Paul Graham

Author, Entrepreneur, Investor, Writer

Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News.

Paul Graham's 54 Book Recommendations

• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
• The Iliad
• How to be Topp
• A Mathematician's Apology
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The Ancient City
• Moab is My Washpot
• The Origin of Species
• Sea Flight
• Memoirs of My Life and Writings
• The Inimitable Jeeves
• Moorish Spain
• Good Night, Little Bear
• My Family and Other Animals
• On Bullshit
• An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
• A Story Lately Told
• Medieval Technology and Social Change
• Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700
• Very Good, Jeeves!
• No Easy Day
• Sunset at Blandings
• Guns, Sails and Empires
• Diocletian and the Roman Recovery
• Complete Sherlock Holmes
• Blankie
• The Fry Chronicles
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• Born Red
• With the Old Breed
• The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• A Sense of Where You Are
• Barbarian Days
• The Double Helix
• The Quest for El Cid
• Wing Leader
• Life in the English Country House
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• German Generals Talk
• The Making of Europe
• My Forty Years with Ford
• The Soul of A New Machine
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Plagues and Peoples
• The Golden Trade of the Moors
• Mohammed and Charlemagne
• The Gallic Wars
• Lives of the Artists
• The Old Way