Naval Ravikant's Book Recommendations
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and philosopher, best known as the co-founder of AngelList, a platform that connects startups with investors. Ravikant is a prolific thinker and writer on topics such as startups, investing, and personal well-being, sharing his wisdom through essays, podcasts, and social media. He has invested in over 100 companies, including Uber, Twitter, and Yammer, making him one of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors. Ravikant is also known for his philosophical musings on wealth, happiness, and the meaning of life, which have garnered him a large and dedicated following.
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg, Lord William Rees-Mogg
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers
Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
The Red Queen
Matt Ridley
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich
Awareness
Anthony De Mello
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Genome
Matt Ridley
Thing Explainer
Randall Munroe
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
Nicholas J. Higham, Mark R. Dennis, Paul Glendinning, Paul A. Martin, Fadil Santosa, Jared Tanner
The Way to Love
Anthony De Mello
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Gordon Livingston
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
The Planetary Omnibus
Warren Ellis
Fables
Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Mark Buckingham
Math, Better Explained
Kalid Azad
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
Sex at Dawn
Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
Pre-Suasion
Robert Cialdini
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Waking Up
Sam Harris
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Gary Taubes
The Third Wave
Steve Case
The Book of Why
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
Infinite Powers
Steven Strogatz
The Fabric of Reality
David Deutsch
Watchmen
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
Richard P. Feynman
Qed
Richard Phillips Feynman
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 30th Anniversary Edition
Neil Gaiman
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee, John Little
Fallen Leaves
Will Durant
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
Jed McKenna
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E Frankl
Principles
Ray Dalio
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Lord of the Rings
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Lessons of History
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
The Jack Vance Treasury
Jack Vance
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