Here we track every book Naval Ravikant mentioned on his X account.
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129 books and 0 series.
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
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Jordan Peterson, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Nick Szabo, Mr. Money Mustache, John Arnold, Bill Gurley, Anthony Pompliano, Rupert Murdoch
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
by Gary Taubes
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The Book of Five Rings
by Miyamoto Musashi
Also recommended by:
Joe Rogan, Jocko Willink, Ryan Holiday, PewDiePie, Lex Fridman
Economics in One Lesson
The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
Also recommended by:
Ben Shapiro, Ryan Petersen, Mark Spitznagel, Changpeng Zhao, Peter Schiff, Rand Paul
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
by Charlie Munger
Also recommended by:
Marc Andreessen, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Patrick Collison, Tim Ferriss, Drew Houston, Ramit Sethi, Daniel Ek, Shane Parrish, Tai Lopez, Courtland Allen, Patrick Bet-David, John Collison
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
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Rick Rubin, Michael Gervais, Josh Waitzkin, Brian MacKenzie, Stewart Brand, Jason Nemer, Soman Chainani, Jack Dorsey, Jack Ma
The Truth about Carbs
How to Eat Just the Right Amount of Carbs to Slash Fat, Look Great Naked, & Live Lean Year-Round
by Nate Miyaki
The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
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The Evolution of Everything
How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley
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How Innovation Works
Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
by Matt Ridley
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Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
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Waking Up
A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
by Sam Harris
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
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Joe Rogan, Bill Gates, Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Attia, Ashton Kutcher, Whitney Cummings, Richard Branson, Ray Dalio, Vinod Khosla, James Cameron, Demis Hassabis, Keith Rabois, Daniel Ek, Reid Hoffman, Sam Kass, Sebastian Junger, Kishore Biyani, Ryan Shea, Melinda Gates, Bill Gurley, Karlie Kloss, Anthony Pompliano, Changpeng Zhao, PewDiePie, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Chris Evans, Simon Mayo, Penn Jillette, Mark Manson, James Clear
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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Elon Musk, Shah Rukh Khan, Seth Rogen, Richard Branson, Tim Ferriss, Evan Goldberg, Sahil Lavingia, Jack Edwards, Zack D'Aleo
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
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Jordan Peterson, Jocko Willink, Esther Perel, Emma Watson, David Blaine, Terry Crews, Jimmy Fallon, Tony Robbins, Simon Sinek, Michael Gervais, Daniel Pink, Ev Williams, Bryan Johnson, Dustin Moskovitz, Sam Altman, Chelsea Handler, Ryan Holiday, Maria Popova, Aniela Gregorek, Fedor Holz, Turia Pitt, Chip Conley, Dave Elitch, PewDiePie, Shane Parrish, Phil Jackson, Tom Bilyeu, Lex Fridman, Mark Manson, Alastair Humphreys, Steve Kerr, Robin Black, Jim Kwik, Michael Hyatt, Patrick Bet-David
The Diamond Age
Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
by Neal Stephenson
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Convict Conditioning
How to Bust Free of All Weakness-Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength
by Paul Wade
Wind, Sand and Stars
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
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Kelly Slater, Tim Ferriss, Peter Mallouk, Jason Nemer, Carlos Slim
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book
by Daniel Ingram
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland, Book 1
by Lewis Carroll
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The Sovereign Individual
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
by James Dale Davidson
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Peter Thiel, Brian Armstrong, Ryan Shea, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Sahil Lavingia, Balaji Srinivasan
Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Also recommended by:
Kevin Kelly, Steve Jurvetson, Demis Hassabis, David Deutsch, Sahil Lavingia, Chris Hayes
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
by Kamal Ravikant
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Influence
The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert Cialdini
Pre-Suasion
A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
by Robert Cialdini
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Scott Adams, Michael Mauboussin, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Alex Hormozi
The Surrender Experiment
My Journey into Life's Perfection
by Michael A. Singer
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The Origins of Virtue
Human Instincts and The Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
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Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
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Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla, Richard Branson, Raoul Pal, Tai Lopez, Penn Jillette, Mark Manson
