Best history books recommended on podcasts in 2024
The history 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
Steve Jobs
- 2
Elon Musk
- 3
The Federalist papers
- 4
Bowling Alone
- 5
The Iliad
- 6
Foundation
- 7
Daring Young Men
- 8
The Game
- 9
The God Delusion
- 10
Nuclear War
- 11
The Sacred and the Profane
- 12
Provoked
- 13
The War on Warriors
- 14
Fingerprints of the gods
- 15
Nexus
- 16
The Splendid and the Vile
- 17
Trick Mirror
- 18
The devil's chessboard
- 19
The making of the atomic bomb
- 20
The Rape of Nanking
- 21
Dominion
- 22
Magicians of the Gods
- 23
Blitzed
- 24
The Discovery Of The Unconscious
- 25
Histories
- 26
The Guns of August
- 27
Laptop from Hell
- 28
The age of entitlement
- 29
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- 30
Area 51
- 31
The End of History and the Last Man
- 32
City of Gold
- 33
Dereliction of Duty
- 34
Homo Deus
- 35
Silent Coup
- 36
Empire of cotton
- 37
Guns, Germs and Steel
- 38
How We Got Here
- 39
Gender
- 40
Roots
- 41
Bury the Chains
- 42
The fourth turning
- 43
The Book of Five Rings
- 44
Not the End of the World
- 45
The Dream Machine
- 46
The Great Depression: A Diary
- 47
John Brown's Body
- 48
The Nazi symbiosis
- 49
Immortality Key
- 50
The End of Everything
- 51
The Seven Day Circle
- 52
Rebel Talent
- 53
The Deluge
- 54
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World)
- 55
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- 56
The Zimmermann Telegram
- 57
Liftoff
- 58
The Year That Broke America
- 59
The Great American Gamble
- 60
Oppenheimer
- 61
If I Must Die
- 62
Sailing Alone Around the World
- 63
Skunk Works
- 64
The 12th Planet
- 65
Supermarket USA
- 66
The Origins of Woke
- 67
Born Fighting
- 68
Freedom from fear
- 69
Lincoln at Gettysburg
- 70
The Lost
- 71
The Origins of Totalitarianism
- 72
While England Slept
- 73
History of madness
- 74
Madness and Civilization
- 75
The fatal shore
- 76
The Wide Wide Sea
- 77
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- 78
Cold Crematorium
- 79
When the Clock Broke
- 80
In the Heart of the Sea
- 81
All the single ladies
- 82
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- 83
The Year 1000
- 84
Riot Diet
- 85
A Savage War of Peace
- 86
Leading by Design
- 87
The men who stare at goats
- 88
Age of Revolutions
- 89
Out Of Control
- 90
Winter in Moscow
- 91
Shaping Our Nation
- 92
The Secret Team
- 93
Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
- 94
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
- 95
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
- 96
Unit X
- 97
The Next Civil War
- 98
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific Thought
- 99
Pour Your Heart Into It
- 100
Anarchism in Latin America