Karlie Kloss: "It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical."

Joe Rogan: "Great book... Fucking fascinating... Very enlightening."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This book was so entertaining and useful.

It provides a concise history of humankind and outlines why we have the psychology we do today (this part is great for thinking about investor behavior)."

Changpeng Zhao: "[This book] gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do."

Daniel Ek: "One of the most-talked-about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason.

Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socio-anthropological history."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Naval Ravikant: "An orthogonal and clinical examination of the human animal, from the beginning to now.

Humans are story-telling alpha predators that killed the competition and domesticated the survivors. This is our story, and it's not all pretty."

Melinda Gates mentioned this book as one of her 11 favorite books.

Reid Hoffman: "Sapiens has had me thinking a lot about the evolution of humanity and what our future looks like."

Mark Zuckerberg: "I found the chapter on the evolution of the role of religion in human life most interesting and something I wanted to go deeper on."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Sapiens'.

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Bill Gurley: "I really enjoyed [Sapiens]"

Bill Gates: "Melinda and I spent weeks talking about this history of the human race."

Warren Buffett: "This book is something of a publishing miracle—never advertised, yet year after year selling many thousands of copies from its Internet site."

Shane Parrish: "Because I have an MBA a lot of people inevitably ask me if they should pursue one.

If it’s knowledge and not credentials you’re after, save your money and read [this book]"

Daniel Ek: "I've been enjoying Charlie Munger's speeches online for years; this is the ultimate collection of the best of them"

Marc Andreessen: "Tremendous"

Naval Ravikant recommended Poor Charlie's Almanack on Twitter.

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Tim Ferriss mentioned reading Poor Charlie's Almanack on Twitter.

Shane Parrish: "A concise book of lessons drawn from the survey of history. The book comes highly recommended by someone I met at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting last weekend.

I can’t believe I haven’t read this before. I’ll be re-reading this a few times and I’ve started listening to the audio version in the car as well."

Naval Ravikant: "Concise and well written, summarizes the long arc of history with poetic insights."

Tim Ferriss: "Fantastic book. I read [The Lessons of History] because Ray Dalio recommended it."

Kevin Systrom: "It’s a great book."

Daniel Ek: "A brilliant Pulitzer Prize–winning book about how the modern world was formed, analyzing how societies developed differently on different continents.

I like how this is written from a biologist’s point of view rather than purely based on history or anthropology."

Joe Rogan: "Guns Germs and Steel is an amazing book."

Charlie Munger recommended 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.

Raoul Pal said 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant: "Matt Ridley's "The Rational Optimist" is the most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in years."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Bill Gurley: "I really, really loved 'How Innovation Works' from Matt Ridley.

It is a very elegant follow up to 'The Rational Optimist' - read both if you can."

Marc Andreessen: "Sparkling explanation of how the economy evolves, producing the glorious cornucopia of goods and services available all around us.

How to feel good about the future even in dark times."

Mark Zuckerberg: "This book argues that economic progress is the greater force is pushing society forward."

Michael Saylor: "This book blew my mind; it is a work of genius. It put together the technical, economic, motivational and related issues around Bitcoin better than anything I've seen.

The best compliment I can give this book is that I read it and I decided to buy $425m of bitcoin. It was the most impactful on our way of thinking in Microstrategy and it made us want to invert our balance sheet to base it on a bitcoin standard."

Anthony Scaramucci: "This is a seminal work and recommended reading for everyone."

Nassim Taleb: "Bitcoin has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users.

And it now has a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.

This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future."

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Bitcoin Standard' on Twitter.

David Sacks: "The most timely and important book I read last year"

Anthony Scaramucci: "Read every page… Twice."

Lloyd Blankfein: "Destined for War by Graham Allison informs the moment like Guns of August did for Kennedy in [the] Cuban Missile Crisis. Important lessons.”

Charlie Munger recommended 'Einstein: His Life and Universe' at the 2007 Wesco Annual Meeting.

This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

One of the books Mark Zuckerberg added to his Facebook page.

Paul Graham: "It's a great book, probably in my all time top 100."

Elon Musk: "[Benjamin Franklin] was an entrepreneur. He started from nothing. Basically just a runaway kid."

Charlie Munger recommended 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.

Charlie Munger: "One of the best business biographies I have ever read, and it's a very interesting family story too."

David Friedberg: "Hearing the story of the railroads and Standard Oil and what took place in this country is incredible"

Austen Allred: "[One of the books] that has inspired me the most or changed the way I live."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Matt Ridley: "A fascinating, surprising and beautifully written history of technology, economics, and culture, told through the thread of textiles, humanity's most indispensable artefacts. I loved it."

