This American Life
This American Life
Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the This American Life podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 4 episodes
How to Change
The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Katy Milkman
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
David Rakoff
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Naked and Death
where a woman somehow works through her past trauma by sleeping with a hot and mysterious Irish businessman
J.D. Robb
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Twitches
H. B. Gilmour
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Yellow Bird
Sierra Crane Murdoch
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy
Kjell Östberg
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Lord Fear
A Memoir
Lucas Mann
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Furies
John Jakes
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
This Is Football
Robbie Earle
Christian Pulisic
Daniel Melamud
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Be a Great Stand-Up
Sharief Homsi
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible!
Jonathan Goldstein
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Oh My Mother!
Connie Wang
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Run Towards the Danger
Confrontations with a Body of Memory
Sarah Polley
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Jigsaw
An Unsentimental Education
Sybille Bedford
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ake
Wole Soyinka
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
C'mon Papa
Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark
Ryan Knighton
