Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant is a renowned Indian-American entrepreneur, investor, and thought leader, best known for co-founding AngelList, a platform revolutionizing how startups raise money and connect with investors.
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Influence
Fundamental and had a lot to teach. - Naval Ravikant
Robert Cialdini
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Dreamstate
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Jed McKenna
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The Great Book of Amber
Formative books for me. Read and re-read them over the years. - Naval Ravikant
Roger Zelazny
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The Essential Writings
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Mahatma Gandhi
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The Path to Love
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Deepak Chopra
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The Surrender Experiment
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Michael A. Singer
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Infinite Powers
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Steven Strogatz
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Genius
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James Gleick
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The Art of Manipulation
Without judgment, he just lays down how con men work. - Naval Ravikant
R. B. Sparkman
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God's Debris
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Scott Adams
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How to Teach Your Baby Math
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Glenn Doman
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The Prophet
A beautiful book. - Naval Ravikant
Kahlil Gibran
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Hagakure
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The Gay Science
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Book of Nothing
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John D. Barrow
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How to Change Your Mind
Naval Ravikant's answer to "do you have any advice for dealing with the death of a parent?"
Michael Pollan
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Great Short Poems
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Paul Negri
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The Great Challenge
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Osho
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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Art of the Living Dead
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Adrian Hanft
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Dream Yoga
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Andrew Holecek
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The Origins of Virtue
Naval Ravikant's answer to "one book recommendation on Game theory?"
Matt Ridley
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Diaspora
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Greg Egan
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The Red Queen
Everything by [this author] is worth reading. - Naval Ravikant
Matt Ridley
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The Lessons of History
A fantastic book. - Naval Ravikant
Will & Ariel Durant
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Six Easy Pieces
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Richard P. Feynman
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Permutation City
[The author]'s very dry but full of great ideas. - Naval Ravikant
Greg Egan
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Classic. I love [this book]. - Naval Ravikant
Douglas Adams
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Flowers for Algernon
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Daniel Keyes
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War Nerd
On a lighter but still very educational note, check out [this book]. - Naval Ravikant
Gary Brecher
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The Macintosh Way
[This book] led me into tech! - Naval Ravikant
Guy Kawasaki
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The Agile Gene
Everything by [this author] is worth reading. - Naval Ravikant
Matt Ridley
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It was entertaining, but I sort of gave up after a bit. - Naval Ravikant
Hunter S. Thompson
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
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David Reich
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Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
Naval Ravikant's answer to "any book recommendation on happiness from a Buddhism perspective?"
Daniel Ingram
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Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
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Jorge Luis Borges
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The Bhagavad Gita
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Sun Rises in the Evening
Bit mystical but he’s not wrong. - Naval Ravikant
Osho
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Striking Thoughts
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Bruce Lee
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Calculus Made Easy
I love [this book]. - Naval Ravikant
Silvanus P. Thompson
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Absolute Tao
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Osho
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René Girard's Mimetic Theory
It’s more of an overview book because I couldn’t make it through his actual writings. - Naval Ravikant
Wolfgang Palaver
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
One of my top 3 books of all time. - Naval Ravikant
Gary Taubes
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Reality Is Not What It Seems
Best book I've read in [2017]. Physics, poetry, philosophy and history packaged in a very accessible form. - Naval Ravikant
Carlo Rovelli
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Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
Naval Ravikant's answer to "recommend autobiographies?"
Osho
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The Book of Life
A very difficult read, but once you see it, you can't unsee it. - Naval Ravikant
J. Krishnamurti
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Watchmen
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Alan Moore
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What is Life?
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Erwin Schrodinger
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Favorite childhood comic. - Naval Ravikant
Frank Miller
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The Jack Vance Treasury
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Jack Vance
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Good if you liked the first one. - Naval Ravikant
Richard P. Feynman
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Why Information Grows
An important book. - Naval Ravikant
Cesar Hidalgo
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Man's Search for Meaning
Wow it's dark. - Naval Ravikant
Viktor E. Frankl
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The Unwritten
One of Naval Ravikant's answers to "top 10 graphic novels?"
