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Books recommended by Paul Graham

Paul Graham

  1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: (by Harold Abelson). Recommended by Max Levchin , Patrick Collison , Paul Graham
  2. Fauna & Family: More Adventures of the Durrell Family of Corfu (by Gerald Durrell). Recommended by Paul Graham
  3. A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York (by Anjelica Huston). Recommended by Paul Graham
  4. Maisy Mouse Collection: 10 Books Set (by Lucy Cousins). Recommended by Paul Graham
  5. Moorish Spain: (by Richard Fletcher). Recommended by Paul Graham
  6. Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (by John Gribbin). Recommended by Paul Graham
  7. The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 (by Robert Bartlett). Recommended by Paul Graham
  8. Flying Start: (by Hugh Dundas). Recommended by Paul Graham
  9. From Galileo to Newton: (by A. Rupert Hall). Recommended by Paul Graham
  10. My Forty Years with Ford: (by Charles E Sorensen). Recommended by Paul Graham
  11. The World We Have Lost: (by Peter Laslett). Recommended by Paul Graham
  12. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (by Michael Baxandall). Recommended by Paul Graham
  13. An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope: (by Anthony Trollope). Recommended by Paul Graham
  14. A Mathematician's Apology: (by G. H. Hardy). Recommended by Paul Graham
  15. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden (by Mark Owen). Recommended by Paul Graham
  16. How to Be Topp: (by Ronald Searle). Recommended by Paul Graham
  17. The Harmless People: (by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas). Recommended by Paul Graham
  18. Diocletian and the Roman Recovery: (by Stephen Williams). Recommended by Paul Graham
  19. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution (by Gao Yuan). Recommended by Paul Graham
  20. Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople: (by Geoffrey de Villehardouin). Recommended by Paul Graham
  21. Mathematician's Delight: (by W. Sawyer). Recommended by Paul Graham
  22. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All (by Clarence L. Johnson). Recommended by Paul Graham
  23. Autobiographies: (by Charles Darwin). Recommended by Paul Graham
  24. The German Generals Talk: (by Basil H. Liddell Hart). Recommended by Paul Graham
  25. Wing Leader: The Top Scoring Allied Fighter Pilot of WWII (by Johnnie Johnson). Recommended by Paul Graham
  26. The Gallic Wars: (by Julius Caesar). Recommended by Paul Graham
  27. The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century (by E. W. Bovill). Recommended by Paul Graham
  28. The Confessions: (by Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Recommended by Paul Graham
  29. The Quest for El Cid: (by Richard Fletcher). Recommended by Paul Graham
  30. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (by Mark Girouard). Recommended by Paul Graham
  31. The Battle of Alcazar: (by E.W. Bovill). Recommended by Paul Graham
  32. Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700 (by Carlo M. Cipolla). Recommended by Paul Graham
  33. The Spectator: Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays (by Joseph Addison). Recommended by Paul Graham
  34. The Inimitable Jeeves: Jeeves and Wooster Book 2 (by PG Wodehouse). Recommended by Paul Graham
  35. Moab Is My Washpot: A Memoir (by Stephen Fry). Recommended by Paul Graham
  36. The Oxford History of Britain: Volume 1: Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain (by Peter Salway). Recommended by Paul Graham
  37. The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome (by Peter Connolly). Recommended by Paul Graham
  38. The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History: (by Colin McEvedy). Recommended by Paul Graham
  39. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (by Thomas S. Kuhn). Recommended by Paul Graham
  40. Medieval Technology and Social Change: (by Lynn White). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Sam Altman
  41. Civilisation: (by Kenneth Clark). Recommended by Paul Graham
  42. Fall of Constantinople: (by Steven Runciman). Recommended by Paul Graham
  43. Sunset at Blandings: (by PG Wodehouse). Recommended by Paul Graham
  44. The Extension of Man: A History of Physics before the Quantum (by J.D. Bernal). Recommended by Paul Graham
  45. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: (by Jane Austen). Recommended by Paul Graham
  46. Good Night, Little Bear: (by Patsy Scarry). Recommended by Paul Graham
  47. The Old Way: A Story of the First People (by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Sam Altman
  48. Concorde: The Inside Story (by Geoffrey Knight). Recommended by Paul Graham
  49. On Bullshit: (by Harry G. Frankfurt). Recommended by Paul Graham
  50. The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (by Stephen Fry). Recommended by Paul Graham
  51. Memoirs of My Life: (by Edward Gibbon). Recommended by Paul Graham
  52. Blankie: Leslie Patricelli Board, Book 4 (by Leslie Patricelli). Recommended by Paul Graham
  53. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin and Hobbes, Book 18 (by Bill Watterson). Recommended by Paul Graham
  54. Sea Flight: The Wartime Memoirs of a Fleet Air Arm Pilot (by Hugh Popham). Recommended by Paul Graham
  55. Euclid's Elements: (by Euclid). Recommended by Paul Graham
  56. The Lives of the Artists: (by Giorgio Vasari). Recommended by Paul Graham
  57. History of the World: (by J.M. Roberts). Recommended by Paul Graham
  58. Mohammed and Charlemagne: (by Henri Pirenne). Recommended by Paul Graham
  59. A History of Rome: From its Origins to 529 A.D. (by Moses Hadas). Recommended by Paul Graham
  60. Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (by Banesh Hoffmann). Recommended by Paul Graham
  61. Very Good, Jeeves!: Jeeves, Book 4 (by PG Wodehouse). Recommended by Paul Graham
  62. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (by William Finnegan). Recommended by Barack Obama , Paul Graham
  63. The Soul of A New Machine: (by Tracy Kidder). Recommended by Bill Gurley , Paul Graham , Fred Wilson
  64. Plagues and Peoples: (by William McNeill). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Brad Delong
  65. Guns, Sails, and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400- 1700 (by Carlo M. Cipolla). Recommended by Paul Graham , Sam Altman
  66. The Art of War in the Middle Ages: (by Charles Oman). Recommended by Paul Graham , Sam Altman
  67. The Origin of Species: (by Charles Darwin). Recommended by Darren Aronofsky , Matt Ridley , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Paul Graham
  68. My Family and Other Animals: (by Gerald Durrell). Recommended by Matt Ridley , Paul Graham
  69. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (by James D. Watson Ph.D.). Recommended by Matt Ridley , Paul Graham , Peter Attia
  70. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (by E. B. Sledge). Recommended by Jocko Willink , Paul Graham , Howard Stern
  71. The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse: (by PG Wodehouse). Recommended by J.K. Rowling , Paul Graham , Christopher Hitchens
  72. The Iliad: (by Homer). Recommended by J.K. Rowling , Paul Graham , Stewart Brand
  73. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (by James Wallace). Recommended by Charlie Munger , Paul Graham , Carlos Slim
  74. 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
  75. A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (by John McPhee). Recommended by Daniel Pink , Jim Collins , Paul Graham , Ryan Petersen
  76. The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (by Robert Kanigel). Recommended by Donald Knuth , Paul Graham , Balaji Srinivasan
  77. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: (by Robert A. Heinlein). Recommended by Bill Gates , Christopher Sommer , Elon Musk , John Carmack , Paul Graham , Ryan Shea
  78. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (by Robert M. Pirsig). Recommended by Bryan Johnson , Drew Houston , Ev Williams , Jordan Peterson , Josh Waitzkin , Paul Graham , Austen Allred , Fred Wilson , Phil Jackson
  79. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: (by Benjamin Franklin). Recommended by Brandon Stanton , Charlie Munger , Cory Booker , Elon Musk , Paul Graham , Vince Vaughn , Walter Isaacson , Jamie Dimon
  80. How To Win Friends and Influence People: (by Dale Carnegie). Recommended by Dave Ramsey , Daymond John , Derek Sivers , DJ Vlad , Dustin Moskovitz , Ken Block , Paul Graham , Scott Adams , Shay Carl , Strauss Zelnick , Tim Draper , Warren Buffett , Sahil Lavingia , Barbara Corcoran , Alex Hormozi , Michael Hyatt
  81. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: (by Thomas S. Kuhn). Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg , Paul Graham , Stanislav Grof , Steve Jobs , David Deutsch , Brad Delong
  82. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (by Jessica Livingston). Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Ev Williams , Paul Graham , Ron Conway , Ryan Holiday