Reading

I enjoy learning and I think reading books is one of the best ways to deepen oneself into a topic. Many wise people have walked the Earth over thousands of years and put their thoughts into writing for the next generations to discover. It would be a waste not to take in some of that knowledge. For that reason, I make an effort to read every day, even if it's only a couple of pages. I mostly read non-fiction but I occasionally read works of fiction too.

The list below enumerates all the books that I've read since July 2013, which is when I started tracking my reading on Goodreads. My favourite books are marked in bold.

Books read between 2013–today

• Jonathan Clements How to Think About Money
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
• Derek Sivers Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
• James Clear Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
• John Chadwick The Decipherment of Linear B
• John Ousterhout A Philosophy of Software Design
• Sun Tzu The Art of War
• David J. Agans Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems
• Cédric Villani Théorème vivant
• Reid Hoffman Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
• Thomas Guenter Personal finance met Thomas Guenter
• John Warrillow Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
• Frank Partnoy Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
• Frédéric Dard Le monte-charge
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
• Mike Piper Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less
• The Blackhouse Peter May
• Russ Olsen Eloquent Ruby
• Vaughn Vernon Implementing Domain-Driven Design
• Voltaire Candide
• Will Durant The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
• Christopher Klein Millionnaire avec le stratégie du paresseux
• Dino Buzzati The Tartar Steppe
• G. H. Hardy A Mathematician's Apology
• Richard Rumelt Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
• Michel Beauvais Traité Rustica des Plantes d'Intérieur
• Shane Parrish The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
• James Carse Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
• Will Durant The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
• Friedrich Nietzsche Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
• Will Durant The Lessons of History
• Guy de Maupassant Bel-Ami
• Gabriel Weinberg Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
• Tom Eisenmann Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Vol de nuit
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
• Johan Van Overtveldt The Mystic Hand
• Yukio Mishima Sun & Steel
• Emma Sibley The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery
• Tim Wu The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
• Eli Schwartz Product-Led SEO: The Why Behind Building Your Organic Growth Strategy
• Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
• David Deida The Way of the Superior Man
• Robin Wigglesworth Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Le Petit Prince
• Hector Malot Sans famille
• Andrew Lo Adapative Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
• Bronze Age Pervert Bronze Age Mindset
• Paul Graham Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• Nate Berkopec Sidekiq in Practice
• René Descartes Discours de la méthode
• Yvon Chouinard Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
• Robert Hagstrom Investing: The Last Liberal Art
• Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom
• Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
• Morgan Housel The Psychology of Money
• John Micklethwait The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
• Andrew Berkin, Larry Swedroe Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing: The Way Smart Money Invests Today
• Marc Andreessen The pmarca blog archives
• Bill Gates How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
• Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
• Al Ries Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded Marketplace
• William B. Irvine A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
• Robert T. Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Andy Crestodina Content Chemistry: An Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing
• Jim Collins Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
• Chris Voss Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
• Rob Fitzpatrick The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
• James E. Lovelock Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
• Alain de Botton Relationships
• Eric S. Raymond The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
• Sylvain Tesson Dans les forêts de Sibérie
• Marc-Andre Giroux Production Ready GraphQL
• Andy Hunt The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Candice Millard The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
• Stefan Zweig Le Joueur d'échecs
• Joel Spolsky Joel on Software
• Peter Hook The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
• Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
• Mike Isaac Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
• Cullen Roche Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance
• Geert Mak In Europa
• Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
• Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
• Jonathan Franzen The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
• Jean Giono Solitude de la pitié
• Theodore J. Kaczynski The Unabomber's Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
• Jean Giono L'homme qui plantait des arbres
• Edward R. Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Lars Kroijer Investing Demystified: How to Invest Without Speculation and Sleepless Nights
• Gregory Zuckerman The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
• Geoffrey A. Moore Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
• Carlo Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
• Peter Freuchen Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos
• Benoît B. Mandelbrot The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
• Mebane Faber Global Asset Allocation: A Survey of the World's Top Asset Allocation Strategies
• Ursula Le Guin The Dispossessed
• Donella H. Meadows Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Ray Dalio Big Debt Crises
• Michael E. Gerber The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
• Erik Larson The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
• Lars Kroijer Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge-Fund Manager
• Gary Antonacci Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk
• Peter Thiel Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• David Graeber Debt: The First 5,000 Years
• Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom
• Clayton M. Christenen Competing Against Luck
• Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• René Girard Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque
• William J. Bernstein Deep Risk: How History Informs Portfolio Design
• Ryan Singer Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
• Nicolas Machiavel Le Prince
• Jim Paul What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
• Matthieu Ricard Le Moine et le Philosophe
• Nicholas Nassim Taleb Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• Evan Ratliff The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.
• Homère L'Odyssée
• William J. Bernstein Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World
• Jef Vuchelen & Mark Scholliers Het grote pensioenbedrog
• Jonathan Hennessey The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution
• John Carreyrou Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
• Michael E. Porter HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
• Ann Handley Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
• Robert B. Cialdini Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Brian Lonsdorf Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
• William J. Bernstein The Ages of the Investor: A Critical Look at Life-cycle Investing
• Scott Adams How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
• Daniel Goleman Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
• Floyd Marinescu Domain-Driven Design Quickly
• Lodro Rinzler Sit Like a Buddha: A Pocket Guide to Meditation
• Albert Camus L'Étranger
• Roger Lowenstein When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
• Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Stefan Loesch A Guide to Financial Regulation for Fintech Entrepreneurs
• Arthur Schopenhauer Essays of Schopenhauer
• Richard Thaler Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
• Howard Marks The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
• Nick Bilton American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
• Ha-Joon Chang Economics: The User's Guide
• Rob Smyth Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football
• Normal Ohler Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
• Sean Ellis Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
• Benjamin Graham The Intelligent Investor
• Albert Camus La Chute
• Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
• Intercom The Growth Handbook
• Marcus Aurelius Meditations
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• Robert Greene Mastery
• Katie Hafner Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
• Umberto Eco Le Nom de la rose
• Tim Harford The Undercover Economist
• Epictetus Enchiridion
• Richard A. Ferri All about Asset Allocation
• Burton G. Malkiel A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Sylvain Tesson Sur les chemins noirs
• Jason Fried Rework
• Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
• Erik Brynjolfsson Race Against The Machine
• Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto
• Sandi Metz Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
• Robert Galbraith The Cuckoo's Calling
• Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories and the City
• Ulrich Boser Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything
• Nate Berkopec The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
• Henning Koch Growing Rails Applications in Practice
• Michel Houellebecq Les Particules Élémentaires
• Tim Harford The Undercover Economist
• Anton Checkhov Selected Stories
• Ray Dalio Principles
• Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
• Peter Gruber Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story
• Alice Schroeder The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques
• Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Anthony Robbins Money: Master the Game - 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
• Erik Larson In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
• Richard Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
• Katie Hafner Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
• Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Adam Grant Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
• Callum Roberts The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
• Robert Galbraith The Cuckoo's Calling
• Max Tegmark Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
• Donald A. Norman The Design of Everyday Things
• Epictetus The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
• Howard Marks Mr. Nice
• Ben Horowitz The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Adam Rogers Proof: The Science of Booze
• Richard Tarnas The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
• Cal Newport Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Todd Rose The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
• Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
• Peter Seibel Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
• Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
• Peter Thiel Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• Franz Kafka Le Château
• J.K. Rowling The Casual Vacancy
• Jonas Jonasson The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
• Isabel Allende Inés of My Soul
• Andy Weir The Martian
• Des Traynor Intercom on Product Management
• Frédéric Laloux Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
• Gene Kim The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Gary Regan The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft
• John Hegarty Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules
• Jeff Olson The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
• Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
• Douglas Crockford JavaScript: The Good Parts
• Andy Hunt The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
• Leonard Koren Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
• Alan Watts The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
• Lois Lowry The Giver
• Aldous Huxley Brave New World
• Boris Vian L'Écume des jours
• David Deida The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
• Jean-Paul Sartre L'existentialisme est un humanisme
• Paul Auster Sunset Park
• Viktor Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
• Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
• Mark Rippetoe Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
• Paulo Coehlo The Alchemist
• Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
• Hermann Hesse Siddhartha
• Robert Glover No More Mr. Nice Guy