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Books recommended by Paul Graham

Paul Graham recommends 137 books, among them Medieval Technology and Social Change, Memoirs of My Life and Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople.

Medieval Technology and Social Change

Lynn White

Technology

Memoirs of My Life

Edward Gibbon

History

Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople

Geoffrey de Villehardouin

Nonfiction

Moab Is My Washpot

Stephen Fry

Arts & entertainment

Mohammed and Charlemagne

Henri Pirenne

Spirituality & religion

Moorish Spain

Richard Fletcher

History

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

Biography & memoir

My Forty Years with Ford

Charles E. Sorensen

Biography & memoir

New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History

McEvedy

History

No Easy Day

Mark Owen

Biography & memoir

On Bullshit

Harry G. Frankfurt

Psychology

On Inequality

Harry G. Frankfurt

Philosophy

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Michael Baxandall

Arts & entertainment

Plagues and Peoples

William McNeill

History

Richard Feynman

John Gribbin

Biography & memoir

Sea Flight

Hugh Popham

Biography & memoir

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Bryan Caplan

Economics & politics

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Technology

Sunset at Blandings

P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction

The Age of Giant Corporations

Robert Sobel

Economics & politics

The Ancient City

Peter Connolly

Economics & politics

The Art of War in the Middle Ages

Charles Oman

History

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Biography & memoir

The Battle of Alcazar

E.W. Bovill

History

The Big Change

Frederick Lewis Allen & Guy Foster

Money & investing

The Black Riders

Violet Needham

Fiction

The Box

Marc Levinson

Economics & politics

The Collected Works of P.G. Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse

Arts & entertainment

The Company

John Micklethwait

Economics & politics

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Fiction