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Books Patrick Collison recommends

Public list compiled from their own recommendations. Co-founder and CEO of the payments company Stripe.

Compiled by Kaffe from public sources, with a link to each one. Patrick Collison is not affiliated with Kaffe.

  1. The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  2. The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  3. Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  4. Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up by K. C. Cole: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  5. Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger Jr.: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  6. Nixon Agonistes by Garry Wills: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  7. The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  8. Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  9. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... Where Is Everybody? by Stephen Webb: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  10. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  11. The Paris Review Interviews, I by Philip Gourevitch (ed.): flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  12. Mindstorms by Seymour Papert: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  13. Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  14. Metamagical Themas by Douglas R. Hofstadter: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  15. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K. Stearns: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  16. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  17. A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander et al.: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  18. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  19. Anthropic Bias by Nick Bostrom: flagged green (particularly great) on his bookshelf page; page notes it is ~10 years stale source
  20. Men, Machines, and Modern Times by Elting E. Morison: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  21. Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  22. The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  23. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  24. The Hunters by James Salter: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  25. Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  26. The Long Way by Bernard Moitessier: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  27. The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  28. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  29. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  30. The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  31. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  32. Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  33. Expert Political Judgment by Philip E. Tetlock: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  34. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  35. Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  36. Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  37. Moral Mazes by Robert Jackall: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  38. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  39. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source
  40. Business Adventures by John Brooks: flagged light blue (substantially above average) on his bookshelf page; page ~10 years stale source

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