Best books recommended on podcasts in 2016
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2016, 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 4-Hour Workweek
- 2
Trump: The Art of the Deal
- 3
1984
- 4
The beginning of infinity
- 5
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 6
Stoner
- 7
Outliers
- 8
Sapiens
- 9
Smarter Faster Better
- 10
Moneyball
- 11
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
- 12
The Road to Serfdom
- 13
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
- 14
American Psycho
- 15
The Gulag Archipelago
- 16
Man's Search for Meaning
- 17
The Blank Slate
- 18
Crime and Punishment
- 19
Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto
- 20
The Prophet
- 21
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 22
Hillary's America
- 23
The Lord of the Rings
- 24
War and Peace
- 25
The Confidence Man
- 26
The Art of War
- 27
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- 28
Brave New World
- 29
Grit
- 30
The Hunger Games
- 31
The industries of the future
- 32
The Consuming Instinct
- 33
A short history of nearly everything
- 34
Other Minds
- 35
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- 36
Whiplash
- 37
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- 38
Hamilton
- 39
A Man Called Ove
- 40
The Underground Railroad
- 41
The Vegetarian
- 42
The Sellout
- 43
Bleak House
- 44
Peak
- 45
How the Irish Saved Civilization
- 46
Food of the Gods
- 47
True Hallucinations
- 48
The Archaic Revival
- 49
Republic, Lost
- 50
Coyote America
- 51
Tools of Titans
- 52
Fahrenheit 451
- 53
Freakonomics
- 54
Siddhartha
- 55
The Power of Habit
- 56
Armas de titanes
- 57
The undoing project
- 58
Rest
- 59
So long, see you tomorrow
- 60
They Came Like Swallows
- 61
The Happiness of Getting it Down Right
- 62
A Child's Christmas in Wales
- 63
Eileen
- 64
Sick in the Head
- 65
Jugaad Innovation
- 66
The big sky
- 67
Buck, Buck, Moose
- 68
Coyotes
- 69
War and turpentine
- 70
The North water
- 71
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- 72
Evicted
- 73
Swing Time
- 74
My Name is Lucy Barton
- 75
Zero K
- 76
Scoop
- 77
Today will be different
- 78
Bad Pharma
- 79
The Essential Lenny Bruce
- 80
Healing Back Pain
- 81
The gloaming
- 82
The Sport of Kings
- 83
Blood at the Root
- 84
Hero of the empire
- 85
His final battle
- 86
You'll grow out of it
- 87
Egyptomania
- 88
The day before happiness
- 89
All things cease to appear
- 90
Happy all the time
- 91
Schlump
- 92
The Divide
- 93
Bible
- 94
Create Your Own Religion
- 95
The Book of Five Rings
- 96
Before They Pass Away
- 97
Ordinary Men
- 98
A Culture of Growth
- 99
Thank You for Being Late
- 100
How to Survive a Plague