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Collison’s List
| Author | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Asimov | 1951 | Foundation |
| Rand | 1957 | Atlas Shrugged |
| Brand | 1968-1972 | The Whole Earth Catalog |
| Pirsig | 1974 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Brooks | 1975 | The Mythical Man-Month |
| Caro | 1975 | The Power Broker |
| Dawkins | 1976 | The Selfish Gene |
| Alexander | 1977 | A Pattern Language |
| Card | 1977 | Ender’s Game |
| Hoftstader | 1979 | Gödel, Escher, Bach |
| Papert | 1980 | Mindstorms |
| Wolfe | 1983 | The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce |
| Ableson and Sussman | 1984 | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs |
| Feynman | 1985 | Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! |
| Rhodes | 1985 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| Malone | 1985 | The Big Score |
| Carse | 1986 | Finite and Infinite Games |
| Grove | 1995 | High Output Management |
| Stephenson | 1995 | The Diamond Age |
| Rich | 1996 | Skunk Works |
| Graham | 1998-2024 | Essays |
| Scott | 1998 | Seeing Like a State |
| Raymond | 1999 | The Cathedral and the Bazaar |
| Hiltzik | 1999 | Dealers of Lightning |
| Davidson and Rees-Mogg | 1999 | The Sovereign Individual |
| Waldrop | 2001 | The Dream Machine |
| Morris | 2001 | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt |
| Collins | 2001 | Good To Great |
| Symonds | 2003 | Softwar |
| Kushner | 2003 | Masters of Doom |
| Cowen | 2003-2023 | Marginal Revolution |
| Chernow | 2004 | Titan |
| Kurzweil | 2005 | The Singularity is Near |
| Markoff | 2006 | What the Dormouse Said |
| Livingston | 2008 | Founders at Work |
| Meadows | 2008 | Thinking in Systems |
| Yudkowsky et. al. | 2009-2024 | LessWrong |
| Wu | 2010 | The Master Switch |
| Reis | 2011 | The Lean Startup |
| Herztfeld | 2011 | Revolution in the Valley |
| Deutsch | 2012 | The Beginning of Infinity |
| Jackson | 2012 | The PayPal Wars |
| Thorndike | 2012 | The Outsiders |
| Alexander | 2013-2024 | Slate Star Codex/Astral Codex Ten |
| Bostrom | 2014 | Superintelligence |
| Thiel | 2014 | Zero to One |
| Horowitz | 2014 | The Hard Thing about Hard Things |
| Zachary | 2014 | Showstopper |
| Gordon | 2016 | The Rise and Fall of American Growth |
| Vance | 2017 | Elon Musk |
| Wiener | 2020 | Uncanny Valley |
Added by others
| Author | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus Aurelius | c. 170-180 AD | Meditations |
| Tolkien | 1954-1955 | The Lord of the Rings |
| Adams | 1979 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| Gibson | 1984 | Neuromancer |
| Banks | 1988 | The Player of Games |
| Stephenson | 1992 | Snow Crash |
| Grove | 1995 | High Output Management |
| Christensen | 1997 | The Innovator’s Dilemma |
| Collins | 2001 | Good To Great |
| Kurzweil | 2005 | The Singularity is Near |
| Taleb | 2007 | The Black Swan |
| Wu | 2010 | The Master Switch |
| Weir | 2011 | The Martian |
| Isaacson | 2011 | Steve Jobs |
| Kahneman | 2011 | Thinking Fast and Slow |
| Taleb | 2012 | Antifragile |
| Thorndike | 2012 | The Outsiders |
| Rao | Various | Ribbonfarm essays |
| Girard | Various | Various titles |