Every Book Paul Graham Mentioned on Twitter (with Tweets!)
I’ve read every Paul Graham essay (and summarized them in these 3 posts).
This is why I had a list of “all” the books he mentioned (or so I thought) and added it to Most Recommended Books. Surely people would love it!
And nowhere, I thought, would they love it more than in the house pg built, Hacker News.
Alas… As soon as I posted, reality hit me in the face.
“Ouch,” I thought. “But maybe Elof is right?”
So I decided to double down and read all of pg’s tweets (the same way I did with Elon Musk and Naval Ravikant).
I found 95 books pg has mentioned/ recommended over the years just on Twitter!
And here is that list, for your reading pleasure.
I hope you enjoy it :)
Sidenote: If you like this post, please share it on Twitter. It would be awesome if pg sees it.
Paul Graham Books
2. The Battle of Alcazar — E.W. Bovill
3. Early Middle English Literature — R. M. Wilson
4. The Oxford History of Britain — Peter Salway
5. Blankie — Leslie Patricelli
6. The Gun Seller — Hugh Laurie
8. To Conquer the Air — James Tobin
9. The Fry Chronicles — Stephen Fry
10. The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien
11. The Complete Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
12. Diocletian and the Roman Recovery — Stephen Williams
13. Maisy Mouse Collection — Lucy Cousins
14. Very Good, Jeeves! — P. G. Wodehouse
15. Sunset at Blandings — P.G. Wodehouse
16. The Confessions — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
18. The Copernican Revolution — Thomas S. Kuhn
20. Flying Start — Hugh Dundas
21. A Thread Across the Ocean — John Steele Gordon
22. Guns, Sails, and Empires — Carlo M. Cipolla
23. Clocks and Culture — Carlo M. Cipolla
24. Kelly — Clarence L. Johnson
25. Why the Allies Won — Richard Overy
26. Towns, Villages and Countryside of Celtic Europe — Francoise Audouze
27. Medieval Technology and Social Change — Lynn White
28. To Explain the World — Steven Weinberg
29. Land of Promise — Michael Lind
30. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy — Michael Baxandall
32. On Bullshit — Harry G. Frankfurt
33. On Inequality — Harry G. Frankfurt
34. A Story Lately Told — Anjelica Huston
35. The Jet Engine — Rolls Royce
36. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids — Bryan Caplan
37. Free-Range Kids — Lenore Skenazy
38. My Family and Other Animals — Gerald Durrell
39. Fauna & Family — Gerald Durrell
40. Good Night, Little Bear — Patsy Scarry
41. The Population Bomb — Paul R Ehrlich
42. Ever the Diplomat — Sherard Cowper-Coles
43. Autobiographies — Charles Darwin
44. Memoirs of My Life — Edward Gibbon
45. An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope — Anthony Trollope
46. The Man Who Knew Infinity — Robert Kanigel
47. Eyes on the Street — Robert Kanigel
48. Wheels for the World — Douglas Brinkley
49. The Ancient City — Peter Connolly
50. The Kings Depart — Richard M Watt
51. Moorish Spain — Richard Fletcher
52. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig
55. The Black Riders — Violet Needham
56. How to Be Topp — Ronald Searle
57. The Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
58. Moab Is My Washpot — Stephen Fry
59. The Inimitable Jeeves — P. G. Wodehouse
60. A Mathematician’s Apology — G. H. Hardy
62. The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics — Jakow Trachtenberg
63. Carl Friedrich Gauss — Guy Waldo Dunnington
64. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes — Bill Watterson
65. The Spectator — Joseph Addison
66. The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
67. Itinerarium Regis Ricardi — T. M. Stead
68. The Startup Way — Eric Ries
69. Plagues and Peoples — William McNeill
70. Concorde — Geoffrey Knight
71. The Making of Europe — Robert Bartlett
72. The Principia — Isaac Newton
73. The Government of the Tongue — Richard Allestree
74. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas S. Kuhn
75. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
76. The Gallic Wars — Julius Caesar
77. Wing Leader — Johnnie Johnson
78. Life in the English Country House — Mark Girouard
79. The German Generals Talk — Basil H. Liddell Hart
80. The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse — P. G. Wodehouse
83. The Double Helix — James D. Watson Ph.D.
84. Harry Potter — J.K. Rowling
85. History of the World — J.M. Roberts
86. The Quest for El Cid — Richard Fletcher
87. Albert Einstein — Banesh Hoffmann
88. A Mind at Play — Jimmy Soni
89. A Sense of Where You Are — John McPhee
90. The Complete Novels of Jane Austen — Jane Austen
91. Barbarian Days — William Finnegan
92. The Conquest of Gaul — Jane P. Gardner
93. Richard Feynman — John Gribbin
94. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein
95. The Launch Pad — Randall Stross
P.S.: If you want to see every book Paul has mentioned (in his essays, interviews, etc…), we’ve put as many as we could find on this page.
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