Guests who recommended the most books in 2025

The podcast guests who recommended the most books in 2025, counted across every show they appeared on.

1. 1

   Joumana Khatib · 29 recommendations

   • Audition
   • Milkman
   • The God of Small Things
   • Mother Mary Comes to Me
2. 2

   Scott Horton · 23 recommendations

   • Dark Alliance
   • Treacherous alliance
   • Imperial Hubris
   • The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
3. 3

   Sadie Stein · 22 recommendations

   • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
   • Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy #1)
   • Romeo and Juliet
   • Macbeth
4. 4

   Dr. Mark Hyman · 20 recommendations

   • Consilience
   • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
   • Prepare the Way of the Lord
   • The Unsettling of America
5. 5

   Jesse Michels · 19 recommendations

   • The Half-Life of Facts
   • Superintelligence
   • The Communist Manifesto
   • Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
6. 6

   Joe Folley · 19 recommendations

   • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
   • Existentialism Is a Humanism
   • Better Never to Have Been
   • The Myth of Sisyphus
7. 7

   Dan Wang · 18 recommendations

   • Anna Karenina
   • War and Peace
   • Buddenbrooks
   • The Magic Mountain
8. 8

   Jeffrey Wasserstrom · 18 recommendations

   • The Media and Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
   • The Origins of Totalitarianism
   • Totalitarianism
   • 1984
9. 9

   Marc Andreessen · 18 recommendations

   • The Magic of Thinking Big
   • When Reason Goes on Holiday
   • Pioneering Portfolio Management
   • The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
10. 10

    David Grann · 17 recommendations

    • Killers of the Flower Moon
    • The Wager
    • The Lost City of Z
    • Epitaph for a Spy
11. 11

    Nicholas Boggs · 16 recommendations

    • A Stranger in the Village
    • Dead and Alive
    • Go Tell It on the Mountain
    • Another Country
12. 12

    Adrian Tchaikovsky · 15 recommendations

    • The Hobbit
    • Children of Ruin
    • City of Last Chances
    • Children of Time
13. 13

    David Senra · 15 recommendations

    • Scientific Advertising
    • No Country for Old Men
    • Extreme Ownership
    • Insisting On The Impossible
14. 14

    Ross Douthat · 15 recommendations

    • Living with a Wild God
    • Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
    • After
    • Mind and Cosmos
15. 15

    Dana Gioia · 14 recommendations

    • The Grapes of Wrath
    • The Lord of the Rings
    • The Unquiet Grave
    • Enemies of promise and other essays
16. 16

    Douglas Murray · 14 recommendations

    • Life and Fate
    • War and Peace
    • The Strange Death of Europe
    • Testaments Betrayed
17. 17

    Nick Pollard · 14 recommendations

    • No More Mr Nice Guy
    • Psycho-cybernetics
    • Not Nice
    • The Road Less Traveled
18. 18

    Alain de Botton · 13 recommendations

    • On love
    • Essays in Love
    • Maxims
    • The course of love
19. 19

    Charlie Houpert · 13 recommendations

    • The 4-Hour Workweek
    • The Game
    • Essentialism
    • Running Lean
20. 20

    Dave Smith · 13 recommendations

    • Settle for More
    • Enough Already
    • Provoked
    • Neoconservatism
21. 21

    Jonathan Haidt · 13 recommendations

    • The Coddling of the American Mind
    • Dopamine Nation
    • Of Boys and Men
    • Daring Young Men
22. 22

    Michael Phillips · 13 recommendations

    • The Great Exception
    • Truth in Our World Today
    • The record of America
    • Encyclopedia of World Geography
23. 23

    Michael Shellenberger · 13 recommendations

    • 1984
    • One Nation under Blackmail
    • City of Quartz
    • Man's Search for Meaning
24. 24

    Sarah Paine · 13 recommendations

    • Democracy in America
    • The Old Regime and the Revolution
    • The Art of War
    • The prince
25. 25

