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Books recommended by Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison

  1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: (by Harold Abelson). Recommended by Max Levchin , Patrick Collison , Paul Graham
  2. Medieval Technology and Social Change: (by Lynn White). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Sam Altman
  3. The Old Way: A Story of the First People (by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Sam Altman
  4. Reasons and Persons: (by Derek Parfit). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Sam Harris , Will MacAskill
  5. The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley (by Leslie Berlin). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Warren Buffett
  6. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (by Michela Wrong). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  7. Modern Operating Systems: (by Andrew S Tanenbaum). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  8. Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away (by Rebecca Goldstein). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  9. Science: A History (by John Gribbin). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  10. A Course in Mathematical Analysis: (by Douard Goursat). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  11. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (by Joel Mokyr). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  12. Dracula: (by Bram Stoker). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  13. Mind-Body Problem: (by Rebecca Goldstein). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  14. Orality and Literacy: (by Walter J. Ong). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  15. Democracy in America: (by Alexis de Tocqueville). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  16. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (by Lewis Mumford). Recommended by Keith Rabois , Patrick Collison
  17. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (by Richard W. Hamming). Recommended by Keith Rabois , Patrick Collison
  18. Wittgenstein's Vienna: (by Allan Janik). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  19. A Decade of Research: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1970-1980 (by Giuliana ed. Lavendel). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  20. Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium (by K. C. Cole). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  21. Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization (by Donald W. Braben). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  22. The Hunters: (by James Salter). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  23. China Airborne: (by James Fallows). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  24. Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China (by Philip P. Pan). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  25. The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug (by Barry Werth). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  26. The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (by Thomas Pakenham). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  27. The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea (by Callum Roberts). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  28. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (by Peter Hessler). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  29. The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews (by The Paris Review). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  30. Popper Selections: (by Karl R. Popper). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  31. Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (by Garry Wills). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  32. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love (by David Talbot). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  33. The Long Way: (by Bernard Moitessier). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  34. Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers (by Simon Winchester). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  35. Perspective on McKinsey: (by Marvin Bower). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  36. The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (by Ji Xianlin). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  37. The Arabs: A History (by Eugene Rogan). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  38. Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce: (by Donal O'Mahony). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  39. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics: (by Gerald Jay Sussman). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  40. The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World (by Oliver Morton). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  41. Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region: (by Harold Gilliam). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  42. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (by Rick Perlstein). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  43. Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (by Rebecca Goldstein). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  44. Technics and Civilization: (by Lewis Mumford). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  45. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (by Peter Norvig). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  46. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (by Jason Stearns). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  47. Foucault's Pendulum: (by Umberto Eco). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  48. The Secret Commonwealth: Book Of Dust, Book 2 (by Philip Pullman). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  49. Asimov's New Guide to Science: (by Isaac Asimov). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  50. Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine: (by Thomas H. Lee). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  51. The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (by Joel Mokyr). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  52. The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought (by Dennis C. Rasmussen). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  53. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas (by Seymour A. Papert). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  54. Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity (by Sean Carroll). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  55. Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China (by James Fallows). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  56. Anthropic Bias: (by Nick Bostrom). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  57. Men, Machines, and Modern Times: (by Elting E. Morison). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  58. A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth (by Alexander J. Field Ph.D.). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  59. Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (by Douglas R. Hofstadter). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  60. Quantum Computing since Democritus: (by Scott Aaronson). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  61. Ocean Flying: A Pilot's Guide (by Louise Sacchi). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  62. Toward a Theory of Instruction: (by Jerome Bruner). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  63. The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding (by Kieran Egan). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  64. The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution (by T. R. Reid). