Best books recommended on podcasts in 2025
The 100 books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2025, 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
Bible
- 2
The Anxious Generation
- 3
1984
- 4
Atomic Habits
- 5
How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 6
Man's Search for Meaning
- 7
The Great Gatsby
- 8
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
- 9
Sapiens
- 10
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- 11
Mein Kampf
- 12
Abundance
- 13
Democracy in America
- 14
The Lord of the Rings
- 15
Trump: The Art of the Deal
- 16
Atlas Shrugged
- 17
Hillbilly Elegy
- 18
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 19
The Wealth of Nations
- 20
Brave New World
- 21
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 22
The Comfort Crisis
- 23
The Coddling of the American Mind
- 24
The Federalist papers
- 25
The Odyssey
- 26
The Catcher in the Rye
- 27
Original Sin
- 28
The Body Keeps the Score
- 29
A Game of Thrones
- 30
Liar's Poker
- 31
Nuclear War
- 32
Dopamine Nation
- 33
Die with Zero
- 34
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- 35
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- 36
Crime and Punishment
- 37
On the Road
- 38
Dune
- 39
The Psychology of Money
- 40
Dominion
- 41
Believe
- 42
The Art of War
- 43
The Alchemist
- 44
Breakneck
- 45
Outlive
- 46
107 Days
- 47
To Kill a Mockingbird
- 48
War and Peace
- 49
Moneyball
- 50
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
- 51
Animal Farm
- 52
The Brothers Karamazov
- 53
Jurassic Park
- 54
Seeing Like a State
- 55
The Three-Body Problem
- 56
The Power Broker
- 57
Superintelligence
- 58
Silent Spring
- 59
The 4-Hour Workweek
- 60
The Screwtape Letters
- 61
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
- 62
Bowling Alone
- 63
The Innovator's Dilemma
- 64
The Population Bomb
- 65
Middlemarch
- 66
Why We Sleep
- 67
Grit
- 68
The Stand
- 69
Irreversible Damage
- 70
The Gulag Archipelago
- 71
Unreasonable Hospitality
- 72
The Road to Serfdom
- 73
No Country for Old Men
- 74
The Bell Curve
- 75
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 76
The Total Money Makeover
- 77
Meditations
- 78
Poems and Prayers
- 79
From Strength to Strength
- 80
Ulysses
- 81
The New Testament: an Introduction for the General Reader
- 82
The Next Conversation
- 83
Greenlights
- 84
GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE
- 85
The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- 86
Catch-22
- 87
Lolita
- 88
Genesis
- 89
Fifty Shades of Grey
- 90
The Grapes of Wrath
- 91
Anna Karenina
- 92
Influence
- 93
Flash Boys
- 94
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- 95
2001, a Space Odyssey
- 96
The fourth turning
- 97
The Real Anthony Fauci
- 98
The intelligent investor
- 99
The Courage to Be Disliked
- 100
The 48 Laws of Power