    Bill Gurley · 12 recommendations

    • Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
    • Breakneck
    • Greenlights
    • GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE
26. 26

    Chris Sacca · 12 recommendations

    • The Psychology of Money
    • The Millionaire Next Door
    • The Medium is the Massage
    • The Anxious Generation
27. 27

    James Frey · 12 recommendations

    • A million little pieces
    • Tropic of Cancer
    • Paris Spleen
    • On the Road
28. 28

    James Marriott · 12 recommendations

    • Sum
    • Seiobo There Below
    • The Corrections
    • Breathing Lessons
29. 29

    Matt Ridley · 12 recommendations

    • The Voyage of the Beagle
    • The Origin of Species
    • The Evolution of Beauty
    • The Heart is a Quarter Pounder
30. 30

    Michael Dean · 12 recommendations

    • Consider the Lobster
    • Shooting an Elephant
    • How to Write a Thesis
    • The Great Gatsby
31. 31

    Patti Smith · 12 recommendations

    • Fox's book of martyrs
    • Pinocchio
    • Alice in Wonderland
    • Peter Pan
32. 32

    Andrew Klavan · 11 recommendations

    • Empire of Lies
    • Crime and Punishment
    • The Silence of the Lambs
    • East of Eden
33. 33

    Charlamagne tha God · 11 recommendations

    • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    • Message to the Blackman in America
    • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    • Iggie's House
34. 34

    Chris Hayes · 11 recommendations

    • The Sirens' Call
    • The Odyssey
    • 1984
    • Brave New World
35. 35

    Dean Koontz · 11 recommendations

    • Oliver Twist
    • No Country for Old Men
    • The Road
    • Fahrenheit 451
36. 36

    Derek Thompson · 11 recommendations

    • Culture of Hope
    • The Rise and Decline of Nations
    • Abundance
    • From Beirut to Jerusalem
37. 37

    Dwight Garner · 11 recommendations

    • Atonement
    • Saturday
    • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
    • Playworld
38. 38

    Ezra Klein · 11 recommendations

    • Where Is My Flying Car?
    • Why We're Polarized
    • Political Liberalism
    • Abundance
39. 39

    Jacob Howland · 11 recommendations

    • How Much Land Does a Man Need?
    • The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud
    • Phaedo
    • The Dialogues of Plato
40. 40

    Joe Hill · 11 recommendations

    • NOS4A2
    • 20th Century Ghosts
    • Lost Man's Lane
    • Those Who Wish Me Dead
41. 41

    Shilo Brooks · 11 recommendations

    • The prince
    • Karl Marx on the Jewish Question
    • Night
    • The Republic
42. 42

    Chris Williamson · 10 recommendations

    • The Alchemist
    • Atomic Habits
    • Getting Things Done
    • Silent Spring
43. 43

    Jennifer Burns · 10 recommendations

    • The Fountainhead
    • The Wealth of Nations
    • The Road to Serfdom
    • A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
44. 44

    Russell Brand · 10 recommendations

    • Sapiens
    • Hollywood Babylon
    • The Great Divorce
    • Tools for the Master's work, comprising over 250 sermon outlines [&c.] collected by J. Ellis
45. 45

    Angela Halili · 9 recommendations

    • Bible
46. 46

    Annie Jacobsen · 9 recommendations

    • Nuclear War
    • The Day After Roswell
    • Hiroshima
    • The Road
47. 47

    Bishop Robert Barron · 9 recommendations

    • Three to Get Married
    • Finnegans Wake
    • iGen
    • An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
48. 48

    Charlie Kirk · 9 recommendations

    • Exodus
    • The Gulag Archipelago
    • 1984
    • Brave New World
49. 49

    Darin Olien · 9 recommendations

    • Fatal Conveniences
    • Sicker, Fatter, Poorer
    • The Invisible Rainbow
50. 50

    Emily Eakin · 9 recommendations

    • There Is No Place for Us
    • Baldwin
    • The economy of prestige
    • The Land in Winter
51. 51

