10 Book recommendations from @naval.

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Sapiens by @harari_yuval

"Sapiens is the best book of the last decade I have read. He had decades to write Sapiens. There’s lots of great ideas in there and it’s just full of them, chock full per page." -Naval

amazon.com/Sapiens-Humank…
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

"This is the best book I've read since Sapiens (far less mainstream, though)." -Naval

amazon.com/Sovereign-Indi…
The Rational Optimist by @mattwridley

"The most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in years. He has written four of my top 20 books." -Naval

amazon.com/Rational-Optim…
Skin in the Game by @nntaleb

"It's one of the best business books I've ever read. And luckily, it doesn't masquerade as a business book." -Naval

amazon.com/Skin-Game-Hidd…
The Thing Explainer by @xkcd

"A great book by Randall Munroe...he explains very complicated concepts, all the way from climate change to physical systems to submarines while only using the 1,000 most common words in the English language." -Naval

amazon.com/Thing-Explaine…
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

"This is a great book I really liked which summarizes some of the larger themes of history, very incisive. And unlike most history books, it's actually really small, and it covers a lot of ground." -Naval

amazon.com/Lessons-Histor…
Reality Is Not What It Seems by @carlorovelli

"This is the best book I've read in the last year. Physics, poetry, philosophy, and history packaged in a very accessible form." -Naval

amazon.com/Reality-Not-Wh…
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

"I love this as a classic book on philosophy, a good introduction for someone starting out. I’ve given out more copies of this book than any other." -Naval

amazon.com/Siddhartha-Nov…
The Tao of Seneca

"My most listened-to audiobook. The most important audiobook I've ever heard." -Naval

audible.com/series/The-Tao…
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

"Absolutely life changing for me. It's the personal diary of the Emperor of Rome...When you open this book...you figure out success and power don't improve your internal state, you still have to work on it." -Naval

amazon.com/Meditations-Th…
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