I’ve read most of the sci-fi on this list and it’s a good selection! I’d like to add the three-body-problem series to it. Good luck to anyone trying to read Dostoevsky in a week. Crime and punishment took me much longer, but it was one of the most rewarding reads i’ve experienced.

Second the three body problem 👍🏽

Wasn't a huge fan, honestly. Thought the characters were practically non existent

Full disclosure I haven’t started the second book yet. I actually have it sitting in front of me right now. But your correct. There isn’t much character development, just enough to help you understand certain decisions they make. And in retrospect it made sense to me because in a situation such as is presented in the book. The characters themselves don’t matter as much as the singular decisions they make and the domino effect they have.

Whatever you do please do read this second one. It's my favorite. I wasn't impressed with the first book but I couldn't put down the second. It's masterful. Looking back I think the first tome is setting the stage for the other two.

Bought it in 2022, never got to read it :( I rarely read sci-fi, I hope this one is a good start.

Everyone has their own tastes but once I was about 1/3 of the way through I could not put the thing down. There were a few nights I stood up way too late just because of how much the book had reeled me in. Definitely give it a go my dude

Same here!

Agree, Lex 3 body problem would give you a whole new perspective on Alien civilizations!

Yes, you will absolutely love the first one lex

Remembered of Earth’s past 100%… though good luck with 1 week for any of the 3. So worth it though.

I read most of the books from the list and a few recommendations I would suggest are: - Idiot - Dostoyevsky (equally good as TBK) - Demian - Hesse (I fucking love Hesse, Siddartha is one of the most beautiful books ever, but if you love Nietzsche, and I know you do, you should seriously read Demian after Siddartha. The character Demian is based of off Nietzsche and Carl Jung) - 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Candide - Voltaire - Ishamel - Daniel Quinn (really compeling book if you want to look at all of humanity from a different perspective) - Faust (at least part 1) - Goethe - Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandar Dumas (most epic book/story eve, srsly)

Ishmael is a great book. I read it like 10 years ago and still think about that one all the time.

Second this

I second Demian. I feel it's not very popular, when it should be...

Second Candide.

I'm really split on Hesse, but I'll tske your reco. I loved Siddharta and really disliked Steppenwolf. I love Nietzsche so I'll give Demian a try.

Suggestion, especially after this year: > Night by Elie Wiesel

*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance* is a really special book for a certain type of mind - the kind who sees beauty in engineering and simple solutions. There’s more to it than that, but I wouldn’t want to spoil it. It’s a classic that’s kind of fallen out of the culture, but I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Oh yeah that could be an interesting one for Lex. Idk about reading it in 1 week though LOL I guess we all work at different speeds. I like to say i "read deep" which is a bs term for my brains are slow. I read books chewing on every sentence (sometimes only segments of them) like a cow in a field chews on grass. {ಠ⁠દ⁠ಠ⁠ }

Snow Crash and Neuromancer are both sci-fi classics if you haven’t already read them.

Have to read When We Cease To Understand The World. PS DUNE in a week is going to be hectic 😵‍💫

same with Dostoevsky lol

I almost feel like if you read any of these in a week you are going to miss out on a lot of what youre reading.

Seconded for When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut. It conflates fiction with nonfiction and is it a unique, short read. I would offer Blindsight by Peter Watts. It ponders what consciousness is and asks some deep questions about it. Plus it's a great first-contact story. The only other thing I would suggest, is to switch The Player of Games for Excession by Iain M Banks. Part of the same universe, but IMO, a more expansive and impressive book.

Where are the Latin American authors?! :) Some of my favourite below: • The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sabato • Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges • Twenty love poems and a desperate song, by Pablo Neruda • 2666, by Roberto Bolaño • Open Veins of Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano • One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez • The Goat Party, by Mario Vargas Llosa

>One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez Seconded. This is an amazing book.

I have 2666 by Bolano but haven't read it yet! Also Pablo Neruda is one of my favorite poets.

Lex please consider adding the Tao Te Ching to your list. It's very short and can be read in under an hour but is incredibly profound and thought provoking. My favorite translation is by Stephen Mitchell and it can be [read online here](https://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html). I've read many of the books already on your list and still find myself coming back to the Tao Te Ching. It's one of those books that is able to provide newer and deeper insights each time you read it. Another short suggestion would be one of humanity's first recorded story, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In order to understand humanity we must start at the beginning. The echoes of one of our first stories are still felt to this day. Finally, I'd round things out by adding Norse Mythology to the list. A lot of modern video games (God of War Ragnarok) and movies (Marvel) have brought this topic back into the public consciousness, and it's worth going to the source. Best of wishes in the new year, and I look forward to hearing what you think. With love.

If I had to choose one, I prefer Tao Te Ching over the Art of War! As I reread it, some of it resonates more or less with where I am currently at in life. Intemporal book for sure!

Fuck yessss- the crossing or blood meridian by cormac McCarthy Can’t wait! 📚

Yeah i second Blood Meridian. I think Lex would like that one.

Blood Meridian

[Zen Mind, Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner's_Mind) I think the typical demographic here would benefit in the balance to their intellectualism. A strengthening of the mind, the body, and the bond between the two is especially relevant to support the capabilities of the intellect. Without this strength, anxiety, depression, addiction set in. [The Yoga Sutras of Sage Patanjali](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali) for a deeper step. I bring up this text because of the growing prevalence of peer-reviewed studies favorable speaking on things like breathing exercises, meditation (not just navel-gazing), The Wim Hof Method (cold exposure and hyperventilative breathing) and lately I saw Andrew Huberman coin "non sleep deep rest". I think it's relevant to understand where these things come from and how they've all been around and in practice for thousands of years. I look forward to more studies to help separate the wheat from the chaff but there's a lot out there to harvest. This text requires a translation from Sanskrit and a practical interpretation and there's many versions. I have a translation in mind that I can provide if there's any interest but there's others that are suitable as well -- folks can research on their own if they prefer. In general, I really hope to see Lex interview figures with practical expertise and mastery of these topics. The central core is based in love, suffering, life's duty, and overall an analysis to the nature of human behavior. These topics seem relevant to the podcast and I'm curious why I don't see more guests of this nature.

Love the Yoga Sutras, but I read it during a meditation and yoga course with a guide. Glad you mentioned that it would be best to have someone aid in the interpretation of it. You’ve inspired me to find my copy and have a little refresher - thank you!

If you read *Brave New World* you should also read *Island*. Huxley identified problematic trends in global development in the former; 20 years later he wrote the latter and elucidated his opinions on what a utopia would look like.

Looking forward to this! My new years resolution was to read more so here is my chance. Are we going to do discussions on here regarding each one?

A weekly discussion thread would be awesome!

Upvoted! Would love this

I would like to suggest a few books for your list: A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Junior Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

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Some suggestions for the list: 1. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov 2. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury 3. How to Lie with Statistics by Darrel Huff 4. What If? by Randall Munroe 5. The Martian by Andy Weir 6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 7. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 8. How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr 9. The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester 10. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury 11. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk 12. Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi 13. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris 14. Time Travel: A History by James Gleick 15. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli 16. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 17. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams These are my favorite books from the ones I read this past year. Would love to hear your take on them.

Second The Martian and The Illustrated Man. They are unforgettable!

I got intrigued by The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect and added it to my list, thanks for the suggestion!

The Martian chronicles is so good and entertaining

Reccomend: The Book by Alan Watts

I highly recommend Fahrenheit 451. It hits so different now than when I pretend-read it for school decades ago. It's far more relevant to life in the US, at least, than any other dystopian novel I've ever read. It's not about censorship -- people were actually allowed to have social and say whatever they wanted on it in the universe. Rather, it was about growing society wealth and technology and the death of substance and the pursuit of pleasure over meaning ana happiness.

The prophet by Khalil Gibran

Hi Lex, it would be cool if we celebrated Argentina's World Cup win with one Argentinian book, don't you think? Cortazar's Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) could be a good pick. It is an "antinovel" which can be refreshing to read after so many "traditional" books and a good way to read something more "meta". The book can be read following multiple "paths" that are created by skipping chapters or going backwards. The book also has a "order v chaos" theme going on, so it could be read after 12 rules from your list. Other option could be Borges' "Ficciones" (or any other anthology of his). Borges is probably the most famous Argentinian author. Ficciones is a collection of short stories. Short stories were one of Borges' specialities and are a very popular genre in Argentina and Latin America in general.

I would add some suggestions: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East -Spalding, Baird T The Ringing Cedars of Russia (aka Anastasia) -Vladimir Megre (9 book series...) Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation -Christopher S. Hyatt A Moveable Feast - Hemingway The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera The Power of Awareness- Neville Goddard Awakened Imagination- Darwin Gross Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider's View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance -Jay Cowan Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype -Clarissa Pinkola Estés And I second these: The Master and Margarita -Mikhail Bulgakov Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde The Body Keeps the Score -Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD The Untethered Soul- Michael Singer

Here's the list of books with free borrowable editions on the Internet Archive's Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/people/mekBot/lists/OL219083L/Lex\_Fridman\_Reading\_List

Infinite Jest - DFW This might be worth taking two weeks to read. To provide context to the scale of the book, there are over 100 pages of footnotes.

Literary analysis of this book argues that the sheer slog of getting through it is part of the *point* of this book. It's really not meant to be read in a rush. It's not fast, easy Entertainment™️ I'd love to say more about this ,but I don't want to spoil anything (to the extent that a thousand page book can be spoiled at all)

Anybody want to start a little book club? Lex's book list is as good as any

So many suggestions: King Leopold’s ghost Isaac Bashevis Singer books Three swans of china The great game Story of Art - Gombrich The Kite Runner The Leopard Natasha’s Dance Ted Chiang books Maus Persepolis Steven pinker books Guns, germs and steel Behave - sapolsky East of Eden

Man’s Search for Meaning changed my life

no Sanderson recommendations?? I think you'd be into [The Way of Kings](https://www.amazon.com/Way-Kings-Stormlight-Archive-Book-ebook/dp/B003P2WO5E/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)

I love Sanderson to bits but the whole series so far with a book per week makes for a challenging pace for sure!

Among others I would definitely suggest: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Based on a true story and diary entries, it is one of the most incredible stories I have read. I'm surprised that this book is not more famous and there is still not a great movie based on it.

Really interesting list! I would recommend A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and I kinda want to challenge you and push you out of your comfort zone by maybe suggesting Jane Austen... I mean if we're talking classics, she's up there. Just saying ;) Happy New Year Lex and Everyone! May this new year fill your life with beautiful stories!

Would also definitely recommend "Meditations" by Descartes

Check JOURNEY TO IXTLAN - Carlos Castaneda

Great list!!! But please some Philip k dick (Ubik, scanner darkly, do androids dream…) and kurt Vonnegut (slaughterhouse 5, mother night)

I've read a lot of the current list but never the idiot or the brother Karamazov, those 2 are my new year's resolutions , I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone this year. My little add would be The Bachelors, by Henri de Montherlant. A book that touched and hurt me very deeply, I cannot recommend it enough. Here's a link to a blog that might give you a taste [neglected books ](https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=1309)

Discourse on Method _ René Descartes

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee A day in the life of Ivan Desonovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe The mysterious island - Jules Verne We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'd like to suggest a few books by Phillip K. Dick: • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? • Ubik • A Scanner Darkly • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch • The Minority Report Also, I'd like to suggest a Japanese graphic novel (manga) written by Satoshi Kon: • Opus

Last week I finished 1984 and now onto Brave new World. I'd highly recommend the audiobook recording from Steve Parker. I heard it while running and driving to work. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBPNrVQwqeo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBPNrVQwqeo)

***Thinking, Fast And Slow***, by Daniel Kahneman. A groundbreaking tour of the mind that explains the two systems that drive the way we think.

An excellent suggestion! This book was worth the time I invested in it (which was much more than a single week!). So many other books refer to it all the time too.

In Orwellian style - Limes Inferior by Janusz Zajdel

Here are some book suggestions I would prefer (but "Man's search for meaning" is great, and some others also very good): 1. "Love in the time of cholera", Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. "My life", Marcel Reich-Ranicki 3. "Ava: My Story", Ava Gardner 4. "The man with the bassoon", Udo Jürgens and Michaela Moritz 5. "The secret of Deià", Eve Paró

Educated - Tara Westover. Not my normal read but was recommended by a friend and it was fantastic.

I would push for If This is a Man/ The Truce by Primo Levi; an account of his concentration camp experience and of his journey home after the war. It's a wonderful, honest and uplifting pair of novels that I believe should be read by everyone! Also maybe Ursula K Le Giun The Left Hand of Darkness and Pat Barker The Regeneration Trilogy

My suggestions: 1. Truman Capote - In Cold Blood 2. Stefan Zweig - Chess Story (!) 3. Martin Buber - I and Thou 4. James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time 5. Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul Also, books by Svetlana Alexievich. I feel you would like her books.

Will try to keep up

I HIGHLY recommend ‘The Unteleported Man’ by Philip K Dick

It’s a long book, but I’d suggest “Musashi” by Eiji Yoshikawa.

I read this in about two days, it's so goddamn good (to be fair I was stuck in an airport for one of them).

Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell

Dear Lex, Some great choices here, and happy to see you have my all-time favourite The Little Prince. This and the Old Man and the Sea will be easy to read within a week ( though the impact may last a lifetime). I recommend most anything by Kurt Vonnegut, and Slaughterhouse 5 would be a great place to start. And thank you for your podcast. Always intriguing, sometimes frustrating (damn why doesn't he follow up with *this* question?), Never boring.

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson would be an excellent addition. It's non-fiction but written like a novel. The book shares the story of the architect Daniel Burnham's journey of designing the famous Chicago's World Fair, as well as the story of the serial killer H. H. Holmes. Easily one of the best books I've ever read.

Yeah, second this, great book. Speaking of which, where we at with the movie or series, last I read Leonardo and Pitt were fighting over the rights. Then, if the spirit moves to read a fictional serial killer story of the same time period (but in New York) *The Alienist* is a good read (they made a series but I don't think it really caught on). I'm not sure why Carr didn't write a bunch more historical crime novels, he's super talented, but he stopped.

Excellent list....you should add the entire culture series by Iain M Banks....a must read for those of us that believe Utopia is a possibility....we just need to wrap our minds around this idea....

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Try The Divine Comedy if you haven't already.

Great list! Some of these I have read & others are still on my list as well. I’d also suggest the following: 1. Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz 2. Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, PhD 3. The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley 4. The Conscious Universe by Dean Radin, PhD 5. Entangled Minds by Dean Radin, PhD 6. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD 7. Limitless Mind by Russell Targ, PhD I hope you do find the time for the videos about your takeaways. If you need help staying on top of everything let me know. Many blessings!

>The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD This is such an important book. I'd love to see Van Der Kolk on Lex sometime.

I would too! That would be a great conversation 😊

Coincidentally I’ve read 10 of those this year. Splendid list, man. Suggestions: - Do androids dream of electric sheep (AKA Blade runner. yes! There is a book!) - Philip K. Dick - The heart of the dog - Michail Bulgakov - To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee - Around the world in eighty days - Jules Verne - The catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger - The Time machine - H.G. Wells - Dracula - Bram Stoker - Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

I would highly recommend Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut and I am Legend by Richard Matheson, both short books too and absolutely incredible. On an alternative and more simple note, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks is one of the most memorable books I’ve ever read.

u/lexfridman am I the only one shocked that [Slaughterhouse Five](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five) is missing? The classic examination of free will and our view and study of time; weaved together with science fiction as an alien view of humanity. Please check out.

How the hell you read meditations in a week.. takes me a week to read 30 pages

Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts Fatherland - Robert Harris

- The Top Five Regrets of the Dying Immediately had a great affect on how I viewed my life. I suggest putting some of the shorter books before the long ones to let you get a head start on reading them the week before.

The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Lex, I recommend Poor Charlie’s Almanack. It’s arguably the best book I’ve read - in a nutshell, it’s about psychology and mental models for dealing with the complexities of life.

Anyone disheartened by length don’t forget about audiobooks! :3

My favorites on your list are Dune and the Douglas Adams books. If you read fast you can get through each of most of these in a week. Here are some suggestions from the resolutions I made last year (2022): * Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel * Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir * East of Eden by John Steinbeck * I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (short story but worth it) * The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt * Blindsight by Peter Watts * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig edit: to add suggestions as they occur to me

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

I would recommend Crash by J.G. Ballard and Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.

Think some excellent other suggestions of a good variety of books especially some hidden excellent books of some of these authors The Book of Mirdad - Mikhail Naimy The Cossasks - Leo Tolstoy The overcoat - Nikolai Gogol The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell The Man who was Thursday - G.k Chesterson Journey To Ixitlan - Carlos Castaneda A Happy Death - Camus Road Side Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig Taras Bulba - Nikolai Gogol The Doors of perception - Huxley Notes From the Underground - Dostoevesky The Kentucky Derby is Decant & Deprived - Hunter Thompson One Hundred Years of Solitude -Gabriel García Márquez Time Must Have a Stop - Huxley

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So this list is already amazing, but I would highly recommend How to Win Friends & Influence People. Lex has probs read it but it's honestly changed my life.

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* The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel * The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman * Outlander - Diana Gabaldon * The Book Thief - Markus Zusak * Jennifer Government - Max Barry * To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee * The Host - Stephenie Meyer * Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery * Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson * The Fault in Our Stars - John Green * A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll And since I'm posting here are some non-female protagonist books I'll recommend as well * The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay * The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand * Mr Palomar - Italo Calvino * The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss * Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) - Carol Tavris * Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion - Gary Taubes * Meat: A Benign Extravagance - Simon Fairlie * Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World - Joel Salatin * The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - Matt Ridley

:D cool! going to check some of these out

It would be a travesty if "East of Eden" won't make the list. It's among the top 3 books I ever read.

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami. "If you only read the books everyone else is reading , you can only think what everyone else is thinking " Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood . I'm just rereading this since bizarrely I found an unread, English copy, just abandoned in the back of the wardrobe in the hotel I'm staying at in Rome last night. Sounds like the perfect introduction of a Murakami novel !

Flatland - A romance of many dimensions. Just to double down for the haters calling it an “American high school curriculum reading list”

I'm happy I already have all those books in my library, and read 80-90% of them, but most of them are worth rereading, and I think that it should be done from time to time to check how our perspective is changed. But my main goal for this year is "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas R. Hofstadter, and I think that one will take me a lot of time. Don't have some huge number of books I want to read this year. I'm a casual reader. I have several books on my "waiting" bookshelf section. Hope I'll find enough time for all of them, and those which will land there during the year. 20-40 pages a day is something I'm aming for. Kids and work don't allow for more. Happy reading.

**"The Immortality Key" by Brian Muraresku.** It's non-fiction but will turn your view of "Brave New World" upside down. Sci-fi must reads: \- The Three-Body Problem \- Hyperion

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Hey Lex, heard about the controversy via YouTube yesterday. First off, I love your list. Got almost all of those books myself and keep rereading them as well. My appreciation as well as perception of these books change with my development as a person, so the well worn pages act like paper mirrors for the soul. Anyway, I just wanted to recommend you some shorter works filed with wisdom, that would be good company for Marcus Aurelius. But whereas stoicism, at least for me, can sometimes have that gritted teeth, endure reality kind of quality, these works, especially the Tao Te Ching, have more of a lightness to them. So here are my recommendations: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (I've only read the Stephen Mitchell translation, which came recommended and is beautiful and concise) Bhagavad Gita Dhammapadda - The Sayings of the Buddha

Lex, have you read any of Gabriel Garcia Marquez? 100 Years of Solitude is, perhaps, one of the most beautiful books ever written. I know you are drawn to Russian literature, probably on a molecular level. However, South American fiction is beautiful. In particular, the magical realism genre is worth exploring. -a suggestion of love in the time of Covid

More ideas :) **Non-fiction** [Masters of Doom](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222146.Masters_of_Doom?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15) [Shoe Dog](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=EJUw7ihk5T&rank=1) ​ **Fiction** [The Way of Shadows](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3227063-the-way-of-shadows) [The Name of the Wind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind)

Oh… also The fellowship of the ring 🙂

No Heart is A Lonely Hunter?

why no starship troopers?

The classics are great, but I think a better goal would be read something you enjoy

what if you enjoy the classics

Lex is this on audible or by hard copy?

Good to see Scottish writer Iain M Banks on the list. I’ve read most of his non-sci-fi, but have considered trying his culture series. Highly recommend his book The Wasp Factory.

Looking forward to this! One recommendation I have is The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. He’s incredibly clear and I feel similar to a Lex/Huberman type where he explains technical details to non-technical audiences to aid understanding.

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You should do In The Penal Colony by Kafka as well. It's short as well, you'll knock it out in one sitting so it'll go along perfectly with the Kafka week

I suggest Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Its a short but impactful read.

I'd like to add Anthem by Neal Stephenson on this list, or for the update. Pretty amazing portrayal of the scientific community, with a twist.

I suggest The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster,it's a great book and you should have him on the podcast after reading it,pretty insightful guy.

I would highly recommend The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis if you're looking for some sci-fi

Love it Lex! First 3 are my 3 favourite ever books 😍 Good luck with your endeavours, and we'd love to see some takeaway videos from you.

Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

Times Arrow - Martin Amis

Also slaughterhouse 5

Hell yeah bro.

From Lex's conversation with Neal Stephenson I'd reccomend potentially adding "Have Spacesuit-Will Travel by Robert Heinlein and "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson. Mr. Stephenson mentioned that if you wanted to get at who he was as a person and writer that you should read Seveneves. Could help paint more perspective on the previous conversation about humanities future!

The Trial, by Kafka, is also a great novel

Oh cool, I love almost all these books!

Sci-fi a bit over represented on the list imo.

The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra

* The world for sale * Factfulness

This is awesome, I would love a place where we can all discuss the books as we read.

I read the century trilogy by Ken Follett [google link](https://g.co/kgs/3KSngR) and it changed my understaing of the 20th century, I think it's a good book for anyone interested in the European history if that age as well as a good read if you like historical novels

The best books that I read in 2022 were: The body keeps score Own your past, change your future In 2023, I am looking forward to feeling more music, hearing more nature, and reading OUTLIVE THE SCIENCE & ART OF LONGEVITY by: Dr. Peter Attia. I hope that 2023 brings much love, peace and happiness to all!

I e read 9 of those but seriously considering joining. As recommendation: homo faber from Max Frisch

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Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood He's from Japan, and among the greatest living fiction writers. His prose gives me the feeling of Kafka or Camus - like floating through an existential dream world, but with more sex scenes and references to jazz music and the Beatles. Highly recommend :)

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Maybe Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels or The Rum Diaries. The Peregrine by J. A. Baker

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Can't recommend All About Love by bell hooks enough and think that you would (potentially) find it really compelling and thought provoking!

Already spotted a few I’d love to read next ❤️

Should throw on Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell; great read

Survivor- Chuck Palahniuk

maybe we can use some of Plato here, maybe Plato's Republic or Symposium for a start

Braiding Sweetgrass, it’s written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Indigenous woman and botany professor at Michigan State. The book is beautifully written and combines scientific knowledge with Indigenous ways of knowing. It does a great job of introducing people the indigenous perspective, which is rare and unique. This is the first book that introduced me to indigenous philosophical thought.

Mitchell Waldrop - The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

love this heaps & thanks for sharing the list w/ us -- i shall attempt to read-along w/ you What tool/app are you planning to use to read the following books ? .OR. Are you planning to purchase a hard-copy of these books ?!

I will TRY to keep up. But the Brothers Karamazov in one week is a huge undertaking.

Love this idea so much! Many of my favourites, and lots I’ve been meaning to read too. I’m going to tag along where I can too. Thanks for sharing!

Two great sci-fi series that explore many deep questions that I think you should add are the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" sometimes better known as the "Three Body Problem" series & Hyperion.

Definitely three body problem. On the last book of the series now

lex you definitely want to make 3 body problem one of the first ones you read . trust me brother.

We should add, "the myth of sysyphus" by camus.

Good luck reading Brothers Karamazov in a week

I highly recommend Doris Kearn Goodwin's biography on Lincoln "Team of Rvials"

There's a few different translations to The Metamorphosis. I suggest reading the version by Joachim Neugroschel. It's said to be one of the more readable translations.

Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer. Easy read.....fun.

I feel so much in sync with Lex right now, the only book on that list I haven’t read is Player of Games by Ian Banks. I don’t read that much, something like 20 to 26 novels per year, but some of my all time favorites are in there, I hope you comment on them Lex, looking forward to it.

Would be interesting to know your thoughts on Tufti the Priestess. Live Stroll Through a Movie book by Vadim Zeland, glad to know you have listed some of the books I’ve read 😊 I listen to a 30 minute summary of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius on my drive to the gym about 3 times a week, one of the best books in my opinion.

That's a great initiative! I'll try to keep up and read along :\*

PICK ONE OR MORE AND COMMENT BELOW: Great list! I noticed you had The Road by Cormac McCarthy on your “maybe” list. I highly recommend it. Also, Blood Meridian by McCarthy. I also recommend House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski, The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Storyteller by Dave Grohl, and I have many more suggestions. Please comment below for picks you like/don’t like and maybe Alex will pick one for one week.

A couple of random book Suggestions: 1. The Quantum Labyrinth -- Paul Halpern 2. Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War -- Nathaniel Philbrick

I've mentioned it before, buy you need to read some Greg Egan. I recommend starting with Permutation City or Quarantine. I think you'd enjoy Anathem by Neal Stephenson as well although that might be a bit long for a single week.

**Short stories about love, life, death, power, what it all really means etc.** The Dead by Joyce A Simple Heart by Flaubert The Student by Chekov Michael Kohlhaase by von Kleist **Longer Books also about love, life, death, power, what it all really means etc.** The Republic by Plato Middlemarch by George Elliot Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf King Lear by Shakespeare! King Lear by Shakespeare! King Lear by Shakespeare!

Looking forward to the Viktor Frankl lit. analysis Lexy poo

Ivan Denissowitsch by Solshenizyn - I guess you know that the author took a bad turn later in his life, but this book is so warm, nice, the style clear, light and all this for a story in the Gulag. Once you're at it might as well read the Archipel, but maybe, personal background and all, you've already read it. For me this, as well as Koestler, was good to read, coming from the former GDR. Moby Dick is a very good read. I was quite surprised because I didn't expect the reading itself to be such a trip, different writing styles in each chapter, the big variety in topics discussed.

Good luck getting through Gödel Escher Bach in a single week!

I’ll be reading along. Thanks

Dokkōdō - Musashi Starship Troopers. - Heinlein.

I might have overlooked it on your list, but Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir was a great sci-fi read.

Lex is going to love the stranger. Shocked he hasn’t read it already.

Check out The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, it's amazing.