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Book recommendations from the Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Library

This is a library of book recommendations of all guests of the Lex Fridman Podcast

The books for episodes 46 thru 161 were found on lexfridmanlibrary.com. Those links are made with amazon affiliates program. Please make pull requests for new episodes; feel free to add your own affiliate links, as long as the links work.

#196 - Yeonmi Park - North Korea

• Animal Farm
• Siddhartha
• Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

#195 - Clara Sousa-Silva - Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets

• Contact: A Novel

#194 - Bret Weinstein - Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic

• The Selfish Gene
• A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

#193 - Rob Reid - The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks

• The Selfish Gene

#192 - Charles Hoskinson - Cardano

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Works by Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

#191 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

• Free Will
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• The Collapse of Complex Societies

#190 - Jordan Ellenberg - Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

• Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
• Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
• Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays: Volume 1

#189 - David Sinclair - Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years

• Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

#187 - Frank Wilczek - Physics of Quarks, Dark Matter, Complexity, Life & Aliens

• A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
• Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

#186 - Bryan Johnson - Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces

• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
• Finite and Infinite Games

#185 - Sam Harris - Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

• The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
• Free Will

#184 - Katherine de Kleer - Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System

• Pale Fire
• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

#183 - Po-Shen Loh - Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#181 - Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks

• Plato: Complete Works
  • Specifically dialogues Protogoras and Gorgias

#180 - Jeremi Suri - History of American Power

• The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office
• Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
• Triumph and Tragedy (The Second World War)

#178 - Michael Malice and Yaron Brook - Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy

• Lord of the Flies
• The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Fountainhead
• Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America
• The Philosophy Of Fascism

#176 - Robert Breedlove - Philosophy of Bitcoin from First Principles

• The Social Contract
• Man's Search for Meaning
• The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
• The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
• Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
• Human Action
• Honest Money: Biblical Principles of Money and Banking
• Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

#175 - Yannis Pappas - History and Comedy

• The Denial of Death
• Animal Farm

#174 - Tyler Cowen - Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity

• The Life of Samuel Johnson (Penguin Classics)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
• Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
• The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better

#173 - Nic Carter - Bitcoin Core Values, Layered Scaling, and Blocksize Debates

• The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
• Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
• Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies
• Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind the First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained

#172 - Ryan Schiller - Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses

• The Mathematics of Poker
• The Work of Art: A No-Nonsense Field Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs

#171 - Anthony Pompliano - Bitcoin

• Principles: Life and Work
• The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
• Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With
• Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
• Bitcoin & Black America
• The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
• The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
• The Richest Man In Babylon - Original Edition
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
• When Breath Becomes Air

#170 - Ronald Sullivan - The Ideal of Justice in the Face of Controversy and Evil

• Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
• The Souls of Black Folk
• Crime and Punishment

#169 - Ryan Hall - Solving Martial Arts from First Principles

• The Art of War
• The Book of Five Rings
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

#168 - Silvio Micali - Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum

• The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

#167 - Saagar Enjeti - Politics, History, and Power

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

#166 - Cal Newport - Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
• A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

#165 - Josh Barnett - Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts

• Wrestling Tough
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
• The Outfit

#164 - Andrew Huberman - Sleep, Dreams, Creativity, Fasting, and Neuroplasticity

• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
• Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
• The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight
• The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness

#162 - Jim Keller - The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#161 - Jason Calacanis - Startups, Angel Investing, Capitalism, and Friendship

• The Purpose Driven Church
• Can't Hurt Me

#159 - Richard Craib - WallStreetBets, Numerai, and the Future of Stock Trading

• Zero to One
• The Beginning of Infinity

#157 - Natalya Bailey - Rocket Engines and Electric Spacecraft Propulsion

• Tender is the Night
• The Beginning of Infinity
• Harry Potter

#156 - Tim Dillon - Comedy, Power, Conspiracy Theories, and Freedom

• Drinking: A Love Story

#155 - Max Tegmark - AI and Physics

• Life 3.0

#154 - Avi Loeb - Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

• Extraterrestrial

#153 - Dmitry Korkin - Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI

• The Master and Margarita
• Cancer Ward
• The Computer and the Brain
• Lab Girl

#152 - Dan Gable - Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions

• A Wrestling Life
• Coaching Wrestling Successfully

#151 - Dan Kokotov - Speech Recognition with AI and Humans

• Dune
• Brave New World
• 1984
• Creative Selection

#150 - Michael Malice - The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos

• The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
• Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Beyond Belief
• Red Famine
• Buried by the Times

#149 - Diana Walsh Pasulka - Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief

• American Cosmic
• The Gay Science
• Eichmann in Jerusalem
• The Life of the Mind
• Authors of the Impossible
• Mutants and Mystics
• The Singularity Is Near

#147 - Dmitri Dolgov - Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars

• The Master and Margarita
• Roadside Picnic
• Hard To Be A God
• Beetle in the Anthill
• Monday Starts on Saturday
• 1984

#145 - Matthew Johnson - Psychedelics

• The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience

#144 - Michael Littman - Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI

• Program or Be Programmed
• The Alignment Problem
• Exhalation

#143 - John Clarke - The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence

• Self Reliance
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• American Psycho
• The Communist Manifesto

#142 - Manolis Kellis - Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

• Contact
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#141 - Erik Brynjolfsson - Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

• The Second Machine Age
• Machine, Platform, Crowd
• Siddhartha
• The Worldly Philosophers
• Life 3.0
• More from Less
• Atomic Habits

