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Lex Fridman’s book recommendations in 2026

12 books · 6 episodes · Lex Fridman’s most recommended books, all years →

Every episode from 2026, newest first

#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-09-17

Madness in Civilization by Andrew Scull · recommended · at 0:05
Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull · recommended · at 0:12
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar · discussed · at 1:19:01
Flowers for Algernon by David Rogers, Daniel Keyes · discussed · at 1:47:32

#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-07-28

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe · discussed · at 1:20:18
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 3:33:18

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-06-30

Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood by Anthony Kaldellis · discussed · at 3:07:35

#495 – Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-04-09

Meditations by Aurelius Marcus · recommended · at 1:33:45

#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-02-01

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka · recommended · at 0:49
Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka · recommended · at 0:49

#489 – Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-01-13

Junglekeeper by Paul Rosolie · recommended · at 1:23
Echoes from Eden by Dax Dasilva · discussed · at 2:52:21

Other mentions in 2026 (5: passing, ad reads, own books)