570 picks

Books Lex Fridman Recommends

Ranked by how often Lex Fridman brings them up. All episodes

26 recommends

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

17 recommends

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

16 recommends

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

16 recommends

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

15 recommends

The Immortality Key

Brian Muraresku

13 recommends

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

13 recommends

Animal Farm

George Orwell

12 recommends

The Real Anthony Fauci

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

9 recommends

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

9 recommends

The Ascent of Money

Niall Ferguson

9 recommends

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

8 recommends

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

8 recommends

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

7 recommends

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

7 recommends

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (inferred)

7 recommends

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky (inferred)

7 recommends

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

7 recommends

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William Shirer

6 recommends

Deep Work

Cal Newport

6 recommends

Dune

Frank Herbert

6 recommends

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

6 recommends

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

5 recommends

Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti (inferred)

5 recommends

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

5 recommends

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

5 recommends

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

5 recommends

On Writing

Stephen King

5 recommends

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

5 recommends

The Plague

Albert Camus

4 recommends

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

4 recommends

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

4 recommends

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

4 recommends

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (inferred)

4 recommends

1984

George Orwell (inferred)

4 recommends

A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

4 recommends

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand (inferred)

4 recommends

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter (inferred)

4 recommends

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

4 recommends

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (inferred)

4 recommends

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

4 recommends

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

4 recommends

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

3 recommends

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

3 recommends

Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

Karl Deisseroth

3 recommends

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

3 recommends

The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous (inferred)

3 recommends

The Circadian Code

Satchin Panda

3 recommends

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

3 recommends

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

3 recommends

An Immense World

Ed Yong

3 recommends

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

3 recommends

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

3 recommends

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

3 recommends

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

3 recommends

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

3 recommends

Master of the Senate

Robert Caro

3 recommends

On the Move

Oliver Sacks

3 recommends

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki

3 recommends

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

3 recommends

The Culture series

Iain M. Banks

3 recommends

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)

3 recommends

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

3 recommends

The Precipice

Toby Ord

3 recommends

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn (inferred)

3 recommends

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

3 recommends

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

3 recommends

Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

Dean Buonomano

2 recommends

How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett

2 recommends

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

2 recommends

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

2 recommends

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

2 recommends

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

2 recommends

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

2 recommends

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

2 recommends

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

2 recommends

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

2 recommends

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

2 recommends

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

2 recommends

Jungle Keeper

Paul Rosolie

2 recommends

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

2 recommends

Love and Math

Edward Frenkel

2 recommends

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

2 recommends

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

2 recommends

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

2 recommends

The Book of Why

Judea Pearl

2 recommends

The Strange Death of Europe

Douglas Murray

2 recommends

The Vital Question

Nick Lane

2 recommends

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

2 recommends

What It Takes

Stephen Schwarzman

2 recommends

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

2 recommends

About Face

Colonel David Hackworth

2 recommends

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr (inferred)

2 recommends

Attached

Amir Levine and Rachel Heller (inferred)

2 recommends

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

2 recommends

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

2 recommends

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand

2 recommends

Coming to Palestine

Sheldon Richman

2 recommends

Destined for War (the Thucydides Trap)

Graham Allison (inferred)

2 recommends

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday (inferred)

2 recommends

Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

2 recommends

Human Action

Ludwig von Mises

2 recommends

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

2 recommends

Layered Money

Nik Bhatia

2 recommends

Middlemarch

George Eliot

2 recommends

Moby Dick

Herman Melville (inferred)

2 recommends

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

2 recommends

Obama's Wars

Bob Woodward

2 recommends

Plato's Dialogues

Plato

2 recommends

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

2 recommends

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Victor Sebestyen

2 recommends

Season of the Witch

David Talbot (inferred)

2 recommends

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

2 recommends

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing (inferred)

2 recommends

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

2 recommends

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey (inferred)

2 recommends

The Ancient City

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

2 recommends

The Ape That Understood the Universe

Steve Stewart-Williams

2 recommends

The Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle

2 recommends

The Blocksize War

Jonathan Bier

2 recommends

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

2 recommends

The Evolution of Beauty

Richard Prum (inferred)

2 recommends

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Richard Feynman

2 recommends

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

2 recommends

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2 recommends

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

2 recommends

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury

2 recommends

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

2 recommends

The Machiavellians

James Burnham

2 recommends

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut

2 recommends

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams (inferred)

2 recommends

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway (inferred)

2 recommends

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason (inferred)

2 recommends

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2 recommends

The Stand

Stephen King

2 recommends

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

2 recommends

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin (inferred)

2 recommends

The True Believer

Eric Hoffer

2 recommends

The Untethered Soul

Michael Singer

2 recommends

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

2 recommends

Ulysses

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2 recommends

When Reason Goes on Holiday

Neven Sesardic (inferred)

