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the BBC's Big Read, top 21
21 items
- 01The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- 02Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 03His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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Peter Thiel's recommended books, sourced one by one
No 'Thiel loves this' blog reposts. Every pick here traces back to an interview, an AMA, or something he wrote himself. Sources in the notes.
01
the one he calls magisterial (sourced). he studied under Girard at Stanford before any of this
02
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
says he read it right before starting PayPal, wrote the preface to the 2020 reissue himself
03
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
required reading for the early PayPal team, he has said this twice in interviews
04
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
05
Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder
from his Dec 2012 WSJ year-end books piece (sourced)
06
Resurrection from the Underground - Rene Girard
07
100 Plus - Sonia Arrison
same WSJ piece, about the science of radically longer lifespans
08
The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
from the 2014 Reddit AMA (sourced), he grouped this with a few other old books written about the future
09
The American Challenge - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
10
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
same AMA, he has said this twice, also came up separately in a later podcast
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