Guests who recommended the most books in 2026

The podcast guests who recommended the most books in 2026, counted across every show they appeared on.

1. 1

   Joumana Khatib · 39 recommendations

   • The Radiance
   • American Hagwon
   • Pachinko
   • Public Access Afterworld
2. 2

   Michael Pollan · 30 recommendations

   • The Varieties of Religious Experience
   • The doors of perception
   • Paper Lion
   • Fast Food Nation
3. 3

   Ryan Holiday · 28 recommendations

   • The Odyssey
   • Oresteia
   • Meditations
   • American Buffalo
4. 4

   Jack Carr · 26 recommendations

   • The Hunt for Red October
   • First Blood
   • The Terminal List
   • Savage Son
5. 5

   Jared Diamond · 26 recommendations

   • Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings
   • Swing Kings
   • Guns, Germs and Steel
   • The Gospel according to st. Mark [ed.] by S.F. Smith
6. 6

   Andy Weir · 24 recommendations

   • The Martian
   • Artemis
   • The Caves of Steel
   • Project Hail Mary
7. 7

   Jodi Picoult · 23 recommendations

   • Hollow Bones
   • Harvesting the Heart
   • Songs of the Humpback Whale
   • A Spark of Light
8. 8

   Matt Haig · 23 recommendations

   • The Humans
   • The Possession of Mr. Cave
   • The Midnight Library
   • The Polar Express
9. 9

   Tim Ferriss · 23 recommendations

   • Awareness
   • Don't Shoot the Dog
   • Genghis Khan
   • The Making of the Modern World
10. 10

    Ada Palmer · 21 recommendations

    • The prince
    • Discourses on Livy
    • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
    • “The” History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
11. 11

    Leonard Sax · 20 recommendations

    • Of Boys and Men
    • Daring Young Men
    • Girls on the Edge
    • Slow Death by Rubber Duck
12. 12

    Christopher Ryan · 18 recommendations

    • Leviathan
    • Civilized to Death
    • The Rational Optimist
    • A Paradise Built in Hell
13. 13

    Steven Pressfield · 18 recommendations

    • The War of Art
    • Tides of War
    • The Virtues of War
    • The Legend of Bagger Vance
14. 14

    Tish Rabe · 18 recommendations

    • Kindness Is Caring, Friendship Is Sharing
    • Sweet Dreams Ahead Time for Bed
    • Sometimes Apart, Always in My Heart
    • There's No Place Like Space! All About Our Solar System
15. 15

    Anne Lamott · 17 recommendations

    • Bird by Bird
    • Far Tortuga
    • Help, Thanks, Wow
    • A Confederacy of Dunces
16. 16

    Dwight Garner · 17 recommendations

    • The Disappearers
    • American Hagwon
    • Pachinko
    • The American way of death
17. 17

    MJ Franklin · 17 recommendations

    • Switzy
    • Dead Beat
    • Ninth House
    • Mazywood
18. 18

    Joanna Stern · 15 recommendations

    • I Am Not a Robot
19. 19

    Madeline Miller · 15 recommendations

    • The Iliad
    • The Odyssey
    • Philoctetes
    • The Penelopiad
20. 20

    David Heinemeier Hansson · 14 recommendations

    • Bullshit Jobs
    • The fourth turning
    • Getting Real
    • Rework
21. 21

    Fareed Zakaria · 14 recommendations

    • The Affluent Society
    • The Accidental Superpower
    • A World Safe for Democracy
    • The Irony of American History
22. 22

    Louise Erdrich · 14 recommendations

    • Planet of the Apes
    • Brawler
    • The Night Watchman
    • The Master Butchers Singing Club SP
23. 23

    Henry Oliver · 13 recommendations

    • The Merchant of Venice
    • The Taming of the Shrew
    • All's Well That Ends Well
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
24. 24

