📚Naval Ravikant's recommended reading, from navalmanack.com

Not a listicle recap, the actual page. He's recommended way more than this over the years so it's an extract, roughly in the order the site has them.

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Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

he's called this the best book of the last decade (sourced)

The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley

Genome - Matt Ridley

Skin in the Game - Nassim Taleb

his favorite Taleb book, he's said this twice in different interviews

The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb

Antifragile - Nassim Taleb

Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman

the one he hands to kids first. physics without the algebra

The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

barely 100 pages, no excuse not to read it

The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

he's on record saying it's the best book since Sapiens (sourced)

Poor Charlie's Almanack

worth its own list, honestly, see the one I did on Munger's own picks

Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli

physics, poetry, and history in one book. his words, not mine

The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch

The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch

read Fabric first, this one's denser

Objective Knowledge - Karl Popper

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

the one he says he's given away more than any other book

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

newer addition to the rotation, still rereading it apparently

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