Best books recommended on podcasts in 2024
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2024, 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
The Anxious Generation
- 2
Bible
- 3
Hillbilly Elegy
- 4
Man's Search for Meaning
- 5
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 6
The 48 Laws of Power
- 7
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 8
Atomic Habits
- 9
The Art of War
- 10
The Body Keeps the Score
- 11
The Wealth of Nations
- 12
Atlas Shrugged
- 13
Dune
- 14
Outlive
- 15
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
- 16
1984
- 17
Sapiens
- 18
Brave New World
- 19
Dopamine Nation
- 20
The Creative Act
- 21
The Comfort Crisis
- 22
Bad Therapy
- 23
The Gulag Archipelago
- 24
War and Peace
- 25
Study Guide
- 26
The Selfish Gene
- 27
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 28
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 29
The Three-Body Problem
- 30
Unreasonable Hospitality
- 31
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 32
Of Boys and Men
- 33
12 Rules for Life
- 34
Range
- 35
Mindset
- 36
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 37
Outliers
- 38
The Real Anthony Fauci
- 39
Mein Kampf
- 40
Meditations
- 41
Good Energy
- 42
The Lord of the Rings
- 43
Determined
- 44
The Artist's Way
- 45
On the Edge
- 46
To Kill a Mockingbird
- 47
Steve Jobs
- 48
Moneyball
- 49
The Population Bomb
- 50
The Psychology of Money
- 51
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
- 52
Good Inside
- 53
The Gift of Fear
- 54
The Brothers Karamazov
- 55
How to Change Your Mind
- 56
The Federalist papers
- 57
Chaos
- 58
The Fountainhead
- 59
Slaughterhouse-Five
- 60
The Road to Serfdom
- 61
The Righteous Mind
- 62
Irreversible Damage
- 63
On the Road
- 64
Brain Train
- 65
Moby Dick
- 66
Harry Potter
- 67
The Republic
- 68
What is Project 2025?
- 69
The Secret
- 70
Elon Musk
- 71
The Iliad
- 72
Never Split the Difference
- 73
Bird by Bird
- 74
Mastery
- 75
On Writing
- 76
The Bell Curve
- 77
Deep Work
- 78
The Courage to Be Disliked
- 79
Trump: The Art of the Deal
- 80
Why We Sleep
- 81
The Daily Stoic
- 82
Influence
- 83
The Martian
- 84
Die with Zero
- 85
Crime and Punishment
- 86
The New Jim Crow
- 87
Delay, Deny, Defend
- 88
Bowling Alone
- 89
Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 90
Daring Young Men
- 91
The Game
- 92
Coming apart
- 93
The Tipping Point
- 94
Open
- 95
Animal Farm
- 96
Four Thousand Weeks
- 97
The Communist Manifesto
- 98
Antifragile
- 99
The Better Angels of Our Nature
- 100
Awaken The Giant Within