Best books recommended on podcasts in 2022
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2022, 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
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 4
Bible
- 5
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 6
The Handmaid's Tale
- 7
Atlas Shrugged
- 8
The Odyssey
- 9
12 Rules for Life
- 10
Atomic Habits
- 11
Grit
- 12
Brave New World
- 13
The Body Keeps the Score
- 14
The Art of War
- 15
The Obstacle Is the Way
- 16
Bowling Alone
- 17
The Premonition
- 18
Stolen Focus
- 19
Animal Farm
- 20
The Iliad
- 21
The War of Art
- 22
Dune
- 23
The Lord of the Rings
- 24
The End of History and the Last Man
- 25
The Fellowship of the Ring
- 26
Dopamine Nation
- 27
Principles
- 28
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- 29
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 30
The Wealth of Nations
- 31
Nudge
- 32
The Madness of Crowds
- 33
Sapiens
- 34
Outliers
- 35
Mastery
- 36
Freakonomics
- 37
Moneyball
- 38
The Psychology of Money
- 39
The Power Law
- 40
Zero to One
- 41
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 42
A Game of Thrones
- 43
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- 44
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 45
The Ministry for the Future
- 46
Influence
- 47
The Catcher in the Rye
- 48
The Brothers Karamazov
- 49
The Gulag Archipelago
- 50
War on the West
- 51
Lost Connections
- 52
Factfulness
- 53
The Game
- 54
Four Thousand Weeks
- 55
White Fragility
- 56
Autobiography of a Yogi
- 57
Meditations
- 58
Snow Crash
- 59
Blink
- 60
San Fransicko
- 61
The Jungle
- 62
Crime and Punishment
- 63
The Godfather
- 64
The Snowball
- 65
Can't Hurt Me
- 66
Why We Sleep
- 67
The Selfish Gene
- 68
War and Peace
- 69
Termination Shock
- 70
The Republic
- 71
Bad Blood
- 72
The Secret
- 73
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- 74
The Artist's Way
- 75
The Real Anthony Fauci
- 76
Maps of Meaning
- 77
Talent
- 78
The Myth of Normal
- 79
The Black Swan
- 80
Ready Player One
- 81
A Brief History of Time
- 82
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 83
The Bell Curve
- 84
Bittersweet
- 85
Finding Ultra
- 86
How to Be an Antiracist
- 87
The Power of Regret
- 88
The Better Angels of Our Nature
- 89
Superintelligence
- 90
On the Road
- 91
The Precipice
- 92
Antifragile
- 93
The Founders
- 94
The 48 Laws of Power
- 95
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
- 96
The Voltage Effect
- 97
The Secret of Our Success
- 98
Great Ideas for VBS
- 99
Quran
- 100
Jurassic Park