Best books recommended on podcasts in 2015
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2015, 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
Purity
- 2
The Food Lab
- 3
Islam and the Future of Tolerance
- 4
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- 5
Extreme Ownership
- 6
1984
- 7
Pride
- 8
Heretic
- 9
SuperBetter
- 10
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- 11
The Stranger
- 12
A Curious Mind
- 13
Presence
- 14
Year of Yes
- 15
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- 16
You're not doing it right
- 17
My Custom Van
- 18
The Da Vinci Code
- 19
The Hunger Games
- 20
When my brother was an Aztec
- 21
Garments against women
- 22
Our Andromeda
- 23
Field guide
- 24
What work is
- 25
Trees & other poems
- 26
Raft That No Man Made
- 27
Indistinguishable from the darkness
- 28
Go Set A Watchman
- 29
Fates and Furies
- 30
The very persistent gappers of Frip
- 31
The Bone Labyrinth
- 32
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
- 33
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 34
Hell's Angels
- 35
A Manual for Creating Atheists
- 36
Living the Secular Life
- 37
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 38
The Power of Myth
- 39
Cannibals and Kings
- 40
Nut Country
- 41
Right Out of California
- 42
Tortilla Flat
- 43
Lactivism
- 44
Drawing Blood
- 45
The Scarlet Letter
- 46
Fingerprints of the gods
- 47
Magicians of the Gods
- 48
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview
- 49
The Conspiracy of Ignorance
- 50
The Moral Landscape
- 51
The Big Sort
- 52
Tactics
- 53
Pride and Prejudice
- 54
Year of Lear
- 55
On the Road
- 56
Crucible
- 57
Pedigree
- 58
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
- 59
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
- 60
Rebel Yell
- 61
Tell the wolves I'm home
- 62
Mrs. Dalloway
- 63
Man At the Helm
- 64
Precious gifts
- 65
Tom Clancy commander-in-chief
- 66
Gratitude
- 67
What's Left?
- 68
You Can't Read this Book
- 69
How to Beat Up Anybody
- 70
The Wisdom of Crowds
- 71
Blink
- 72
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
- 73
The Staircase
- 74
Sex at Dawn
- 75
The door
- 76
A manual for cleaning women
- 77
Outline
- 78
The Sellout
- 79
The Neapolitan Novels : My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child
- 80
Between the World and Me
- 81
Empire of cotton
- 82
H Is for Hawk
- 83
The Invention of Nature
- 84
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
- 85
My Brilliant Friend
- 86
The Argonauts
- 87
Mr. Bridge
- 88
Mrs. Bridge
- 89
Beauty is a wound
- 90
Negroland
- 91
Skyfaring
- 92
Dept. of Speculation
- 93
Of Beards and Men
- 94
True style
- 95
First bite
- 96
Bread and jam for Frances
- 97
Cross Justice
- 98
SPQR
- 99
Boys in the Trees
- 100
The courage to act