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The books that shaped how I see the world
and inform how I think and act.
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All-time favourites
Books that had a lasting impression on me and that I keep going back to.
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- Range
by David Epstein - Factfulness
by Hans Rosling - Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman - On Bullshit
by Harry G. Frankfurt - Gegen den Hass
by Carolin Emcke - The Uninhabitable Earth
by David Wallace-Wells - Invisible Women
by Caroline Criado Perez - Between the World and Me
by Ta Nehisi-Coates - Darkness Visible
by William Styron - A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara - The Life You Can Save
by Peter Singer - The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker - Wie Mutter sein
by Michèle Roten - It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson - Punished by Rewards
by Alfie Kohn - Utopia for Realists
by Rutger Bregman - Competing Against Luck
by Clayton M. Christensen - Radical Candor
by Kim Scott - The Scout Mindset
by Julia Galef - The Precipice
by Toby Ord - Drawdown
by Paul Hawken - On Writing
by Stephen King - Lost & Found
by Kathryn Schultz - Hope in the Dark
by Rebecca Solnit - How I Learned to Understand the World
by Hans Rosling - The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert
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2022
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by 2022 - John Doerr
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by 2022 - Rebecca Solnit
by 2022 - Luisa Neubauer & Dagmar Reemtsma
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2021
→ Twitter thread with mini-reviews of each book
- Sum
by David Eagleman - How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitzky & Daniel Zieblatt - Whe Future We Choose
by Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac - Twilight of Democracy
by Anne Appelbaum - The Life You Can Save
by Peter Singer - Stuff You Should Know
by Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant - Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
by Melanie Joy - We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Beginners
by Tom Vanderbilt - The Great Mental Models Vol. 1
by Shane Parrish - The Great Mental Models Vol. 2
by Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien - Autumn
by Karl Ove Knausgård - We Need New Stories
by Nesrine Malik - Putin's People
by Catherine Belton - Doughnut Economics
by Kate Raworth - Odes
by David van Reybrouk - Under a White Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
by Richard Rumelt - Winter
by Karl Ove Knausgård - Climate: A New Story
by Charles Eisenstein - Science Fictions
by Stuart Ritchie - Shape Up
by Ryan Singer - The Art of Leadership
by Michael Lopp - The Code Breaker
by Walter Isaacson - Journal
by Carolin Emcke - Empowered
by Marty Cagan & Chris Jones - Spring
by Karl Ove Knausgård - Summer
by Karl Ove Knausgård - Superforecasting
by Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner - The Scout Mindset
by Julia Galef - The Elements of Eloquence
by Mark Forsyth - The New Breen
by Kate Darling - Can't Even
by Anne Helen Peterson - The Little Book of Hygge
by Meik Wiking - The Power of Not Thinking
by Simon Roberts - The Precipice
by Toby Ord - Noise
by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein - Outline
by Rachel Cusk - Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit
by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim - Think Again
by Adam Grant - How To Live
by Derek Sivers - The Inevitable
by Kevin Kelly - Wie mit (m)einem Körper Leben
by Michèle Roten - Time Travel
by James Gleick - How to Own the Room
by Viv Groskop - Word Perfect
by Susie Dent - The Hummingbird's Gift
by Sy Montgomery - The Monster at Our Door
by Mike Davis - The 99% Invisible City
by Roman Mars - In Defense of Food
by Michael Pollan - The Passion Economy
by Adam Davidson - Apocalypse Never
by Michael Shellenberger - Under The Sky We Make
by Kimberly Nicholas - Machen
by Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler - Barça
by Simon Kuper - Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman - Snow Crash
by Neall Stephenson - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Corvey - The Good Enough Parent
by The School of Life - Several Short Sentences About Writing
by Verlyn Klinkenborg - The Racial Contract
by Charles Mills - Everything
by Rutherford & Fry - How to Measure Anything
by Douglas W. Hubbard - The Year in Tech 2022
