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

  The Anxious Generation

  Jonathan Haidt · 29 podcasts

• 2

  How to Read the Bible

  James L. Kugel · 28 podcasts

• 3

  1984

  George Orwell · 27 podcasts

• 4

  Man's Search for Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl · 27 podcasts

• 5

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

  J. K. Rowling · 25 podcasts

• 6

  Sapiens

  Yuval Noah Harari · 25 podcasts

• 7

  Atlas Shrugged

  Ayn Rand · 24 podcasts

• 8

  How to Win Friends and Influence People

  Dale Carnegie · 24 podcasts

• 9

  MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE

  Herman Melville · 23 podcasts

• 10

  Thinking, Fast and Slow

  Daniel Kahneman · 22 podcasts

• 11

  Animal Farm

  George Orwell · 21 podcasts

• 12

  Hillbilly Elegy

  J D Vance · 21 podcasts

• 13

  The Art of War

  Sun Tzu · 21 podcasts

• 14

  The Lord of the Rings

  J.R.R. Tolkien · 21 podcasts

• 15

  The Odyssey

  Homer · 21 podcasts

• 16

  Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley · 20 podcasts

• 17

  The Wealth of Nations

  Adam Smith · 20 podcasts

• 18

  The 48 Laws of Power

  Robert Greene, Joost Elffers · 19 podcasts

• 19

  The Republic

  Plato · 19 podcasts

• 20

  Bowling Alone

  Robert D. Putnam · 18 podcasts

• 21

  Dopamine Nation

  Anna Lembke, MD · 18 podcasts

• 22

  How to Change Your Mind

  Michael Pollan · 18 podcasts

• 23

  Meditations

  Aurelius Marcus · 18 podcasts

• 24

  Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler; Stephen R. Pastore · 18 podcasts

Year by year

• 1984
• How to Read the Bible
• The Odyssey
• all of 2026 →

• The Anxious Generation
• 1984
• Atomic Habits
• all of 2025 →

• The Anxious Generation
• Hillbilly Elegy
• How to Read the 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 →

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

• How to Be an Antiracist
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Atlas Shrugged
• all of 2020 →

• Sapiens
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Range
• all of 2019 →

• 12 Rules for Life
• Think and Grow Rich
• Bowling Alone
• all of 2018 →

• 1984
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed
• The China Study
• all of 2017 →

• Sapiens
• The 4-Hour Workweek
• The Road to Serfdom
• all of 2016 →

• Islam and the Future of Tolerance
• 1984
• Pride and Prejudice
• all of 2015 →

• The Sports Gene
• Cryptonomicon
• How Not to Be Wrong
• all of 2014 →

• My Brother Sam is Dead
• The Omnivore's Dilemma
• Sex at Dawn
• all of 2013 →

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Divine Misdemeanors
• all of 2009 →

• Creative Acts for Curious People
• The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of ...
• all of 1970 →