Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant

naval ravikant book recommendations

Who is Naval Ravikant:

Investor, entrepreneur, deep thinker, and a wise man whose advise on how to live a good life is appreciated by millions. 

What’s on the list: 

Books recommended by Naval Ravikant in his many interviews. “The truth is, I don’t read for self-improvement. I read out of curiosity and interest. The best book is the one you’ll devour.”

Books by Naval Ravikant: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, compiled by Eric Jorgenson. 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, by Matt Ridley

The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, by Matt Ridley 

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge, by Matt Ridley 

Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled By Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman

The Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein

The Lessons of History, by Will Durant, Ariel Durant 

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

Poor Charlie’s Almanac, by Charles T. Munger

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch

Jed McKenna’s Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective (Dreamstate Trilogy)

Jed McKenna’s Notebook

Jed Talks #1, by Jed McKenna

Jed Talks #2, by Jed McKenna

Jed Talks #3, by Jed McKenna

A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who abhor noise and seek The Truth about life and living, by Kapil Gupta

Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life, by Kapil Gupta

Atmamun: The Path to achieving the bliss of the Himalayan Swamis. And the freedom of a living God, by Kapil Gupta

The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti, by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within, by Osho

The Great Challenge, by Osho

The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony DeMello by Anthony DeMello

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer

Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant

The Tao of Seneca

How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

Dale Carnegie books

Three Body Problem trilogy, by by Cixin Liu

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, by Scott Adams

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, by Richard Bach

Tools of Titans, by Tim Ferriss

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers, by Will Durant

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade, by Robert Cialdini