2 recommends

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Kenneth O. Stanley (inferred)

2 recommends

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

2 recommends

Wrestling Tough

Mike Chapman (inferred)

1 recommend

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

Michael Malice

1 recommend

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

1 recommend

A World Without Email

Cal Newport

1 recommend

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

1 recommend

Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To

David Sinclair

1 recommend

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett

1 recommend

The Infinite Game

Simon Sinek

1 recommend

12 Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson

1 recommend

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

1 recommend

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

1 recommend

Principles

Ray Dalio

1 recommend

Provoked

Scott Horton

1 recommend

Rebel Without a Crew

Robert Rodriguez

1 recommend

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

1 recommend

American Cosmic

Diana Walsh Pasulka

1 recommend

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

1 recommend

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Carl Hart

1 recommend

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

1 recommend

Maps of Meaning

Jordan Peterson

1 recommend

Proving Einstein Right

S. James Gates Jr. and Cathie Pelletier

1 recommend

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

1 recommend

Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom

1 recommend

The Case Against Reality

Donald Hoffman

1 recommend

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

1 recommend

Waking Up

Sam Harris

1 recommend

Affective Computing

Rosalind Picard

1 recommend

AI Superpowers

Kai-Fu Lee

1 recommend

All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

Sean Kelly and Hubert Dreyfus

1 recommend

America's Cultural Revolution

Christopher Rufo

1 recommend

Back Mechanic

Stuart McGill

1 recommend

Conscious

Annaka Harris

1 recommend

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

1 recommend

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Scott Kelly

1 recommend

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

1 recommend

First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham (inferred)

1 recommend

From Eternity to Here

Sean Carroll

1 recommend

Grokking Deep Learning

Andrew Trask

1 recommend

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

1 recommend

Human Compatible

Stuart Russell

1 recommend

On the Measure of Intelligence

Francois Chollet

1 recommend

Remote

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

1 recommend

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

1 recommend

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins

1 recommend

The C Programming Language

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (inferred)

1 recommend

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

1 recommend

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

1 recommend

The New Breed

Kate Darling

1 recommend

The Russo-Ukrainian War

Serhii Plokhy

1 recommend

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

1 recommend

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Benny Morris

1 recommend

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam (inferred)

1 recommend

A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Mike Rinder

1 recommend

A Bright Future

Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist

1 recommend

A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace

Roger Williams (inferred)

1 recommend

A Cent of Money

unknown

1 recommend

A Cent of Money: A History of Money

Jonathan Williams (inferred)

1 recommend

A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies

James Bamford

1 recommend

A Renegade History of the United States

Thaddeus Russell

1 recommend

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

1 recommend

Adaptation and Natural Selection

George C. Williams (inferred)

1 recommend

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

1 recommend

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

1 recommend

An Emotional Education

Alain de Botton

1 recommend

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

1 recommend

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

1 recommend

At Large and at Small

Anne Fadiman

1 recommend

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

1 recommend

Authors of the Impossible

Jeffrey Kripal

1 recommend

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Al Sweigart (inferred)

1 recommend

Barefoot Running (Ken Bob Saxton's book)

Ken Bob Saxton

1 recommend

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter (inferred)

1 recommend

Beetle in the Anthill

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1 recommend

Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust

Deborah Lipstadt

1 recommend

Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes

Robert Mnookin

1 recommend

Biology as Ideology

Richard Lewontin

1 recommend

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Arvind Narayanan

1 recommend

Bitcoin white paper

Satoshi Nakamoto

1 recommend

Bitcoin Whitepaper

Satoshi Nakamoto

1 recommend

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

Jim Webb

1 recommend

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

1 recommend

Breaking Open the Head

Daniel Pinchbeck

1 recommend

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

1 recommend

Build a Large Language Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

1 recommend

Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

1 recommend

Calculating God

Robert Sawyer

1 recommend

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles

Ian Hutchinson

1 recommend

Can Love Last?

Stephen Mitchell (inferred)

1 recommend

Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1 recommend

Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

Margaret Roberts

1 recommend

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert (inferred)

1 recommend

Children Who Remember Previous Lives

Ian Stevenson

1 recommend

Clock Without Hands

Carson McCullers

1 recommend

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

1 recommend

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav Zubok

1 recommend

Coming Apart

Charles Murray

1 recommend

Competing Against Luck

Clay Christensen

1 recommend

Confessions of a Sociopath

M.E. Thomas

1 recommend

Contact

Carl Sagan

1 recommend

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

1 recommend

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

1 recommend

Creative Selection

Ken Kocienda

1 recommend

Crowds and Power

Elias Canetti

1 recommend

Dark Universe

Daniel F. Galouye

1 recommend

Darkness Visible

William Styron (inferred)

