Category Report
Which books are shaping founder thinking this month, as mentioned across top entrepreneurship podcasts.
Biggest mover: Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, Warren Buffett, John Collison #1, rising 97 places.
Ding Dong: How Ring Went from Shark Tank Reject to Everyone's Front Door by Jamie Siminoff, Andrew Postman was the top newcomer at #8. In total 25 books had their debut mentions.
My First Million drove the most book chatter, with 34% of this months book mentions.
November’s most-discussed books skew heavily toward founder psychology, durable advantage, and the hidden structures behind outsized success. Biographical and narrative business histories such as Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Titan, Molly’s Game, The Invisible Billionaire, Ding Dong, and For God, Country, and Coca-Cola are being used less as stories and more as operating manuals—hosts extract decision rules, risk framing, and long-term discipline from these lives. Strategy and persuasion staples like 7 Powers and Influence surface as “re-readable” foundations, suggesting a preference for mastering a few core frameworks rather than chasing novelty. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and even references to Moby-Dick underscore a parallel concern with focus, emotional resilience, and knowing which battles to ignore. The sharp rise of Poor Charlie’s Almanack in particular points to renewed interest in mental models and clear thinking amid a noisy business environment.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, Warren Buffett, John Collison
2
mentions
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
2
mentions
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
2
mentions
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
1
mentions
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
Molly Bloom
1
mentions
Influence : The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B Cialdini
1
mentions
The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
Jerry Shields
1
mentions
Ding Dong: How Ring Went from Shark Tank Reject to Everyone's Front Door
Jamie Siminoff, Andrew Postman
1
mentions
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer
1
mentions
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
Mark Pendergrast
1
mentions
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger to #1.
Significant outlier with 1.9x as many mentions as the average book.
Ding Dong: How Ring Went from Shark Tank Reject to Everyone's Front Door to #8.
Highest ranking new entry to the chart.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger to #1.
Up 97 places from #98 last month.
The 48 Laws of Power to #57.
Down from #1 last month
The 48 Laws of Power to #57.
No mentions after ranking #1 last month.
No mentions after ranking #3 last month.
The shows that surfaced the most book mentions this month.
Mentions recorded per 30-day window (past 8 months)
How many of the mentions were for the top 10 books.
The entrepreneurship podcasts included in this report are curated by MavenSignal to represent the voices founders and operators trust most for playbooks, launches, and long-term strategy.
We ingest public RSS feeds, analyze each episode, extract book mentions with AI, and validate with humans. The resulting data is normalized and deduplicated, building the canonical signal for the MavenSignal platform. Every insight and ranking is drawn from that verified layer.
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