Starlit Books

Books recommended by Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

  1. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (by Nick Lane). Recommended by Bill Gates , Matt Ridley , Chamath Palihapitiya , David Friedberg
  2. What You Want: (by Constantine Phipps). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  3. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath (by Bill Browder). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  4. Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA (by Gareth Williams). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  5. The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, The Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (by Peter Huber). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  6. The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (by Bjørn Lomborg). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  7. The Ultimate Resource 2: (by Julian Lincoln Simon). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  8. One Summer: America, 1927 (by Bill Bryson). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  9. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (by Tom Holland). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  10. The Hockey Stick Illusion: (by A W Montford). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  11. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (by Tom Holland). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  12. p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code (by Sue Armstrong). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  13. Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature (by Nick Davies). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  14. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (by Wade Davis). Recommended by Matt Ridley
  15. The Martian: A Novel (by Andy Weir). Recommended by Chris Sacca , Ev Williams , Matt Ridley , Max Levchin , Noah Kagan , Christopher Paolini , Tom Hanks
  16. My Family and Other Animals: (by Gerald Durrell). Recommended by Matt Ridley , Paul Graham
  17. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (by Virginia Postrel). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Matt Ridley , Brianne Kimmel
  18. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (by James D. Watson Ph.D.). Recommended by Matt Ridley , Paul Graham , Peter Attia
  19. Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life (by Rory Sutherland). Recommended by Matt Ridley , Ryan Petersen , Nassim Taleb , Changpeng Zhao
  20. What Technology Wants: (by Kevin Kelly). Recommended by Jason Silva , Matt Ridley , Stewart Brand
  21. Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary (by Stewart Brand). Recommended by Jack Dorsey , Marc Andreessen , Matt Ridley , Patrick Collison , Steven Pinker
  22. The Origin of Species: (by Charles Darwin). Recommended by Darren Aronofsky , Matt Ridley , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Paul Graham
  23. The Selfish Gene: (by Richard Dawkins). Recommended by Bob Metcalfe , Brian Armstrong , Charlie Munger , Elon Musk , Ev Williams , Matt Ridley , Mr. Money Mustache , Nick Szabo , Phil Libin , David Deutsch , Mark Manson , Tai Lopez