Best books recommended on podcasts in 2011
The 82 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2011, ranked by how many shows talked about each one — not by how often a single show repeated itself. Ad reads and passing mentions never count.
- 1
An Economist Gets Lunch
- 2
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- 3
The Biology of Belief
- 4
You're Being Lied To
- 5
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
- 6
The sacred mushroom and the cross
- 7
Conan the Barbarian
- 8
The Walking Dead Vol. 14
- 9
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
- 10
Frog and Toad Together
- 11
Grizzly Man
- 12
Lolita
- 13
Statistical Abstract of the United States
- 14
Steve Jobs
- 15
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 16
Liar's Poker
- 17
The Better Angels of Our Nature
- 18
Think and Grow Rich
- 19
Fingerprints of the gods
- 20
The Sign and the Seal
- 21
The Bhagavad Gita
- 22
Srimad Bhagavatam
- 23
Supernatural
- 24
The War of Art
- 25
Underworld
- 26
Entangled
- 27
The Mars Mystery
- 28
The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt
- 29
Expert Political Judgment
- 30
The 4-Hour Body
- 31
Kitchen Confidential
- 32
Heart of Darkness
- 33
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
- 34
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 35
The Proud Highway (The Fear & Loathing Letters)
- 36
Libra
- 37
Good calories, bad calories
- 38
Born to Run
- 39
The Black Swan
- 40
Letters from a Stoic
- 41
Breaking Open the Head
- 42
Paranormality
- 43
The future of money
- 44
Sacred Economics
- 45
Where reincarnation and biology intersect
- 46
A Guide to the Biology of Belief
- 47
(R)EVOLUTION 2012
- 48
2012
- 49
My Brother Sam Is Dead
- 50
The Book of Five Rings
- 51
The Sorrows of Young Werther
- 52
The Prairie and the Making of Middle America
- 53
Psychological Care of Infant and Child
- 54
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
- 55
The Passion of the Christ
- 56
War
- 57
The Protestant ethic and the "spirit" of capitalism and other writings
- 58
Dethroning the King
- 59
Chariots of the Gods?
- 60
The Giza Power Plant
- 61
The Orion Mystery
- 62
The Manna Machine
- 63
The Bronx Zoo
- 64
Superfreakonomics
- 65
Life Is What You Make It
- 66
True Grit
- 67
The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- 68
Naked
- 69
Death in the Afternoon
- 70
Everything is Obvious
- 71
Shit My Dad Says
- 72
The Adjustment Bureau
- 73
The Cat in the Hat
- 74
Where the Sidewalk Ends
- 75
My Horizontal Life
- 76
Bagavad Gita
- 77
The Alchemist
- 78
Triumph of the City
- 79
Modernist cuisine
- 80
Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life
- 81
Left Behind
- 82
Here Comes the Garbage Barge!