Paul Grahambook recommendations

Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News.

27 books recommended by Paul Graham

How To Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Founders at Work

Jessica Livingston

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

Hackers & Painters

Paul Graham

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

With the Old Breed

E. B. Sledge

A Sense of Where You Are

John McPhee

Andrew Carnegie

Joseph Frazier Wall

Boyd

Robert Coram

In The Plex

Steven Levy

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

Sebastian Mallaby

A Mind at Play

Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman

The Box

Marc Levinson

The Iliad

Homer

The Old Way

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The Principia

Isaac Newton

The Soul of A New Machine

Tracy Kidder

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