    Josh Howerton · 13 recommendations

    • Revelation
    • Galatians
    • Hebrews
    • Matthew
25. 25

    Arthur Brooks · 12 recommendations

    • Leisure, the Basis of Culture
    • Immortality
    • The Brothers Karamazov
    • A World Appears
26. 26

    Bill Gurley · 12 recommendations

    • Flying Blind
    • Pandora's Gamble
    • Running down a Dream
    • Grit
27. 27

    Elisabeth Egan · 12 recommendations

    • The Thorn Birds
    • Into Thin Air
    • Yesteryear
    • Whistler
28. 28

    Alex Petkas · 11 recommendations

    • The Iliad
    • The Odyssey
    • Metropolis
    • Nosferatu
29. 29

    James Marriott · 11 recommendations

    • Amusing Ourselves to Death
    • Bleak House
    • Middlemarch
    • Paradise Lost
30. 30

    Jenna Bush Hager · 11 recommendations

    • The Baby-Sitters Club
    • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    • Tom Lake
    • The Meaning of Mariah Carey
31. 31

    Jennifer Egan · 11 recommendations

    • A Visit from the Goon Squad
    • Manhattan Beach
    • The Candy House
32. 32

    Rich Cohen · 11 recommendations

    • The Right Stuff
    • The Moviegoer
    • The Catcher in the Rye
    • Solo Faces
33. 33

    Andrew Huberman · 10 recommendations

    • A Fighter's Heart
    • Under Saturn's Shadow
    • The Eden Project
    • The Prince of Medicine
34. 34

    George Mack · 10 recommendations

    • Finnegans Wake
    • The Hero with a Thousand Faces
    • The Great Gatsby
    • East of Eden
35. 35

    Jay Dyer · 10 recommendations

    • The City of God
    • The Harvest of Medieval Theology
    • Iustitia Dei
    • The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
36. 36

    Rev. Billy Cerveny · 10 recommendations

    • The book of Genesis
    • Genesis
    • Genesis 3
    • Ephesians
37. 37

    Sarah Lyall · 10 recommendations

    • Rebecca
    • The Turn of the Screw
    • The Firm
    • The Pelican Brief
38. 38

    Yann Martel · 10 recommendations

    • The Hobbit
    • The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
    • Josephine the Singer, Or The Nation of the Mice
    • Animal Farm
39. 39

    Ethan Evans · 9 recommendations

    • Never Split the Difference
    • Leadership and Self-Deception
    • The 48 Laws of Power
    • Moneyball
40. 40

    Jennifer Harlan · 9 recommendations

    • Delicate Edible Birds
    • Book Lovers
    • Time was soft there
    • A Marvellous Light
41. 41

    John Green · 9 recommendations

    • The Great Gatsby
    • Everything Is Tuberculosis
    • Hollywood, Ending
    • Sula
42. 42

    Julia Quinn · 9 recommendations

    • The Flame and the Flower
    • Night Song
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Lost In Place
43. 43

    Max Levchin · 9 recommendations

    • The Founders
    • Cryptonomicon
    • Snow Crash
    • Neuromancer
44. 44

    Michael Lester · 9 recommendations

    • Rise and kill first
    • The Scofield Bible Correspondence Course
    • The Sleepwalkers
    • The Guns of August
45. 45

    Naomi Klein · 9 recommendations

    • End Times Fascism
    • No Logo
    • Outrages
    • Empire of AI
46. 46

    Patrick Radden Keefe · 9 recommendations

    • The Emperor's Children
    • Out of Sheer Rage
    • Middlemarch
    • In Cold Blood
47. 47

    Andrew Scull · 8 recommendations

    • On Being Sane in Insane Places
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    • Asylum
    • Wear and Tear or, Hints for the Overworked
48. 48

    Annie Jacobsen · 8 recommendations

    • Nuclear War
    • The Day After Roswell
    • The Decameron
    • Biological War
49. 49

