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35+ Naval Ravikant Book Recommendations: Best of the Decade, Most Gifted, Favorite Authors, & More

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Naval Ravikant has been reading books for his entire life.

It wouldn’t be beneficial to list every book Naval has ever mentioned somewhere. These days, he reads portions of many books at the same time—jumping around based on his own curiosity at any given moment.

I’m most interested in the select books that stand the test of time for him. The book recommendations in this post come from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (Summary | Amazon).

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I probably read one to two hours a day. That puts me in the top .00001 percent. I think that alone accounts for any material success I’ve had in my life and any intelligence I might have.

— Naval Ravikant

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Naval Ravikant Books Recommended & Reading List

35+ Naval Ravikant Book Recommendations: Best of the Decade, Most Gifted, Favorite Authors, & More

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Amazon)

  • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg (Amazon)

  • Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli (Amazon)

  • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Amazon)

  • The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master (Amazon)

  • Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti (Amazon)

  • Understand by Ted Chiang—in a collection called Stories of Your Life and Others (Amazon)

  • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman (Amazon)
  • Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time by Richard Feynman (Amazon)
  • The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti (Amazon)

  • The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant (Book Summary | đź”’ Premium Summary | Amazon)
  • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch (Amazon)
  • Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe (Amazon)
  • Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein (Amazon)
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger (edited by Peter Kaufman) (Amazon)
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (Amazon)
  • The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy by J.D. Williams (Amazon)
  • The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod (Amazon)

  • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer (Book Summary | đź”’ Premium Summary | Amazon)
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Book Summary | Amazon)
  • The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within by Osho (Amazon)
  • The Great Challenge: Exploring the World Within by Osho (Amazon)
  • The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello by Anthony de Mello (Amazon)
  • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant (Amazon)
  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (Amazon)
  • Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee (Amazon)
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (Amazon)
  • The Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts (Amazon)

  • Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (Amazon)
  • Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (Amazon)
  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (Amazon)
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Amazon)
  • The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (Free Online)

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