Read Like Naval Ravikant

The ten books AngelList founder Naval Ravikant recommends most. Pulled from his own reading list, his podcasts, and years of interviews, these are the titles he returns to again and again: big-picture history and science, Stoic and Eastern philosophy, and clear thinking about money and risk. Less a syllabus than a map of how one of tech's sharpest minds reads, the throughline is reading for understanding over information, and rereading the few books that matter.

1. Skin In The Game — Nassim Nicholas Taleb #1
2. Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse #2
3. Letters from a Stoic — Seneca #3
4. Total Freedom — J. Krishnamurti #4
5. The Sovereign Individual — James Dale Davidson #5
6. Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger #6
7. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius #7
8. Rational Optimist — Matt Ridley #8
9. The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch #9
10. Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari #10