Best biography books recommended on podcasts in 2024
The biography 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
The Gulag Archipelago
- 2
The Real Anthony Fauci
- 3
Open
- 4
On Writing
- 5
Trump: The Art of the Deal
- 6
Extreme Ownership
- 7
Between the World and Me
- 8
John Adams
- 9
Lean In
- 10
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 11
The Power Broker
- 12
Angela's Ashes
- 13
Dreams from My Father
- 14
Storyworthy
- 15
Wild
- 16
Spare
- 17
I'm Glad My Mom Died
- 18
Late Admissions
- 19
Autobiography of a Yogi
- 20
Born Standing Up
- 21
Bound for Glory
- 22
Substance
- 23
Charlie Wilson's War
- 24
What It Takes
- 25
Master of the Senate
- 26
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- 27
In the Plex
- 28
Hollywood Babylon
- 29
Ask Not
- 30
Team of Rivals
- 31
American Values
- 32
Isaac's Storm
- 33
Elon Musk
- 34
The Truths We Hold
- 35
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
- 36
Hard Choices
- 37
Witness
- 38
The Contrarian
- 39
Run Towards the Danger
- 40
Knife
- 41
Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set
- 42
On Fire
- 43
Helter Skelter
- 44
Becoming
- 45
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- 46
Amateur Hour
- 47
Up From Slavery
- 48
The Art of Learning
- 49
Red Notice
- 50
Eat Pray Love
- 51
Liar's Poker
- 52
Get Honest or Die Lying
- 53
The Last Lion
- 54
Is This Anything?
- 55
Between Two Kingdoms
- 56
Not My First Rodeo
- 57
Joseph Anton
- 58
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine
- 59
Ramblin' Man
- 60
Stalin
- 61
Music at Midnight
- 62
Limonov
- 63
The Man Time Forgot
- 64
Romney
- 65
Never Enough
- 66
Bad Boy
- 67
Pumpkinflowers
- 68
Invent and Wander
- 69
Arnold and Me
- 70
Chocolate Wars
- 71
Fate is the Hunter
- 72
Miss May Does Not Exist
- 73
Seeing Through
- 74
The Third Man Factor
- 75
South!
- 76
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
- 77
Tyranny's Ally
- 78
Obama's Wars
- 79
The Unwinding
- 80
Will
- 81
Midnight in Moscow
- 82
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
- 83
Fear: Trump in the White House
- 84
Reagan
- 85
Trial by Ambush
- 86
What I Saw at the Revolution
- 87
An Armenian Sketchbook
- 88
Casino
- 89
The Case for Trump
- 90
In the Arena
- 91
Torso
- 92
Why Fish Don't Exist
- 93
The young T.E. Lawrence
- 94
Socrates in Love
- 95
In the belly of the beast
- 96
Arabian Sands
- 97
Mother Jones
- 98
Tis
- 99
Queen Victoria
- 100
The Art of Power