Guests who recommended the most books in 2016

The podcast guests who recommended the most books in 2016, counted across every show they appeared on.

1. 1

   Greg Cowles · 193 recommendations

   • The Vegetarian
   • The Sellout
   • A Child's Christmas in Wales
   • Eileen
2. 2

   Alexandra Alter · 92 recommendations

   • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
   • Hamilton
   • A Man Called Ove
   • The Underground Railroad
3. 3

   John Williams · 61 recommendations

   • So long, see you tomorrow
   • They Came Like Swallows
   • The Happiness of Getting it Down Right
   • The undoing project
4. 4

   Maria Russo · 17 recommendations

   • Freedom Over Me
   • My Name Is James Madison Hemings
   • In the Shadow of Liberty
   • The Plot to Kill Hitler
5. 5

   Parul Sehgal · 17 recommendations

   • All the single ladies
   • The voyeur's motel
   • Artful
   • Rain
6. 6

   Ethan Gilsdorf · 8 recommendations

   • The Tetris effect
   • Death by video game
   • Play anything
7. 7

   Fred Benenson · 8 recommendations

   • How to Speak Emoji
   • MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
8. 8

   Tim Ferriss · 8 recommendations

   • Fahrenheit 451
   • Freakonomics
   • Siddhartha
   • Sapiens
9. 9

   Barry Gewen · 7 recommendations

   • The gloaming
   • The Sport of Kings
   • Blood at the Root
   • The Rise and Fall of American Growth
10. 10

    Bryan Callen · 7 recommendations

    • Why we get fat
    • Why We Get Fat and what to Do about it
    • Slaughterhouse-Five
    • The Secret of Our Success
11. 11

    Jordan Peterson · 7 recommendations

    • The Gulag Archipelago
    • Ordinary Men
    • Man's Search for Meaning
12. 12

    Kyle Kingsbury · 7 recommendations

    • Grain Brain
    • Brain Maker
    • Primal Endurance
    • The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance
13. 13

    Andrew Solomon · 6 recommendations

    • The good death
    • The Iceberg: A Memoir
    • When Breath Becomes Air
    • Anna Karenina
14. 14

    Jennifer Schuessler · 6 recommendations

    • Outline
    • Blood in the water
    • The Underground Railroad
    • Underground airlines
15. 15

    Louis Theroux · 6 recommendations

    • Going Clear
    • Dianetics
    • Inside Scientology
16. 16

    Michael Orthofer · 6 recommendations

    • Crime and Punishment
    • Stoner
    • The Last Samurai
    • School for atheists
17. 17

    Michael Shermer · 6 recommendations

    • The Secret Race
    • When Prophecy Fails
    • Under the Banner of Heaven
    • On Liberty
18. 18

    Sam Tanenhaus · 6 recommendations

    • Going red
    • Poison Tea
    • The Way Back
    • The end of White Christian America
19. 19

    Adam Grant · 5 recommendations

    • The Last Supper
    • Oh, the Places You'll Go!
    • The Lord of the Rings
    • A Wrinkle in Time
20. 20

    Cass Sunstein · 5 recommendations

    • Paradise Lost
    • Nudge
    • Ulysses
    • The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
21. 21

    Charles Finch · 5 recommendations

    • The vanishing year
    • Gorky Park
    • The Girl from Venice
    • Livia Lone
22. 22

    Jesse Ventura · 5 recommendations

    • American sniper
    • Rogue Warrior
    • Under and Alone
    • WHITEWASH -the report on the Warren Report
23. 23

    John Grisham · 5 recommendations

    • The Innocent Man
    • The Children Act
    • A Painted House
    • Skipping Christmas
24. 24

    Marilyn Stasio · 5 recommendations

    • The Notorious Mrs. Clem
    • The Thieves of Threadneedle Street
    • True Crime Addict
    • The Secret Poisoner
25. 25

    Meghan Daum · 5 recommendations

    • Darkness Visible
    • My avant-garde education
    • Boy erased
    • One of these things first
26. 26

