Guests who recommended the most books in 2015

The podcast guests who recommended the most books in 2015, counted across every show they appeared on.

1. 1

   Greg Cowles · 206 recommendations

   • When my brother was an Aztec
   • Field guide
   • What work is
   • Trees & other poems
2. 2

   John Williams · 48 recommendations

   • Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
   • Rebel Yell
   • Tell the wolves I'm home
   • Mrs. Dalloway
3. 3

   Alexandra Alter · 44 recommendations

   • Fates and Furies
   • Purity
   • Crucible
   • Iterating Grace
4. 4

   Sam Tanenhaus · 13 recommendations

   • Nut Country
   • Right Out of California
   • Tortilla Flat
   • To the Finland station
5. 5

   Tom Perrotta · 9 recommendations

   • My Struggle
   • Dept. of Speculation
   • Leaving the Atocha Station
   • Life After Life
6. 6

   Maria Russo · 8 recommendations

   • The Sword of Summer
   • Fuzzy Mud
   • The Hired Girl
   • Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
7. 7

   Christopher Ryan · 6 recommendations

   • Cannibals and Kings
   • Future Perfect
   • A Short History of Progress
   • The sacred mushroom and the cross
8. 8

   Eric Schlosser · 6 recommendations

   • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
   • One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
   • In Cold Blood
   • The executioner's song
9. 9

   Parul Sehgal · 6 recommendations

   • A manual for cleaning women
   • Silver linings
   • State of Fear
   • Devil's bridge
10. 10

    Sam Harris · 6 recommendations

    • The Professor in the Cage
    • Crowds and Power
    • Among the Thugs
    • The Better Angels of Our Nature
11. 11

    Faith Salie · 5 recommendations

    • Think Like a Freak
    • When to Rob a Bank
    • Freakonomics
12. 12

    Joseph Kanon · 5 recommendations

    • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    • Call for the Dead
    • The Day of the Jackal
    • The Odessa file
13. 13

    Liesel Schillinger · 5 recommendations

    • Meet Me in Atlantis
    • Granada
    • The almost nearly perfect people
    • The Fault Line
14. 14

    Randall Carlson · 5 recommendations

    • Fingerprints of the gods
    • Timaeus
    • Critias
    • Earth in Upheaval
15. 15

    Ruth Franklin · 5 recommendations

    • Life among the savages
    • Raising demons
    • The witchcraft of Salem Village
    • The Lottery
16. 16

    Bill Clegg · 4 recommendations

    • Something rising (light and swift)
    • Fates and Furies
    • Eileen
    • Another day
17. 17

    Judd Apatow · 4 recommendations

    • Among the missing
    • So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    • The teenage brain
    • Confessions of a pretty lady
18. 18

    Peter Boghossian · 4 recommendations

    • The Conspiracy of Ignorance
    • The Moral Landscape
    • The Big Sort
    • Tactics
19. 19

    Abby Martin · 3 recommendations

    • American sniper
    • The Grand Chessboard
    • A People's History of the United States
20. 20

    Arnold Schwarzenegger · 3 recommendations

    • The Churchill Factor
    • Free to Choose
    • California
21. 21

    Aubrey Marcus · 3 recommendations

    • Island
    • You Are the Placebo
    • The Fifth Sacred Thing
22. 22

    Bert Kreischer · 3 recommendations

    • So You've Been Publicly Shamed
23. 23

    Christina Hoff Summers · 3 recommendations

    • Pride
    • Prejudice
    • Downton Abbey
24. 24

    Dave Rubin · 3 recommendations

    • Letter to a Christian Nation
    • Waking Up
    • Islam and the Future of Tolerance
25. 25

    Duncan Trussell · 3 recommendations

    • The Bhagavad Gita
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Abundance
26. 26

    Faisal Saeed Al Mutar · 3 recommendations

    • Understanding the Old Testament
    • The Torah
    • The Talmud
27. 27

    Gad Saad · 3 recommendations

    • Darwin's Cathedral
    • Born to Rebel
    • DMT: The Spirit Molecule
28. 28

    Jane McGonigal · 3 recommendations

    • SuperBetter
29. 29

    Katy Milkman · 3 recommendations

    • The Da Vinci Code
    • The Hunger Games
30. 30

    Lauren Groff · 3 recommendations

    • Arcadia
    • Mr. Bridge
    • Mrs. Bridge
31. 31

    Matthew Weiner · 3 recommendations

    • You Only Live Twice
    • Snow White
    • Walt Disney's Snow White and the seven dwarfs
32. 32

    Philip Tetlock · 3 recommendations

    • The Wisdom of Crowds
    • Blink
    • Perception and Misperception in International Politics
33. 33

