Books Lex Fridman Recommends

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

Tom O'Neill

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The Immortality Key

Brian Muraresku

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Animal Farm

George Orwell

The Real Anthony Fauci

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

The Ascent of Money

Niall Ferguson

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (inferred)

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky (inferred)

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William Shirer

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Dune

Frank Herbert

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti (inferred)

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

On Writing

Stephen King

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Plague

Albert Camus

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (inferred)

1984

George Orwell (inferred)

A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand (inferred)

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter (inferred)

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (inferred)

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

Karl Deisseroth

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous (inferred)

The Circadian Code

Satchin Panda

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

An Immense World

Ed Yong

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Master of the Senate

Robert Caro

On the Move

Oliver Sacks

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

The Culture series

Iain M. Banks

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

The Precipice

Toby Ord

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn (inferred)

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

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

Dean Buonomano

How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Jungle Keeper

Paul Rosolie

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

Love and Math

Edward Frenkel

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

The Book of Why

Judea Pearl

The Strange Death of Europe

Douglas Murray

The Vital Question

Nick Lane

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

What It Takes

Stephen Schwarzman

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

About Face

Colonel David Hackworth

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr (inferred)

Attached

Amir Levine and Rachel Heller (inferred)

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand

Coming to Palestine

Sheldon Richman

Destined for War (the Thucydides Trap)

Graham Allison (inferred)

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday (inferred)

Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

Human Action

Ludwig von Mises

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Layered Money

Nik Bhatia

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Moby Dick

Herman Melville (inferred)

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Obama's Wars

Bob Woodward

Plato's Dialogues

Plato

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Victor Sebestyen

Season of the Witch

David Talbot (inferred)

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing (inferred)

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey (inferred)

The Ancient City

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

The Ape That Understood the Universe

Steve Stewart-Williams

The Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle

The Blocksize War

Jonathan Bier

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

The Evolution of Beauty

Richard Prum (inferred)

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Richard Feynman

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

The Machiavellians

James Burnham

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams (inferred)

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway (inferred)

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason (inferred)

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Stand

Stephen King

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin (inferred)

The True Believer

Eric Hoffer

The Untethered Soul

Michael Singer

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ulysses

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

When Reason Goes on Holiday

Neven Sesardic (inferred)

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Kenneth O. Stanley (inferred)

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

Wrestling Tough

Mike Chapman (inferred)

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

Michael Malice

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

A World Without Email

Cal Newport

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

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

David Sinclair

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Infinite Game

Simon Sinek

12 Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

Principles

Ray Dalio

Provoked

Scott Horton

Rebel Without a Crew

Robert Rodriguez

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

American Cosmic

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Carl Hart

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

Maps of Meaning

Jordan Peterson

Proving Einstein Right

S. James Gates Jr. and Cathie Pelletier

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom

The Case Against Reality

Donald Hoffman

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

Waking Up

Sam Harris

Affective Computing

Rosalind Picard

AI Superpowers

Kai-Fu Lee

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

Sean Kelly and Hubert Dreyfus

America's Cultural Revolution

Christopher Rufo

Back Mechanic

Stuart McGill

Conscious

Annaka Harris

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Scott Kelly

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham (inferred)

From Eternity to Here

Sean Carroll

Grokking Deep Learning

Andrew Trask

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

Human Compatible

Stuart Russell

On the Measure of Intelligence

Francois Chollet

Remote

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins

The C Programming Language

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (inferred)

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

The New Breed

Kate Darling

The Russo-Ukrainian War

Serhii Plokhy

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Benny Morris

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam (inferred)

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

Mike Rinder

A Bright Future

Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist

A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace

Roger Williams (inferred)

A Cent of Money

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A Cent of Money: A History of Money

Jonathan Williams (inferred)

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

James Bamford

A Renegade History of the United States

Thaddeus Russell

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Adaptation and Natural Selection

George C. Williams (inferred)

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

An Emotional Education

Alain de Botton

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

At Large and at Small

Anne Fadiman

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

Authors of the Impossible

Jeffrey Kripal

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Al Sweigart (inferred)

Barefoot Running (Ken Bob Saxton's book)

Ken Bob Saxton

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter (inferred)

Beetle in the Anthill

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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

Deborah Lipstadt

Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes

Robert Mnookin

Biology as Ideology

Richard Lewontin

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Arvind Narayanan

Bitcoin white paper

Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin Whitepaper

Satoshi Nakamoto

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

Jim Webb

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

Breaking Open the Head

Daniel Pinchbeck

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

Build a Large Language Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

Calculating God

Robert Sawyer

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles

Ian Hutchinson

Can Love Last?

