books recommended by Lex Fridman

Research scientist at MIT working on human-centered AI and deep learning approaches to shared autonomy in self-driving cars. Fun fact: he's a black belt in Jiu Jitsu.

books recommended by Lex Fridman

Sapiens

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Principles

Principles

Ray Dalio

Meditations

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The War of Art

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Harry Potter

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Art of War

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

The Road (Vintage International)

The Road (Vintage International)

Cormac McCarthy

The Book of Five Rings

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

The Road

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Player of Games

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

On Writing

On Writing

Stephen King

Walden

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Life 3.0

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark

On the Road

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Stranger

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Beyond Good & Evil

Beyond Good & Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Idiot

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Stand

The Stand

Stephen King

Empire of the Summer Moon

Empire of the Summer Moon

S. C. Gwynne

How Emotions Are Made

How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Super Sad True Love Story

Super Sad True Love Story

Gary Shteyngart

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

A New Kind of Science

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

A Hunger Artist

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

I, Robot

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

2001

2001

Arthur C. Clarke

The Plague

The Plague

Albert Camus

The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

Franz Kafka

Machines Who Think

Machines Who Think

Pamela McCorduck

Essential Bukowski

Essential Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Black Elk

Black Elk

Joe Jackson

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