Best books recommended on podcasts in 2012
The 43 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2012, 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
Scroogenomics
- 2
Congo
- 3
Sex at Dawn
- 4
The World's Newest Profession
- 5
The Black Swan
- 6
Fooled by Randomness
- 7
Meat Eater
- 8
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
- 9
The River Cottage Cookbook
- 10
The River Cottage Meat Book
- 11
The Myth of the Rational Voter
- 12
The War of Art
- 13
The Dirt
- 14
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
- 15
The China Study
- 16
Born to Run
- 17
Dark Alliance
- 18
50 Shades of Gray
- 19
Outliers
- 20
Freakonomics
- 21
Superfreakonomics
- 22
Off the Books
- 23
The Overeducated American
- 24
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 25
Steve Jobs
- 26
Twilight
- 27
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 28
Influence
- 29
The Omnivore's Dilemma
- 30
Dreams from My Father
- 31
Collapse
- 32
Black Gold Stranglehold
- 33
The Book of Mormon
- 34
The Walking Dead Vol. 14
- 35
The Road
- 36
Science of Mind
- 37
Stiff
- 38
Spook
- 39
What Money Can't Buy
- 40
A Game of Thrones
- 41
The Doctors' Plague
- 42
Modernist cuisine
- 43
Left Turn