Stephen Mitchell (inferred)

Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

Margaret Roberts

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert (inferred)

Children Who Remember Previous Lives

Ian Stevenson

Clock Without Hands

Carson McCullers

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav Zubok

Coming Apart

Charles Murray

Competing Against Luck

Clay Christensen

Confessions of a Sociopath

M.E. Thomas

Contact

Carl Sagan

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

Creative Selection

Ken Kocienda

Crowds and Power

Elias Canetti

Dark Universe

Daniel F. Galouye

Darkness Visible

William Styron (inferred)

Deep Learning with Python

Francois Chollet

Demian

Herman Hesse

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

Robert Dreyfuss

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Dreams of a Final Theory

Steven Weinberg

Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp

Dubliners (The Dead)

James Joyce

Duel at Dawn

Amir Alexander

Earth Abides

George R. Stewart (inferred)

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

Ludwig von Mises

Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

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

Michael Goodwin (inferred)

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

Leonard Mlodinow (inferred)

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica (inferred)

Eon

Greg Bear

Ever Since Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

Finite and Infinite Machines

Marvin Minsky

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes (inferred)

Forcing God's Hand

Grace Halsell (inferred)

Foundation trilogy

Isaac Asimov

Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee

Nat Hentoff

Freedom From Fear

David M. Kennedy

Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

Fabien Sanglard

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

Jeremy Prestholdt

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert (inferred)

Grant

Ron Chernow

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Grokking Bitcoin

Kalle Rosenbaum (inferred)

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Steven Levy

Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (inferred)

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

James Wallace and Jim Erickson (inferred)

Hard to Be a God

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling (inferred)

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Robert A. Heinlein

Herzog

Saul Bellow

Hitch-22

Christopher Hitchens

Hitler (two-volume biography), Volume 2

Ian Kershaw

How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?

John R. Anderson

How to Build a Brain

Chris Eliasmith

How to Do Great Work

Paul Graham

How to Read a Book

Mortimer Adler

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison (inferred)

If

Rudyard Kipling

In Search of the Miraculous

P. D. Ouspensky (inferred)

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS)

Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (inferred)

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Ayn Rand

Inventing Bitcoin

Yan Pritzker

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons

David Albright

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

James W. Douglass

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

Kary Mullis autobiography (Dancing Naked in the Mind Field)

Kary Mullis

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann (inferred)

Knowledge and Decisions

Thomas Sowell

Known Space novels (incl. the Puppeteers)

Larry Niven

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

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

Victor Sebestyen

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

Emily Feng

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

Robert Pirsig

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Gareth Porter

Marjorie Morningstar

Herman Wouk

Marx in Contradiction

Roslyn Wallach Bologh (inferred)

Mastering Bitcoin

Andreas Antonopoulos

Mastering Ethereum

Andreas Antonopoulos

Masters of Doom

David Kushner (inferred)

Mathematical recreations columns (collected books)

Martin Gardner

Mawson's Will

Lennard Bickel (inferred)

Maximum City

Suketu Mehta (inferred)

Meditations on Moloch

Scott Alexander

memoir on the Soviet collapse (Likholetye)

Nikolai Leonov

Men and Machines

Harry Bridges

Modern Poker Theory

Michael Acevedo

Monday Starts on Saturday

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Money and Time

Roger Garrison (inferred)

Monopolizing Knowledge

Ian Hutchinson

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

Munich

Robert Harris

Mutants and Mystics

Jeffrey Kripal

Naming the Mind

Kurt Danziger

Narcissus and Goldmund

Hermann Hesse

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Novacene

James Lovelock

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

Jeremy R. Hammond

On Becoming a Person

Carl Rogers

On Love

Alain de Botton

One Two Three Infinity

George Gamow

Our Mathematical Universe

Max Tegmark

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford University Press (inferred)

