Best books recommended on podcasts in 2014
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2014, 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
The Sports Gene
- 2
Freakonomics
- 3
The Sonic Boom
- 4
The Smartest Kids in the World
- 5
The teacher wars
- 6
The Churchill Factor
- 7
Scoop
- 8
Cryptonomicon
- 9
How to Measure Anything
- 10
How Not to Be Wrong
- 11
Don't Make Me Think!
- 12
Getting Past No
- 13
Getting to Yes
- 14
Twilight
- 15
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
- 16
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 17
The Stepford Wives
- 18
On the Origin of Species
- 19
The Phenomenon of Man
- 20
A Brief History of Time
- 21
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
- 22
Why Nations Fail
- 23
Lucifer's Hammer
- 24
Psychedelia
- 25
The Invisible Landscape
- 26
1984
- 27
Born to Run
- 28
Low Back Disorders
- 29
Fingerprints of the gods
- 30
The Why Axis
- 31
The Happiness Hypothesis
- 32
The Skeptical Environmentalist
- 33
Demonic males
- 34
The Blank Slate
- 35
A Renegade History of the United States
- 36
The Map That Changed the World
- 37
Left Behind
- 38
The Orion Mystery
- 39
The Selfish Gene
- 40
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication Volume 1
- 41
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- 42
The Sword of the Lord
- 43
The Book of Five Rings
- 44
The Psychic Side of Sports
- 45
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
- 46
Letter to a Christian Nation
- 47
On Having No Head
- 48
Waking Up
- 49
Top of the Rock
- 50
Great Plains
- 51
The High Cost of Free Parking
- 52
ReThinking a Lot
- 53
The Rise of Superman
- 54
Talent Is Overrated
- 55
Dianetics
- 56
Gateway to the Gods
- 57
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 58
Behold a Pale Horse
- 59
My Life
- 60
The strain
- 61
Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?
- 62
Guns, Germs and Steel
- 63
Chariots of the Gods?
- 64
Death By Black Hole
- 65
The Bell Curve
- 66
Bible
- 67
Understanding the Old Testament
- 68
Death of the Liberal Class
- 69
Democracy Incorporated
- 70
Dirty Wars
- 71
The sacred mushroom and the cross
- 72
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
- 73
The Punch
- 74
On Writing
- 75
The War of Art
- 76
Superfreakonomics
- 77
The Deep Self
- 78
The Hidden Messages in Water
- 79
Steve Jobs
- 80
Eaters of the Dead
- 81
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Novel (1885) by
- 82
Think Like a Freak
- 83
Turning the Tables
- 84
Seeing What Others Don't
- 85
The Black Swan
- 86
The Secret
- 87
Think and Grow Rich
- 88
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
- 89
On Wars
- 90
Body, Mind, and Sport
- 91
The Eye of Revelation
- 92
Timaeus
- 93
Critias
- 94
Fighting Traffic
- 95
Toxemia Explained
- 96
The Healing Code
- 97
No Retreat, No Surrender
- 98
Captain America
- 99
Why Evolution is True
- 100
Sperm Wars