Aubrey Marcus
Author, Entrepreneur, Executive, Fitness Person, Podcaster
Aubrey Marcus is an American entrepreneur and podcaster who founded the supplement and fitness company Onnit in 2010, which Unilever acquired in 2021. He created the Aubrey Marcus Podcast and wrote Own the Day, Own Your Life (2018).
Aubrey Marcus's 72 Book Recommendations
- Zen in the Art of Archery: “Zen is not about what you are doing, it is about how you are doing it... As an amateur archer myself, I found the archery analogy to fit me well.”
- Zero Limits: “Whoa. That's what you find yourself saying as you read this book. The ideas therein completely flip your moral paradigm on its head.”
- The War of Art: “I read this book on the recommendation of Joe Rogan and it has been one of the most influential books in my life.”
- The Cosmic Serpent: “I think the pathways of thinking it opens up extend far beyond the boundaries of a man's quest for the root of knowledge in the Amazon.”
- The Name of the Wind: “Rothfuss is undeniably one of the most skilled wordsmiths to explore the fantasy genre... I recommend this book fully.”
- The Warrior Ethos: “Personally, the work reminded me what it takes to be a great leader and gave me a lot of cool stories to tell over a campfire or in the board room. I recommend it.”
- The Book of Truth: “What can I say, this book has profoundly changed my life.”
- Magicians of the Gods: “Magicians of The Gods is an important book not only for you and I, but humanity as a whole.”
- The Alchemist: “This is one of the first books that profoundly changed my life for the better.”
- The Book of Freedom: “The Book of Freedom from Paul Selig is out on November 6th! ...I love the audible version, I've listened to each of his books several times”
- The 49th Mystic (Beyond the Circle Book #1): “Here it is, one of the most important books to ever be written.”
- The Obstacle Is the Way: “I definitely recommend this book to everyone.”
- The 48 Laws of Power: “I cannot express how immensely valuable this book is, when absorbed into an open mind.”
- Ego Is the Enemy: “This book would have saved me a lot of money and a lot of torture if I had read it earlier in my life, and I highly recommend you get a jumpstart.”
- Awakening Spirits: “I'm incredibly happy this book found it's way to me... I highly recommend it to absolutely everyone.”
- A New Earth: “In my opinion this book is a non-negotiable read for everyone.”
- The Mastery of Love: “A lot of people know Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements, and then he wrote Mastery of Love, which is an incredible exploration of love and relationships.”
- Sex at Dawn: “The book Sex at Dawn by Chris Ryan was probably the third most influential single book.”
- Island: “Aldous Huxley did not come up short on any of those grounds. He flat out succeeded. His Island would be the best place to born, to live, and to grow old possible.”
- Not Afraid: On Fear, Heartbreak, Raising a Baby Girl, and Cage Fighting: “This is Daniele at his most vulnerable and brilliant. ... Through it all is a thread of defiant courage that will leave you truly inspired.”
- The Game: “Neil Strauss is a great writer, and the book itself reads like a witty story of personal growth and transformation.”
- The Road: “There is one paragraph that makes every hour you spent on 'The Road' worth every bleak second. It is perhaps the best single paragraph I have ever read. ... read this fucking book.”
- The Book of Five Rings: “The Book of Five Rings should be required reading in schools, it languishes on the shelves.”
- Turning Pro: “If I was the head superintendent of every school in the universe this would be on the core curriculum.”
- The Toltec Art of Life and Death: “There are certain texts that are destined to be read for thousands of years, because the truth contained therein is so universal and profound that it will be eternally relevant. This is one of the works.”
- You Are the Placebo: “There is no scenario under which any human should not read this book.”
- The Way of the Superior Man: “I was a profoundly better man for reading it... It doesn't matter if you are male or female, this book falls in the 'must read' category.”
- The Journeys of Socrates: “The book is in one of my favorite genres, philosophical fiction, and it did not disappoint.”
- Rise of the Mystics (Beyond the Circle Book #2): “Rise of the Mystics, the sequel to The 49th Mystic, might be the best book I've ever read.”
- STRESS LESS, ACCOMPLISH MORE: “If you need a kick in the ass to change your state of mind this isn't the only book that can help you get there, but it's one of the best.”
- Stealing Fire: “The book is incredibly well written... and provides the absolute best overview of state shifting practices of any book I have ever encountered.”
- Create Your Own Religion: “This book puts out in the open one of the most important life principles.”
- How to Change Your Mind: “This book has done a better job than any I've read so far on this subject at rationally, calmly, and scientifically exploring just how impactful psychedelics can be for the individual and our culture.”
- Cyrano de Bergerac: “If you are reading this review and have not seen this play performed live, or read the book, then please do so. It is a gift to yourself and those you will share it with.”
- The Four Agreements: “A lot of people know Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements.”
- The Prophet: “I'm going to be reading my favorite sections of my favorite books of all time... The book I'm reading today is Khalil Gibran's The Prophet... in a rereading of this book it has absolutely blown my mind.”
- Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver: “I decided I would start by reading one of the poems from this great book of poems from Mary Oliver called Devotions.”
- 12 Rules for Life: “So I hope you guys enjoyed this passage from Jordan Peterson's book. I encourage you guys to read it, it's called 12 Rules for Life.”
- Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope: “He's one of the best modern philosophers I've ever read... before we get started with the reading of one of my favorite books.”
- Tripping over the Truth: “Game-changing book on cancer, Tripping Over the Truth, by Travis Christofferson... Read If:...”
- The Fifth Sacred Thing: “...one of my all time favorite books The Fifth Sacred Thing to give away.”
- The Wheel of Time: “If he made all this up, this dude is a philosophical GENIUS. ... His teachings and aphorisms have formed the backbone of the warrior code for myself and thousands more.”
- Sleep: “I read Nick Littlehales's book Sleep”
- The Way to Love: “Don't judge a book by its size because it's one of the most powerful books I've ever gotten my hands on, and the book is called The Way to Love, the last meditations of Anthony de Mello.”
- The Five Levels of Attachment: “when I reread it it was really impactful”
- Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We've Created in Our Own Image: “one of the most important books ever written on the nature of God”
- First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come: “To understand the Field of Value, check out the book First Principles and First Values. Evolving the Torah doesn't require that you throw out the Bible.”
- Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power: “made a huge impact on the world”
- Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai: ““Rehearse your death every morning and night. Only when you constantly live as though already dead will you be able to find freedom.” ~ The Book of the Samurai.”
- Before They Pass Away: “there's this book before they pass away and I we talked about gave that I gave you that book yeah that book's amazing it's amazing photos”
- Curable: How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators Is Trying to Transform our Health Care System: “All right. So, in your book Cureable, which is another amazing book, you know, you really go into some of the perverse incentives that exist in our current health care system.”
- The Conquest of Happiness: “I read a book by Bertrand Russell called Conquest of Happiness and he was a preeminent kind of 19 or 20th century philosopher and in that book he describes like a gardener that they had and this gardener he said was one of the examples of the happiest people he's ever seen”
- Mutant Message Down Under: “I also read "Mutant Message Down Under", very good book”
- Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha: “@Ginmeister73 I did! @JohnRomaniello is a vry talented author & his book was a cool read. We don't have identical ideas but it was good shit”
- Don Quixote: “I never met my Grandpa but his favorite book was Don Quixote and when I read it I can imagine him laughing along with me.”
- Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World: “Tyson's perspective is absolutely invaluable, grateful that he's a bridge. He's also an author of an incredible book called Sand Talk, which drew me to him in the first place.”
- The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch: “There's a book called The Keys of Enoch as well by J.J. Hurtak that's worth reading if you're interested to learn more about this.”
- Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind: “I was reading Jamie Wheal's book Recapture the Rapture, had him on the podcast, great book.”
- The Laws of Human Nature: “I got an opportunity to read Robert Greene's unreleased new book called The Laws of Human Nature... and what he talks about there is he talks about becoming an integrated human, and an integrated human is someone who's gone into their own shadow.”
- The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy: “And then I read the Kybalion and the first principle is 'all is mind, the universe is mental,' and I was like... I could have just read that a little bit earlier and I could have changed the title of my book... so now I have a vastly different understanding of the mind.”
- Tribe: “I mean Sebastian Junger's book Tribe, you know, was very interesting. I'm reading that actually. I've known about his theory for a long time.”
- The Body Keeps the Score: “The constant stress and the constant desire to compete and do has left a residue, like The Body Keeps the Score, you know, a great book, and my body has kept the score of this.”
- Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature: “If you are interested in more on that, check out the book The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - along with about every single book on psychology ever written.”
- Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022: “When I read this book I had a similar reaction to when I watched the towers fall on 9/11... Ed Dowd... offers up all the aggregate data... I encourage anyone curious and courageous enough to look”
- Untrue: “Read Wednesday Martin's book Untrue for some science on that.”
- Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1: “I encountered this as well when I was reading Plutarch's Lives -- the biographies of the conquering heroes of antiquity... as I read the story of him charging on Bucephalus... I still admired him.”
- Becoming Supernatural: “Bestselling author of my favorite books You Are the Placebo and Becoming Supernatural, Dr. Joe Dispenza...”
- The Wise Man's Fear: “I got an idea from novelist Patrick Rothfuss who wrote 'The Wise Man's Fear'... he describes a class of warrior elite... called Lethani... So I did my best with that intention.”
- Mastery: “If you haven't read Robert Greene's master work, MASTERY, here is a book review to kick you in the ass toward your destiny”
- The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible: “This story made me cry the first time I read it in Charles Eisenstein's book, "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible" and every time I have watched it since.”
- Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe: “There's something else you talked about in the book which I thought was great... One of the beautiful parts about the book was not only is it talking about this from a historic perspective and a scientific perspective but there's also practicum in here.”