Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant
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
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)
The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti, by Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within, 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
How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee
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
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
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