Books Recommended by Bryan Johnson
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
Source: One of Sam Altman's answers to "What are some of the best books you recommend for a young startup founder?"
Number
Tobias Dantzig
Source: Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.
A Mind at Play
Jimmy Soni
Source: Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Source: Keith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Source: "One of those beautiful accounts of a terrible time in our history. His calm and sagaciousness, while witnessing one horror after another played out during his time in three separate concentration camps, is awe inspiring." - Chelsea Handler
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A Good Man
Mark Shriver
Source: "An exceptional father, a good friend, loyal, and he is a mental model of the kind of person I want to be in life." - Bryan Johnson
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
Jim Holt
Source: Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.
Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky
Source: "Among the best insights into our brain and behavior." - Vinod Khosla
Principles
Ray Dalio
Source: "Sketched really concise and good thoughts for [how to approach life]." - Drew Houston
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Source: "I enjoyed [this book]. Fascinating." - Jason Fried
But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman
Source: Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Source: "[There are] engineers who [dismiss] all these things that can’t be fit into an algorithm, or that don’t have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, [this book] is about that question." - Drew Houston
The End Of Science
John Horgan
Source: Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Source: Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Source: "It’s a nice book about a journey of an evolution of a young man into an adult." - Navdeep Chandel
The Annotated Flatland
Ian Stewart
Source: Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Source: "A great book." - Bryan Johnson
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff
Source: "Dives into the new problem on college campuses, Safetyism." - Vinod Khosla
