8 Best Knowledge Books

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• Ashton Kutcher

  "The brainy book I seem to be sharing or talking about the most lately." - Ashton Kutcher

• Whitney Cummings

  "A great book about [how] we’ve evolved and why we have anxiety." - Whitney Cummings

• Richard Branson

  "I just love the style of his writing." - Richard Branson

• Ray Dalio

  Ray Dalio mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

• Vinod Khosla

  "A previous favorite." - Vinod Khosla

• James Cameron

  "It explains human behavior and why we are the way we are in human civilization from soup to nuts. And I’ve read it now a couple of times. It’s a pretty astonishing book." - James Cameron

• Demis Hassabis

  "There's not many times where I read a book and come out with 20 new ideas I hadn't thought about before, and [this book] made me think like that." - Demis Hassabis

• Keith Rabois

  Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

• Daniel Ek

  "Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure." - Daniel Ek

• Reid Hoffman

  "A grand theory of humanity." - Reid Hoffman

• Sam Kass

  Sam Kass recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.

• Sebastian Junger

  "I’m going to give [this book] over and over again to everyone I know." - Sebastian Junger

• Kishore Biyani

  "Fascinating because of its multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding human society, our behaviour and our future." - Kishore Biyani

• Ryan Shea

  One of Ryan Shea's 4 answers to "what is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift?"

• Melinda Gates

  Melinda Gates recommended this book on Likewise.com.

• Bill Gurley

  "I really enjoyed [this book]." - Bill Gurley

• Karlie Kloss

  "An amazing book on the beginning of humanity." - Karlie Kloss

• Anthony Pompliano

  "[One of the] best books I read in 2017." - Anthony Pompliano

• Changpeng Zhao

  "Gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do." - Changpeng Zhao

• PewDiePie

  "Tells the major revolutions of human history." - PewDiePie

• Patrick O'Shaughnessy

  "Provides a concise history of humankind and outlines why we have the psychology we do today." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

• Chris Evans

  "Truly mind-blowing. It’s changed the way I look at almost everything. I can’t endorse it enough." - Chris Evans

• Simon Mayo

  "Love this book still." - Simon Mayo

• Penn Jillette

  Penn Jillette mentioned this book in a New York Times interview.

• Mark Manson

  Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

• James Clear

  "[One of] the 10 best nonfiction books of all-time." - James Clear

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• Stewart Brand

  Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

• Bryan Johnson

  "I started reading [this book] and I became increasingly convinced of my own fickleness and inability to actually act rationally in life." - Bryan Johnson

• Derek Sivers

  "If you liked 'Predictably Irrational' or 'Stumbling on Happiness' or any of those pop-psychology books, well, this is the Godfather of all of their work." - Derek Sivers

• Sam Altman

  One of Sam Altman's answers to "What are some of the best books you recommend for a young startup founder?"

• Ron Conway

  "Covers all three phases of [the author's] career: his early days working oncognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness." - Ron Conway

• Jason Fried

  "I enjoyed [this book]. Fascinating." - Jason Fried

• Nassim Taleb

  "A landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud." - Nassim Taleb

• Sahil Lavingia

  Sahil Lavingia recommended this book on Notion.

• Mark Manson

  Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

• Jay Shetty

  "[One] of my favourite books." - Jay Shetty

• Michiko Kakutani

  "Has become essential reading in many baseball front offices and among coaching staffs." - Michiko Kakutani

• Preston Pysh

  "An incredible book!" - Preston Pysh

• Ben Greenfield

  Most Recommended Books reached out to Ben Greenfield directly.

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• Max Levchin

  "Compiles a bunch of great academic neuroscience and applied psychology research on habit formation." - Max Levchin

• Danny Miranda

  "Great writing, interesting stories, and incredible insights on how to control your habits." - Danny Miranda

• Patrick Bet-David

  Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

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• Terry Crews

  "Incredible." - Terry Crews

• Jimmy Fallon

  "Talks about the meaning of life, and I believe you come out a better person from reading it." - Jimmy Fallon

• Tony Robbins

  "Taught me that if you change the meaning, you change everything." - Tony Robbins

• Simon Sinek

  "Single most important book you can read." - Simon Sinek

• Michael Gervais

  "Outlines methods to discover deep meaning and purpose in life." - Michael Gervais

• Daniel Pink

  "A hugely important book for me." - Daniel Pink

• Ev Williams

  On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

• Bryan Johnson

  "His basic point is no matter the conditions we surround ourselves in, we can author our life." - Bryan Johnson

• Dustin Moskovitz

  Dustin Moskovitz recommended this book on Twitter.

• Sam Altman

  This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

• Chelsea Handler

  "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

• Ryan Holiday

  "Looks at how we find purpose by dedicating ourselves to a cause, learning to love and finding a meaning to our suffering." - Ryan Holiday

• Maria Popova

  "A meditation on what the gruesome experience of Auschwitz taught [the author] about the primary purpose of life: the quest for meaning, which sustained those who survived." - Maria Popova

• Aniela Gregorek

  "A book I have gifted to many people because it changed the way I think about human suffering and grace in life." - Aniela Gregorek

• Fedor Holz

  "[From it] I interpreted that we cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how to cope with it, and that having meaning in our life is essential." - Fedor Holz

• Turia Pitt

  "[If people are] doing a bit of soul searching, hands down [I give them this book]." - Turia Pitt

• Chip Conley

  "If I were to take the meaning of [this book], and turn it into an equation, it would be despair equals suffering minus meaning." - Chip Conley

• Dave Elitch

  Dave Elitch mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

• PewDiePie

  "A great tool to help people. [...] In case something really bad happens, I feel like, from reading this book, I'm better equipped to handle it." - PewDiePie

• Shane Parrish

  "As hard as you think your life is, it pales in comparison to Auschwitz." - Shane Parrish

• Phil Jackson

  "An important book for me." - Phil Jackson

• Tom Bilyeu

  Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website.

• Lex Fridman

  "I reread [this book] quite often." - Lex Fridman

• Mark Manson

  Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

• Alastair Humphreys

  "Slim but packed with wisdom that I often come back to. I really recommend you read it." - Alastair Humphreys

• Steve Kerr

  "Incredibly inspiring." - Steve Kerr

• Robin Black

  "One of the great books ever written exists because of one of the worst times in human history. From suffering comes beauty." - Robin Black

• Jim Kwik

  "Illustrates that it’s not our circumstances but the decisions we make that diminish or develop us." - Jim Kwik

• Michael Hyatt

  Michael Hyatt recommended this book on his website.

• Patrick Bet-David

  Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

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• Arianna Huffington

  "I find [this book] so inspirational and instructive, it lives on my nightstand." - Arianna Huffington

• Stewart Brand

  Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

• Chip Conley

  "I have given [this book] away to a number of people." - Chip Conley

• Ryan Holiday

  "The private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world, admonishing himself on how to be better, more just, more immune to temptation, wiser." - Ryan Holiday

• Adam Robinson

  "Someone would get more benefit from reading ten books multiple times. Like [this book]." - Adam Robinson

• Austen Allred

  Austen Allred recommended this book on his website.

• Shane Parrish

  "Really helped foster my interest in philosophy." - Shane Parrish

• Joe Rogan

  "It's really wild when you think about how long that guy lived and how applicable some of his thoughts are today." - Joe Rogan

• Lex Fridman

  Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.

• Mark Manson

  Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

• Ankur Warikoo

  "Incredible book." - Ankur Warikoo

• James Clear

  "[One of] the 10 best nonfiction books of all-time." - James Clear

• Patrick Bet-David

  Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

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• Shaun White

  "I started applying [a lesson from this book] to my own life." - Shaun White

• Will Smith

  "Talks about the concept of 10,000 hours." - Will Smith

• Jay-Z

  "About the principles of timing and repetition—about preparing yourself for luck, really." - Jay-Z

• Carlos Slim

  "Must [read]." - Carlos Slim

• Patrick Bet-David

  Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.