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Books recommended by Paul Graham

Paul Graham recommends 29 books, among them The Selfish Gene, The Origin of Species and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Science & nature

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Science & nature

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

Nonfiction

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

Science & nature

A History of Rome

Moses Hadas

History

A Mathematician's Apology

G.H. Hardy

Philosophy

A Mind at Play

Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman

Technology

A Thread Across the Ocean

John Steele Gordon

History

Albert Einstein

Banesh Hoffmann

Technology

Autobiographies

Charles Darwin

Biography & memoir

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Guy Waldo Dunnington

Biography & memoir

Clocks and Culture

Carlo M. Cipolla

Science & nature

Concorde

Geoffrey Knight

Biography & memoir

Euclid's Elements

Euclid

Philosophy

Mathematician's Delight

W.W. Sawyer

Science & nature

Moorish Spain

Richard Fletcher

History

Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill

History

Richard Feynman

John Gribbin

Biography & memoir

The Copernican Revolution

Thomas S. Kuhn

Philosophy

The Extension of Man

J.D. Bernal

Science & nature

The Jet Engine

Rolls Royce

Science & nature

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Robert Kanigel

Biography & memoir

The Old Way

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

History

The Population Bomb

Paul R. Ehrlich

Economics & politics

The Principia

Isaac Newton

Philosophy

The Soul of A New Machine

Tracy Kidder

Technology

The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics

Jakow Trachtenberg

Science & nature

To Conquer the Air

James Tobin

History

To Explain the World

Steven Weinberg

Philosophy