    Molly Young · 5 recommendations

    • Bridget Jones's Diary
    • The Productivity Project
    • Deep Work
    • Mindful tech
27. 27

    Parag Khanna · 5 recommendations

    • Connectography
28. 28

    Duncan Trussell · 4 recommendations

    • Naked Lunch
    • The Book of John
    • The Bhagavad Gita
    • A short history of nearly everything
29. 29

    Jessica Winter · 4 recommendations

    • The beautiful bureaucrat
    • Personal days
    • The Ask
    • Dept. of Speculation
30. 30

    Moira Weigel · 4 recommendations

    • Bad Girls Go Everywhere
    • Sex and the single girl
    • Portrait of a marriage
    • Sex and the Office
31. 31

    Yaron Brook · 4 recommendations

    • We the Living
    • Anthem
    • The Fountainhead
    • Atlas Shrugged
32. 32

    Andreas Antonopoulos · 3 recommendations

    • Mastering Bitcoin
    • The Internet of Money
33. 33

    Angela Lee Duckworth · 3 recommendations

    • Grit
34. 34

    Arun Sundararajan · 3 recommendations

    • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    • Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    • The Sharing Economy
35. 35

    Camille Paglia · 3 recommendations

    • Faerie queene
    • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
    • The Golden Bough
36. 36

    Carl Benjamin · 3 recommendations

    • The Road to Serfdom
    • The Communist Manifesto
37. 37

    Ed Yong · 3 recommendations

    • I Contain Multitudes
    • Leaves of Grass
    • On the Origin of Species
38. 38

    Eric Garcetti · 3 recommendations

    • Whatever Happened to the Metric System?
    • The Walkable City
    • Labyrinths
39. 39

    Jennifer Szalai · 3 recommendations

    • War and turpentine
    • Evicted
    • Swing Time
40. 40

    Joey Diaz · 3 recommendations

    • The Essential Lenny Bruce
    • Brother Sam's Universal Joke Book
    • Sleepers
41. 41

    John Anthony West · 3 recommendations

    • Hamlet's mill
    • The Dead Saints Chronicles
    • Forgotten Civilization
42. 42

    Laura Miller · 3 recommendations

    • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    • The World of Ice & Fire
    • Fire & Blood
43. 43

    Marjorie Engel · 3 recommendations

    • The passion of Dolssa
    • The Haters
    • Just One Day
44. 44

    Melissa Clark · 3 recommendations

    • SIMPLE
    • Mad hungry family
45. 45

    Michael Chabon · 3 recommendations

    • Wonder Boys
    • Gentlemen of the road
    • The Yiddish Policemen's Union
46. 46

    Robert Gottlieb · 3 recommendations

    • Catch-22
    • The Power Broker
    • War and turpentine
47. 47

    Sam Harris · 3 recommendations

    • The Fabric of Reality
    • The beginning of infinity
    • Superintelligence
48. 48

    Thomas Frank · 3 recommendations

    • What's the Matter with Kansas?
    • Listen, Liberal
49. 49

    Thomas Ricks · 3 recommendations

    • Pearl Harbor
    • Supreme Command
    • The General vs. the President
50. 50

    Tovar Cerulli · 3 recommendations

    • Last Child in the Woods
    • The Nature Principle
    • Woman the Hunter
51. 51

    Whitney Cummings · 3 recommendations

    • The continuum concept
    • Sapiens
    • Cupid's poisoned arrow
52. 52

    Zach Leary · 3 recommendations

    • Food of the Gods
    • True Hallucinations
    • The Archaic Revival
53. 53

    Adam Cohen · 2 recommendations

    • U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record Buck v. Bell
54. 54

