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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- Best Book of the Last Decade
- Best Less Mainstream Book
- Best Book Read Recently
- Best Book Before That
- Book He Has Gifted the Most
- Most Listened-to Audiobook
- Most Returned-to Spiritual Book
- Favorite Sci-Fi Short Story
- Books He Would Give His Kids
- Read Everything from these Authors
- More Recommended Nonfiction Books
- More Recommended Philosophy & Spirituality Books
- More Recommended Science Fiction Books
35+ Naval Ravikant Book Recommendations: Best of the Decade, Most Gifted, Favorite Authors, & More
Best Book of the Last Decade:
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Amazon)
Best Less Mainstream Book:
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg (Amazon)
Best Book Read Recently:
- Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli (Amazon)
Best Book Before That:
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Amazon)
Book He Has Gifted the Most:
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (Book Summary | Amazon)
Most Listened-to Audiobook:
- The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master (Amazon)
Most Returned-to Spiritual Book:
- Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti (Amazon)
Favorite Sci-Fi Short Story:
- Understand by Ted Chiang—in a collection called Stories of Your Life and Others (Amazon)
Books He Would Give His Kids:
- 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)
Read Everything from these Authors:
More Recommended Nonfiction Books:
- 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)
More Recommended Philosophy & Spirituality Books:
- 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)
More Recommended Science Fiction Books:
- 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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