    Richard Thaler · 3 recommendations

    • Nudge
    • Misbehaving
34. 34

    Simon Winchester · 3 recommendations

    • Midnight's Children
    • Life: A User's Manual
35. 35

    Steve Silberman · 3 recommendations

    • The empty fortress
    • Neurotribes
36. 36

    Tony Hsieh · 3 recommendations

    • How the Mighty Fall
    • Good to Great
    • Tribal Leadership
37. 37

    Ali Rizvi · 2 recommendations

    • Living the Secular Life
    • The Clash of Civilizations?
38. 38

    Andrew Solomon · 2 recommendations

    • Hallucinations
    • On the Move
39. 39

    Arthur Brooks · 2 recommendations

    • The conservative heart
40. 40

    Barbara Ehrenreich · 2 recommendations

    • Rise of the Robots
41. 41

    Brad Stone · 2 recommendations

    • Steve Jobs
42. 42

    Brian Cox · 2 recommendations

    • The Demon-Haunted World
43. 43

    Carl Hart · 2 recommendations

    • Trainspotting
44. 44

    David Hare · 2 recommendations

    • The Blue Touch Paper
    • Waiting for Godot
45. 45

    Douglas Murray · 2 recommendations

    • The Satanic Verses
46. 46

    Ethan Nadelmann · 2 recommendations

    • The Deep Self
    • Healing Back Pain
47. 47

    Graham Hancock · 2 recommendations

    • Cosmos and Psyche
    • Hamlet's Mill
48. 48

    Heather Heski · 2 recommendations

    • Presence
49. 49

    Jim Yong Kim · 2 recommendations

    • Dying for Growth
    • Thinking, Fast and Slow
50. 50

    Josh Szeps · 2 recommendations

    • Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
    • Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations
51. 51

    Katherine Milkman · 2 recommendations

    • The Hunger Games
52. 52

    Kayoama Glover · 2 recommendations

    • Pedigree
    • So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
53. 53

    Kevin Kelly · 2 recommendations

    • What the Dormouse Said
    • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
54. 54

    Lissa McFar · 2 recommendations

    • The Gift
    • The family nobody wanted
55. 55

    Michael Wood, Jr. · 2 recommendations

    • RoboCop
    • End of Watch
56. 56

    Michelle Orange · 2 recommendations

    • Loitering
    • The Empathy Exams Essays
57. 57

    Rosamund Pike · 2 recommendations

    • On the Road
    • Pride and Prejudice
58. 58

    Steven D. Levitt · 2 recommendations

    • When to Rob a Bank
    • Freakonomics
59. 59

    Ari Berman · 1 recommendation

    • Give Us the Ballot
60. 60

    Bryan Callen · 1 recommendation

    • The Better Angels of Our Nature
61. 61

    Cliff Asness · 1 recommendation

    • Methuselah's Children
62. 62

    Dan Engle · 1 recommendation

    • The Second Brain
63. 63

    Dani Rodrik · 1 recommendation

    • Purity
64. 64

    Daniel Gilbert · 1 recommendation

    • Stumbling on Happiness
65. 65

    Dominic Monaghan · 1 recommendation

    • Kitchen Confidential
66. 66

    Greg Fitzsimmons · 1 recommendation

    • Without Feathers
67. 67

    Greg Proops · 1 recommendation

    • Salt
68. 68

    Harlan Coben · 1 recommendation

    • The Stranger
69. 69

    Hendrik Hartog · 1 recommendation

    • Someday All This Will Be Yours
70. 70

    Jeff Novitzky · 1 recommendation

    • Bigger, Stronger, Faster
71. 71

    Jill Abramson · 1 recommendation

    • The Old Curiosity Shop
72. 72

    Jimmy Dore · 1 recommendation

    • Manufacturing consent
73. 73

    Joe Domanick · 1 recommendation

    • To protect and to serve
74. 74

    John Fabian Witt · 1 recommendation

    • Active Liberty
75. 75

    Jon Ronson · 1 recommendation

    • Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America
76. 76

    Jonathan Ward · 1 recommendation

    • Spark
77. 77

    Judy Blume · 1 recommendation

    • Telex from Cuba
78. 78

    Justin Wren · 1 recommendation

    • King Leopold's ghost
79. 79

    Maajid Nawaz · 1 recommendation

    • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
80. 80

    Magnus Walker · 1 recommendation

    • Pride
81. 81

    Mark Vanhoenacker · 1 recommendation

    • Gilead
82. 82

    Megan O'Rourke · 1 recommendation

    • Wave
83. 83

    Nate Silver · 1 recommendation

    • Thinking, Fast and Slow
84. 84

    Neal Brennan · 1 recommendation

    • The Late Shift
85. 85

    Nick Cohen · 1 recommendation

    • What's Left?
86. 86

    Peter Moore · 1 recommendation

    • The Weather Experiment
87. 87

    Rosemary Sullivan · 1 recommendation

    • Dr Zhivago
88. 88

    Steven Hassan · 1 recommendation

    • The Unbreakable Miss Lovely
89. 89

    Steven Rinella · 1 recommendation

    • A Sand County Almanac
90. 90

    Trevor Moore · 1 recommendation

    • On Writing
91. 91

    Vendela Vida · 1 recommendation

    • Viviane
92. 92

    Vu Tran · 1 recommendation

    • The Sympathizer
93. 93

    Warren Zanes · 1 recommendation

    • Petty
94. 94

    Whitney Cummings · 1 recommendation

    • The Staircase
95. 95

    Zach Ware · 1 recommendation

    • Triumph of the City