    Jack Canfield · 9 recommendations

    • Think and Grow Rich
    • The Success System that Never Fails
    • Before the Mayflower
    • Yes I Can
52. 52

    Leif Babin · 9 recommendations

    • Extreme Ownership
    • Rogue Warrior
    • The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
    • Bible
53. 53

    Lewis Sacher · 9 recommendations

    • Charlotte's Web
    • Jurassic Park
    • Interview With the Vampire
    • The Firm
54. 54

    Mike Benz · 9 recommendations

    • War Is a Racket
    • From Dictatorship to Democracy
    • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
55. 55

    Peter Straughan · 9 recommendations

    • Conclave
    • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    • Wolf Hall
    • The Mirror and the Light
56. 56

    S.A. Cosby · 9 recommendations

    • Everybody Knows
    • Little Secrets
    • Darkness, take my hand
    • Devil in a Blue Dress
57. 57

    Tim Ferriss · 9 recommendations

    • The 4-Hour Workweek
    • The 4-Hour Body
    • How to Change Your Mind
    • On Writing
58. 58

    Ben Shapiro · 8 recommendations

    • Dreams from My Father
    • The True Believer
    • Democracy in America
    • The Constitution of Liberty
59. 59

    Brad Wilcox · 8 recommendations

    • Hegel, Love and Forgiveness
    • Eat Pray Love
    • The Two-Parent Privilege
    • Of Boys and Men
60. 60

    Bryan Callen · 8 recommendations

    • A Billion Wicked Thoughts
    • Fifty Shades of Grey
    • Lost in TransNation
    • Boomerang
61. 61

    Chase Hughes · 8 recommendations

    • Influence
    • Influence, New and Expanded: the Psychology of Persuasion
    • Crystallizing public opinion
    • Irreducible
62. 62

    Dan Houser · 8 recommendations

    • Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
    • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    • The Thin Red Line
    • War and Peace
63. 63

    David Wyatt · 8 recommendations

    • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    • Green Hills of Africa
    • Death in the Afternoon
    • In Our Time
64. 64

    George Mack · 8 recommendations

    • A Random Walk Down Wall Street
    • Don't Tell Me I Can't
    • Learned Optimism
    • How to Know a Person
65. 65

    Jillian Tett · 8 recommendations

    • General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
    • National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade
    • A Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Words in the Japanese Language
    • The Economic Consequences of the Peace
66. 66

    John Rich · 8 recommendations

    • Psalms
    • Revelation
    • Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the THESSALONIANS
    • The Mark
67. 67

    Matt Bissonnette · 8 recommendations

    • No Easy Way
    • No Easy Day
    • Killing Bin Laden
    • No Hero
68. 68

    Mitch Albom · 8 recommendations

    • The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    • Tuesdays with Morrie
    • Adventures in the screen trade
    • Gilead
69. 69

    Morgan Housel · 8 recommendations

    • Atomic Habits
    • No Ordinary Time
    • The Psychology of Money
    • 30 Lessons for Living
70. 70

    Norman Ohler · 8 recommendations

    • On the Road
    • Mein Kampf
    • Animal Farm
    • Sapiens
71. 71

    Rich Barton · 8 recommendations

    • DOS for Dummies
    • A soldier of the great war
    • Winter's Tale
    • Freddy and Fredericka
72. 72

    Ron Chernow · 8 recommendations

    • The Daily Stoic
    • Cato
    • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • The Innocents Abroad
73. 73

    Sean Fennessey · 8 recommendations

    • Carrie
    • 'Salem's Lot
    • The Shining
    • The Bachman Books
74. 74

    Seth Harp · 8 recommendations

    • The Fort Bragg Cartel
75. 75

    Steve Magness · 8 recommendations

    • The Science of Running
    • The Explorer's Gene
    • Bowling Alone
    • Win the Inside Game
76. 76

    A.O. Scott · 7 recommendations

    • The Great Gatsby
    • Tender is the Night
    • MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
    • The Catcher in the Rye
77. 77

    Alex O’Connor · 7 recommendations

    • Nicomachean Ethics
    • THE PLAGUE
    • The Rebel
    • The Republic
78. 78

    Amjad Masad · 7 recommendations

    • The Sovereign Individual
    • The Innovator's Dilemma
    • The Emperor's New Mind
    • Infinite jest
79. 79

    Arthur Brooks · 7 recommendations

    • Awe
    • Flow
    • The master and his emissary
    • The all-or-nothing marriage
80. 80

    Ben van Kerkwyk · 7 recommendations

    • Everything You Know Is STILL Wrong
    • Heaven's Mirror
    • Hamlet's mill
    • Tihuanacu. La Cuna Del Hombre Americano. (Tihuanacu. The Cradle of American Man.-English Translation by James F. Shearer.) [With Plates.] Sp. & Eng
81. 81

    Carl Zimmer · 7 recommendations

    • Air-Borne
    • Life's Edge
    • She Has Her Mother's Laugh
82. 82

    Daniel Negreanu · 7 recommendations

    • The Rounders
    • Die with Zero
    • The Four Agreements
    • End of Race Politics
83. 83

    David Brooks · 7 recommendations

    • The Bonfire of the Vanities
    • Overdrive
    • The Snowball
    • The moral sense
84. 84

    Dr Robert King · 7 recommendations

    • The evolution of human sexuality
    • Delta of Venus
    • Nine and a half weeks
    • Story of O
85. 85

    Dr. Staci Whitman · 7 recommendations

    • Jaws
    • Breath
    • Sleep Wrecked Kids
    • Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
86. 86

    Elise Crull · 7 recommendations

    • Principles of Philosophy
    • Mathematical principles of natural philosophy
    • Meditations on First Philosophy
    • The Physicists
87. 87

    Gavin de Becker · 7 recommendations

    • The house of numbers
    • The Real Anthony Fauci
    • Turtles All the Way Down
    • Hitler's Professors
88. 88

    Greg Cowles · 7 recommendations

    • Dark Renaissance
    • New and Collected Hell
    • The Gilded Auction Block
    • Cain Named the Animal
89. 89

    Jack Carr · 7 recommendations

    • First Blood
    • The brotherhood of the rose
    • The fraternity of the stone
    • The League of Night and Fog
90. 90

    Josh Waitzkin · 7 recommendations

    • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    • The Book of Five Rings
    • Searching for Bobby Fischer
    • The Art of Learning
91. 91

    Mary Roach · 7 recommendations

    • Bonk
    • Gulp
    • Stiff
92. 92

    Michael Easter · 7 recommendations

    • The Comfort Crisis
    • Scarcity Brain
    • Little Chapel on the River
    • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
93. 93

    Paul Harding · 7 recommendations

    • Tinkers
    • Housekeeping
    • Ironweed
    • Absalom, Absalom!
94. 94

    Peter Boettke · 7 recommendations

    • The theory of money and credit
    • A Conflict of Visions
    • Knowledge And Decisions
    • Milton Friedman
95. 95

    Rebecca Lemov · 7 recommendations

    • Island
    • Chaos
    • The Captive Mind
    • The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"
96. 96

    Rupi Kaur · 7 recommendations

    • Milk and Honey
    • the sun and her flowers
97. 97

    Victor LaValle · 7 recommendations

    • Danse Macabre
    • The Haunting of Hill House
    • The Shining
    • House of Leaves
98. 98

    Will Storr · 7 recommendations

    • 1984
    • The Seven Basic Plots
    • A Christmas Carol
    • Death of a Salesman
99. 99

    Brandon Taylor · 6 recommendations

    • Play It as It Lays
    • Commonwealth
    • Fierce Poise
    • Ninth Street women
100. 100

     Brian Eno · 6 recommendations

     • 1984
     • How Buildings Learn
     • Silence
     • The mind of man