This is an incomplete list of books i read or plan to read in the near future. Those in the “already read” part are recommendations. The list is sorted in the order i have read the books.

Last update: 12.02.2024

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

Books i currently read

• Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel

Books that seem interesting

• Kopf Geld Jagd - Florian Homm
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Taleb
• The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
• Sleep Smarter - Shawn Stevenson
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - David Graeber
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
• What if - Randall Munroe
• 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