by Harvard Business Review - How To Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm - Arriving Today
by Christopher Mims - Breath
by James Nestor - Shape
by Jordan Ellenberg - Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why
by Alexandra Petri - Auf Lange Sicht
by Marie-José Kolly & Simon Schmid - This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
by Nicole Perlroth - Radical Candor
by Kim Scott - Out of Office
by Charlie Warzel & Anne Helen Petersen - A Bigger Picture
by Vanessa Nakate
2020
→ 10+1 great summer reads in 2020
- Das Flüssige Land
by Raphaela Edelbauer - The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli - Algorithms of Opression
by Safiya Noble - Kurt
by Sarah Kuttner - The Art of Stillness
by Pico Ayer - The Laws of Simplicity
by John Maeda - The Night of the Gun
by David Carr - The Value of Everything
by Mariana Mazzucato - Why We're Polarized
by Ezra Klein - Sprache und Sein
by Kübra Gümüşay - Inspired
by Marty Cagan - Competing Against Luck
by Clayton M. Christensen - What You Do Is Who You Are
by Ben Horiwitz - Punished By Rewards
by Alfie Kohn - Prisoners of Geography
by Tim Marshall - The Man Who Solved The Market
by Gregory Zuckerman - Flour Water Salt Yeast
by Ken Forkish - Pandemics
by Christain W. McMillen - Lead From The Outside
by Stacey Abrams - The Manual
by Epictetus - No Filter
by Sarah Frier - Humankind
by Rutger Bregman - Difficult Women
by Helen Lewis - Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten
by Alice Hasters - I Contain Multitudes
by Ed Yong - How To Be An Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi - How to be Black
by Baratunde Thurston - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
by Reni Eddo-Lodge - The Biggest Bluff
by Anna Konnikova - The Design of Everyday Things
by Don Norman - The Number Bias
by Sanne Blauw - How Are We Going to Explain This
by Jelmer Mommers - Hell Yeah or No
by Derek Sivers - Six Degrees
by Mark Lynas - Calling Bullshit
by Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West - Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah - A Woman of No Importance
by Sonia Purnell - Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson - Working
by Robert A. Caro - A World Without Work
by Daniel Susskind - The Idle Traveller
by Dan Kieran - The Hedgehog and the Fox
by Isaiah Berlin - Endure
by Alex Hutchinson - All We Can Save
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine Wilkinson - Give People Money
by Ann Lowrey - The School of Life
by Alain De Botton - Atomic Habits
by James Clear - Rework
by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson - Cribsheet
by Emily Oster - Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
by Tim Harford - The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
by Tim Harford - Biased
by Jennifer L. Eberhardt - The Dictator's Handbook
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith - The Fearless Organization
by Amy C. Edmondson - The Innovation Stack
by Jim McKelvey - x+y
by Eugenia Cheng - How to be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings
by Sarah Cooper - Sisters of the War
by Rania Abouzeid - Hearts and Minds: Harnessing Leadership, Culture and Talent to Really Go Digital
by Lucy Küng - The Ministry of the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2019
→ 11 books that have inspired me in 2019
- The Joy and Sorrows of Parenting
by The School of Life - Asymmetry
by Lisa Halliday - Fundamentals of Data Visualization
by Claus O. Wilke - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari - Haltung
by Melik Kiyak - The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman - The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen - Clean Meat
by Paul Shapiro - The Uninhabitable Earth
by David Wallace-Wells - Scale
by Geoffrey West - Debt — The First 5000 Years
by David Graeber - So Sterben Wir
by Roland Schulz - Invisible Women
by Caroline Criado Perez - Factfulness
by Hans Rosling - The Next Factory of the World
by Irene Yuan Sun - Sprawlball
by Kirk Goldsberry - AI Superpowers
by Kai-Fu Lee - Fooled By Randomness
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Ja Heisst Ja und
by Carolin Emcke - Eine Frage der Moral
by Anatol Stefanowitsch - Leadership on the Line
by Marty Linsky & Ronald Heifetz - Prediction Machines
by Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb, Joshua Gans - Super Thinking
by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann - Shape Up
by Ryan Singer - The Entrepreneurial State
by Mariana Mazzucato - Because Internet
by Gretchen McCulloch - Range
by David Epstein - The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson - The Moment of Lift
by Melinda Gates - She Said
by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey - GDP — A Brief But Affectionate History
by Diane Coyle - Outliers
by Malcom Gladwell - Tausend Zeilen Lüge
by Juan Moreno - Between the World and Me
by Ta Nehisi-Coates - How To
by Randall Munroe - Herkunft
by Sasa Stanišić - How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
by Ben Horiwitz - On Writing
by Stephen King - Radikalisierungsmachinen
by Julia Ebner - Our Women on the Ground
by Zahra Hankir - Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid - Unconditional Parenting
by Alfie Kohn - Thick
by Tressie McMillan Cotton - Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit - Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott - Remote
by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
2018
- Adler und Engel
by Julie Zeh - Kämpfen
by Karl Ove Knausgård - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
by Samin Nosrat - The Unwinding
by George Packer - Post-Truth
by James Ball - Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari - The Information
by James Gleick - Jenseits
by Yassin Musharbash - Nudge
by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein - Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari - The Objects That Power the Global Economy
by Quartz - 1Q84
by Haruki Murakami - Irrational Exuberance
by Robert J. Shiller - 1Q84 Book 3
by Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami - Zero
by Charles Seife - Newsgames
by Bobby Schweizer, Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari - Soccernomics
by Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski - Algorithms to Live By
by Brian Christian & Thomas L. Griffiths - The Evolution of Everything
by Matt Ridley - Norma
by Sofi Oksanen - Die Laufbibel
by Matthias Markquardt - The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande - Babyjahre
by Remo H. Largo - Both Flesh and Not
by David Foster Wallance - Hello Ruby
by Linda Ljukas - Die Vereindeutigung der Welt
by Thomas Bauer - Drawdown
by Paul Hawken - Männer mit Erfahrung
by Castle Freeman - Calypso
by David Sedaris - The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert - Fear
by Bob Woodward - Love, Pa
by Salome Müller - If Beale Streat Could Talk
by James Baldwin - Breaking News
by Alan Rusbridger - The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker - Wie Mutter sein
by Michèle Roten - It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson - The Brain — A User's Guide
by The New Scientist - No1
by Christof Gertsch & Mikael Krogerus
Before 2018
I didn't track my reading before 2018. What follows is a selection of books I remember reading before then.
- The Filter Bubble
by Eli Pariser - Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari - Changing the World Is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man
by Steve Harrison - Understanding Comics
by Steve McCloud - A Tear And A Smile
by Khalil Gibran - Träumen
by Karl Ove Knausgaard - Utopia for Realists
by Rutger Bregman - Spielen
by Karl Ove Knausgaard - Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart - So schön wie im Himmel kanns hier gar nicht sein
by Christoph Schlingensief - The Martian
by Andy Weir - Sterben
by Karl Ove Knausgaard - Leben
by Karl Ove Knausgaard - A History of the Future in 100 Objects
by Adrian Hon - Nachtzug nach Lissabon
by Pascal Mercier - Kämpfen
by Karl Ove Knausgaard - Libra
by Don DeLillo - Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury - Weil es sagbar ist
by Carolin Emcke - Epilogue
by Will Boast - Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein
by Paul Watzlawick - Program Or Be Programmed
by Douglas Rushkoff - Play It Again
by Alan Rusbridger - Present Shock
by Douglas Rushkoff - Do No Harm
by Henry Marsh - The Art of Game Design
by Jesse Schell - Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch - We Are Anonymous
by Ole Reissmann, Konrad Lischka - Free
by Chris Anderson - Here I Am — The Story of Tim Hetherington
by Alan Huffman - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
by David Foster Wallace - Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson - No Logo
by Naomi Klein - Congo
by David Van Reybrouck - Lieben
by Karl Ove Knausgaard - Darkness Visible
by William Styron - A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara - Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman - On Bullshit
by Harry G. Frankfurt - Gegen den Hass
by Carolin Emcke - Im Westen nichts Neues
by Erich Maria Remarque