Highlights from @naval's book recommendations in "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant"

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BEST BOOK OF THE LAST DECADE:

"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

BEST LESS MAINSTREAM BOOK:

"The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age" by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

BEST BOOK READ RECENTLY:

"Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity" by Carlo Rovelli

BEST BOOK BEFORE THAT:

"Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

BOOK HE HAS GIFTED THE MOST:

"Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse

MOST LISTENED-TO AUDIOBOOK:

"The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master"

MOST RETURNED-TO SPIRITUAL BOOK:

"Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti" by Jiddu Krishnamurti

FAVORITE SCI-FI SHORT STORY:

"Understand" by Ted Chiang—in a collection called "Stories of Your Life and Others"

BOOKS HE WOULD GIVE HIS KIDS:

"Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher" by Richard Feynman

"Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time" by Richard Feynman

"The Book of Life" by Jiddu Krishnamurti