Best family books recommended on podcasts in 2024

The family 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.

All of 2024

• 1

  Good Inside

  Dr. Becky Kennedy · 6 podcasts

• 2

  Ender's Game

  Orson Scott Card · 4 podcasts

• 3

  Attached

  Amir Levine; Rachel Heller · 3 podcasts

• 4

  Nonviolent Communication

  Marshall B. Rosenberg; Deepak Chopra; Magiarí Díaz Díaz; Alan Rafael Seid Llamas; Rosenberg · 2 podcasts

• 5

  Small Fry

  Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2 podcasts

• 6

  The Jungle Book

  Rudyard Kipling · 2 podcasts

• 7

  Fight Right

  Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD; John Gottman, PhD · 2 podcasts

• 8

  Educated

  Tara Westover · 2 podcasts

• 9

  Blink

  Malcolm Gladwell · 2 podcasts

• 10

  Buy What You Love Without Going Broke

  Jen Smith; Jill Sirianni · 1 podcast

• 11

  Conscious loving

  Gay Hendricks; Kathlyn Hendricks · 1 podcast

• 12

  Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  Paulo Freire · 1 podcast

• 13

  To train up a child

  Michael Pearl · 1 podcast

• 14

  The Strong-willed Child

  James C. Dobson · 1 podcast

• 15

  Scattered Minds

  Gabor Maté, MD · 1 podcast

• 16

  On Grief and Grieving

  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross; David Kessler · 1 podcast

• 17

  Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?

  Gina Pera · 1 podcast

• 18

  The Diversity Myth

  David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel · 1 podcast

• 19

  How to Stay in Love

  James J. Sexton · 1 podcast

• 20

  Hold on to your kids

  Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté · 1 podcast

• 21
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  Anita Loos · 1 podcast

• 22

  I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

  Tucker Max · 1 podcast

• 23

  Homo Prospectus

  Martin E. P. Seligman; Peter Albert Railton; Roy F. Baumeister; Chandra Sekhar Sripada · 1 podcast

• 24

  Men and Marriage

  George F. Gilder · 1 podcast

• 25

  Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

  Marc Weissbluth, M.D. · 1 podcast

• 26

  The Reasons of Love

  Harry G. Frankfurt · 1 podcast

• 27

  The Daily Dad

  Ryan Holiday · 1 podcast

• 28

  Love Talk

  Les Parrott · 1 podcast

• 29

  The Critical Turn in Education

  Isaac Gottesman · 1 podcast

• 30

  The Drama of the Gifted Child

  Unknown · 1 podcast

• 31

  After Camelot

  J. Randy Taraborrelli · 1 podcast

• 32

  Vax-Unvax

  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Robert Francis Kennedy; Brian Hooker · 1 podcast

• 33

  The shape of the river

  William G Bowen, William G. Bowen, Derek Bok · 1 podcast

• 34

  Sex and the single girl

  Helen Gurley Brown · 1 podcast

• 35

  The Liars' Club

  Mary Karr · 1 podcast

• 36

  Should you leave?

  Peter D. Kramer · 1 podcast

• 37

  The end of your life book club

  Will Schwalbe · 1 podcast

• 38

  What the Living Do

  Maggie Dwyer · 1 podcast

• 39

  Wave

  Sonali Deraniyagala · 1 podcast

• 40

  A life's work

  Rachel Cusk · 1 podcast

• 41

  First Frost

  Sarah Addison Allen · 1 podcast

• 42

  Leaving before the rains come

  Alexandra Fuller · 1 podcast

• 43

  Prodigal Son

  Danielle Steel; Mel Foster · 1 podcast

• 44

  In the unlikely event

  Judy Blume · 1 podcast

• 45

  Modern Romance

  Aziz Ansari; Eric Klinenberg · 1 podcast

• 46

  The test

  Anya Kamenetz · 1 podcast

• 47

  Last one home

  Debbie Macomber · 1 podcast

• 48

  What School Could Be

  Ted Dintersmith · 1 podcast

• 49

  The Crying Book

  Heather Christle · 1 podcast

• 50

  Education

  Thomas Sowell · 1 podcast

• 51

  Getting a Job

  Mark Granovetter · 1 podcast

• 52

  Brave New Words

  Salman Khan · 1 podcast

• 53

  Weapons of Mass Instruction

  John Taylor Gatto · 1 podcast

• 54

  How Children Succeed

  Paul Tough · 1 podcast

• 55

  The Blue Zones

  Dan Buettner · 1 podcast

• 56

  Until the Streetlights Come On

  Ginny Yurich, MEd · 1 podcast

• 57

  Balanced and Barefoot

  Angela J. Hanscom · 1 podcast

• 58

  Beyond Winning

  Kim Payne; Luis Llosa; Scott Lancaster · 1 podcast

• 59

  Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

  Siegfried Engelmann; Phyllis Haddox; Elaine Bruner · 1 podcast

• 60

  Baby Reindeer

  Richard Gadd · 1 podcast

• 61

  Models

  Mark Manson · 1 podcast

• 62

  Everything I Know About Love

  Dolly Alderton · 1 podcast

• 63

  The Deepest Well

  Nadine Burke Harris · 1 podcast

• 64

  Young Forever

  Mark Hyman · 1 podcast

• 65

  Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

  Bryan Caplan · 1 podcast

• 66

  Friends

  Robin Dunbar · 1 podcast

• 67

  Promises I Can Keep

  Kathryn Edin; Maria Kefalas · 1 podcast

• 68

  Raising Mentally Strong Kids

  Daniel G. Amen, MD; Charles Fay, PhD · 1 podcast

• 69

  The Normal Bar

  Chrisanna Northrup; Pepper Schwartz; James Witte · 1 podcast

• 70

  The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

  John Gottman, PhD; Nan Silver · 1 podcast

• 71

  Free-Range Kids

  Lenore Skenazy · 1 podcast

• 72

  The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

  Lisa Damour, Ph.D. · 1 podcast

• 73

  Marry Him

  Lori Gottlieb · 1 podcast

• 74

  The College Scam

  Charlie Kirk · 1 podcast

• 75

  Healing from Narcissistic Abuse

  Dr Daksha Hirani · 1 podcast

• 76

  How Not to Let Having Kids Ruin Your Sex Life

  Dr Karen Gurney · 1 podcast

• 77

  The One World Schoolhouse

  Salman Khan · 1 podcast

• 78

  Far From the Tree

  Andrew Solomon · 1 podcast

• 79

  The Big Test

  Nicholas Lemann · 1 podcast