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  65. Computer Lib: Dream Machines (by Theodore H. Nelson). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  66. Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration (by Warren Bennis). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  67. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (by Evan Osnos). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  68. The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley (by Michael S. Malone). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  69. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp (by Paul Graham). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  70. The Feminine Mystique: (by Betty Friedan). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  71. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (by John Rawls). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  72. Feynman Lectures on Computation: (by Richard P. Feynman). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  73. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan: (by James Morier). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  74. Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (by Tyler Cowen). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  75. Global Catastrophic Risks: (by Nick Bostrom). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  76. The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics: (by Nicholas J. Higham). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  77. Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development (by Lewis Mumford). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  78. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers (by Robert Jackall). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  79. I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (by Michela Wrong). Recommended by Patrick Collison
  80. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future (by Sebastian Mallaby). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Trung Phan , Barry Ritholtz
  81. Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II (by Jennet Conant). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Tobi Lütke
  82. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (by Toby Ord). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Tobi Lütke
  83. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (by Neil Postman). Recommended by Keith Rabois , Matt Mullenweg , Patrick Collison , Tristan Harris , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Michael Batnick
  84. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (by Karl Marlantes). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Jeremy Clarkson
  85. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (by Christopher Alexander). Recommended by Gretchen Rubin , Liz Lambert , Naval Ravikant , Patrick Collison , Sam Altman , Stewart Brand
  86. The C Programming Language: (by Brian W. Kernighan). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Linus Torvalds
  87. Plagues and Peoples: (by William McNeill). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Brad Delong
  88. The Dream Machine: (by M. Mitchell Waldrop). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Tobi Lütke , Stewart Butterfield
  89. Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (by Sally Smith Hughes). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Trung Phan
  90. Midnight's Children: (by Salman Rushdie). Recommended by Lisa Ling , Patrick Collison
  91. Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos (by Thomas Petzinger Jr.). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Trung Phan
  92. On the Shortness of Life: (by Lucius Seneca). Recommended by Chip Conley , Jim Collins , Maria Popova , Neil Strauss , Patrick Collison
  93. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (by Arthur Herman). Recommended by John Carmack , Patrick Collison
  94. How Asia Works: (by Joe Studwell). Recommended by Bill Gates , Patrick Collison , Noah Smith
  95. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … Where is Everybody?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (by Stephen Webb). Recommended by Elon Musk , Patrick Collison
  96. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? (by Philip E. Tetlock). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Patrick Collison , Michael Mauboussin
  97. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (by Peter D. Kaufman). Recommended by Bill Gates , Daniel Ek , Drew Houston , Marc Andreessen , Naval Ravikant , Patrick Collison , Ramit Sethi , Tim Ferriss , Warren Buffett , Shane Parrish , Tai Lopez , Courtland Allen
  98. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street (by John Brooks). Recommended by Bill Gates , Patrick Collison , Warren Buffett , Michael Dell
  99. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (by Dava Sobel). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Richard Branson
  100. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (by Jon Gertner). Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg , Patrick Collison , Ron Conway
  101. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (by Michael A. Hiltzik). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Ryan Shea , Sam Altman , Austen Allred
  102. The Nature of Mathematical Modeling: (by Neil Gershenfeld). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Balaji Srinivasan
  103. The Journalist And The Murderer: (by Janet Malcolm). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Balaji Srinivasan
  104. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (by Mark Miodownik). Recommended by Bill Gates , Patrick Collison
  105. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (by Paul N. Edwards). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Adam Tooze
  106. A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine (by Gregory Zuckerman). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Walter Isaacson
  107. Wind, Sand and Stars: (by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry). Recommended by Edward Norton , Naval Ravikant , Patrick Collison
  108. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (by David Deutsch). Recommended by Chris Anderson , Mark Bell , Mark Zuckerberg , Naval Ravikant , Patrick Collison , Ryan Shea , Sam Harris , Steven Pinker
  109. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy (by Hamilton Helmer). Recommended by Daniel Ek , Keith Rabois , Patrick Collison , Peter Thiel , Reed Hastings , Ryan Petersen
  110. 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
  111. Stories of Your Life and Others: (by Ted Chiang). Recommended by Ezra Klein , Naval Ravikant , Patrick Collison , Tim Ferriss
  112. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines (by Jeff Hawkins). Recommended by Ev Williams , Keith Rabois , Patrick Collison
  113. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (by David Eagleman). Recommended by Derek Sivers , Patrick Collison , Stephen Fry
  114. Spastic Diplegia–Bilateral Cerebral Palsy: Understanding the Motor Problems, Their Impact on Walking, and Management Throughout Life (by Lily Collison). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Tyler Cowen
  115. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (by Robert J. Gordon). Recommended by Bill Gates , Marc Andreessen , Patrick Collison , Satya Nadella , Stewart Butterfield
  116. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (by W. Timothy Gallwey). Recommended by Bill Gates , Dave Elitch , Patrick Collison , Ryan Shea
  117. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (by David Kushner). Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Elon Musk , Jeff Atwood , Patrick Collison , Tobi Lütke , Austen Allred , Trung Phan
  118. The Count of Monte Cristo: (by Alexandre Dumas). Recommended by Mike Maples, Jr. , Patrick Collison , PewDiePie , Nassim Taleb , James Clear