#140 - Lisa Feldman Barrett - Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

• Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
• How Emotions Are Made
• The Triple Helix
• Biology as Ideology
• Naming the Mind
• The Beak of the Finch
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
• Storied Life of AJ Fikry

#138 - Yaron Brook - Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism

• Free Market Revolution
• Equal Is Unfair
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Fountainhead

#132 - George Hotz - Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

• Infinite Jest
• Atlas Shrugged
• Permutation City
• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
• Snow Crash
• Bronze Age Mindset

#129 - Lisa Feldman Barrett - Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

• Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
• How Emotions Are Made
• The Evolution of Beauty
• The Botany of Desire

#128 - Michael Malice - Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling

• The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
• The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
• Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
• The Fountainhead
• A Renegade History of the United States
• The Righteous Mind
• The Idea of Decline in Western History
• The Red Decade
• Revolution 1989

#127 - Joe Rogan - Conversations, Ideas, Love, Freedom & the Joe Rogan Experience

• The War of Art

#125 - Ryan Hall - Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Violence, Power, and Grace

• Dune

#124 - Stephen Wolfram - Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast

• A New Kind of Science
• A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics

#121 - Eugenia Kuyda - Friendship with an AI Companion

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

#120 - François Chollet - Measures of Intelligence

• On Intelligence

#119 - David Eagleman - Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain

• Invisible Cities
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
• Cosmos
• Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

#118 - Grant Sanderson - Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

• Peak

#117 - Sheldon Solomon - Death and Meaning

• The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
• The Denial of Death
• The Birth and Death of Meaning
• Escape from Evil
• The Plague
• Clock Without Hands.
• Being and Time

#116 - Sara Seager - Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System

• The Giver
• The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
• Sleeping Island: A Journey to the Edge of the Barrens

#115 - Dileep George - Brain-Inspired AI

• Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems
• The Mind's I
• The Bishop's Boys

#114 - Russ Tedrake - Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

• AI Superpowers
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• The Black Swan
• How to Read a Book
• I, Asimov: A Memoir

#112 - Ian Hutchinson - Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and Religion

• Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?
• Monopolizing Knowledge

#109 - Brian Kernighan - UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

• UNIX: A History and a Memoir
• Understanding the Digital World

#107 - Peter Singer - Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

• The Life You Can Save
• Ethics in the Real World
• Animal Liberation
• The Most Good You Can Do

#104 - David Patterson - Computer Architecture and Data Storage

• Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

#103 - Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence

• Solaris
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

#102 - Steven Pressfield - The War of Art

• The War of Art
• Do the Work
• Turning Pro
• The Warrior Ethos
• The Lion's Gate
• Gates Of Fire

#96 - Stephen Schwarzman - Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI

• What It Takes

#92 - Harry Cliff - Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider

• Dreams Of A Final Theory

#91 - Jack Dorsey - Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

#89 - Stephen Wolfram - Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics

• A New Kind of Science

#87 - Richard Dawkins - Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes

• Selfish Gene
• The Magic of Reality
• The Blind Watchmaker
• The God Delusion
• Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• Dark Universe
• The Black Cloud
• A for Andromeda
• Contact

#86 - David Silver - AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

• Reinforcement Learning

#85 - Roger Penrose - Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

• Cycles of Time
• The Emperor's New Mind

#84 - William MacAskill - Effective Altruism

• Doing Good Better

#83 - Nick Bostrom - Simulation and Superintelligence

• Superintelligence

#82 - Simon Sinek - Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

• The Infinite Game
• Leaders Eat Last
• Start with Why
• Finite and Infinite Games

#81 - Anca Dragan - Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

#80 - Vitalik Buterin - Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

• Mastering Ethereum
• Digital Gold
• Out of the Ether

#79 - Lee Smolin - Quantum Gravity and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

• Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
• The Trouble With Physics
• Against Method

#76 - John Hopfield - Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

• Einstein's Dreams
• The Mind is Flat

#75 - Marcus Hutter - Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Reinforcement Learning
• Theory of Knowledge
• Universal Artificial Intelligence

#69 - David Chalmers - The Hard Problem of Consciousness

• The Feeling of Life Itself

#67 - Paul Krugman - Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & UBI

• Arguing with Zombies

#65 - Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

#62 - Donald Knuth - Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming

• Marjorie Morningstar
• The Art of Computer Programming
• Blasphemy

#61 - Melanie Mitchell - Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
• Surfaces and Essences
• Complexity
• Analogy-Making as Perception
• Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

#60 - Jim Gates - Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

• Proving Einstein Right
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

#59 - Sebastian Thrun - Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education

• Enlightenment Now
• How to Win Friends and Influence People

#58 - Michael Stevens - Vsauce

• The Universe and the Teacup

#56 - Judea Pearl - Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, and the Path to AGI

• The Book of Why

#55 - Whitney Cummings - Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

• I'm Fine...And Other Lies

#54 - Ray Dalio - Principles, the Economic Machine, AI & the Arc of Life

• Principles
• Big Debt Crises

#52 - Gilbert Strang - Linear Algebra, Teaching, and MIT OpenCourseWare

• Introduction to Linear Algebra

#50 - Michael Kearns - Algorithmic Fairness, Privacy & Ethics

• The Ethical Algorithm
• Infinite Jest

#48 - Bjarne Stroustrup - C++

• Design and Evolution of C++

#47 - Sean Carroll - Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

• Something Deeply Hidden

#46 - Garry Kasparov - Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

• How Life Imitates Chess
• Winter Is Coming
• Deep Thinking
• The Lord of the Rings