    Bill Browder · 8 recommendations

    • Freezing Order
    • Tuesdays with Morrie
    • Red Notice
50. 50

    Clint Bentley · 8 recommendations

    • No Country for Old Men
    • Train dreams
    • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
    • To the Lighthouse
51. 51

    Dave Smith · 8 recommendations

    • Enough Already
    • Fool's Errand
    • Provoked
    • White Men Can't Jump
52. 52

    David Senra · 8 recommendations

    • The Creative Act
    • Michael Jordan
    • Against the Odds
    • Beat the Dealer
53. 53

    Francine Prose · 8 recommendations

    • Anna Karenina
    • Finnegans Wake
    • Jane Eyre
    • Great Expectations
54. 54

    John Grisham · 8 recommendations

    • A Time to Kill
    • The Firm
    • The Pelican Brief
55. 55

    R.F. Kuang · 8 recommendations

    • The Sovereignty of Good
    • Several Short Sentences About Writing
    • Pale Fire
    • Steering the Craft
56. 56

    Rory Sutherland · 8 recommendations

    • Unreasonable Hospitality
    • Thinking, Fast and Slow
    • The Game
    • Obvious Adams
57. 57

    Sean Stone · 8 recommendations

    • The Bhagavad Gita
    • Bible
    • Job
    • The Book of Enoch
58. 58

    Suleika Jaouad · 8 recommendations

    • Between Two Kingdoms
    • Wild
    • The Book of Alchemy
    • An Unquiet Mind
59. 59

    Tina Jordan · 8 recommendations

    • Cat Among the Pigeons
    • Peril at End House
    • The Secret History
    • We need to talk about Kevin
60. 60

    Tobi Lütke · 8 recommendations

    • Poor Charlie’s Almanack
    • The Lessons of History
    • The Managerial Revolution
    • The Machiavellians
61. 61

    Wesley Huff · 8 recommendations

    • Bible
    • River Out of Eden
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    • The Last Battle
62. 62

    Dan Shipper · 7 recommendations

    • Existence and being
    • The concept of time
    • What Computers Can't Do
63. 63

    Francis Fukuyama · 7 recommendations

    • Invisible Man
    • The End of History and the Last Man
    • Galatians
    • Recoding America
64. 64

    Guillermo del Toro · 7 recommendations

    • Frankenstein
    • The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Tao Te Ching
    • Nabokov's butterflies
65. 65

    Isaac Butler · 7 recommendations

    • Transgressions
    • It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful
    • The Devil Finds Work
    • Fire in the belly
66. 66

    Jack Posobiec · 7 recommendations

    • Unhumans
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    • The Horse and His Boy, by C S Lewis
    • Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia
67. 67

    Marc Andreessen · 7 recommendations

    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • The Diversity Myth
    • Closing of the American Mind
    • Me and Ted Against the World
68. 68

    Mark Dunkelman · 7 recommendations

    • The Power Elite
    • The Power Broker
    • Abundance
    • Making a New Deal
69. 69

    Noah Hawley · 7 recommendations

    • A Conspiracy of Tall Men
    • Memento
    • The good father
    • White Noise
70. 70

    Oprah Winfrey · 7 recommendations

    • Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    • The Seat of the Soul
    • Anatomy of the Spirit
    • What Happened to You?
71. 71

    Tim Urban · 7 recommendations

    • The Five Ages of the Universe
    • The Happiness Hypothesis
    • The Anxious Generation
    • The Order of Time
72. 72

    Tommy Robinson · 7 recommendations

    • Quran
    • Bible
73. 73

    Tristan Harris · 7 recommendations

    • The Anxious Generation
    • The Humane Interface
    • Sapiens
    • Cultural Materialism
74. 74

    Anish Acharya · 6 recommendations

    • 7 Powers
    • High Output Management
    • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
    • Conquests and Cultures
75. 75

    Bill Thompson · 6 recommendations

    • The red book =
    • Shawshank Redemption
    • Man and His Symbols
    • White Rage
76. 76

