Best fiction books recommended on podcasts in 2025

The fiction books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2025, ranked by how many shows talked about each one. Ad reads and passing mentions never count.

All of 2025

• 1

  1984

  George Orwell · 16 podcasts

• 2

  The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald · 11 podcasts

• 3

  MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE

  Herman Melville · 10 podcasts

• 4

  The Lord of the Rings

  J.R.R. Tolkien · 8 podcasts

• 5

  Atlas Shrugged

  Ayn Rand · 8 podcasts

• 6

  Brave New World

  Aldous Huxley · 7 podcasts

• 7

  The Catcher in the Rye

  J. D. Salinger · 6 podcasts

• 8

  A Game of Thrones

  George R. R. Martin · 6 podcasts

• 9

  On the Road

  Jack Kerouac · 6 podcasts

• 10

  Dune

  Frank Herbert · 6 podcasts

• 11

  The Alchemist

  Paulo Coelho · 5 podcasts

• 12

  Outlive

  Peter Attia; Bill Gifford · 5 podcasts

• 13

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  Harper Lee · 5 podcasts

• 14

  War and Peace

  Leo Tolstoy · 5 podcasts

• 15

  Animal Farm

  George Orwell · 5 podcasts

• 16

  The Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky · 5 podcasts

• 17

  Jurassic Park

  Michael Crichton · 5 podcasts

• 18

  The Three-Body Problem

  Cixin Liu · 5 podcasts

• 19

  Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone

  Hunter S. Thompson · 5 podcasts

• 20

  Middlemarch

  George Eliot · 5 podcasts

• 21

  The Stand

  Stephen King · 5 podcasts

• 22

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain · 5 podcasts

• 23

  Meditations

  Aurelius Marcus · 4 podcasts

• 24

  Ulysses

  James Joyce · 4 podcasts

• 25

  Greenlights

  Matthew McConaughey · 4 podcasts

• 26

  Lolita

  Vladimir Nabokov · 4 podcasts

• 27

  Genesis

  Bernard Beckett · 4 podcasts

• 28
  Anna Karenina

  Anna Karenina

  Leo Tolstoy · 4 podcasts

• 29

  Life and Fate

  Vasily Grossman · 4 podcasts

• 30

  Walden

  Henry David Thoreau · 4 podcasts

• 31

  Exodus

  Leon Uris · 3 podcasts

• 32

  The Handmaid's Tale

  Margaret Atwood · 3 podcasts

• 33

  Frankenstein

  Mary W. Shelley · 3 podcasts

• 34

  The doors of perception

  Aldous Huxley · 3 podcasts

• 35

  Watchmen

  Alan Moore; Dave Gibbons · 3 podcasts

• 36

  Finnegans Wake

  James Joyce · 3 podcasts

• 37

  All Fours

  Miranda July · 3 podcasts

• 38

  The Running Man

  Stephen King · 3 podcasts

• 39

  The Firm

  John Grisham · 3 podcasts

• 40

  The Power of the Powerless

  Václav Havel · 3 podcasts

• 41

  Infinite jest

  David Foster Wallace · 3 podcasts

• 42

  Treacherous alliance

  Trita Parsi · 3 podcasts

• 43

  Through the Looking-Glass

  Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Lily Mathew, Lewis Lewis Carroll · 3 podcasts

• 44

  Heart of Darkness

  Joseph Conrad · 3 podcasts

• 45
  Space Relations

  Space Relations

  Donald Barr · 3 podcasts

• 46

  Wuthering Heights

  Emily Brontë · 3 podcasts

• 47

  A Tale of Two Cities

  Charles Dickens · 3 podcasts

• 48
  The Hobbit

  The Hobbit

  J.R.R. Tolkien · 2 podcasts

• 49

  Ready Player One

  Ernest Cline · 2 podcasts

• 50

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  Milan Kundera · 2 podcasts

• 51

  Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition

  Ashlee Vance · 2 podcasts

• 52

  James

  Percival L. Everett · 2 podcasts

• 53

  Twilight

  Stephenie Meyer · 2 podcasts

• 54

  Machine dreams

  Jayne Anne Phillips · 2 podcasts

• 55

  Beloved

  Toni Morrison · 2 podcasts

• 56

  The Circle

  Dave Eggers · 2 podcasts

• 57

  Pride and Prejudice

  Jane Austen · 2 podcasts

• 58

  Pinocchio

  Carlo Collodi · 2 podcasts

• 59

  The Secret History

  Donna Tartt · 2 podcasts

• 60

  I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

  Harlan Ellison · 2 podcasts

• 61

  Consider Phlebas

  Iain M. Banks · 2 podcasts

• 62

  The Myth of Sisyphus

  Albert Camus · 2 podcasts

• 63

  The Devil By Name

  Keith Rosson · 2 podcasts

• 64

  The Shining

  Stephen King · 2 podcasts

• 65

  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  Philip K. Dick · 2 podcasts

• 66

  Demon Copperhead

  Barbara Kingsolver · 2 podcasts

• 67

  Carrie

  Stephen King · 2 podcasts

• 68

  'Salem's Lot

  Stephen King · 2 podcasts

• 69

  The Dark Half

  Stephen King · 2 podcasts

• 70

  Thinner

  Stephen King; Richard Bachman · 2 podcasts

• 71

  Misery

  Stephen King · 2 podcasts

• 72

  Commonwealth

  Ann Patchett · 2 podcasts

• 73

  Charlotte's Web

  E. B. White · 2 podcasts

• 74

  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

  E.L. Konigsburg · 2 podcasts

• 75

  Of Mice and Men

  John Steinbeck · 2 podcasts

• 76

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  Ken Kesey · 2 podcasts

• 77

  Gravity's rainbow

  Thomas Pynchon · 2 podcasts

• 78

  Cryptonomicon

  Neal Stephenson · 2 podcasts

• 79

  Blood Meridian

  Cormac McCarthy · 2 podcasts

• 80

  The Things They Carried

  Tim O'Brien · 2 podcasts

• 81

  The Bonfire of the Vanities

  Tom Wolfe · 2 podcasts

• 82
  The Monkey Wrench Gang

  The Monkey Wrench Gang

  Edward Abbey · 2 podcasts

• 83

  The Queen's gambit

  Walter S. Tevis · 2 podcasts

• 84

  Lonesome Dove

  Larry McMurtry · 2 podcasts

• 85

  The Road

  Cormac McCarthy · 2 podcasts

• 86

  The Corrections

  Jonathan Franzen · 2 podcasts

• 87

  Lord of the Flies

  William Golding · 2 podcasts

• 88

  Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey

  Ingersoll Lockwood · 2 podcasts

• 89

  Starship Troopers

  Robert A. Heinlein · 2 podcasts

• 90

  Neuromancer

  William Gibson · 2 podcasts

• 91

  Worm

  Jill Bailey · 2 podcasts

• 92

  A Place of Greater Safety

  Hilary Mantel · 2 podcasts

• 93

  The Satanic Verses

  Salman Rushdie · 2 podcasts

• 94

  Oliver Twist

  Charles Dickens · 2 podcasts

• 95

  Fun

  Unknown · 2 podcasts

• 96

  The Seven Basic Plots

  Christopher Booker · 2 podcasts

• 97

  Conclave

  Robert Harris · 2 podcasts

• 98

  The Godfather

  Mario Puzo · 2 podcasts

• 99

  Brave New World Revisited

  Aldous Huxley · 2 podcasts

• 100

  The Jungle

  Upton Sinclair · 2 podcasts