Books Professors Recommend Most

Based on 1109 sourced recommendations from 380 professors. Updated October 30, 2026.

1. 1. Sapiens

   

   By Yuval Noah Harari

   Recommended by 4 of 380 professors

   • Barack Obama Source
   • Jared Diamond Source
   • Scott Galloway Source
   • Lex Fridman Source

   Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth

   Source

2. 2. Enlightenment Now

   

   By Steven Pinker

   Recommended by 4 of 380 professors

   • Yuval Noah Harari Source
   • Richard Dawkins Source
   • Jordan Peterson Source
   • Lex Fridman Source

   So you've written some of my favorite books all over the place. So starting from Enlightenment Now to The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, the one about language, The Language Instinct.

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3. 3. The Bible

   

   By Unknown/Other

   Recommended by 3 of 380 professors

   • Jordan Peterson Source
   • Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks Source
   • Barack Obama Source

   what should you have read? And the answer to that could easily be, well, you probably should have read the Bible.

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4. 4. The Coddling of the American Mind

   

   By Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt

   Recommended by 3 of 380 professors

   • Richard Dawkins Source
   • Scott Galloway Source
   • Jordan Peterson Source

   Great book by colleague @JonHaidt on parenting, \"safetyism,\" raising strong vs. fragile children, and openness to ideas on college campuses. Bonus: basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helpful in daily life.

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5. 5. Brave New World

   

   By Aldous Huxley

   Recommended by 3 of 380 professors

   • Yuval Noah Harari Source
   • Jordan Peterson Source
   • Lex Fridman Source

   Listed as read on his official reading list.

   Source

6. 6. Anna Karenina

   

   By Leo Tolstoy

   Recommended by 3 of 380 professors

   • Jordan Peterson Source
   • Jen Wilkin Source
   • Jared Diamond Source

   What’s the best love story you’ve ever read? Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” — even though the love goes sour and the book has a sad ending.

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7. 7. Man's Search For Meaning

   

   By Viktor Frankl

   Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

   • Lex Fridman Source
   • Jordan Peterson Source

   I reread [this book] quite often.

   Source

8. 8. Zero to One

   

   By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

   Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

   • Luis von Ahn Source
   • Tyler Cowen Source

   Peter Thiel, in addition to being an accomplished entrepreneur and investor, is also one of the leading public intellectuals of our time. Read this book to get your first glimpse of how and why that is true.

   Source

9. 9. Principles

   

   By Ray Dalio

   Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

   • Adam Grant Source
   • Lex Fridman Source

   The billionaire investor has created the strongest culture I’ve ever seen in an organization—one that prizes radical transparency over politics and meritocracy over democracy. In his long-awaited book, he describes the systems that he has designed to shape meaningful work, meaningful relationships, and the world’s most successful hedge fund.

   Source

10. 10. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    

    By Daniel Kahneman

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Scott Galloway Source
    • Barack Obama Source

    Professor Kahneman’s ideologies on decision-making have helped me in business and my personal life.

    Source

11. 11. Meditations

    

    By Marcus Aurelius

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Lex Fridman Source
    • Adam Robinson Source

    I'm doing an experiment of reading/rereading 1 book a day for 7+ days starting Aug 19. Looking for short, impactful books (see pic for examples).

    Source

12. 12. 1984

    

    By George Orwell

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    1984 by George Orwell is one of the most impactful books ever written.

    Source

13. 13. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    

    By Walter Isaacson

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Walter Isaacson Source
    • Ed Zschau Source

14. 14. Animal Farm

    

    By George Orwell

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Lex Fridman Source
    • Jordan Peterson Source

    I'm doing an experiment of reading/rereading 1 book a day for 7+ days starting Aug 19. Looking for short, impactful books (see pic for examples).

    Source

15. 15. The Better Angels of Our Nature

    

    By Steven Pinker

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jack Kornfield Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    So you've written some of my favorite books all over the place. So starting from Enlightenment Now to The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, the one about language, The Language Instinct.

    Source

16. 16. Siddhartha

    

    By Hermann Hesse

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Navdeep Singh Chandel Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    I'm doing an experiment of reading/rereading 1 book a day for 7+ days starting Aug 19. Looking for short, impactful books (see pic for examples).

    Source

17. 17. One Hundred Years of Solitude

    

    By Gabriel García Márquez

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Barack Obama Source
    • Scott Galloway Source

    @NoahBraxMarsh A 100 years of solitude,,,great book. Read it in Spanish class in the 11th grade.

    Source

18. 18. The Brothers Karamazov

    

    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    I read The Brothers Karamazov both in English and Russian ... I mean, I love Dostoevsky. ... So, this book means a lot to me. I'm not somebody just kind of rolling in, 'What are the cool kids reading these days?' These books have been lifelong companions to me.

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19. 19. The Founders

    

    By Jimmy Soni

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Tyler Cowen Source
    • Walter Isaacson Source

20. 20. Life 3.0

    

    By Max Tegmark

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Barack Obama Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    Here are my other favorite books of 2018: Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark

    Source

21. 21. Walden

    

    By Henry David Thoreau

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Michael Pollan Source
    • Jared Diamond Source

    The other book is Thoreau’s “Walden,” which I read once when I was young, and which was the single book that has most influenced me. ... Reading Thoreau felt like standing in dazzlingly bright light.

    Source

22. 22. The Denial of Death

    

    By Ernest Becker

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    Let me say as a side note that Ernest Becker's book Denial of Death had a big impact on my thinking about human cognition, consciousness and the deep ocean currents of our mind that are behind the surface behaviors we observe.

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23. 23. Factfulness

    

    By Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Barack Obama Source
    • Jordan Peterson Source

24. 24. Long Walk To Freedom

    

    By Nelson Mandela

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Barack Obama Source
    • Vijay Govindarajan Source

    Mandela’s life was one of the epic stories of the 20th century. This definitive memoir traces the arc of his life from a small village, to his years as a revolutionary, to his long imprisonment, and ultimately his ascension to unifying President, leader, and global icon. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it.

    Source

25. 25. Abundance

    

    By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Barack Obama Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for working people.

    Source

26. 26. The Anxious Generation

    

    By Jonathan Haidt

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Barack Obama Source
    • Scott Galloway Source

    I think the most consequential scholar of our generation is my colleague Jonathan Haidt, who is getting phones, because of his book The Anxious Generation, banned in schools in entire countries.

    Source

27. 27. The Blank Slate

    

    By Steven Pinker

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    Pinker's The Blank Slate is a book everyone should read… It's an amazing accomplishment.

    Source

28. 28. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

    

    By Aldous Huxley

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Michael Pollan Source
    • Jordan Peterson Source

29. 29. The Old Man And The Sea

    

    By Ernest Hemingway

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Lex Fridman Source
    • Jordan Peterson Source

    I'm doing an experiment of reading/rereading 1 book a day for 7+ days starting Aug 19. Looking for short, impactful books (see pic for examples).

    Source

30. 30. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    

    By Bill Gates

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Luis von Ahn Source
    • Barack Obama Source

    @BillGates' new book is an exceptionally clear and accessible primer on climate change. He's unblinking in the difficulty of meeting this challenge but maintains a cautious optimism that it can be met—and provides a framework for action that is both specific and workable.

    Source

31. 31. The Idiot

    

    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    For the longest time, [this book] was my favorite book of all because I identified with the ideas represented by Prince Myshkin.

    Source

32. 32. Notes from Underground

    

    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    With Dostoevsky, I read The Idiot several times. I read The Brothers Karamazov both in English and Russian, and Notes from Underground. I mean, I love Dostoevsky.

    Source

33. 33. Emotional Intelligence

    

    By Daniel Goleman

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Sharon Salzberg Source
    • Jack Kornfield Source

34. 34. The Guns of August

    

    By Barbara W. Tuchman

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Doris Kearns Goodwin Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    You told me about The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. It's a book on World War I, and I went down a whole rabbit hole there. She's an incredible historian.

    Source

35. 35. Wolf Hall

    

    By Hilary Mantel

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Christopher Hitchens Source
    • Barack Obama Source

36. 36. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

    

    By Richard V. Reeves

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Barack Obama Source
    • Scott Galloway Source

    @LisaBritton If you want to go deep, and substantive, on the topic @RichardvReeves book is the seminal work.

    Source

37. 37. Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain

    

    By Lisa Feldman Barrett

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Lex Fridman Source
    • Scott Galloway Source

    I got a chance to read it already and it's one of the best short whirlwind introductions to the human brain I've ever read.

    Source

38. 38. Of Mice and Men

    

    By John Steinbeck

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Barack Obama Source

    then I started reading some classic books that when you guys get to high school you’ll start reading -- things like “Of Mice and Men” and “The Great Gatsby”

    Source

39. 39. On The Road

    

    By Jack Kerouac

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Walter Isaacson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    I will also talk to the people who Jack Kerouac called the mad ones in his book On the Road. That is one of my favorite books he wrote: 'The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...'

    Source

40. 40. American Pastoral

    

    By Philip Roth

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Lex Fridman Source
    • Barack Obama Source

    I've heard mentioned Philip Roth's American Pastoral, which I love as a book.

    Source

41. 41. The Glass Hotel

    

    By Emily St. John Mandel

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Tyler Cowen Source
    • Barack Obama Source

42. 42. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition

    

    By Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics American Psychiatric Association

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Stanislav Grof Source
    • Michael Pollan Source

43. 43. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    

    By William L. Shirer

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Lex Fridman Source

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer is a good example. It is full of bias, but he was there, and to me, he has written probably one of the greatest if not the greatest book on the Third Reich ever.

    Source

44. 44. Cancer Ward

    

    By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Barack Obama Source

45. 45. The Great Terror

    

    By Robert Conquest

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Christopher Hitchens Source
    • Jordan Peterson Source

    Read real books. The Gulag Archipelago. 1984. Road to Wigan Pier. The Great Terror. The Devils. Crime and Punishment.

    Source

46. 46. For Whom the Bell Tolls

    

    By Ernest Hemingway

    Recommended by 2 of 380 professors

    • Jordan Peterson Source
    • Christopher Hitchens Source

47. 47. The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    

    By Ben Horowitz

    Recommended by 1 of 380 professors

    • Luis von Ahn Source

48. 48. Steve Jobs

    

    By Walter Isaacson

    Recommended by 1 of 380 professors

    • Ed Zschau Source

49. 49. Shoe Dog

    

    By Phil Knight

    Recommended by 1 of 380 professors

    • Scott Galloway Source

    About the best business book I'd read in a while, it's a little bit older now, but I just read it, was Shoe Dog by Phil Knight.

    Source

50. 50. The 4-hour Workweek

    

    By Tim Ferriss

    Recommended by 1 of 380 professors

    • Walter Isaacson Source

Every Professor on Ultimate Book List

• Barack Obama — 421 recommendations
• Jordan Peterson — 184 recommendations
• Lex Fridman — 77 recommendations
• Scott Galloway — 73 recommendations
• Dan Heisman — 60 recommendations
• Christopher Hitchens — 55 recommendations
• Tyler Cowen — 42 recommendations
• Donald Knuth — 17 recommendations
• David Deutsch — 14 recommendations
• Donalyn Miller — 14 recommendations
• Jared Diamond — 14 recommendations
• Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks — 14 recommendations
• Michael Pollan — 13 recommendations
• Vijay Govindarajan — 13 recommendations
• Stanislav Grof — 12 recommendations
• Adam Grant — 11 recommendations
• Jonathan Eisen — 9 recommendations
• Richard Dawkins — 9 recommendations
• Adam Robinson — 8 recommendations
• Walter Isaacson — 8 recommendations
• Jack Kornfield — 5 recommendations
• Ed Zschau — 4 recommendations
• Jane McGonigal — 4 recommendations
• Yuval Noah Harari — 4 recommendations
• Doris Kearns Goodwin — 3 recommendations
• Luis von Ahn — 3 recommendations
• Adam Gazzaley — 2 recommendations
• Albert Mohler — 2 recommendations
• Elizabeth Warren — 2 recommendations
• James Fadiman — 2 recommendations
• Jen Wilkin — 2 recommendations
• Mark Hart — 2 recommendations
• Deborah Harkness — 1 recommendations
• Diana Gabaldon — 1 recommendations
• Lisa Randall — 1 recommendations
• Navdeep Singh Chandel — 1 recommendations
• Sharon Salzberg — 1 recommendations
• Stanley A. McChrystal — 1 recommendations
• A. Rupert Hall — 0 recommendations
• Abigail Marsh — 0 recommendations
• Abraham F. Lowenthal — 0 recommendations
• Adam Alter — 0 recommendations
• Adam Tooze — 0 recommendations
• Alex Carey — 0 recommendations
• Alexander McCall Smith — 0 recommendations
• Alfred Rappaport — 0 recommendations
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Frequently asked questions

What is the top book recommended by professors?

Sapiens ranks first, recommended by 4 professors.

How is the ranking counted?

We count each person once per book, using only public people, books and approved recommendations. Books are ranked by recommenders in this group, then by total public recommenders. Source links are shown where available.

How many professors are included?

This group includes 380 public profiles, including profiles with no public recommendations. 16 have recommended at least 10 books.