Marc Andreessen: "The story of technology is a story of human ingenuity, and nowhere is this more clear than in the story of textiles: the original technology, going beyond what we commonly think of as 'tech.'

As with many technologies, we suffer an amnesia about them when we enjoy them in abundance, as Postrel observes; her book gives us back our memories about this technology that we use every day without even knowing it."

Brianne Kimmel recommended 'The Fabric of Civilization' for anyone interested in the creator economy.

David Sacks: "Denounced as a wing nut, Churchill went around Britain speaking to half-empty rooms about the Hitler menace.

Read 'The Last Lion: Alone'"

Donald Trump recommends 'The Last Lion' in his book 'Trump 101: The Way to Success'

One of the books on Larry Ellison's nightstand from 'The Billionaire and the Mechanic'

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Ascent of Money' on Twitter.

Anthony Scaramucci: "Peter (Schiff) would be well served to read 'The Ascent of Money' by Niall Ferguson, then study the mathematical properties of Bitcoin, and then open his mind to the certainty that our advances in technology have made our money (incorruptible) better. Follow the history first."

Vinod Khosla: "Not that I agree with all of it, but it is still mind-bending speculation about our future as a follow-up to a previous favorite, Sapiens. It’s directionally right."

Naval Ravikant: "Didn't finish it. Good book but not as seminal as Sapiens."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Homo Deus'.

Bill Gates: "A provocative new book raises big questions about the future."

Michael Mauboussin: "One of my favorite science books in 2018"

Nassim Taleb: "This is a monument, not just a book. And the beginning of a new cultural program."

Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This is a mind f**k.

The theory of this book is that up until (and including) the time of The Iliad, human beings were not conscious like we are today."

Naval Ravikant mentioned 'The Origin of Consciousness' on 'The Tim Ferriss Show' podcast.

This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

Austen Allred: "Absolutely incredible book. Probably in my top five all-time."

Tim Ferriss: "[Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World] has been recommended to me by several billionaires."

Ben Horowitz: "Unexpectedly the most interesting book on the topic of how you think about inclusion."

Mark Zuckerberg: "It's about the competition to electrify the nation between Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla... Graham is a great storyteller."

Chris Dixon: “This was a fun semi-historical novel focusing on the epic legal battle between Westinghouse/Tesla vs Edison.

Good compliment to Empires of Light (one of my favorite history books).”

Vinod Khosla: "I don’t read fiction, but this almost historical fiction is fun especially for Silicon Valley types."

Elon Musk: "A great biography of Ben Franklin by Isaacson. Highly recommended."

Tim Ferriss: "Ben is one of the historical figures that I’ve been most obsessed with and I’ve recommended 'Benjamin Franklin: An American Life' to thousands and thousands of people."

Naval Ravikant: "Everything by Matt Ridley is worth reading."

Charlie Munger recommended 'Genome' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Mark Zuckerberg: "I've wanted to read Matt Ridley's books for a while. His recent book The Rational Optimist about how progress and the economy evolve is also near the top of my ever-growing pile of books to read."

Charlie Munger: "I had to read The Selfish Gene twice before I fully understood it"

Matt Ridley: "From the moment of its publication 40 years ago, it has been a sparkling best-seller and a scientific game-changer."

Brian Armstrong: "It was interesting but I found I had already heard many of the ideas in this book, which speaks to how influential it is."

Satya Nadella: "The Rise and Fall of American Growth concludes that innovation is the ultimate source of dramatic improvements in the human condition”

Stewart Butterfield: "I'm reading this book and I can already tell I am going to be so annoying about it afterwards. Sorry in advance"

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Bill Gates: "The book was a fantastic read, and well worth the time"

Stewart Butterfield: "'Team of Rivals' is among the best historical books I've ever read.

Bless you, Doris Goodwin. Truly excellent."

Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.

Seth Godin: "The most fascinating book I've read all year [2015] is Debt, by David Graeber."

Michael Saylor recommended Debt: The First 5000 Years on his Bitcoin website, Hope.com

Donald Trump: “Rebecca Costa has written a riveting examination of our world’s most dire and complex issues.

Her message for mankind is an ultimately hopeful one as she explores her fascinating theory about the brain’s ability to develop advanced problem-solving techniques in times of crisis. A must read!”

Richard Branson: “One of those rare books that one picks up and then knows within the first few pages is extremely important…extremely brave, spirited and well informed. ”

Chris Dixon: "One of my favorite history books"

Austen Allred: "[One of the books] that has inspired me the most or changed the way I live."

