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 maintain this list by hand.
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Currently reading
- Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany - Donald L. Miller
Next up
- Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works - A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin
Already read
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine
- A Promised Land - Barack Obama
- Abundance - Ezra Klein
- American Football - Adrian Franke
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- Aus dem Windschatten - André Greipel
- Bad Banks - Dirk Laabs
- Breath - the new science of a lost Art - James Nestor
- Building a second brain - Tiago Forte
- Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
- Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave - Ryan Holiday
- Dark Wire - Joseph Cox
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
- Der Perser - Kassra Zargaran
- Der zweite Weltkrieg - Antony Beever
- Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
- Dive into Design Patterns - Alexander Shvets
- Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness - Steve Magness
- Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke
- Drei Brüder im Krieg - Robert Schön
- Effortless - Greg McKeown
- Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope - Mark Manson
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World - Hans Rosling
- Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
- Good Economics for Hard Times - Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee
- How Google Works - Eric Schmidt
- How to avoid a climate disaster - Bill Gates
- How to Think Like a Roman Emperor - Donald J. Robertson
- How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie
- Hyperfocus - Chris Bailey
- Indistractable - Nir Eyal
- Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems - Marianne Belotti
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t - Simon Sinek
- Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within - David Goggins
- New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West - David Sanger
- No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings
- Quit - Annie Duke
- Quit - The Power of knowing when to walk away - Annie Duke
- Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
- Recursion - Blake Crouch
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel
- Sapiens - a brief history of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
- Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
- Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
- Start with why - Simon Sinek
- Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
- Stoicism and the Art of Happiness - Donald J. Robertson
- Sweat - Uncovering your body’s hidden super power - Justin Glaser
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
- The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance - Josh Waitzkin
- The Art of thinking clearly - Rolf Dobelli
- The Big Five for Life - John Strelecky
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
- The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
- The creative nudge - Mick Mohoney & Kevin Chesters
- The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim
- The Product Managers Playbook - Stefan Richter
- The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness - Morgan Housel
- The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
- The Third Door: The Mindset of Success - Alex Banayan
- The Warriors Book of Virtues - Nick Benas
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
- Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition - Scott Young
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
- What if - Randall Munroe
- What if 2 - Randall Munroe
- When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
- Why We sleep - Matthew Walker
- Your Brain at Work - David Rock
- 107 Days - Kamala Harris
- The Money Trap: Grand Fortunes and Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble - Alok Sama
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- Brothers Forever: The Enduring Bond Between a Marine and a Navy SEAL That Transcended Their Ultimate Sacrifice - Tom Sileo, Tom Manion
- Where Cowards Go to Die - Benjamin Sledge
- Den Bach rauf: Eine Kursbestimmung über die Zukunft - Robert Habeck
- King of Ashes - S. A. Cosby
- Mama, bitte lern Deutsch - Tahsim Durgun
- Every Day Is Sunday - Ken Belson
- The Big Rich - Bryan Burrough
- The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald - John U. Bacon
- C° – Celsius - Marc Elsberg
- Der Schwarm - Frank Schätzing
- The Psychology of Leadership - Sébastien Page
- Empire of AI - Karen Hao
Fiction series i liked:
- Will Trent Series by Karen Slaughter
- Eddie Flynn Series by Steve Cavanagh
- Art Mayer Series by Marc Raabe
- The Lincoln Lawyer Series by Michael Connelly
Books that seem interesting
- The Cuckoo’s Calling - Robert Galbraith
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - Tony Fadell
- 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
- The next conversation - argue less, talk more - Jefferson Fisher
- Blood, Sweat and Pixels - Jason Schreier