Mike Carey
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Snow Crash
Best cyberpunk novel ever written. Slightly dated but very prescient. - Naval Ravikant
Neal Stephenson
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Sex at Dawn
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Christopher Ryan
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Awareness
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Anthony De Mello
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Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
A fun, light read. - Naval Ravikant
Gordon Livingston
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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Another masterpiece of SciFi by [this author]. - Naval Ravikant
Ted Chiang
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The Enchiridion
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Epictetus
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Meditations
One of my favorite books of all time. - Naval Ravikant
Marcus Aurelius
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The Book of Five Rings
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Miyamoto Musashi
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Thing Explainer
Explains all these very complicated concepts, [but] only using the 1000 most common words in the English language. - Naval Ravikant
Randall Munroe
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Vasistha's Yoga
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Swami Venkatesananda
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Q.E.D.
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Burkard Polster
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The Power of Now
[This book] is the OG. - Naval Ravikant
Eckhart Tolle
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Principles
As with most non-fiction, the meat was in the beginning. - Naval Ravikant
Ray Dalio
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100 Best-Loved Poems
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Philip Smith
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Waking Up
Loved [this book]. - Naval Ravikant
Sam Harris
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Falling into Grace
Very good. - Naval Ravikant
Adyashanti
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The Undercover Economist
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Tim Harford
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The Evolution of Everything
Everything by [this author] is worth reading. - Naval Ravikant
Matt Ridley
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Economics in One Lesson
Great book. Required reading. - Naval Ravikant
Henry Hazlitt
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At Home in the Universe
I’ve read it a long time ago. Time for a re-read. - Naval Ravikant
Stuart Kauffman
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Superintelligence
I wouldn’t just read [this book] breathless and wide-eyed and believe everything. - Naval Ravikant
Nick Bostrom
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Courage
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Osho
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Freedom from the Known
Just as good [as Think on These Things]. - Naval Ravikant
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Lord of Light
The only sci-fi novel that I know of where the protagonist is a Buddha. - Naval Ravikant
Roger Zelazny
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How to Teach Your Baby to Read
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Glenn Doman
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Drop everything and read [Understand]. - Naval Ravikant
Ted Chiang
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Genome
Everything by [this author] is worth reading. - Naval Ravikant
Matt Ridley
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The Order of Time
Naval Ravikant's answer to "best book on concept of time?"
Carlo Rovelli
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The Book of Why
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Judea Pearl
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Pre-Suasion
Good but closer to a single-themed book. - Naval Ravikant
Robert Cialdini
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Convict Conditioning
Bought the book, will try it. - Naval Ravikant
Paul Wade
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Nature Via Nurture
Everything by [this author] is worth reading. - Naval Ravikant
Matt Ridley
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Homo Deus
Didn't finish it. Good book but not as seminal as Sapiens. - Naval Ravikant
Yuval Noah Harari
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Planetary
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Warren Ellis
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Direct Truth
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Kapil Gupta
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A Pattern Language
Love [this book]. - Naval Ravikant
Christopher Alexander
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The Beginning of Infinity
My favorite recent discovery. - Naval Ravikant
David Deutsch
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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Timothy Gowers
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Thinking Physics
Naval Ravikant's answer to "physics book for grade school or graduate students?"
Lewis Carroll Epstein
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Total Freedom
Naval Ravikant's answer to "if you want anyone to read a favorite book you've read, which would it be?"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Thermoinfocomplexity
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Behzad Mohit
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Think on These Things
Decades ago, it didn’t make sense. Years ago, it changed my life, but I felt late. - Naval Ravikant
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Tao of Philosophy
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Alan Watts
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
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Richard P. Feynman
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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Robert Axelrod
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The Heart of Yoga
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T. K. V. Desikachar
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