Best books recommended on podcasts in 2018
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2018, 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
Think and Grow Rich
- 2
The Better Angels of Our Nature
- 3
The Bell Curve
- 4
12 Rules for Life
- 5
Man's Search for Meaning
- 6
Enlightenment Now
- 7
Bowling Alone
- 8
Sapiens
- 9
Sex at Dawn
- 10
Born to Run
- 11
On Writing
- 12
The Selfish Gene
- 13
Tribe
- 14
Mein Kampf
- 15
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 16
Lost Connections
- 17
- 18
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 19
Thinking in Bets
- 20
Becoming
- 21
Less
- 22
The Mars Room
- 23
There There
- 24
The Witch Elm
- 25
Deep Work
- 26
The Wilderness
- 27
Brave New World
- 28
Quran
- 29
On the Origin of Species
- 30
Impeachment
- 31
Mindset
- 32
Wild
- 33
Catching Fire
- 34
Light of the Stars
- 35
How to Change Your Mind
- 36
The War of Art
- 37
Rise
- 38
The big short
- 39
No Country for Old Men
- 40
The Richest Man in Babylon
- 41
As a Man Thinketh
- 42
The Right Stuff
- 43
Meditations
- 44
Outliers
- 45
On Liberty
- 46
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- 47
Carrie
- 48
Pet Sematary
- 49
Dianetics
- 50
The Stand
- 51
Life 3.0
- 52
Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 53
Antifragile
- 54
The Wealth of Nations
- 55
How the Mind Works
- 56
The Shining
- 57
'Salem's Lot
- 58
Going Clear
- 59
Waking Up
- 60
Creativity, Inc.
- 61
Living with a SEAL
- 62
The Secret
- 63
Why We Sleep
- 64
Fear: Trump in the White House
- 65
What's the Matter with Kansas?
- 66
Atlas Shrugged
- 67
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 68
Middlemarch
- 69
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- 70
The Science of Self-Realization
- 71
The Voyage of the Beagle
- 72
The Origin of Species
- 73
The doors of perception
- 74
The Longevity Diet
- 75
Nicomachean Ethics
- 76
The Power of Now
- 77
True Story
- 78
The 4-Hour Body
- 79
Bullshit Jobs
- 80
Discipline Equals Freedom
- 81
The Gulag Archipelago
- 82
The Plant Paradox
- 83
Presto!
- 84
The Looming Tower
- 85
Fifty Shades of Grey
- 86
Extreme Ownership
- 87
Better
- 88
Principles
- 89
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- 90
A Brief History of Time
- 91
The Big Fat Surprise
- 92
Why Buddhism is True
- 93
Heavens on Earth
- 94
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- 95
Private Truths, Public Lies
- 96
Mortal Republic
- 97
Under the Volcano
- 98
White Noise
- 99
Your duck is my duck
- 100
My Year of Rest and Relaxation