1 recommend

Deep Learning with Python

Francois Chollet

1 recommend

Demian

Herman Hesse

1 recommend

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

Robert Dreyfuss

1 recommend

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

1 recommend

Dreams of a Final Theory

Steven Weinberg

1 recommend

Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp

1 recommend

Dubliners (The Dead)

James Joyce

1 recommend

Duel at Dawn

Amir Alexander

1 recommend

Earth Abides

George R. Stewart (inferred)

1 recommend

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

Ludwig von Mises

1 recommend

Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

1 recommend

Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work)

Michael Goodwin (inferred)

1 recommend

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

1 recommend

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

Leonard Mlodinow (inferred)

1 recommend

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica (inferred)

1 recommend

Eon

Greg Bear

1 recommend

Ever Since Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

1 recommend

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

1 recommend

Finite and Infinite Machines

Marvin Minsky

1 recommend

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes (inferred)

1 recommend

Forcing God's Hand

Grace Halsell (inferred)

1 recommend

Foundation trilogy

Isaac Asimov

1 recommend

Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee

Nat Hentoff

1 recommend

Freedom From Fear

David M. Kennedy

1 recommend

Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

Fabien Sanglard

1 recommend

global icons book (on bin Laden, Bob Marley, Tupac)

Jeremy Prestholdt

1 recommend

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert (inferred)

1 recommend

Grant

Ron Chernow

1 recommend

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

1 recommend

Grokking Bitcoin

Kalle Rosenbaum (inferred)

1 recommend

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Steven Levy

1 recommend

Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (inferred)

1 recommend

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

James Wallace and Jim Erickson (inferred)

1 recommend

Hard to Be a God

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1 recommend

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling (inferred)

1 recommend

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Robert A. Heinlein

1 recommend

Herzog

Saul Bellow

1 recommend

Hitch-22

Christopher Hitchens

1 recommend

Hitler (two-volume biography), Volume 2

Ian Kershaw

1 recommend

How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?

John R. Anderson

1 recommend

How to Build a Brain

Chris Eliasmith

1 recommend

How to Do Great Work

Paul Graham

1 recommend

How to Read a Book

Mortimer Adler

1 recommend

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison (inferred)

1 recommend

If

Rudyard Kipling

1 recommend

In Search of the Miraculous

P. D. Ouspensky (inferred)

1 recommend

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

1 recommend

Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS)

Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (inferred)

1 recommend

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Ayn Rand

1 recommend

Inventing Bitcoin

Yan Pritzker

1 recommend

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

1 recommend

Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons

David Albright

1 recommend

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

James W. Douglass

1 recommend

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

1 recommend

Kary Mullis autobiography (Dancing Naked in the Mind Field)

Kary Mullis

1 recommend

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann (inferred)

1 recommend

Knowledge and Decisions

Thomas Sowell

1 recommend

Known Space novels (incl. the Puppeteers)

Larry Niven

1 recommend

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

1 recommend

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

1 recommend

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

Emily Feng

1 recommend

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

Robert Pirsig

1 recommend

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

1 recommend

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Gareth Porter

1 recommend

Marjorie Morningstar

Herman Wouk

1 recommend

Marx in Contradiction

Roslyn Wallach Bologh (inferred)

1 recommend

Mastering Bitcoin

Andreas Antonopoulos

1 recommend

Mastering Ethereum

Andreas Antonopoulos

1 recommend

Masters of Doom

David Kushner (inferred)

1 recommend

Mathematical recreations columns (collected books)

Martin Gardner

1 recommend

Mawson's Will

Lennard Bickel (inferred)

1 recommend

Maximum City

Suketu Mehta (inferred)

1 recommend

Meditations on Moloch

Scott Alexander

1 recommend

memoir on the Soviet collapse (Likholetye)

Nikolai Leonov

1 recommend

Men and Machines

Harry Bridges

1 recommend

Modern Poker Theory

Michael Acevedo

1 recommend

Monday Starts on Saturday

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1 recommend

Money and Time

Roger Garrison (inferred)

1 recommend

Monopolizing Knowledge

Ian Hutchinson

1 recommend

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

1 recommend

Munich

Robert Harris

1 recommend

Mutants and Mystics

Jeffrey Kripal

1 recommend

Naming the Mind

Kurt Danziger

1 recommend

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse

1 recommend

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

1 recommend

Novacene

James Lovelock

1 recommend

Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Jeremy R. Hammond

1 recommend

On Becoming a Person

Carl Rogers

1 recommend

On Love

Alain de Botton

1 recommend

One Two Three Infinity

George Gamow

1 recommend

Our Mathematical Universe

Max Tegmark

1 recommend

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford University Press (inferred)

