#468 - Janna Levin

05 May 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #468:

How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me G by Kazuo Ishiguro
Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

#467 - Tim Sweeney

30 Apr 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #467:

Michael Abrash’s Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash
The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet by Matthew Ball

#466 - Jeffrey Wasserstrom

22 Apr 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #466:

Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall by Margaret E. Roberts
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy by Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin
The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
The Xi Jinping Effect by Ashley Esarey, Rongbin Han
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China by Emily Feng
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit

#465 - Robert Rodriguez

16 Apr 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #465:

Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez
Sin City by Frank Miller

#464 - Dave Smith

09 Apr 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #464:

Books by Ron Paul
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization by Douglas Murray
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine by Scott Horton

#463 - Douglas Murray

30 Mar 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #463:

The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murra
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization by Douglas Murray
The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel De Unamuno

#462 - Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

25 Mar 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #462:

Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson
On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity by Derek Thompson
Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer by Kamala Harris, Joan O’C. Hamilton
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

#461 - ThePrimeagen

22 Mar 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #461:

Java How to Program by Deitel Paul, Deitel Harvey
Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

#460 - Narendra Modi

16 Mar 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #460:

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Bhagavad Gita by Stephen Mitchell

#459 - Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert

03 Feb 2025

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #459:

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim