Best books recommended on podcasts in 2021
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2021, 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
1984
- 3
Animal Farm
- 4
Meditations
- 5
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 6
Mein Kampf
- 7
Sapiens
- 8
Brave New World
- 9
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 10
12 Rules for Life
- 11
How to Change Your Mind
- 12
White Fragility
- 13
How to Be an Antiracist
- 14
Deep Work
- 15
Tribe
- 16
Think and Grow Rich
- 17
Zero to One
- 18
The Fountainhead
- 19
Outliers
- 20
Think Again
- 21
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 22
Principles
- 23
Hillbilly Elegy
- 24
San Fransicko
- 25
Range
- 26
Amazon Unbound
- 27
A World Without Email
- 28
The Better Angels of Our Nature
- 29
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 30
Atomic Habits
- 31
Snow Crash
- 32
Bible
- 33
Breath
- 34
The Hunger Games
- 35
The Odyssey
- 36
Influence
- 37
The Righteous Mind
- 38
The Sun Also Rises
- 39
The Madness of Crowds
- 40
The War of Art
- 41
Lifespan
- 42
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 43
The Black Swan
- 44
Antifragile
- 45
Ready Player One
- 46
Irreversible Damage
- 47
Lost Connections
- 48
Can't Hurt Me
- 49
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 50
The 48 Laws of Power
- 51
So Good They Can't Ignore You
- 52
The Bitcoin Standard
- 53
Apocalypse Never
- 54
Why Liberalism Failed
- 55
Flow
- 56
Why We Sleep
- 57
Radical Candor
- 58
The Catcher in the Rye
- 59
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 60
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
- 61
Getting Things Done
- 62
Ulysses
- 63
Immortality Key
- 64
The Great Gatsby
- 65
Entangled Life
- 66
The Iliad
- 67
Unmasked
- 68
A New Earth
- 69
The Psychology of Money
- 70
Slaughterhouse-Five
- 71
The High 5 Habit
- 72
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 73
Changing World Order
- 74
The Alchemist
- 75
The Real Anthony Fauci
- 76
Wanting
- 77
On Writing
- 78
Fooled by Randomness
- 79
The Godfather
- 80
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- 81
The Everything Store
- 82
The God Delusion
- 83
The Lean Startup
- 84
Enlightenment Now
- 85
The big short
- 86
Project Hail Mary
- 87
Talking to Strangers
- 88
The moon is a harsh mistress
- 89
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 90
The Selfish Gene
- 91
The Moral Animal
- 92
The Daily Stoic
- 93
Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 94
Play Nice but Win
- 95
Make Time
- 96
The Tipping Point
- 97
Moby Dick
- 98
The beginning of infinity
- 99
Siddhartha
- 100
War and Peace