1 recommend

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

1 recommend

Party of One

Anneli Rufus

1 recommend

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Martin Fowler

1 recommend

Peak

Anders Ericsson (inferred)

1 recommend

Peopleware

Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (inferred)

1 recommend

Pere Goriot

Honore de Balzac

1 recommend

Permutation City

Greg Egan

1 recommend

Philosophy: Who Needs It

Ayn Rand

1 recommend

Physically Based Rendering

Matt Pharr

1 recommend

Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us

Evan Mandery

1 recommend

Principles of Economics

Carl Menger

1 recommend

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

1 recommend

Private Truths, Public Lies

Timur Kuran

1 recommend

Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems

Judea Pearl

1 recommend

Program or Be Programmed

Douglas Rushkoff

1 recommend

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

1 recommend

Reality

Peter Kingsley

1 recommend

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto

1 recommend

Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA

Daniel Carpenter

1 recommend

Roadside Picnic

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1 recommend

Rudy Rucker novels (nanobot 'nants' series)

Rudy Rucker

1 recommend

Saturday

Ian McEwan

1 recommend

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

1 recommend

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle (inferred)

1 recommend

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

Ben Rich

1 recommend

Slavery and Social Death

Orlando Patterson

1 recommend

Sleeping Island

P.G. Downs

1 recommend

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

1 recommend

Story

Robert McKee

1 recommend

Story of Human Language (lecture series)

John McWhorter

1 recommend

Surface Detail

Iain M. Banks

1 recommend

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

Carrie Galbraith and John Law (inferred)

1 recommend

Teacup in the Universe

Helen Czerski (inferred)

1 recommend

Ten Points

Bill Strickland

1 recommend

The Age of Acrimony

Jon Grinspan (inferred)

1 recommend

The Age of Entitlement

Christopher Caldwell

1 recommend

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

University of Chicago Oriental Institute (inferred)

1 recommend

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X and Alex Haley (inferred)

1 recommend

The Beak of the Finch

Jonathan Weiner

1 recommend

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

1 recommend

The Bishop's Boys

Tom Crouch (inferred)

1 recommend

The Block Size War

Jonathan Bier

1 recommend

The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz (inferred)

1 recommend

The Castle

Franz Kafka

1 recommend

The Cell (Molecular Biology of the Cell)

Bruce Alberts et al. (inferred)

1 recommend

The Computer and the Brain

John von Neumann

1 recommend

The Confessions of an Anti-Semite (Memoirs of an Anti-Semite)

Gregor von Rezzori

1 recommend

The Dao of Capital

Mark Spitznagel

1 recommend

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg

1 recommend

The Dream Life of Sukhanov

Olga Grushin

1 recommend

The Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

1 recommend

The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Graham Allison

1 recommend

The Expanse (book series)

James S. A. Corey

1 recommend

The Fear

Peter Godwin

1 recommend

The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders

Ari Rabin-Havt

1 recommend

The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche

1 recommend

The Giver

Lois Lowry

1 recommend

The Great Experiment

Yascha Mounk

1 recommend

The Great Shark Hunt

Hunter S. Thompson

1 recommend

The Histories

Herodotus

1 recommend

The History of One Tough Motherfucker

Charles Bukowski

1 recommend

The Holy Quran

1 recommend

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi (inferred)

1 recommend

The Idea of Decline in Western History

Arthur Herman

1 recommend

The Internet of Money

Andreas Antonopoulos

1 recommend

The Invincible

Stanislaw Lem

1 recommend

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

1 recommend

The Life of the Mind

Hannah Arendt

1 recommend

The Loudest Voice in the Room

Gabriel Sherman

1 recommend

The Man Without a Face

Masha Gessen

1 recommend

The Mandibles

Lionel Shriver

1 recommend

The Manticore

Robertson Davies

1 recommend

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

Matthew Ball

1 recommend

The Mind in the Cave

David Lewis-Williams

1 recommend

The Mind of a Mnemonist

Alexander Luria

1 recommend

The Mind's I

Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett

1 recommend

The Moral Animal

Robert Wright

1 recommend

The Most Human Human

Brian Christian

1 recommend

The Muslim and the Jew (Dr. Helmy)

Ronen Steinke

1 recommend

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus (inferred)

1 recommend

The Ominous Parallels

Leonard Peikoff

1 recommend

The Origins of Political Order

Francis Fukuyama

1 recommend

The Origins of Woke

Richard Hanania

1 recommend

The Power of the Powerless

Vaclav Havel

1 recommend

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Timothy Gowers (inferred)

1 recommend

The Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro novels

Kazuo Ishiguro

1 recommend

The Revolt of the Public

Martin Gurri

1 recommend

The Rise and Decline of Nations

Mancur Olson

1 recommend

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Carl Trueman

1 recommend

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

1 recommend

The Road to Reality

Roger Penrose

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