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Books recommended by Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison recommends 98 books, among them If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz and Incompleteness.

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?

Stephen Webb

Technology

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

Michela Wrong

Economics & politics

Incompleteness

Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy

Justice as Fairness

John Rawls

Philosophy

Longitude

Dava Sobel

History

Making Silicon Valley

Christophe Lecuyer

Technology

Masters of Doom

David Kushner

Technology

Medieval Technology and Social Change

Lynn White

Technology

Men, Machines, and Modern Times

Elting E. Morison

Technology

Metamagical Themas

Douglas Hofstadter

Philosophy

Mindstorms

Seymour A. Papert

Technology

Moral Mazes

Robert Jackall

Economics & politics

Myth of the Machine

Lewis Mumford

Technology

Nixon Agonistes

Garry Wills

History

Nixonland

Rick Perlstein

Biography & memoir

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

Technology

On Lisp

Paul Graham

Technology

Orality and Literacy

Walter J. Ong

Philosophy

Out of Mao's Shadow

Philip P. Pan

Economics & politics

Pacific

Simon Winchester

History

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming

Peter Norvig

Technology

Perspective on McKinsey & Company

Marvin Bower

Business & management

Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill

History

Plato at the Googleplex

Rebecca Goldstein

Philosophy

Popper Selections

Karl Popper

Philosophy

Postcards from Tomorrow Square

James Fallows

Economics & politics

Quantum Computing Since Democritus

Scott Aaronson

Technology

Revolution in the Valley

Andy Hertzfeld

History

River Town

Peter Hessler

Biography & memoir

Science

John Gribbin

Science & nature