What to Read After Hackers & Painters
Readers who loved Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Hackers & Painters is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Hackers & Painters
Founders at Work
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Coders at Work
The Mythical Man-Month
The Passionate Programmer
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
Joel on Software
Programming Pearls
Beautiful Code
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Masterminds of Programming
The Little Schemer
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
Real World Haskell
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
Hacker's Delight
Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Peopleware
Just for Fun
Crossing the Chasm
JavaScript
Code Complete
Head First design patterns