Eric Weinstein's Book Recommendations

All the Trouble in the World

by P.J. O'Rourke

"I’m always asked for book recommendations but am reluctant to give them. “All the Trouble in the World” was an amazing book by @PJORourke. He‘s also a master stylist of distinctly American English. Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today."

The Great Brain series

"The "Great Brain" series is the most dangerous set of books I can think of to give a highly intelligent child. Think twice. Then just do it."

Exodus

"I would recommend: Exodus The True Believer Mutual Aid Ecclesiastes And songs like “The Future” by Leonard Cohen which updates Yeats with some modern specificity."

The True Believer

"I would recommend: Exodus The True Believer Mutual Aid Ecclesiastes And songs like “The Future” by Leonard Cohen which updates Yeats with some modern specificity."

Mutual Aid

"I would recommend: Exodus The True Believer Mutual Aid Ecclesiastes And songs like “The Future” by Leonard Cohen which updates Yeats with some modern specificity."

Ecclesiastes

"I would recommend: Exodus The True Believer Mutual Aid Ecclesiastes And songs like “The Future” by Leonard Cohen which updates Yeats with some modern specificity."

Einstein Manifolds

by Besse

"What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse. B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill C) Science Since Babylon by Price."

Turkish Grammar

by Underhill

"What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse. B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill C) Science Since Babylon by Price."

Science Since Babylon

by Price

"What is the most boring sounding book that changed & improved your life immeasurably? Three candidates from my life that, frustratingly, I can’t generically recommend to friends: A) Einstein Manifolds by Besse. B) Turkish Grammar by Underhill C) Science Since Babylon by Price."

A Mathematician's Apology

by G. H. Hardy

"At book level, the short “A Mathematician's Apology” by G. H. Hardy is pretty terrific. https://t.co/1N5LQpF6gU As is Edward Frenkel’s “Love and Math.” Which is more contemporary. You can follow Edward at @edfrenkel. https://t.co/5fubjP9Aml"

Love and Math

by Edward Frenkel

"At book level, the short “A Mathematician's Apology” by G. H. Hardy is pretty terrific. https://t.co/1N5LQpF6gU As is Edward Frenkel’s “Love and Math.” Which is more contemporary. You can follow Edward at @edfrenkel. https://t.co/5fubjP9Aml"

Prison Diary

by Jayaprakash Narayan

"I resist most requests for book recommendations. I suggest "Prison Diary" by Jayaprakash Narayan for this moment in our democracy. ["Break Glass in Case of Emergency People" comes from a long forgotten slogan in Hindi: "अंधेरे में एक प्रकाश" as a play on the word "Emergency".]"

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

"The fictional character that changed my life. RIP to Norton Juster. I can’t tell you what that book meant to me. It was, in fact, the main inspiration for the title of my podcast. Portal = Tollbooth Thank you for that one book. Perhaps my favorite of all time."

The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana

by Hyacinth Thrash

"Ah. The Flavor-Aid is served, and you’re either Team Zipporah or Team Hyacinth. Might I recommend getting off that train absent a documented fraud theory? “The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana” by Hyacinth Thrash is available in Paperback. https://t.co/DDdWpkmMN5"