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Party of One

Anneli Rufus

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Martin Fowler

Peak

Anders Ericsson (inferred)

Peopleware

Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (inferred)

Pere Goriot

Honore de Balzac

Permutation City

Greg Egan

Philosophy: Who Needs It

Ayn Rand

Physically Based Rendering

Matt Pharr

Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us

Evan Mandery

Principles of Economics

Carl Menger

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

Private Truths, Public Lies

Timur Kuran

Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems

Judea Pearl

Program or Be Programmed

Douglas Rushkoff

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Reality

Peter Kingsley

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto

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

Daniel Carpenter

Roadside Picnic

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Rudy Rucker novels (nanobot 'nants' series)

Rudy Rucker

Saturday

Ian McEwan

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle (inferred)

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

Ben Rich

Slavery and Social Death

Orlando Patterson

Sleeping Island

P.G. Downs

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

Story

Robert McKee

Story of Human Language (lecture series)

John McWhorter

Surface Detail

Iain M. Banks

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

Carrie Galbraith and John Law (inferred)

Teacup in the Universe

Helen Czerski (inferred)

Ten Points

Bill Strickland

The Age of Acrimony

Jon Grinspan (inferred)

The Age of Entitlement

Christopher Caldwell

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

University of Chicago Oriental Institute (inferred)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X and Alex Haley (inferred)

The Beak of the Finch

Jonathan Weiner

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

The Bishop's Boys

Tom Crouch (inferred)

The Block Size War

Jonathan Bier

The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz (inferred)

The Castle

Franz Kafka

The Cell (Molecular Biology of the Cell)

Bruce Alberts et al. (inferred)

The Computer and the Brain

John von Neumann

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

Gregor von Rezzori

The Dao of Capital

Mark Spitznagel

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg

The Dream Life of Sukhanov

Olga Grushin

The Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Graham Allison

The Expanse (book series)

James S. A. Corey

The Fear

Peter Godwin

The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders

Ari Rabin-Havt

The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Giver

Lois Lowry

The Great Experiment

Yascha Mounk

The Great Shark Hunt

Hunter S. Thompson

The Histories

Herodotus

The History of One Tough Motherfucker

Charles Bukowski

The Holy Quran

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi (inferred)

The Idea of Decline in Western History

Arthur Herman

The Internet of Money

Andreas Antonopoulos

The Invincible

Stanislaw Lem

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

The Life of the Mind

Hannah Arendt

The Loudest Voice in the Room

Gabriel Sherman

The Man Without a Face

Masha Gessen

The Mandibles

Lionel Shriver

The Manticore

Robertson Davies

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

Matthew Ball

The Mind in the Cave

David Lewis-Williams

The Mind of a Mnemonist

Alexander Luria

The Mind's I

Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett

The Moral Animal

Robert Wright

The Most Human Human

Brian Christian

The Muslim and the Jew (Dr. Helmy)

Ronen Steinke

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus (inferred)

The Ominous Parallels

Leonard Peikoff

The Origins of Political Order

Francis Fukuyama

The Origins of Woke

Richard Hanania

The Power of the Powerless

Vaclav Havel

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Timothy Gowers (inferred)

The Remains of the Day / Kazuo Ishiguro novels

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Revolt of the Public

Martin Gurri

The Rise and Decline of Nations

Mancur Olson

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Carl Trueman

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

The Road to Reality

Roger Penrose

The Sabbath

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Second Creation

Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann

The Second World War

Winston Churchill

The Showman

Simon Shuster

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Ernest Hemingway

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin (inferred)

The Stranger

Albert Camus

The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities

Joel Lehman et al. (inferred)

The Talent Code

Daniel Coyle (inferred)

The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World

Dan Ackerman (inferred)

The Theory of Money and Credit

Ludwig von Mises

The Third Reich in Power

Richard Evans

The Trial

Franz Kafka

The Triple Helix

Richard Lewontin

The Unwinding

George Packer

The Use of Knowledge in Society (in Individualism and Economic Order)