    Adam Hochschild · 2 recommendations

    • The Unquiet Ghost
    • Spain in our hearts
55. 55

    Alec Ross · 2 recommendations

    • The industries of the future
56. 56

    Antonio Garcia Martinez · 2 recommendations

    • Liar's Poker
57. 57

    Aubrey Marcus · 2 recommendations

    • Create Your Own Religion
    • Before They Pass Away
58. 58

    Balaji Srinivasan · 2 recommendations

    • The Sovereign Individual
    • The Twilight of Sovereignty
59. 59

    Dan Carlin · 2 recommendations

    • Republic, Lost
    • Helter Skelter
60. 60

    Dinesh D'Souza · 2 recommendations

    • Holy Bible (NIV)
    • Quran
61. 61

    Eddie Bravo · 2 recommendations

    • Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
    • The Book of Five Rings
62. 62

    Fuchsia Dunlop · 2 recommendations

    • Down and Out in Paris and London
    • The story of the stone
63. 63

    Janice Y.K. Lee · 2 recommendations

    • The Piano Teacher
64. 64

    Jason Nemer · 2 recommendations

    • The Prophet
    • Tao te Ching
65. 65

    Jeff Sachs · 2 recommendations

    • The Rise and Fall of American Growth
66. 66

    Joel Mokyr · 2 recommendations

    • A Culture of Growth
67. 67

    Justin Wren · 2 recommendations

    • When Helping Hurts
    • What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School
68. 68

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · 2 recommendations

    • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
    • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
69. 69

    Kevin Kelly · 2 recommendations

    • The Inevitable
70. 70

    Lee Camp · 2 recommendations

    • The Divide
    • American Psycho
71. 71

    Liesel Schillinger · 2 recommendations

    • Green Mansions
    • The Prophet
72. 72

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2 recommendations

    • Outliers
73. 73

    Maria Konnikova · 2 recommendations

    • The Big Con
    • The Confidence Man
74. 74

    Melissa Chen · 2 recommendations

    • Capitalism and freedom
75. 75

    Peter Godfrey-Smith · 2 recommendations

    • Other Minds
    • Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
76. 76

    Raina Telgemeier · 2 recommendations

    • Kristy's Great Idea
    • Smile
77. 77

    Randy Barnett · 2 recommendations

    • Grassroots Tyranny
78. 78

    Rick Doblin · 2 recommendations

    • Maps of consciousness
    • Simulations of God
79. 79

    Scott Adams · 2 recommendations

    • Influence
    • Pre-Suasion
80. 80

    Steven Crowder · 2 recommendations

    • An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
    • An Inconvenient Truth
81. 81

    Thomas Davenport · 2 recommendations

    • Only Humans Need Apply
82. 82

    Tom Whipple · 2 recommendations

    • How to Win Games and Beat People
83. 83

    Yochai Benkler · 2 recommendations

    • 1984
    • Brave New World
84. 84

    A.O. Scott · 1 recommendation

    • Better Living Through Criticism
85. 85

    Aleta Becker · 1 recommendation

    • My Name is Lucy Barton
86. 86

    Alex Epstein · 1 recommendation

    • Atlas Shrugged
87. 87

    Alex Rampell · 1 recommendation

    • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
88. 88

    Anders Ericsson · 1 recommendation

    • Outliers
89. 89

    Anna Quindlen · 1 recommendation

    • Still Life with Bread Crumbs
90. 90

    Ben Bailey · 1 recommendation

    • Watchmen
91. 91

    Ben Horowitz · 1 recommendation

    • The Art of War
92. 92

    Ben Shapiro · 1 recommendation

    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
93. 93

    Bill Bryson · 1 recommendation

    • A short history of nearly everything
94. 94

    Brad Barrett · 1 recommendation

    • The 4-Hour Workweek
95. 95

    Brendan Schaub · 1 recommendation

    • Sugarcoated
96. 96

    Brent Staples · 1 recommendation

    • Sex and race
97. 97

    Charles Duhigg · 1 recommendation

    • Smarter Faster Better
98. 98

    Chris Dixon · 1 recommendation

    • Ready Player One
99. 99

    Christine Hassler · 1 recommendation

    • Man's Search for Meaning
100. 100

     Clay Shirky · 1 recommendation

     • Little Rice