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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
“is an extraordinary book”
“Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is an extraordinary book about Marco Polo talking to the Great Khan, Kublai Khan, about different cities”— David Eagleman
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (inferred)
“if someone hasn't read that”
“A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner”— David Eagleman
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Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
“if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths”
“A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner”— David Eagleman
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
“if someone hasn't read that... Toni Morrison's Beloved”
“A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner”— David Eagleman
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The Bear
William Faulkner
“The Bear is a great one”
“essentially anything by Faulkner, The Bear is a great one.”— David Eagleman
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The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino
“I'll add one more to the list for people who are looking for something very strange”
“I'll add one more to the list for people who are looking for something very strange and it's also very short, but I think it's The Baron in the Trees”— Tim Ferriss
The guest's own work
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Incognito
David Eagleman
“This, by the way, is why I wrote my book Incognito some years ago, which is about everything that's running under the hood”— David Eagleman
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Livewired
David Eagleman
“in my last book, Livewired, I talk about how memory actually has to get moved around in the brain and moved into different states”— David Eagleman
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Eagleman
“Great book, by the way, highly recommend.”— Tim Ferriss
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
“I really admire, Tim, your 4-Hour Workweek as an example. I'm working on the 400-hour work week”— David Eagleman
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Empire of the Invisible
David Eagleman
“the big one I'm working on is called Empire of the Invisible, and it's going to take me another few years to finish this”— David Eagleman
MediaBy the guest
The Brain
PBS (inferred)
“He is the writer and presenter of the Emmy-nominated series The Brain on PBS, as well as the podcast Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman.”— Tim Ferriss
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Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
David Eagleman
“the podcast Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman”— Tim Ferriss
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Neosensory wristband
Neosensory
“I shrunk it down to a wristband. I actually spun a company off... shrunk it down to a wristband, and we're on wrists all over the world.”— David Eagleman
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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The Mind of a Mnemonist
A.R. Luria
“one book that I found somehow, I don't know how, in high school, which later led to me for a very brief stint being a neuroscience major”— Tim Ferriss
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Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer (inferred)
“he trained the author behind a book called Moonwalking with Einstein to win the National Memory Championships in the United States”— Tim Ferriss
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Cosmos
Carl Sagan (inferred)
“I saw Cosmos on PBS and it totally influenced the shape of the trajectory of my life.”— David Eagleman
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