Two friends, one body of evidence.

If Books Could Kill is a podcast about the airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds. Each episode, Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri pick apart a wildly popular book — the kind that sells millions of copies and quietly rewires how a generation thinks — and ask the only question that matters: is any of this actually true?

The answer, with alarming consistency, is no. From self-help gurus to pop-science phenoms to the airport-shelf manifestos of would-be politicians, no influential text is safe. The hosts read the footnotes so you never have to.

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