Best books recommended on podcasts, by year

Ranked by how many different podcasts talked about a book, not by how often one show repeated it. Ad reads and passing mentions never count.

Most recommended of all time

• 1

  Bible

  Bible · 35 podcasts

• 2

  The Anxious Generation

  Jonathan Haidt · 33 podcasts

• 3

  Man's Search for Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl · 30 podcasts

• 4

  1984

  George Orwell · 29 podcasts

• 5

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

  J. K. Rowling · 27 podcasts

• 6

  Atlas Shrugged

  Ayn Rand · 26 podcasts

• 7

  Sapiens

  Yuval Noah Harari · 26 podcasts

• 8

  Thinking, Fast and Slow

  Daniel Kahneman · 26 podcasts

• 9

  How to Win Friends and Influence People

  Dale Carnegie · 25 podcasts

• 10

  MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE

  Herman Melville · 25 podcasts

• 11

  Hillbilly Elegy

  J D Vance · 24 podcasts

• 12

  The Art of War

  Sun Tzu · 24 podcasts

• 13

  The Lord of the Rings

  J.R.R. Tolkien · 24 podcasts

• 14

  The Wealth of Nations

  Adam Smith · 24 podcasts

• 15

  Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley · 23 podcasts

• 16

  The Odyssey

  Homer · 23 podcasts

• 17

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Douglas Adams · 22 podcasts

• 18

  Animal Farm

  George Orwell · 21 podcasts

• 19

  How to Change Your Mind

  Michael Pollan · 21 podcasts

• 20

  The Coddling of the American Mind

  Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt · 21 podcasts

• 21

  The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald · 21 podcasts

• 22

  Bowling Alone

  Robert D. Putnam · 20 podcasts

• 23

  Meditations

  Aurelius Marcus · 20 podcasts

• 24

  Steve Jobs

  Walter Isaacson · 20 podcasts

Year by year

• Bible
• 1984
• The Odyssey
• all of 2026 →

• Bible
• The Anxious Generation
• 1984
• all of 2025 →

• The Anxious Generation
• Hillbilly Elegy
• Bible
• all of 2024 →

• Man's Search for Meaning
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Sapiens
• all of 2023 →

• Man's Search for Meaning
• 1984
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• all of 2022 →

• 1984
• Man's Search for Meaning
• Animal Farm
• all of 2021 →

• Man's Search for Meaning
• How to Be an Antiracist
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• all of 2020 →

• Sapiens
• Why We Sleep
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• all of 2019 →

• Think and Grow Rich
• The Better Angels of Our Nature
• The Bell Curve
• all of 2018 →

• 1984
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed
• What Happened
• all of 2017 →

• The 4-Hour Workweek
• Trump: The Art of the Deal
• 1984
• all of 2016 →

• Purity
• The Food Lab
• Islam and the Future of Tolerance
• all of 2015 →

• The Sports Gene
• Freakonomics
• The Sonic Boom
• all of 2014 →

• The Rational Optimist
• Steve Jobs
• The End of Poverty
• all of 2013 →

• Scroogenomics
• Congo
• Sex at Dawn
• all of 2012 →

• An Economist Gets Lunch
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• The Biology of Belief
• all of 2011 →

• The Wine Trials
• The Spirit of St. Louis
• Why Christianity Must Change or Die
• all of 2010 →

• A Scanner Darkly
• The great shark hunt
• The strain
• all of 2009 →