Best books recommended on podcasts in 2020
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2020, 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
Man's Search for Meaning
- 2
How to Be an Antiracist
- 3
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 4
1984
- 5
Mein Kampf
- 6
White Fragility
- 7
The Black Swan
- 8
Atlas Shrugged
- 9
Antifragile
- 10
The Body Keeps the Score
- 11
The Biggest Bluff
- 12
Atomic Habits
- 13
The War of Art
- 14
The Madness of Crowds
- 15
How to Change Your Mind
- 16
Sapiens
- 17
12 Rules for Life
- 18
Silent Spring
- 19
Principles
- 20
Can't Hurt Me
- 21
THE PLAGUE
- 22
The Myth of Sisyphus
- 23
Freakonomics
- 24
Animal Farm
- 25
Brave New World
- 26
Meditations
- 27
Ego Is the Enemy
- 28
Never Split the Difference
- 29
Exhalation
- 30
On Writing
- 31
Tribe
- 32
The 48 Laws of Power
- 33
The Denial of Death
- 34
Billion Dollar Loser
- 35
Zero to One
- 36
Why We Sleep
- 37
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 38
Maps of Meaning
- 39
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 40
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 41
The Righteous Mind
- 42
The Infinite Game
- 43
Sum
- 44
Lifespan
- 45
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- 46
Fight Club
- 47
Born to Run
- 48
Ready Player One
- 49
Justice
- 50
The Art of War
- 51
Think and Grow Rich
- 52
The Obstacle Is the Way
- 53
Stillness Is the Key
- 54
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 55
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 56
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
- 57
Infinite jest
- 58
The Fifth Risk
- 59
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
- 60
Quiet
- 61
The 4-Hour Body
- 62
The Artist's Way
- 63
Contact
- 64
The Better Angels of Our Nature
- 65
Essentialism
- 66
Grit
- 67
The Gulag Archipelago
- 68
Why Buddhism is True
- 69
Deep Work
- 70
How Innovation Works
- 71
The Parasitic Mind
- 72
Turning Pro
- 73
The True Believer
- 74
Thinking in Bets
- 75
The Secret
- 76
Ulysses
- 77
Between the World and Me
- 78
How to Decide
- 79
Range
- 80
The Untethered Soul
- 81
Finite and Infinite Games
- 82
My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism
- 83
Woke
- 84
Hillbilly Elegy
- 85
The Warmth of Other Suns
- 86
Radical Candor
- 87
Rage
- 88
One Billion Americans
- 89
The Lord of the Rings
- 90
Dune
- 91
The Alchemist
- 92
Shoe Dog
- 93
Good to Great
- 94
The Sun Also Rises
- 95
Enlightenment Now
- 96
Fooled by Randomness
- 97
The Game
- 98
Bible
- 99
The Stand
- 100
The Color of Law