Books recommended by Ben Carlson
- Greenlights: (by Matthew McConaughey). Recommended by Ben Carlson
- The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: The Amazing Story of How America Lost Its Mind Over a Plush Toy–and the Eccentric Genius Behind It (by Zac Bissonnette). Recommended by Ben Carlson
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (by Robert J. Gordon). Recommended by Ben Carlson
- The Fifties: (by David Halberstam). Recommended by Ben Carlson
- The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-50 (by Frederick Lewis Allen). Recommended by Ben Carlson
- I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend (by Martin Short). Recommended by Ben Carlson
- Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (by Melissa Maerz). Recommended by Andy Greenwald , Ben Carlson
- The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (by Stephanie Kelton). Recommended by Anthony Scaramucci , Ben Carlson
- Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression (by Christopher Knowlton). Recommended by Ben Carlson , Morgan Housel
- The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes (by Frank Bures). Recommended by Ramit Sethi , Ben Carlson