Best books recommended on podcasts in 2023
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2023, 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
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 3
Sapiens
- 4
Meditations
- 5
Atomic Habits
- 6
Bible
- 7
1984
- 8
Animal Farm
- 9
The Comfort Crisis
- 10
The 48 Laws of Power
- 11
Why We Sleep
- 12
The Creative Act
- 13
Atlas Shrugged
- 14
On Writing
- 15
The Psychology of Money
- 16
Mein Kampf
- 17
The Great Gatsby
- 18
The Wealth of Nations
- 19
The Lord of the Rings
- 20
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 21
Excellent Advice for Living
- 22
The War of Art
- 23
Dune
- 24
Elon Musk
- 25
Good to Great
- 26
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 27
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 28
The Body Keeps the Score
- 29
Brave New World
- 30
Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity
- 31
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
- 32
What's Our Problem?
- 33
Grit
- 34
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- 35
Shoe Dog
- 36
Spare
- 37
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 38
The Art of War
- 39
Outlive
- 40
Die with Zero
- 41
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 42
The Artist's Way
- 43
12 Rules for Life
- 44
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 45
How to Change Your Mind
- 46
The Omnivore's Dilemma
- 47
Be Useful
- 48
The Power of Now
- 49
The Gulag Archipelago
- 50
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- 51
Mastery
- 52
On the Origin of Species
- 53
On Liberty
- 54
The Secret
- 55
Animal Liberation
- 56
Walden
- 57
The Godfather
- 58
The Game
- 59
The Odyssey
- 60
Fight Club
- 61
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 62
The Selfish Gene
- 63
War and Peace
- 64
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- 65
The Population Bomb
- 66
Guns, Germs and Steel
- 67
Superintelligence
- 68
The Courage to Be Free
- 69
Nudge
- 70
The 4-Hour Body
- 71
Soul Boom
- 72
Four Thousand Weeks
- 73
To Kill a Mockingbird
- 74
Madame Bovary
- 75
Same as Ever
- 76
The Catcher in the Rye
- 77
Dopamine Nation
- 78
Case Against the Sexual Revolution
- 79
Going Infinite
- 80
Born Standing Up
- 81
The Fabric of Reality
- 82
Freakonomics
- 83
The big short
- 84
The Shining
- 85
Fifty Shades of Grey
- 86
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 87
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 88
Holy Bible (NIV)
- 89
Bowling Alone
- 90
Snow Crash
- 91
Scarcity Brain
- 92
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
- 93
Hell's Angels
- 94
Principles
- 95
The Canterbury Tales
- 96
Mindset
- 97
Harry Potter
- 98
The Real Anthony Fauci
- 99
Outliers
- 100
American Psycho