Books Recommended by Lex Fridman
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: "Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share." - Lex Fridman
Ashton KutcherBill GatesBill GurleyDaniel EkDemis HassabisJames CameronJoe RoganKarlie KlossKeith RaboisKishore BiyaniLex FridmanMark ZuckerbergNaval RavikantPeter AttiaRay DalioReid HoffmanRichard BransonRyan SheaSam KassSebastian JungerVinod KhoslaWhitney CummingsPewDiePieMelinda GatesAnthony PomplianoChangpeng ZhaoPatrick O'ShaughnessyChris EvansMark MansonSimon MayoPenn JilletteEssential Bukowski
Poetry
Charles Bukowski
Source: "Because I've been doing the startup, I've been suffering so I'm reading a lot of Bukowski." - Lex Fridman
The Changing World Order
Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray Dalio
Source: "The fascinating thing about [this book] is there's philosophy, there's wisdom, but there's plots." - Lex Fridman
Empire of the Summer Moon
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S. C. Gwynne
Source: "[I admire] the purity of that way of life." - Lex Fridman
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
Source: "Encouraged the better side of ourselves." - Lex Fridman
Love and Math
The Heart of Hidden Reality
Edward Frenkel
Source: "Amazing book I recommend to everybody." - Lex Fridman
The Three-Body Problem (3 books)
Cixin Liu
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
Life 3.0
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
Source: "I recommend people read [this book]." - Lex Fridman
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Source: "[My] previous favorite [book by this author]." - Lex Fridman
2001
A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Source: "I reread [this book] quite often." - Lex Fridman
Aniela GregorekBryan JohnsonChelsea HandlerChip ConleyDaniel PinkDave ElitchDavid BlaineDustin MoskovitzEmma WatsonEsther PerelEv WilliamsFedor HolzJimmy FallonJocko WillinkJordan PetersonLex FridmanMaria PopovaMichael GervaisNaval RavikantRyan HolidaySam AltmanSimon SinekTerry CrewsTony RobbinsTuria PittPewDiePieShane ParrishMark MansonPhil JacksonTom BilyeuThe Art Of War
Sun Tzu
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
The Player of Games
Culture, Book 2
Iain M. Banks
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Source: Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.
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