Snow Crash
A Novel
by Neal Stephenson
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Tobi Lütke, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Ev Williams, Seth Godin, Adam Savage, Brandon Stanton, Ryan Shea, Nolan Bushnell, Austen Allred, Cameron Winklevoss, Fred Wilson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang
The Elephant in the Brain
Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
by Kevin Simler
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The Untethered Soul
The Journey Beyond Yourself
by Michael A. Singer
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Ryan Hoover, Daniel Gross, Deepak Chopra, Oprah Winfrey, Russell Brand, Tony Robbins, Danny Miranda
Principles
Life and Work
by Ray Dalio
Also recommended by:
Arianna Huffington, Bill Gates, Bryan Johnson, Diddy, Doug McMillon, Drew Houston, Dustin Moskovitz, Gary Vaynerchuk, Howard Marks, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Systrom, Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Michael Bloomberg, Reed Hastings, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Austen Allred, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Tom Bilyeu, Lex Fridman, James Clear, Marty Cagan, Ben Greenfield
Six Easy Pieces
Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard P. Feynman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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Bill Gates, Ray Dalio, Scott Adams, Ev Williams, Marc Andreessen, Stewart Brand, Bryan Johnson, Derek Sivers, Sam Altman, Ron Conway, Jason Fried, Nassim Taleb, Sahil Lavingia, Mark Manson, Jay Shetty, Michiko Kakutani, Preston Pysh, Ben Greenfield
Letters from a Stoic
by Lucius Seneca
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The Bhagavad Gita
by -
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Wim Hof, Mahatma Gandhi, Paulo Coelho
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
by Sri Swami Satchidananda
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Kind of the Story of My Life
by Scott Adams
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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David Blaine, Emma Watson, Wim Hof, Neil Strauss, Bryan Johnson, Navdeep Chandel, Tim Ferriss, Fred Wilson, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Phil Jackson, Lex Fridman, Justin Kan, Harry Styles, James Clear, Jack Edwards
Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
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The Book of Nothing
Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
by John D. Barrow
12 Rules for Life
An Antidote to Chaos
by Jordan Peterson
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Jocko Willink, Marc Andreessen, George Raveling, Dominic D'Agostino, PewDiePie, Ben Greenfield
The Gay Science
With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Direct Truth
Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
by Kapil Gupta
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
by Nancy Forbes
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Awareness
The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
by Anthony De Mello
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The Lessons of History
by Will & Ariel Durant
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Ray Dalio, Tim Ferriss, Kevin Systrom, Shane Parrish, Mark Manson, James Clear, Lyn Alden
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
by Christopher Alexander
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Patrick Collison, Sam Altman, Stewart Brand, Gretchen Rubin, Liz Lambert
At Home in the Universe
The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart Kauffman
Dream Yoga
Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
by Andrew Holecek
The Power of Now
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle
Also recommended by:
Carlos Santana, Kristen Ulmer, Jen Sincero, Justin Kan, Matt Ogus, Pete Holmes
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
Also recommended by:
Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nick Szabo, Noam Chomsky, Brandon Stanton, Bill Gurley, Patrick Bet-David
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers
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The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
by Judea Pearl
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Infinite Powers
How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven Strogatz
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by David Reich
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Nassim Taleb, Michael Mauboussin, Balaji Srinivasan, Marc Andreessen
The Fabric of Reality
The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
by David Deutsch
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The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch
Also recommended by:
Patrick Collison, Sam Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Steven Pinker, Chris Anderson, Mark Bell, Ryan Shea
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
Also recommended by:
Amelia Boone, Aubrey Marcus, Hamilton Morris, Michael Mauboussin, Paul Stamets, Peter Attia, Stewart Butterfield, Tim Ferriss, Vinod Khosla, Yuval Noah Harari, Kara Swisher
The Network State
How To Start a New Country
by Balaji Srinivasan
Also recommended by:
Anthony Pompliano, Brian Armstrong, Marc Andreessen, Vitalik Buterin
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