Seven Brief Lessons On Physics

Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli condenses physics after Newton, from Einstein's general relativity to quantum mechanics, into seven short lessons that first ran as a series in an Italian newspaper. Separate chapters take up the quanta, particles, grains of space, the cosmos, and the heat of black holes together with time and probability, alongside one on the theory he calls the most beautiful and a final lesson on ourselves. His approach is literary: one aside dwells on a year Einstein spent apparently idle, remarking that people who never waste time get nowhere. It has been translated into 52 languages and has sold more than a million copies, over 400,000 of them in Italy.

Naval Ravikant said he has read it at least twice.