Chris Dixon: “I just discovered Erik Larson this year and read a few of his books, but this was my favorite.

It’s an exciting story of the sinking of the Lusitania, which reads kind of like an action movie switching between the characters on the ship to the submarine crew who sinks them."

Lloyd Blankfein: "[Erik Larson is] a writer who makes these narrow events -- gives a lot of texture to them and makes them feel very vivid"

Brian Armstrong: "An inspiring biography. It was incredible to hear about the determination, constraints, willingness to endure ridicule, disbelief, etc that the two brothers endured on their journey to invent the airplane.

A worthwhile read for all builders."

One of Austen Allred's top five all-time recommended books.

Paul Graham: "Peter Connolly's The Ancient City is one of the best books I've found for explaining history to kids."

Marc Andreessen mentioned The Ancient City on Twitter.

Matt Ridley: "Books about science tend to fall into two categories: those that explain it to lay people in the hope of cultivating a wide readership, and those that try to persuade fellow scientists to support a new theory, usually with equations.

Books that achieve both — changing science and reaching the public — are rare. Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' was one."

Paul Graham mentioned 'The Origin of Species' on Twitter.

Paul Graham: "The most impressive feature of The Double Helix is how much Watson admits he didn't know.

He's constantly talking about papers he couldn't understand and important concepts he didn't grasp."

Matt Ridley: "[This book] gave me the important message — which my teachers had somehow mostly missed telling me — that science is not a catalog of facts, but the search for new and bigger mysteries."

Fred Wilson: "I love Kidder’s book. First it is a story. Second it captures the passion of engineers who are driven to ship a revolutionary product. Great read"

One of Paul Graham's answers to 'Do you know of any good books about startups?'

Paul Graham: "Amazing"

Sam Altman: "It was excellent!"

Paul Graham: "White's Medieval Technology and Social Change is the most fabulous book."

Sam Altman: "It really is great."

Tony Robbins: "[Read this] because you have to understand that life has seasons."

Raoul Pal said 'The Fourth Turning' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Larry Ellison's favorite history book, which he has read several times.

Elon Musk: "The Age of Napoleon by Will & Ariel Durant is an amazing book"

Austen Allred: "[One of] my favorite books for understanding the history of Silicon Valley"

One of Sam Altman's recommended books for young startup founders.

Chris Dixon: “Classic book that I admit I hadn’t read and my colleagues at a16z crypto got me to read."

This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

Paul Graham: "If you want to learn more about hunter gatherers I strongly recommend Elizabeth Marshall Thomas's 'The Old Way'."

This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

One of Paul Graham's answers to "What should I read to learn more about history?"

One of Sam Altman's recommended books for young startup founders.

Naval Ravikant: "Everything by Matt Ridley is worth reading."

Neil Strauss recommended 'The Red Queen' on his website.

Vinod Khosla: "About pressing political, technological, social, and existential issues as we move into uncharted territory of the future."

Joe Rogan mentioned '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' on the 'Joe Rogan Experience' podcast.

Bill Gates: "Yuval Noah Harari has written another thought-provoking book."

Brian Armstrong: "Many people believe simply based on how they grew up, without ever questioning."

Joe Rogan: "I'm a huge fan of [Richard Dawkins'] work"

Joe Rogan: "I find myself thinking about it all day. I’ve been listening to the audio book over the last week or so and it’s just fucking amazing."

Sam Hinkie: "I liked [Empire of the Summer Moon] a lot. To me, it's sort of a book about tech transfer and adoption curves, and the race that is that."

Joe Rogan: "This book by Sebastian Junger is fucking epic. I can't recommend it enough."

Tim Ferriss: "I read [Tribe] in about a day and a half. I just ingested it rapid fire."

Warren Buffett: "A wonderful book.”

Raoul Pal: "It's a great book"

Mark Zuckerberg: "It's a timely book about how and why violence has steadily decreased throughout our history, and how we can continue this trend.

A few people I trust have told me this is the best book they've ever read."

Anthony Pompliano: "Better Angels is so good. I've found it to really rock people's preconceived notions on a number of topics"

Mark Zuckerberg: "It's a history of science book that explores the question of whether science and technology make consistent forward progress or whether progress comes in bursts related to other social forces."

Paul Graham mentioned re-reading this book on Twitter.

Vinod Khosla: "Another of my favorites this year. Long but worth every page."

Ray Dalio: "[From Bacteria to Bach and Back] is about the evolution of the mind"

Naval Ravikant: "Everything by Matt Ridley is worth reading."

Charles Koch recommended this book on his website.

Balaji Srinivasan: "I find books like this useful as an alternate perspective on the [Great Depression] era"

Charles Koch recommended this book on his website.

Changpeng Zhao: "This short (only 60+ pages) but timeless book by French essayist Bastiat is pretty advanced for its time, and it aligns with a lot of my personal philosophy."

Charles Koch recommended this book on his website.

Paul Graham: "Hard Drive, about Microsoft, is good."

Charlie Munger recommended 'The Wealth and Poverty of Nations' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.

Charlie Munger: "It’s a combination of scientific biography and explanation of the physics, particularly relating to electricity.

It’s just the best book of its kind I have ever read, and I just hugely enjoyed it. Couldn’t put it down."

Naval Ravikant mentioned reading 'Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field' on Twitter.

Patrick Collison: "It's very good."

Tobi Lutke: "Really enjoyed it"

Casey Neistat: "It was fantastic"

Marc Benioff: "What I love about this new book American Story is it illuminates that the tensions in our democracy are actually the fuel that powers our country forward.

Unlike other societies we embrace the diversity of opinion to make us a strong, more capable nation."

Casey Neistat: "Probably my favorite, or at least my second-favorite book in the world"

Brianne Kimmel: "Read Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam. One of my favorite books"

Brianne Kimmel recommended 'No Applause - Just Throw Money' for anyone interested in the creator economy.

Andrew Wilkinson: "Really enjoying Steven Johnson's new book 'The Invention of Air' on my Kindle."

Max Levchin: "Recommended!"

Sam Hinkie: "I'm a sucker for this one author, Robert Caro, who's written a bunch of amazing books that I'm often pushing on people.

In particular, one of the books, his second book in a series, it's called Means of Ascent."

Sam Hinkie: "A yearning for innovation requires real exploration.

It requires a persistent search to try (and fail) to move your understanding forward with a new tool, a new technique, a new insight.

Sadly, the first innovation often isn’t even all that helpful, but may well provide a path to ones that are.

This is an idea that Steven Johnson of Where Good Ideas Come From popularized called the adjacent possible."

Sam Hinkie recalled an "amazing scene in Passage of Power" on Patrick O'Shaughnessy's 'Invest Like The Best' podcast.

Charlie Munger: "I am re-reading a book I really like, which is Van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin... I'd almost forgotten how good of a book it was."

Austen Allred: "If you’re ever feeling sorry for yourself pick up Storm of Steel"

Balaji Srinivasan: "Don't judge this self-published book by its cover, just read it."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This book is an entertaining cautionary tale about investor psychology.

Lots of stranger than fiction episodes about the madness of men. It is short and sweet."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "Teddy Roosevelt was cut from a different cloth.

His life was one big adventure, and this trip down a dangerous, uncharted river in South America was his crowning jewel."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "Ever since finding this book, I’ve been fascinated with the history of money."

Barry Silbert: "Must read for bitcoiners (and bitcoin skeptics for that matter)"

Anthony Scaramucci: "Ever hear about the secret plot to kill George Washington?

Then read my pal Brad Meltzer’s new book: The First Conspiracy. It really happened.

You’ve never seen George Washington fight like this."

Charlie Munger: "A marvelous book"

Charlie Munger recommended 'A Matter of Degrees' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Charlie Munger recommended 'Andrew Carnegie' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Charlie Munger recommended 'The Third Chimpanzee' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Charlie Munger: "Best work of science exposition and history that I've read in many years!"

Charlie Munger recommended 'How The Scots Invented The Modern World' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on how four great builders of the 19th century built the world we live in today."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison."

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Balaji Srinivasan: "Anyone working on NFT collections should understand the history of the Freemasons.

Many of their rituals could be usefully updated for the digital era. With modern technology, could feel like real magic."

Raoul Pal recommended 'This Time Is Different' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal recommended 'Timelines of World History' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal said 'The Great Rupture' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Alexis Ohanian: "Great book on the subject [of WW2 aftermath]"

Keith Rabois: "Required reading in our household."

Balaji Srinivasan: "Sean McMeekin's latest tour-de-force makes a strong case that Stalin should be thought of as the main actor in WW2 — not Hitler or the US."

Elon Musk: "Intense. Great book."

Bill Gates: "If you have a particular interest in what life is like for hunter-gatherers, The World Until Tomorrow is a good choice."

Bill Gates: "I loved Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, about President Lincoln, and highly recommend this one too."

Bill Gates: "a sobering but engaging and informative read."