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Books recommended by Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison recommends 110 books, among them The Journalist And The Murderer, The Little Kingdom and The Long Way.

The Journalist And The Murderer

Janet Malcolm

History

The Little Kingdom

Michael Moritz

History

The Long Way

Bernard Moitessier

History

The Man Behind the Microchip

Leslie Berlin

Technology

The Mind–Body Problem

Jonathan Westphal

Philosophy

The Nature of Mathematical Modeling

Neil Gershenfeld

Science & nature

The Ocean of Life

Callum Roberts

Science & nature

The Old Way

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

History

The Paris Review Interviews

The Paris Review

Arts & entertainment

The Planet Remade

Oliver Morton

Economics & politics

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

Sebastian Mallaby

Money & investing

The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

Nicholas J. Higham

Science & nature

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J. Gordon

History

The Scramble for Africa

Thomas Pakenham

Economics & politics

Toward a Theory of Instruction

Jerome Bruner

Science & nature

Tuxedo Park

Jennet Cot

History

Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region

Harold Gilliam

Science & nature

Where Is My Flying Car?

J. Storrs Hall

Technology

Whole Earth Discipline

Stewart Brand

Technology

Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Biography & memoir