Best arts books recommended on podcasts in 2024
The arts books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2024, ranked by how many shows talked about each one. Ad reads and passing mentions never count.
- 1
Bird by Bird
- 2
Born a Crime
- 3
Hamilton
- 4
Ordinary Men
- 5
Gödel, Escher, Bach
- 6
Just Kids
- 7
Steal like an artist
- 8
Trickster Makes This World
- 9
The art of District 9
- 10
Nameless
- 11
Dylan goes electric!
- 12
Unsafe at any speed
- 13
Don't Get Above Your Raisin'
- 14
The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics
- 15
Listen, Liberal
- 16
Why Horror Seduces
- 17
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
- 18
Inside Paragraphs
- 19
The Mind in the Cave
- 20
On Bullshit
- 21
The Singing Neanderthals
- 22
Cultish
- 23
Born to Run
- 24
Ben Smith
- 25
Victor/Victoria
- 26
The Message of the Engraved Stones of Ica
- 27
Near Dark
- 28
Banksy. Wall and piece
- 29
Several Short Sentences About Writing
- 30
What Is Art?
- 31
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- 32
The Design of Everyday Things
- 33
The Stones of Venice
- 34
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- 35
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
- 36
The Unruly Woman
- 37
Idylls of the King
- 38
Sticky Fingers
- 39
Biography of a Phantom
- 40
Making a Spectacle
- 41
Thinking Inside the Box
- 42
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- 43
Look, I made a hat
- 44
Lost and Sound
- 45
The Sopranos
- 46
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
- 47
Suspensions of Perception
- 48
The Successful Novelist
- 49
Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg
- 50
Getting Real
- 51
Follow the Story
- 52
Faux Pas
- 53
Kill Bill
- 54
Dogma
- 55
The Hidden History of Coined Words
- 56
Continuous Discovery Habits
- 57
The Sense of Style
- 58
The New Censorship
- 59
Please kill me
- 60
Meet Me in the Bathroom
- 61
The Other Side
- 62
Welcome to the O.C.
- 63
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees
- 64
Hooper Humperdink ... ? Not him!
- 65
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight