10 Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant That Will Expand Your Brain (No, I’m Not Kidding)

Lessons in life, business, and physics

Novel Nest
10 min readJan 31, 2024
10 Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant That Will Expand Your Brain (No, I’m Not Kidding)
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Let’s take advice from a half-philosopher, half-businessman!

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, investor, and podcaster. He is also the co-founder, and former CEO of AngelList, a website that connects startups with investors.

Ravikant is an angel investor who has invested in many companies. Some of them are Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, SnapLogic, Stack Overflow, and Clearview AI.

Known for his deep thoughts, he is also called, ‘The Angel Philosopher’.

Let’s give his recommended reads a walk-through!

1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

10 Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant That Will Expand Your Brain (No, I’m Not Kidding)
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The path of man.

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli author, historian, and professor.

In this book, he takes us down the history of human evolution. We learn how humans went through various revolutions and dominated the Earth.

“Biology enables

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