    Bob Crawford · 6 recommendations

    • John Adams
    • 1776
    • Rise of American Democracy
    • MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
77. 77

    Danny Strong · 6 recommendations

    • Dopesick
    • Painkiller
    • Dreamland
    • Hillbilly Elegy
78. 78

    Derek Thompson · 6 recommendations

    • Bowling Alone
    • Mere Christianity
    • The Emperor's Children
    • The Interestings
79. 79

    Dr. Peter McCullough · 6 recommendations

    • COVID-19 and the Global Predators
    • Talking Back to Prozac
    • The Real Anthony Fauci
    • Deception
80. 80

    Emily Jashinsky · 6 recommendations

    • Coming apart
    • Fear of Flying
    • Amusing Ourselves to Death
    • Trump: The Art of the Deal
81. 81

    Greasy Will · 6 recommendations

    • Be My Baby
    • Tearing Down The Wall of Sound
82. 82

    Harlan Coben · 6 recommendations

    • Bird by Bird
    • Portnoy's Complaint
    • The Bonfire of the Vanities
    • Where Are The Children?
83. 83

    Harvey Mansfield · 6 recommendations

    • The prince
    • Discourses on Livy
    • The Republic
    • Natural Right and History
84. 84

    Ian Crossland · 6 recommendations

    • 1984
    • The Communist Manifesto
    • Simulacra and Simulation
    • Fallout
85. 85

    Ivanka Trump · 6 recommendations

    • The Creative Act
    • Shoe Dog
    • Man's Search for Meaning
    • Essentialism
86. 86

    Jaimie Alexander · 6 recommendations

    • The Daily Stoic
    • Meditations
87. 87

    Joe Hudson · 6 recommendations

    • The Tibetan book of living and dying
    • Dying
    • Descartes' Error
    • Listen
88. 88

    Maureen Callahan · 6 recommendations

    • Not That Kind of Girl
    • Stranger Beside Me
    • American Predator
    • Ask Not
89. 89

    Michael Regilio · 6 recommendations

    • Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams
    • Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners - Freud
    • Dreams and Telepathy
    • The Interpretation of Dreams
90. 90

    Mohnish Pabrai · 6 recommendations

    • One Up On Wall Street
    • Beating the Street
    • Beat the Dealer
    • Devil Take the Hindmost
91. 91

    Ralph Adolphs · 6 recommendations

    • What Emotions Really Are
    • The Neuroscience of Emotion
    • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
    • The Variations of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1
92. 92

    Stephen King · 6 recommendations

    • The Hero's Journey
    • Redheaded Peckerwood
    • Ghost Story
    • Mr. Mercedes
93. 93

    AJ Gentile · 5 recommendations

    • Bible
    • Time Loops
    • The Book of Enoch
    • The Book of Daniel
94. 94

    AJ Pasciuti · 5 recommendations

    • Starship Troopers
    • War Is a Racket
    • American sniper
    • Hogs in the Shadows
95. 95

    Alex O’Connor · 5 recommendations

    • The Denial of Death
    • The God Delusion
    • A Brief History of Time
    • The master and his emissary
96. 96

    Amjad Masad · 5 recommendations

    • The City and the Stars
    • Mastermind
    • 7 Powers
    • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
97. 97

    Andrew Sean Greer · 5 recommendations

    • Gigi
    • The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
    • Less
    • Rebecca
98. 98

    Andrew Stanton · 5 recommendations

    • The Art of Dramatic Writing
    • The Godfather
    • How Not to Write a Screenplay
99. 99

    Annie Lowrey · 5 recommendations

    • A History of Christianity
    • Fifth Sun
    • My silent war
    • To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
100. 100

     Arishankar Muthenadi · 5 recommendations

     • The Daily Stoic
     • The Obstacle Is the Way
     • Ego Is the Enemy
     • Stillness Is the Key