Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · first published 1876
Mentioned 19 time(s) by 15 guest(s): 4 recommend. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags
Steven Brunton on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-10-26): mention
“…So I’m reminded of the opening line for Anna Karenina. You know, every happy family is happy in the same way…”
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Angela Duckworth on EconTalk (2026-10-26): mention
“…have you read Anna Karenina, Chapter 2 today?…”
David Wolpe on EconTalk (2026-10-19): mention
“…he writes Anna Karenina, which is one of the great masterpieces of world literature.…”
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James Marriott on EconTalk (2026-09-21): mention
“…No film feels to me quite part of my life in a way that, say, reading Anna Karenina has.…”
Tara Seshan on Lenny's Podcast (2026-08-30): mention
“…That's the only way to read something like The Power Broker or War and Peace or even Anna Karenina.…”
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Tara Seshan on Lenny's Podcast (2026-08-30): recommend
“…Another book that I might recommend as a book that people should read, I really love Anna Karenina…”
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Dan Wang on Conversations with Tyler (2025-12-03): mention
“…I much prefer Anna Karenina to War and Peace.…”
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Dan Wang on Conversations with Tyler (2025-12-03): mention
“…I think that Anna Karenina is just a much stronger love story than the story of Natasha Rostov.…”
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Dan Shipper on Lenny's Podcast (2025-07-17): mention
“…that's one of the things you'll find in Anna Karenina…”
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Hilary Gridley on Lenny's Podcast (2025-06-15): mention
“…literally that's the book that I'm bringing on vacation with me tomorrow…”
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Nabeel S. Qureshi on Lenny's Podcast (2025-05-11): recommend
“…My favorite novel is Anna Karenina, and I would recommend that everyone read Erica.…”
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Dana Gioia on EconTalk (2025-01-20): recommend
“…Certainly Anna Karenina--having read novels for over 60 years--Anna Karenina is the best novel I've ever read…”
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Greg McKeown on The Tim Ferriss Show (2024-02-03): mention
“…Was it Anna Karenina, you know, opened with the brilliant line…”
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John Cutler on Lenny's Podcast (2023-01-15): mention
“…In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy is basically the like, "The dysfunctional families are all different and the happy families are the same,"…”
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Dana Gioia on Conversations with Tyler (2021-04-07): recommend
“…the greatest thing we've ever read together was Anna Karenina. Nothing else can hold its own…”
Dana Gioia on EconTalk (2021-02-15): mention
“…We did The Red and the Black, we did Anna Karenina, Catch-22.…”
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Branko Milanovic on EconTalk (2020-12-07): mention
“…where I used the Jane Austen, the Pride and Prejudice, and also Anna Karenina to actually situate…”
Rabbi Sacks on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-08-30): mention
“…right up there with Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina…”
Elizabeth Gilbert on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-05-18): recommend
“…that's Anna Karenina and it's Madame Bovary and it's Hedda Gabler, and it's Daisy Miller, all of those novels written by men…”