titans Podcast — 359 episodes
Seven Books from My Library
#300 - The Republic-Ion
#299 - Laches by Plato
#298 - Charmides by Plato
My Loeb Top 5
#297 - Alcibiades by Plato
#296 - The Winged Soul
2026 Mid-Year Reading Review
#295 - A Conversation with Stephen Crotts
#294 - A Conversation with Malcolm Guite
#293 - The Birth of Love
#292 - Philebus by Plato
#291 - The Flowering Hawthorn by Hugh Ross Williamson
#290 - Anaximander & Anaximenes
#289 - Parmenides
#288 - Gorgias
#287 - Democritus
#286 - Anaxagoras
#285 - Empedocles
#284 - Thales of Miletus
#283 - The Logos of Heraclitus by Eva Brann
#282 - Heraclitus
#281 - The Bible | A Straight Read-Through
#280 - 2026 Bible Reading Progress Update #7
#279 - 2026 Bible Reading Progress Update #6
#278 - Hadestown - Myth, Music, and Meaning
#277 - 2026 Bible Reading Progress Update #5
#276 - 2026 Bible Reading Progress Update #4
#275 - 2026 Bible Reading Progress Update #3
#274 - 2026 Bible Reading Progress Update #2
#273 - 2026 Bible Reading Progress Update #1
2026: The Reading Year Ahead
2025 Reading Year Recap
#272 - Living the Braveheart Life by Randall Wallace
#271 - Rhetorica Ad Herennium by [Cicero]
#270 - The Presocratics
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself
#269 - Plato of Athens by Robin Waterfield
#268 - The Idea Machine by Joel J. Miller
#267 - Sophist by Plato
#266 - Statesman by Plato
#265 - Man's Search for Meaning (Revisited)
#264 - Theaetetus by Plato
#263 - Cratylus by Plato
#262 - Phaedo by Plato
#261 - Crito by Plato
Allen Levi In Conversation: Part II
Allen Levi In Conversation: Part I
#260 - Apology by Plato
#259 - Euthyphro by Plato
Frameworks for Reading
The Plato Project
#258 - The Last Sweet Mile by Allen Levi
The DIY Great Books Approach
#257 - An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn
#256 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
#255 - The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom
2025 Mid-Year Reading Review
#254 - The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon
#253 - Anabasis by Xenophon
Should You Re-Read Books From Your Past or Focus on New Books?
#252 - The Frogs by Aristophanes
#251 - The Clouds by Aristophanes
#250 - Reading the Greek Tragedies
#249 - Bacchae by Euripides
#248 - Helen by Euripides
#247 - Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides
#246 - Orestes by Euripides
#245 - Free Speech by Jacob Mchangama
How Can I Teach Myself to Read Better as an Adult?
#244 - Phoenician Women by Euripides
#243 - The Authentic Confucius by Annping Chin
#242 - The Analects by Confucius
#241 - God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
#240 - The Bible | King James Version
Comparing LBJ & Robert Moses
The Gulag Archipelago
The Beginning of Knowledge
Top Ideas from the World of Books
On Direction
How Has This Reading Project Changed Me?
2025: The Reading Year Ahead
The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges
2024 Reading Year Recap
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart by Russ Ramsey
The Art of Teaching by Gilbert Highet
Hellenika by Xenophon
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Andromache by Euripides
Heracles by Euripides
Children of Heracles by Euripides
Hippolytus by Euripides
The Speeches of Pericles
Leading a Reading Group
The Trojan Women by Euripides
Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides Podcast
Alcestis by Euripides Podcast
Hecabe by Euripides Podcast
Medea by Euripides Podcast
The Bookshop by Evan Friss
Babrius and Phaedrus Fables (Aesop's Fables)
Philoctetes by Sophocles
Electra by Sophocles
Sophocles Fragments
Women of Trachis by Sophocles
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Mid-Year 2024 Reading Review
Ajax
Antigone
Oedipus by Sophocles
The Aeschylus Episode
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Aesop’s Fables
The Odes by Pindar
The Cataclysmic Will of Zeus
The Atrahasis
Homer’s Iliad vs Hollywood’s Troy
The Iliad by Homer (2nd Reading)
Enuma Elish
Q&A #3: The Bible with Dr. Jason Staples
The New Testament (David Bentley Hart Translation)
The Writings (Hebrew Bible Book 3)
The Prophets (Hebrew Bible Book 2)
On Taking Notes in Books
The Five Books of Moses
2024: My Big Fat Greek Reading List
Paul and the Resurrection of Israel by Jason A. Staples
2023: Reading Year in Review
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
On Greek Literature by St. Basil the Great
The Homeric Hymns
The Odyssey by Homer
The Iliad by Homer
Three Powerful Ideas from Books for our Time
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Histories by Herodotus
Persians by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Sappho
Theogony & Works and Days by Hesiod
Babylon by Paul Kriwaczek
2023: Mid-Year Checkup
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Book Pairing: In Praise of Good Bookstores (Jeff Deutsch) and On Writing (C.S. Lewis)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson & Reimagining Apologetics by Justin Ariel Bailey
Bookish Adventures in the UK
Assyria by Eckart Frahm
Moses Among the Idols by Amy Balogh
The Rig Veda
Enheduana
Writings from Ancient Egypt
Q&A: The Bible w/ Dr. Jason Staples
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq and Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Most Important Ideas from 6 Years of Reading
The Case for Reading Straight Through the Bible
The Dawn by Yoram Hazony
How to Read More Books: A Discussion
2022: Reading Year in Review
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Viking Heart by Arthur Herman
How to Create Your 2023 Reading List
The Places Beyond the Maps by Douglas McKelvey
The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson
The Apocrypha
The Great Books
The Body by Bill Bryson
Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
Ellison, McCaulley, Morrison, and Baldwin
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
The Truth and Beauty by Andrew Klavan
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Fun with Fiction
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Jack Hinson’s One-Man War by Tom C. McKenney
6 Books from May & June
Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice
The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton
That Murakami Quote
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King
Rembrandt Is in the Wind by Russ Ramsey
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior
2021: Reading Year in Review
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Do the Ends Justify the Means?
