This list shows books I’ve read and those I plan to read soon. Titles in the “Already Read” section come as my personal recommendations. I’ve sorted the list by the order in which I read them.

These days, I track my reading mostly on Goodreads or Reado, so I’ll update this list only from time to time.

Last update: 17.08.2025

Already read

  • How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie
  • Why we sleep - Matthew Walker
  • Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope - Mark Manson
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World - Hans Rosling
  • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim
  • Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t - Simon Sinek
  • Stoicism and the Art of Happiness - Donald J. Robertson
  • How Google Works - Eric Schmidt
  • The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim
  • Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition - Scott Young
  • Atomic Habits - James Clear
  • The Martian - Andy Weir
  • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
  • Deep Work - Cal Newport
  • Start with why - Simon Sinek
  • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness - Morgan Housel
  • Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins
  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  • The Warriors Book of Virtues - Nick Benas
  • Sapiens - a brief history of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
  • Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
  • No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings
  • Good Economics for Hard Times - Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee
  • The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger
  • How to avoid a climate disaster - Bill Gates
  • Aus dem Windschatten - André Greipel
  • Your Brain at Work - David Rock
  • Indistractable - Nir Eyal
  • American Football - Adrian Franke
  • How to Think Like a Roman Emperor - Donald J. Robertson
  • The Big Five for Life - John Strelecky
  • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave - Ryan Holiday
  • Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems - Marianne Belotti
  • Hyperfocus - Chris Bailey
  • Der zweite Weltkrieg - Antony Beever
  • Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within - David Goggins
  • Dive into Design Patterns - Alexander Shvets
  • The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance - Josh Waitzkin
  • The Art of thinking clearly - Rolf Dobelli
  • The Product Managers Playbook - Stefan Richter
  • The Third Door: The Mindset of Success - Alex Banayan
  • A Promised Land - Barack Obama
  • Effortless - Greg McKeown
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
  • Bad Bank - Dirk Laabs
  • Breath - the new science of a lost Art - James Nestor
  • Quit - The Power of knowing when to walk away - Annie Duke
  • Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel
  • The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
  • What if - Randall Munroe
  • What if 2 - Randall Munroe
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
  • Abundance - Ezra Klein
  • Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness - Steve Magness
  • New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West - David Sanger
  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
  • Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
  • Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke
  • Dark Wire - Joseph Cox
  • Building a second brain - Tiago Forte
  • Der Perser - Kassra Zargaran
  • Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
  • Sweat - Uncovering your body’s hidden super power - Justin Glaser
  • Drei Brüder im Krieg - Robert Schön
  • Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
  • The creative nudge - Mick Mohoney & Kevin Chesters
  • Quit - Annie Duke
  • Bad Banks - Dirk Laabs

Fiction series i liked:

  • Will Trent Series by Karen Slaughter
  • Eddie Flynn Series by Steve Cavanagh

Books that seem interesting

  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Taleb
  • Sleep Smarter - Shawn Stevenson
  • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - David Graeber
  • Rule #1 - Phil Town
  • Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Convinced! - Jack Nasher
  • Souverän investieren mit Indexfonds und ETFs - Gerd Kommer
  • The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium - Martin Gurri
  • Out of Office - Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Petersen
  • Life is setting me up for success - Victor Levy
  • How To Not Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking - Jordan Ellenberg
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know - Adam M. Grant
  • Mindset - Carol Dweck
  • Essentialism - Greg McKeown
  • When breath becomes air - Paul Kalanithi
  • The next conversation - argue less, talk more - Jefferson Fisher
  • Blood, Sweat and Pixels - Jason Schreier