Best books recommended on podcasts in 2017
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2017, 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
1984
- 2
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- 3
What Happened
- 4
The Handmaid's Tale
- 5
Outliers
- 6
Jesus' son
- 7
The China Study
- 8
Brave New World
- 9
Sapiens
- 10
Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow
- 11
To Kill a Mockingbird
- 12
Hidden Figures
- 13
The Bell Curve
- 14
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- 15
World Without Mind
- 16
To Kill a Mockingbird
- 17
Grunt
- 18
Alexander Hamilton
- 19
Tools of Titans
- 20
Unwanted Advances
- 21
Against Love
- 22
Atlas Shrugged
- 23
The Selfish Gene
- 24
Infinite jest
- 25
The Grapes of Wrath
- 26
The War of Art
- 27
Hillbilly Elegy
- 28
Why Nations Fail
- 29
The Road to Serfdom
- 30
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- 31
The case against sugar
- 32
The Scarlet Letter
- 33
Ties
- 34
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 35
The Tipping Point
- 36
The Great Quake
- 37
Firestorm
- 38
It Can't Happen Here
- 39
American War
- 40
The Book of Joan
- 41
The Hate U Give
- 42
Turtles All the Way Down
- 43
Kill All Normies
- 44
Beyond the Horizon
- 45
The Adversary
- 46
The Big Fat Surprise
- 47
Discipline Equals Freedom
- 48
The Wayfarer in New York
- 49
The Story of the Jews,
- 50
The Face of Britain
- 51
The Jewish State
- 52
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- 53
Angle of repose
- 54
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
- 55
Tree of Smoke
- 56
Angels
- 57
Stories of Your Life and Others
- 58
The Varieties of Religious Experience
- 59
Operation Mincemeat
- 60
A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby And The Great Betrayal
- 61
The Secret River
- 62
The Simple Path to Wealth
- 63
The White Paper
- 64
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
- 65
Robinson Crusoe
- 66
The Count of Monte Cristo
- 67
Freelance to Freedom
- 68
Women and Power
- 69
Why Comics?
- 70
The Odyssey
- 71
Understanding Comics
- 72
Seduction of the Innocent
- 73
The Ten-Cent Plague
- 74
A Contract With God
- 75
Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
- 76
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
- 77
Monograph by Chris Ware
- 78
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
- 79
Building stories
- 80
Omensetter's Luck
- 81
Life sentences
- 82
Girls to the Front
- 83
Outer Dark
- 84
The Idiot
- 85
The Utopia of Rules
- 86
Best evidence
- 87
The 12th Planet
- 88
The Rose of Paracelsus
- 89
Timelines of History
- 90
River Rose and the Magical Lullaby Board Book
- 91
River Rose and the Magical Lullaby
- 92
River Rose and the Magical Christmas
- 93
The second coming of the KKK
- 94
Endurance
- 95
The Right Stuff
- 96
Autumn
- 97
Exit West
- 98
Pachinko
- 99
The Power
- 100
Sing, Unburied, Sing