Patrick Collison’s Best Books

This list is compiled from the Tim Ferriss Show Episode (#353). A text only list is found at the bottom as well.


Patrick Collison — Tim Ferriss Show (#353) made by Book list – BookShulf

* The Rise and Fall of American Growth – by Robert J. Gordon
* The Mind–Body Problem – by Jonathan Westphal
* Poor Charlie’s Almanack – by Charles T. Munger
* Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens – by K. C. Cole
* Hard Landing – by Thomas Petzinger, Jr.
* The Dream Machine – by M. Mitchell Waldrop
* Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China – by Evan Osnos
* The Beginning of Infinity – by David Deutsch
* The Paris Review Interviews (Boxed Set) I-IV – by ANONIMO
* Mindstorms – by Seymour A. Papert
* Out of Mao’s Shadow – by Philip P. Pan
* Democracy in America – by Alexis de Tocqueville
* Metamagical Themas – by Douglas Hofstadter
* Dancing in the Glory of Monsters – by Jason Stearns
* Art of Doing Science and Engineering – by Richard R. Hamming
* A Pattern Language – by Christopher Alexander
* Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming – by Peter Norvig
* Anthropic Bias – by Nick Bostrom

To see a complete list of Patrick’s Books visit his bookshelf on his website: https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf

Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List 2019

Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List 2019

Clickable list and a shelf view is below.

  1. Men Without Women – by Haruki Murakami
  2. Maid – by Stephanie Land
  3. Inland – by Téa Obreht
  4. Lab Girl – by Hope Jahren
  5. The Shallows – by Nicholas G. Carr
  6. American Spy – by Lauren Wilkinson
  7. Wolf Hall – by Hilary Mantel
  8. Exhalation – by Ted Chiang
  9. How to Read the Air – by Dinaw Mengestu


Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List 2019 made by Book list – BookShulf