Naval's Recommended Reading

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Naval Ravikant’s Recommended Reading

NONFICTION

• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
  • Other Books by Matt Ridley
    • Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
    • The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
    • The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
    • The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
• Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
  • Other Books by Nassim Taleb
    • The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
    • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
    • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and Markets
• Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman
  • Other books by Feynman
    • Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space.
    • Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
  • Feynman’s biography: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
• 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 and Ariel Durant
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger (edited by Peter Kaufman)
• Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
• Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli
• The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy by J.D. Williams
• The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

PHILOSOPHY AND SPIRITUALITY

• Jed McKenna
  • Theory of Everything (The Enlightened Perspective) - Dreamstate Trilogy
  • Jed McKenna’s Notebook
  • Jed Talks #1: Essays, Teachings, Rants & Frivolous Frivolity (2nd ed.)
  • Jed Talks #2: Away from the Things of Man
• Kapil Gupta
  • A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who abhor noise and seek The Truth about life and living
  • Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
  • Atmamun: The Path to achieving the bliss of the Himalayan Swamis. And the freedom of a living God.
• The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within by Osho
• The Great Challenge: Exploring the World 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 on It by Kamal Ravikant
• The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master
• How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollanby 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

SCIENCE FICTION

• 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
• Stephenson - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Last Question by Isaac Asimov