Book List from "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert

Authors and their Books on "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert

"I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart."'
~ Stephen Colbert

While this may be true, Stephen has a lot of authors on his show who have written books that I want to read. So here's a list with some other show links as well.

Also, if you like the books from The Colbert Report, you might like to check out the list of books from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Week of July 14, 2008

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

by Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston

Amazon Price: $18.15 (as of 07/26/2008)

Words of Wisdom

by Lama Surya Das

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders

by Jason L. Riley

Amazon Price: $15.30 (as of 07/26/2008)

Friendly Fire

by Julia E. Sweig

Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 07/26/2008)

Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers

by Elizabeth Edwards

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/26/2008)

Links for The Colbert Report

Colbert Nation: Un-official official site of the Colbert Report. Some good episode recaps and extra info about interviewees here.
Colbert Report on TV.com: Extensive listing of episodes, news, downloads, pics and reviews about the Colbert Report.
Truthiness: Extensive entry on "truthiness", a word that Colbert recently re-popularlized, from Wikipedia.

Week of June 23, 2008

The Colbert Report is on vacation for two weeks; Stephen will be back on July 14, 2008!

This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Amazon Price: $16.32 (as of 07/26/2008)

Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York

by Paul Goldberger

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress

by Robert Wexler, David Fisher

Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of June 16, 2008

Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul

by Kenneth R. Miller

Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

by Jonathan Zittrain

Amazon Price: $19.80 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz

Amazon Price: $14.97 (as of 07/26/2008)

Surprised by Hope

by Tom Wright

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of June 9, 2008

Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed

by Alan Rabinowitz

This was one of my very favourite interviews that Stephen has conducted. Mainly because the guy almost made Stephen cry with his super-touching story about being a stutterer as a child and the only creatures he could talk to without his stutter were his animals. So he made them a promise that when he grew up and found his voice, he would give them one. Darn-it .. now I'm getting weepy too! Fabbo interview - go find it on the Comedy Network.

Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

by David Hajdu

Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of June 2, 2008

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

by George Will

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel

by Salman Rushdie

Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 07/26/2008)

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of May 26, 2008

Personal Faith, Public Policy

by Harry R., Jr. Jackson, Tony Perkins

Amazon Price: $12.80 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

by Brian Greene

Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 07/26/2008)

My Beautiful Mommy

by Michael Alexander, M.D. Salzhauer

Amazon Price: $15.64 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington

by David Sirota

Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of May 12, 2008

Stephen is on vacation the week of May 19, 2008.

YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger

by Mehmet Oz, Michael F. Roizen

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

What Really Sank the Titanic: New Forensic Discoveries

by Jennifer Hooper McCarty, Tim Foecke

Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 07/26/2008)

Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives

by Grover Norquist

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour

by Andrei Cherny

Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of May 5, 2008

The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport

by Carl Hiaasen

Amazon Price: $14.96 (as of 07/26/2008)

Just Before Sunrise

Amazon Price: $18.98 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

by George Johnson

Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 07/26/2008)

Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe

by Arianna Huffington

Amazon Price: $14.52 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of April 28, 2008

The Reminder

Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 07/26/2008)

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

by Anne Lamott

Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations)

by Noah Feldman

Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 07/26/2008)

World Made by Hand: A Novel

by James Howard Kunstler

Amazon Price: $16.32 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of April 21, 2008

My Life With the Saints

by James Martin

Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Age of American Unreason

by Susan Jacoby

Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 07/26/2008)

For One More Day

by Mitch Albom

Amazon Price: $9.60 (as of 07/26/2008)

Just Who Will You Be?: Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within. (ROUGHCUT)

by Maria Shriver

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of April 14, 2008

Stephen was in Philadelphia all this week, covering THE Democratic primary. All of the guests were political, but hometown band, The Roots performed.

Rising Down

Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 07/26/2008)

Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress

by Patrick J. Murphy

Amazon Price: $14.55 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of April 7, 2008

Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!

by Jesse Ventura

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/26/2008)

I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World

by Trevor Paglen

Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 07/26/2008)

Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership

by Madeleine Albright

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East

by Robin Wright

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of March 31, 2008

Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America

by Eric Alterman

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/26/2008)

Accelerate

Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 07/26/2008)

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky

Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of March 17th, 2008

Week of March 24, 2008 was a week of repeats :(

Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World

by Samantha Power

Amazon Price: $21.75 (as of 07/26/2008)

Welcome to My Living Room

Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 07/26/2008)

Tapestry

by Carole King

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

Why Women Should Rule the World

by Dee Dee Myers

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of March 10, 2008

Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now

by George McGovern, William R. Polk

This was a really great show. Colbert provided a segment on all the background about the McGovern candidacy in the late 60's/early 70's for those of us who didn't know. And then had a really respectful interview with McGovern. Well done!

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.

by Geraldo Rivera

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/26/2008)

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

by Sudhir Venkatesh

Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of March 3, 2008

Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone, The: The Emerging 21st- Century Power

by Shashi Tharoor

Amazon Price: $18.15 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

by Jennifer 8 Lee

The interview with Jennifer 8 Lee was so CHARMING! She was delightful and Stephen let someone talk for once. I can't wait to read this book!!

Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 07/26/2008)

Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

by Gregory Rodriguez

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

Get Lifted

Amazon Price: $8.97 (as of 07/26/2008)

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books)

by Robert B. Reich

Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of February 25, 2008

Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own

by Henry Louis Jr Gates

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of February 11, 2008

Stephen was off the week of February 18, 2008 - presumably in Oscar-solidarity with Jon.

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

by Philip Zimbardo

Amazon Price: $12.24 (as of 07/26/2008)

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

by Lisa Randall

Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse

by Richard Thompson Ford

Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Full Body Project: Photographs by Leonard Nimoy

Amazon Price: $29.70 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of February 4, 2008

Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

by Tony Campolo

Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Bush Tragedy

by Jacob Weisberg

Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 07/26/2008)

National Review

Amazon Price: $38.00 (as of 07/26/2008)

Face to Face with Frogs (Face to Face with Animals)

by Mark Moffett

Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of January 28, 2008

The Purpose Driven® Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (Purpose Driven® Life, The)

by Rick Warren

Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

by Alex Ross

Amazon Price: $19.80 (as of 07/26/2008)

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

by Frans De Waal

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

A Nation of Sheep

by Andrew P. Napolitano

Amazon Price: $17.15 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

by Tim Harford

Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of January 21, 2008

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

by Eric Weiner

Amazon Price: $17.15 (as of 07/26/2008)

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 07/26/2008)

Mother Jones

Amazon Price: $15.00 (as of 07/26/2008)

Fortune (1-year)

Amazon Price: $29.98 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of January 14, 2008

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

by Neil Shubin

Amazon Price: $16.32 (as of 07/26/2008)

Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East

by Jared Cohen

Amazon Price: $14.55 (as of 07/26/2008)

You're Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation

by Deborah Tannen

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/26/2008)

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

by David Levy

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of January 7, 2008

Woot! He's back! The strike may not be over, but Colbert is in the house!

America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market

by Richard B. Freeman

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/26/2008)

The New Republic

Amazon Price: $59.97 (as of 07/26/2008)

Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire

by Matt Taibbi

Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 07/26/2008)

Commentary - Ny

Amazon Price: $50.00 (as of 07/26/2008)

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

by Muhammad Yunus

Amazon Price: $17.16 (as of 07/26/2008)

Week of November 5, 2007

Note: these are the books from guests who were originally scheduled for the show this week. But because of the writers' strike, they are showing repeats. Once the strike is over, I'll update this. So since it's all repeats, now might be a good time to buy a book :)