Best books recommended on podcasts in 2019
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2019, 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
Sapiens
- 2
Why We Sleep
- 3
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 4
Enlightenment Now
- 5
The Better Angels of Our Nature
- 6
Deep Work
- 7
Range
- 8
Digital Minimalism
- 9
Can't Hurt Me
- 10
The Lord of the Rings
- 11
The Bell Curve
- 12
Ready Player One
- 13
The Great Gatsby
- 14
Mein Kampf
- 15
The Sports Gene
- 16
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 17
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- 18
12 Rules for Life
- 19
Atomic Habits
- 20
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 21
Bible
- 22
Extreme Ownership
- 23
The Order of Time
- 24
The Madness of Crowds
- 25
Nudge
- 26
The Black Swan
- 27
Gödel, Escher, Bach
- 28
Talking to Strangers
- 29
Bad Blood
- 30
On Liberty
- 31
Man's Search for Meaning
- 32
Lost Connections
- 33
The War of Art
- 34
The Artist's Way
- 35
Tribe
- 36
1984
- 37
The Secret
- 38
Anna Karenina
- 39
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 40
The Alchemist
- 41
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- 42
Alchemy
- 43
The Power of Now
- 44
American Carnage
- 45
The war on normal people
- 46
Empire of the Summer Moon
- 47
Long Tail
- 48
Thinking in Bets
- 49
Nonviolent Communication
- 50
Something Deeply Hidden
- 51
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- 52
Outliers
- 53
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
- 54
The culture code
- 55
Ending Medical Reversal
- 56
Antifragile
- 57
The Uninhabitable Earth
- 58
Loserthink
- 59
The War of the Worlds
- 60
The Innovator's Dilemma
- 61
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 62
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
- 63
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 64
Infinite jest
- 65
Meditations
- 66
How to Change Your Mind
- 67
Freakonomics
- 68
Pale Blue Dot
- 69
Shook One
- 70
Free Speech
- 71
Walden
- 72
Mastery
- 73
Stillness Is the Key
- 74
The Wealth of Nations
- 75
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
- 76
Permanent Record
- 77
Sex at Dawn
- 78
The Way of the Superior Man
- 79
The Game
- 80
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 81
Zen in the Art of Archery
- 82
The Strange Death of Europe
- 83
Fifty Shades of Grey
- 84
The prince
- 85
Open
- 86
Flowers for Algernon
- 87
The Conservative Sensibility
- 88
The Conscience of a Conservative
- 89
When Breath Becomes Air
- 90
Lifespan
- 91
Brave New World
- 92
The Four Agreements
- 93
Rules for Radicals
- 94
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- 95
The 48 Laws of Power
- 96
Hacking Darwin
- 97
The Odyssey
- 98
Fooled by Randomness
- 99
Silent Spring
- 100
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism