Best biography books recommended on podcasts in 2026
The biography books that came up on the most different podcasts in 2026, ranked by how many shows talked about each one. Ad reads and passing mentions never count.
- 1
The Power Broker
- 2
Open
- 3
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
- 4
The Gulag Archipelago
- 5
The Real Anthony Fauci
- 6
Trump: The Art of the Deal
- 7
On Writing
- 8
The Right Stuff
- 9
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- 10
Extreme Ownership
- 11
Communion
- 12
Eat Pray Love
- 13
The Man in the Arena
- 14
Wild
- 15
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
- 16
Leonardo da Vinci
- 17
Roll the Calls
- 18
The Infinity Machine
- 19
The Perilous Fight
- 20
John Adams
- 21
Not That Kind of Girl
- 22
American Scoundrel
- 23
Misfit
- 24
The Prince of Medicine
- 25
This Is Me
- 26
Notes on Being a Man
- 27
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- 28
Guns up!
- 29
One Up On Wall Street
- 30
107 Days
- 31
The Friedkin Connection
- 32
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
- 33
Spare
- 34
Book of Lives
- 35
Dying Every Day
- 36
Me
- 37
Will and Attention
- 38
Lives Other Than My Own
- 39
On Fire
- 40
Benjamin Franklin
- 41
Team of Rivals
- 42
Brady
- 43
The Serpent and the Rainbow
- 44
Healing Politics
- 45
RAGMAN'S SON
- 46
Michael Faraday
- 47
Napoleon
- 48
My Love Story
- 49
The Tycoons
- 50
Me, You, Them
- 51
Mean Baby
- 52
Sitcom
- 53
Stalin
- 54
Catherine the Great & Potemkin
- 55
Potemkin
- 56
Alan Turing: The Enigma
- 57
The Man Who Knew Infinity
- 58
Bloodlines
- 59
Black Dog of Fate
- 60
This Cursed Beautiful Land
- 61
Unthinkable
- 62
Something Like An Autobiography
- 63
Born Standing Up
- 64
Einstein
- 65
Ghost Town Living
- 66
Grant
- 67
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- 68
I, Tina
- 69
Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann
- 70
Coming Home to Myself
- 71
The Adventures of Herbie Cohen
- 72
Burning the Days
- 73
Hunger
- 74
Beastie Boys Book
- 75
Then They Came for Me
- 76
Autobiography of a Yogi
- 77
Year of Yes
- 78
Marcus Aurelius
- 79
The Insider
- 80
DIANA, MY SISTER
- 81
Joyful, Anyway
- 82
No Cure for Being Human
- 83
Amazing Grace
- 84
Sam Walton
- 85
Sam Walton, Made in America
- 86
Diana
- 87
Hitch-22
- 88
Goddess
- 89
A Beautiful Mind
- 90
Loitering with Intent
- 91
A Moveable Feast
- 92
Hollywood Babylon
- 93
Bloomberg by Bloomberg
- 94
I Love Capitalism!
- 95
The Starr Report
- 96
Ordinary Heroes
- 97
The First Tycoon
- 98
The Seven Storey Mountain
- 99
Long Walk to Freedom
- 100
I'm Glad My Mom Died