My 2022 Reading List
LBJ vs. Robert Moses
The Intellectual & Moral Life
The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville
The Idea of Israel by Jason Staples
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
2021 Mid-Year Reading Project Status
Books of Presidents with Gene Hanratty
Books by Russ Roberts
Working by Robert Caro
Retelling the Story Series by Russ Ramsey
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Years of Lyndon Johnson Series by Robert A. Caro
The Passage of Power by Robert Caro
Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
Means of Ascent by Robert Caro
The Path to Power by Robert Caro
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Our Hope by Father Dmitrii Dudko
Life of Wallace by James Paterson
Key Takeaways from My 2020 Reading List
Let’s Talk Books
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
My 2021 Reading List
Blood Meridian Discussion
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Where You Go by Charlotte Pence
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden
Crippled America by Donald J. Trump
The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris
David Crockett by Michael Wallis
Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
What Books Should I Read?
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Highlander’s Last Song by George MacDonald
Range by David Epstein
Mid-Year Reading Project Status
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Six Recent Books
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Sacred Romance by John Eldredge
Q&A: The Bible
The Bible
Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer
The Book of Proverbs by King Solomon
Ten Rules for Reading
Generations by William Strauss & Neil Howe
The State of the Books of Titans Project
Key Takeaways from My 2019 52-Book Reading List
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
My 2020 Reading List
Guantánamo Diary by Momamedou Ould Slahi
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Educated by Tara Westover
Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei
Four Books from September 2019
Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
How to Double Your Reading per Year
Endure by Alex Hutchinson
How to Remember What You Read
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
What Every BODY is Saying by Joe Navarro
Einstein by Walter Issacson
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
This is Marketing by Seth Godin
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Splendor of God by Honoré Willsie Morrow
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Warnings Unheeded by Andy Brown
Lords of the Desert by James Barr
Touching the Rock by John M. Hull
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
Keep Going by Austin Kleon
Why I Read 52 Books a Year
About Face by Colonel David H. Hackworth
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Robot-Proof by Dr. Joseph E. Aoun
Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge by Clay Scroggins
Genes, Climate, and Consumption Culture by Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth
Open by Andre Agassi
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Living with a SEAL by Jesse Itzler
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
Where We Want to Live by Ryan Gravel
Looking Back At 52 Episodes and The Future Of The Podcast
#52: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
#51: Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
#50: Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
#49: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
#48: Mastery by George Leonard
#47: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life by Russ Roberts
#46: Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger
#45: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
#44: How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
#43: Age of Propaganda by Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson
#42: Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
#41: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
#40: The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine
#39: Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
#38: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
#37: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
#36: Principles by Ray Dalio
#35: Hooked by Nir Eyal
#34: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
#33: Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
#32: Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#31: The Republic by Plato
#30: Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss
#29: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
#28: The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
#27: Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
#26: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#25.5 – Special Episode – Thanksgiving Update
#25: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
#24: Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
#23: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
#22: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
#21: Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
#20: Heraclitean Fire
#19: Dune by Frank Herbert
#18: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
#17: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
#16: Start With Why by Simon Sinek
#15.5: Special Episode – Interview on The Good Network
#15: Who by Geoff Smart & Randy Street
#14: The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
#13: Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca
#12: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
#11: Buck Up, Suck Up…and Come Back When You Foul Up by James Carville and Paul Begala
#10: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
#9: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
#8: Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin
#7: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
#6: Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
#5: Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
#4: Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall
#3: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout
#2: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
#1: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly