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Adam Savage Recommended Books
Adam Savage has recommended 23 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Adam Savage is an American special effects designer and fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality and producer.
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by Haruki Murakami
"Seriously, one of my favorite books of all time." - Adam Savage (Source)
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1 person
Anna Akana recommended this bookAnna Akana
Anna Akana recommended this book on Twitter.
Anna Akana's recommendation of this book
Atlas Obscura
An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
by Joshua Foer
"Buy the book. Seriously great content." - Adam Savage (Source)
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
"A better book [than 'Snow Crash']." - Adam Savage (Source)
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3 people
Bill Gates recommended this bookBill Gates
"Belongs in the subgenre of hard science fiction, which means it emphasizes scientific accuracy." - Bill Gates
Bill Gates's recommendation of this book 
Barack Obama recommended this bookBarack Obama
Barack Obama's "2016 Summer Reading List."
Barack Obama's recommendation of this book 
Chris Young recommended this bookChris Young
"I found I actually enjoyed [this book] a lot, but mostly because it was competence porn." - Chris Young
Chris Young's recommendation of this book
The Three-Body Problem (3 books)
"I felt like I was getting a Chinese version of Chinese culture." - Adam Savage (Source)
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10 people
Barry Silbert recommended this seriesBarry Silbert
"Amazing." - Barry Silbert
Barry Silbert's recommendation of this series 
Lex Fridman recommended this seriesLex Fridman
Lex Fridman mentioned this series on Instagram.
Lex Fridman's recommendation of this series 
Liv Boeree recommended this seriesLiv Boeree
Favorite fiction read of 2018.
Liv Boeree's recommendation of this series 
Mark Zuckerberg recommended this seriesMark Zuckerberg
"A Chinese science fiction book that has gotten so popular there's now a Hollywood movie being made based on it." - Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg's recommendation of this series 
Max Levchin recommended this seriesMax Levchin
Max Levchin recommended this series on LinkedIn.
Max Levchin's recommendation of this series 
Mike Novogratz recommended this seriesMike Novogratz
"Great summer read." - Mike Novogratz
Mike Novogratz's recommendation of this series +4
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- Naval Ravikant
"Great series." - Naval Ravikant
- Ryan Shea
Ryan Shea recommended this series on Twitter.
- Tim Urban
"Rocked my existence for a few months." - Tim Urban
- Tobi Lütke
"Loved the series." - Tobi Lütke
- Naval Ravikant
Shikasta
by Doris Lessing
"A field report on Earth." - Adam Savage (Source)
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
"On a big road trip, I read it out loud to my wife, she read it out loud to me. Then we got the audio book and we listened to Steve Martin read it." - Adam Savage (Source)
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4 people
Marc Andreessen recommended this bookMarc Andreessen
"Nothing about his career was an accident, which I thought was fascinating." - Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen's recommendation of this book 
Jason Calacanis recommended this bookJason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis recommended this book on his blog.
Jason Calacanis's recommendation of this book 
Bill Nye recommended this bookBill Nye
"This is the story of my hero. The guy who inspired me to do what I do now." - Bill Nye
Bill Nye's recommendation of this book 
Sahil Lavingia recommended this bookSahil Lavingia
Sahil Lavingia recommended this book on Notion.
Sahil Lavingia's recommendation of this book
Gun, with Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem
"A great science fiction novel." - Adam Savage (Source)
Dune (6 books)
"If you haven't read it, just go read it. It is amazing!" - Adam Savage (Source)
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16 people
Andrew Chen recommended this seriesAndrew Chen
"Amazing book!" - Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen's recommendation of this series 
Cameron Winklevoss recommended this seriesCameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss recommended this series on Reddit.
Cameron Winklevoss's recommendation of this series 
Elon Musk recommended this seriesElon Musk
"Brilliant. [The author] advocates placing limits on machine intelligence." - Elon Musk
Elon Musk's recommendation of this series 
Ev Williams recommended this seriesEv Williams
On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.
Ev Williams's recommendation of this series 
Jeff Bezos recommended this seriesJeff Bezos
"I’m a big science-fiction fan. I love [this series]." - Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos's recommendation of this series 
Kelly Starrett recommended this seriesKelly Starrett
Kelly Starrett recommended this series in the "Tools of Titans" book.
Kelly Starrett's recommendation of this series +10
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- Kyle Maynard
One of Kyle Maynard's 3 answers to "what is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift?"
- Laird Hamilton
Laird Hamilton mentioned this series on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
- Paulo Coelho
"Magnificent." - Paulo Coelho
- Sahil Lavingia
Sahil Lavingia recommended this series on Notion.
- Seth Godin
"If you read [this series], and you don’t read it for the plot but you read it for understanding geopolitics, suddenly something clicks in your head." - Seth Godin
- Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand recommended this series on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
- Tim Draper
"My wife recommended [this series]." - Tim Draper
- Tim Ferriss
"Perhaps the most incredibly detailed and oddly believable fictional landscape I’ve ever encountered." - Tim Ferriss
- Tim O’Reilly
"Definitely one of [the series that have shaped my life]." - Tim O’Reilly
- Zooko Wilcox
"The extensive quotations are one of my favorite parts." - Zooko Wilcox
- Kyle Maynard
The Left Hand of Darkness
Hainish Cycle, Book 4
by Ursula K. Le Guin
"An impressive and powerful experience." - Adam Savage (Source)
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1 person
Brad Feld recommended this bookBrad Feld
"I'm buying [this book] and reading it this weekend in memorium." - Brad Feld
Brad Feld's recommendation of this book
The Liars' Club
A Memoir
by Mary Karr
"[The author's] first memoir." - Adam Savage (Source)
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
"It's a tough call because I prefer other books of [this author]. But [this book] is so important within the history of science fiction." - Adam Savage (Source)
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14 people
Tobi Lütke recommended this bookTobi Lütke
"Loved it." - Tobi Lütke
Tobi Lütke's recommendation of this book 
Larry Page recommended this bookLarry Page
Entrepreneur.com article.
Larry Page's recommendation of this book 
Naval Ravikant recommended this bookNaval Ravikant
"Best cyberpunk novel ever written. Slightly dated but very prescient." - Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant's recommendation of this book 
Sergey Brin recommended this bookSergey Brin
"Ten years ahead of the time anticipated what's going to happen." - Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin's recommendation of this book - Ev Williams recommended this book
Ev Williams
On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.
Ev Williams's recommendation of this book 
Seth Godin recommended this bookSeth Godin
"Such a good book but you can’t give it to someone now. I've tried; it doesn’t work. You have to read it before you’ve been on the internet." - Seth Godin
Seth Godin's recommendation of this book +8
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- Brandon Stanton
"I love [this book]." - Brandon Stanton
- Ryan Shea
One of Ryan Shea's 4 answers to "what is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift?"
- Nolan Bushnell
"[One of my ten favorite books] I might think of if I were asked the question at an interview this minute." - Nolan Bushnell
- Austen Allred
"One of my favorite books of all-time." - Austen Allred
- Cameron Winklevoss
"Love [this book]! We stole from mrb." - Cameron Winklevoss
- Fred Wilson
"A lot of what we [at USV] invest in and how we look at the future comes from [this book]." - Fred Wilson
- Mark Zuckerberg
"Anyone interested in [virtual reality] would read [this book]." - Mark Zuckerberg
- Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang credits [this book] for conjuring the metaverse.
- Brandon Stanton
Sprawl (3 books)
"[This series] changed my life." - Adam Savage (Source)
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3 people
John Carmack recommended this seriesJohn Carmack
John Carmack mentioned this series on Twitter.
John Carmack's recommendation of this series - Naval Ravikant recommended this series
Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant mentioned this series on Twitter.
Naval Ravikant's recommendation of this series 
Nolan Bushnell recommended this seriesNolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell recommended this series in his "Finding the Next Steve Jobs" book.
Nolan Bushnell's recommendation of this series
Girl in Landscape
A Novel
by Jonathan Lethem
"The [book] that I love of [this author]." - Adam Savage (Source)
Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home
by Julia Child
"A great cookbook." - Adam Savage (Source)
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