Books recommended on Stuff You Should Know

Part of Stuff You Should Know.

As of November 2026, 100 books have been recommended across 60 analyzed episodes of Stuff You Should Know; the most frequent are Subway Art, Utopia and Maus.

Which books does Stuff You Should Know recommend?

Recommended on Stuff You Should Know

  1. Mastering the Art of French Cooking — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Julia Child, la Grandes Gourmande | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  2. Star Wars Holiday Special — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  3. The Charge of the Light Brigade — 1 episode, most recently Jan 2026 in The Charge of the Light Brigade | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  4. Songs for Sleeping Dogs — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Eco-Disasters 101: The Salton Sea | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Also mentioned on Stuff You Should Know

  1. Subway Art — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  2. Utopia — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in The Brutal History of Prison Labor | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  3. Maus — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Cabbage Patch Kids: Must-Have Toy of the Century
  4. The Great Escape — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  5. Style Wars — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  6. Twilight — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  7. The Monopoly Companion — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  8. Hogan's Heroes — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  9. Uncommon Valor — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  10. Doctor Who — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  11. The Art of Money Getting — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  12. Axes of Evil — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Operation Paul Bunyan | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  13. 1977 Army War College report — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Operation Paul Bunyan | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  14. Sing a Song of Sixpence — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Short Stuff: Pies | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  15. German cookbook — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Short Stuff: Pies | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  16. American Cookery — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Short Stuff: Pies | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  17. American Cookery by an American Orphan — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Short Stuff: Pies | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  18. Washington Pie — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Short Stuff: Pies | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  19. Cider House Rules — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Short Stuff: Pies | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  20. Rain or Shine — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Selects: Rockettes: Still Kicking After All These Years | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  21. psychological types — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Selects: How Personality Tests Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  22. What's Wrong with the Rorschach — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Selects: How Personality Tests Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  23. To Kill a Mockingbird — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Selects: How Personality Tests Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  24. Oliver Twist — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  25. How Play-Doh Works — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Play-Doh Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  26. How Twinkies Works — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Play-Doh Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  27. US patent number 6713624 — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Play-Doh Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  28. Hasbro news release — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Play-Doh Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  29. Archie's comics — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Easy Bake Ovens Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  30. How Hot Wheels Work — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Hot Wheels Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  31. How Homelessness Works — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Hot Wheels Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  32. LA magazine — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Hot Wheels Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  33. What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  34. the guide to reselling toys at Christmas for extra money — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  35. Marketing Land — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  36. MarketWatch — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  37. New York Magazine — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  38. USA Today — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  39. Toy Insider — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  40. Toys, Tots, Pets, and More — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  41. Crazy Coupon Lady — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  42. Harlem Nights — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Yo-Yos Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  43. Hee Haw — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Yo-Yos Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  44. Yo! MTV Raps — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Yo-Yos Work | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  45. Now you now you know the history of G.I. Joe and knowing it is half the battle — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  46. The Story of G.I. Joe — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  47. Inside an Etch a Sketch — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Etch A Sketch! | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  48. Zac Bissonnette's book — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas…Toys: Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  49. The Great Beanie Baby Bubble — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas…Toys: Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  50. The Beanie Baby Phenomenon — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas…Toys: Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  51. Mary Beth's Bean Bag World — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas…Toys: Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  52. Beckett's monthly — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas…Toys: Beanie Babies: Reigning Toy Craze Champion | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  53. Journal study on hula hooping (2004, 15-page) — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  54. Journal study on hula hooping (circa 2008) — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  55. Barbed Hula — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  56. Stuff to Blow Your Mind article on hula hoop history — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  57. The Empire Strikes Back — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  58. The Billiondollar Monopoly and Swindle: During a David and Goliath battle, anti-monopoly uncovers the secret history of Monopoly — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  59. Monopoly Goes Corporate — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  60. The Lord of the Rings — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  61. The Jetsons — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  62. Wild Style (film) — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  63. Names, Graffiti and Culture — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  64. Break — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  65. Bartleby, the Scrivener — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in The Brutal History of Prison Labor | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  66. Beloved — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in The Brutal History of Prison Labor | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  67. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in The Brutal History of Prison Labor | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  68. Keith Richards' autobiography — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  69. The Road — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever
  70. Book of Ezekiel — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  71. The Secret History of Home Economics — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  72. The Feminine Mystique — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  73. Gulliver's Travels — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: How Miniature Golf Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  74. Free to Be You and Me — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Dolls and Dolls, Guys! | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  75. Herald of Freedom — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  76. The Story of the Stone Age — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Doggerland: Lost at Sea | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  77. Robinson Crusoe — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Doggerland: Lost at Sea | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  78. Submerged Forests — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Doggerland: Lost at Sea | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  79. Doggerland: a speculative survey — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Doggerland: Lost at Sea | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  80. Sally Jesse Raphael — 1 episode, most recently Jan 2026 in The Warrens: Paranormal Power Couple | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  81. Journey to Infinity — 1 episode, most recently Jan 2026 in Selects: MC Escher and His Trippy Art | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  82. The Investigation — 1 episode, most recently Jan 2026 in The SAD Episode | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  83. Bible — 2 episodes, most recently Feb 2026 in Selects: Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  84. Spray Can Art — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Graffiti: So Cool It’s A Pillar of Hip Hop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  85. Monopoly Companion — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  86. The Billiondollar Monopoly and Swindle — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How Monopoly Works | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  87. Moby Dick — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in The Brutal History of Prison Labor | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  88. Frontiers and Nutrition — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Rice is Nice | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  89. How Star Wars Conquered the Universe — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  90. The Han Solo Comedy Hour — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  91. Vanity Fair — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  92. Wookie Bible — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Selects: Star Wars Holiday Spectacular | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  93. Adivist article — 1 episode, most recently Dec 2025 in Operation Paul Bunyan | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  94. Epic of Gilgamesh — 1 episode, most recently Feb 2026 in Selects: Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal? | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  95. The Diary of Anne Frank — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in Julia Child, la Grandes Gourmande | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
  96. Guiding Light — 1 episode, most recently Nov 2025 in AM Radio: Solid Gold | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW