Books Recommended by Andrej Karpathy

VR Metaverse. Super nerdy. Down with corpo. Highly enjoyable. Total page turner.

Short Story collection. Required reading. My top 3 favorites are Understand, Story of Your Life, and Division by Zero.

Castaway but on Mars. Excellent story. Cool science. Highly entertaining. Total page turner. Loved it (and the movie, rare!) a lot, lower only because it is so popular.

Alien contact. Liked the book quite a lot more than the movie (though the movie is great too).

A man undergoes a procedure to increase his intelligence. Inventive, clever, interesting.

Simulation. Artificial Life. Aliens. Highly inventive, enjoyable.

One of my top favorite alien portrayals, strikes a good balance between plausible, interesting and entertaining. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

Highly inventive alien contact. Very enjoyable.

Interesting alien civilization premise, a little too long. Loved the idea of a "classicist".

Highly inventive and fascinating alien contact. A little too long.

Short Story collection. Required reading. My top 3 favorites are Exhalation, What's Expected of Us, and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate.

A most interesting alien contact. Inventive, cool.

Carl Sagan's Contact but for adults.

Highly enjoyable world-building set in a Neuralink future.

Really fun mystery alien contact page turner. I refuse to acknowledge the sequels.

An alien microscopic organism makes first contact with humans and it ain't pretty. A bio-heavy hard sci-fi all the way from 1969, an era that was otherwise decidedly all about space.