Friedrich Hayek

The User Illusion

Tor Nørretranders (inferred)

The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience

Robert Masters and Jean Houston

The Virtue of Selfishness

Ayn Rand

The War on Small Business

Carol Roth

The Whisperers

Orlando Figes

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

The works of Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig

The Years of Lyndon Johnson (biography series)

Robert Caro

Theory of Knowledge

Nicholas Alchin

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Lawrence Wright

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

Trita Parsi

Truman

David McCullough

Unsafe at Any Speed

Ralph Nader

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray (inferred)

Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

Matt Ridley and Alina Chan

Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives

Norman R. Yetman (inferred)

We the Living

Ayn Rand

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi (inferred)

Why Red Doesn't Sound Like a Bell

Kevin O'Regan

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson

Witness

Whittaker Chambers

World of Wonders

Robertson Davies

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Valerie Boyd (inferred)

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

Zero to One

Peter Thiel (inferred)

Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Charles Seife (inferred)

Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body

Andrew Huberman

Mother of God

Paul Rosolie

The White Pill

Michael Malice

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

We Who Wrestle with God

Jordan Peterson

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

How to Stay in Love

James Sexton

Livewired

David Eagleman

Losing the Nobel Prize

Brian Keating

The Anarchist Handbook

Michael Malice

The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating

David Buss

The Future of the Mind

Michio Kaku

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Steven Pressfield

The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Michael Malice

Turning Pro

Steven Pressfield

When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault

David Buss

AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable

Roman Yampolskiy

Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups

Jason Calacanis

Do the Work

Steven Pressfield

Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story

Harvey Pekar

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism

Scott Horton

Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind

David Buss

Into the Impossible

Brian Keating

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

Something Deeply Hidden

Sean Carroll

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

The Network State: How to Start a New Country

Balaji Srinivasan

The Sign and the Seal

Graham Hancock

Underworld

Graham Hancock

Why We Remember

Charan Ranganath

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Janna Levin

Abundance

Deepak Chopra

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Janna Levin

Black Hole Survival Guide

Janna Levin

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

John Hennessy and David Patterson

Danielle

Ray Kurzweil

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Niall Ferguson

Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks (survey paper / forthcoming book)

Vivienne Sze (inferred)

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson

Equal Is Unfair

Yaron Brook

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Avi Loeb

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

Bjorn Lomborg

Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan

Scott Horton

For Love of Country

Tulsi Gabbard

Free Market Revolution

Yaron Brook

Free Will

Sam Harris

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

Frank Wilczek

Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

Philip Goff

Girl Decoded

Rana el Kaliouby

How the Universe Got Its Spots

Janna Levin

How to Create a Mind

Ray Kurzweil

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram (inferred)

In Order to Live

Yeonmi Park

Incognito

David Eagleman

Kissinger: A Biography

Walter Isaacson

Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

Sara Walker

Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit

Steven Pressfield

Not Even Wrong

Rodney Brooks

Parallel Worlds

Michio Kaku

Phenomena

Annie Jacobsen

Physics of the Impossible

Michio Kaku

Smuggler

Roger Reaves

Stalin (three-volume biography)

Stephen Kotkin

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

Annie Jacobsen

The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth

Robin Hanson

The Art of Computer Programming

Donald Knuth

The Artist's Journey

Steven Pressfield

The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex

David Buss

The Eagle and the Dragon

Chris Duffin

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler

The End of Faith

Sam Harris

The Future of Humanity

Michio Kaku

The Innovators

Walter Isaacson

The Lion's Gate

Steven Pressfield

The Madness of Crowds

Douglas Murray

The Moral Landscape

Sam Harris

The Murderer Next Door

David Buss

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

The Pity of War

Niall Ferguson

The Singularity Is Nearer

Ray Kurzweil

The Square and the Tower

Niall Ferguson

The War on the West

Douglas Murray

The Warrior Ethos

Steven Pressfield

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Nicole Perlroth

Tides of War

Steven Pressfield

Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Norman Ohler

Truths: The Future of America First

Vivek Ramaswamy

Virtual History

Niall Ferguson