Books recommended by Paul Graham

- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: (by Harold Abelson).
Recommended by Max Levchin , Patrick Collison , Paul Graham
- Fauna & Family: More Adventures of the Durrell Family of Corfu (by Gerald Durrell).
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- A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York (by Anjelica Huston).
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- Maisy Mouse Collection: 10 Books Set (by Lucy Cousins).
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- Moorish Spain: (by Richard Fletcher).
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- Richard Feynman: A Life in Science (by John Gribbin).
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- The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 (by Robert Bartlett).
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- Flying Start: (by Hugh Dundas).
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- From Galileo to Newton: (by A. Rupert Hall).
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- My Forty Years with Ford: (by Charles E Sorensen).
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- The World We Have Lost: (by Peter Laslett).
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- Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (by Michael Baxandall).
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- An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope: (by Anthony Trollope).
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- A Mathematician's Apology: (by G. H. Hardy).
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- No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden (by Mark Owen).
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- How to Be Topp: (by Ronald Searle).
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- The Harmless People: (by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas).
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- Diocletian and the Roman Recovery: (by Stephen Williams).
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- Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution (by Gao Yuan).
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- Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople: (by Geoffrey de Villehardouin).
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- Mathematician's Delight: (by W. Sawyer).
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- Kelly: More Than My Share of It All (by Clarence L. Johnson).
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- Autobiographies: (by Charles Darwin).
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- The German Generals Talk: (by Basil H. Liddell Hart).
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- Wing Leader: The Top Scoring Allied Fighter Pilot of WWII (by Johnnie Johnson).
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- The Gallic Wars: (by Julius Caesar).
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- The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century (by E. W. Bovill).
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- The Confessions: (by Jean-Jacques Rousseau).
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- The Quest for El Cid: (by Richard Fletcher).
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- Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (by Mark Girouard).
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- The Battle of Alcazar: (by E.W. Bovill).
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- Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700 (by Carlo M. Cipolla).
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- The Spectator: Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays (by Joseph Addison).
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- The Inimitable Jeeves: Jeeves and Wooster Book 2 (by PG Wodehouse).
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- Moab Is My Washpot: A Memoir (by Stephen Fry).
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- The Oxford History of Britain: Volume 1: Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain (by Peter Salway).
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- The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome (by Peter Connolly).
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- The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History: (by Colin McEvedy).
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- The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (by Thomas S. Kuhn).
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- Medieval Technology and Social Change: (by Lynn White).
Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Sam Altman
- Civilisation: (by Kenneth Clark).
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- Fall of Constantinople: (by Steven Runciman).
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- Sunset at Blandings: (by PG Wodehouse).
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- The Extension of Man: A History of Physics before the Quantum (by J.D. Bernal).
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- The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: (by Jane Austen).
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- Good Night, Little Bear: (by Patsy Scarry).
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- The Old Way: A Story of the First People (by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas).
Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Sam Altman
- Concorde: The Inside Story (by Geoffrey Knight).
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- On Bullshit: (by Harry G. Frankfurt).
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- The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (by Stephen Fry).
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- Memoirs of My Life: (by Edward Gibbon).
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- Blankie: Leslie Patricelli Board, Book 4 (by Leslie Patricelli).
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- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin and Hobbes, Book 18 (by Bill Watterson).
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- Sea Flight: The Wartime Memoirs of a Fleet Air Arm Pilot (by Hugh Popham).
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- Euclid's Elements: (by Euclid).
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- The Lives of the Artists: (by Giorgio Vasari).
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- History of the World: (by J.M. Roberts).
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- Mohammed and Charlemagne: (by Henri Pirenne).
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- A History of Rome: From its Origins to 529 A.D. (by Moses Hadas).
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- Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (by Banesh Hoffmann).
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- Very Good, Jeeves!: Jeeves, Book 4 (by PG Wodehouse).
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- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (by William Finnegan).
Recommended by Barack Obama , Paul Graham
- The Soul of A New Machine: (by Tracy Kidder).
Recommended by Bill Gurley , Paul Graham , Fred Wilson
- Plagues and Peoples: (by William McNeill).
Recommended by Patrick Collison , Paul Graham , Brad Delong
- 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
- The Art of War in the Middle Ages: (by Charles Oman).
Recommended by Paul Graham , Sam Altman
- The Origin of Species: (by Charles Darwin).
Recommended by Darren Aronofsky , Matt Ridley , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Paul Graham
- My Family and Other Animals: (by Gerald Durrell).
Recommended by Matt Ridley , Paul Graham
- 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
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (by E. B. Sledge).
Recommended by Jocko Willink , Paul Graham , Howard Stern
- The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse: (by PG Wodehouse).
Recommended by J.K. Rowling , Paul Graham , Christopher Hitchens
- The Iliad: (by Homer).
Recommended by J.K. Rowling , Paul Graham , Stewart Brand
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (by James Wallace).
Recommended by Charlie Munger , Paul Graham , Carlos Slim
- 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
- A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (by John McPhee).
Recommended by Daniel Pink , Jim Collins , Paul Graham , Ryan Petersen
- The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (by Robert Kanigel).
Recommended by Donald Knuth , Paul Graham , Balaji Srinivasan
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: (by Robert A. Heinlein).
Recommended by Bill Gates , Christopher Sommer , Elon Musk , John Carmack , Paul Graham , Ryan Shea
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: (by Thomas S. Kuhn).
Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg , Paul Graham , Stanislav Grof , Steve Jobs , David Deutsch , Brad Delong
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (by Jessica Livingston).
Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Ev Williams , Paul Graham , Ron Conway , Ryan Holiday