#482 - Pavel Durov

30 Sep 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #482:

The Illusion of Paradise: Drugs, Psychedelics, Poisons, Allergens by Aleksandr Shpakov

#481 - Norman Ohler

19 Sep 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #481:

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany’s Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

#480 - Dave Hone

04 Sep 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #480:

Books by David Hone

#479 - Dave Plummer

30 Aug 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #479:

The Nonvisible Part of the Autism Spectrum: Could You be a “Little Bit Autistic?” by David William Plummer
Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire: Everything I know now about Autism and Asperger’s that I wish I’d known then. by David William Plumme
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

#478 - Scott Horton

24 Aug 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #478:

Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine by Scott Horton
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton
This is Not an Assault: Penetrating the Web of Official Lies Regarding the Waco Incident by David T Hardy, Rex Kimball
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies by James Bamford
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi
Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government by William Van Wagenen

#477 - Keyu Jin

13 Aug 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #477:

The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin

#476 - Jack Weatherford

31 Jul 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #476:

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World’s Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom by Jack Weatherford
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
Marco Millions by Eugene O’Neill
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States: From Interviews with Former Slaves: Florida Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives by Norman R. Yetman

#475 - Demis Hassabis

23 Jul 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #475:

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions Of Evolution by Nick Lane
The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut

#474 - DHH

12 Jul 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #474:

Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Learn to Program by Chris Pine
Books by Yoshitake Shinsuke

#473 - Mark Dubowitz and Scott Horton

26 Jun 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #473:

By Way of Deception : The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer by Victor Ostrovsky, Claire Hoy
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton
Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons by David Albright, Sarah Burkhard
Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies by David Albright
Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities, and Policies by David Albright, Frans Berkhout, William Walker
Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare by Gareth Porter
Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali Soufan, Daniel Freedman