Reading
At the beginning of 2021, I set myself the goal of reading one book a week (inspired by this video).
And since then, with a few exceptions, I’ve stuck to it. This year I relaxed the rules a bit and allowed myself more time for books and sometimes put books aside again if they weren’t the right ones, but I (always) loved to read and still read quite a lot.
That’s why I’m sharing my reading lists of the last few years here, and maybe the odd book review in the future if I feel like it.
I read books sometimes in German, sometimes in English, sometimes on paper, often on my reader (a Tolino), and sometimes I relax and listen to an audio book. Whatever I feel like.
Books I read in 2023
October
- Joseph Menn: Cult of the dead Cow
- Chriss Voss: Never split the Difference
- Thomas Harris: Roter Drache (Red Dragon)
September
- Art Spiegelman: Maus (graphic novel)
- Stephen Baxter: Voyage
- David Allen: Getting Things Done
August
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaids Tale
- Steve Wozniak: iWoz
- Natalie Goldberg: Writing down the Bones
Juli
- Sabine Dardenne: Ihm in die Augen sehen
- Joe Haldeman: Forever Free
- Veit Etzold: Dark Web
Juni
- Arthur C. Clarke: Rendezvous mit Rama
- Greg McKeown: Multipliers
- Greg McKeown: Essentialism
- Greg McKeown: Effortless
Mai
- Joe Haldeman: The Forever War
- Tom Hillebrandt: Drohnenland
- Max Brooks: Devolution
April
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban [Hörbuch]
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter und der Orden des Phoenix [Hörbuch]
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz [Hörbuch]
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes [Hörbuch]
- Prince Harry: Spare
März
- Ryan Holiday: Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
- Daniel Suarez: Kill Decision
- Cal Newport: Eine Welt ohne E-Mail
- Christopher Browning: Ordinary Men
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen [Hörbuch]
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens [Hörbuch]
- C.S.Lewis: Das Wunder von Narnia
- J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch [Hörbuch]
Februar
- Blake Crouch: Recursion
- Katy Milkman: How to change
- Stanislaw Lem: Solaris [Hörbuch]
- Blake Crouch: Dark Matter
Januar
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: Das Lange Utopia [Hörbuch]
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: Der Lange Kosmos [Hörbuch]
- Logan Ury: How to not die alone
- Oliver Sax: Awakenings
Books I read in 2022
- Söhnke Ahrens: How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
- Martha Wells: Tagebuch eines Killerbots (Murderbot diaries)
- Chade-Meng Tan: Search Inside Yourself
- Martha Wells: Der Netzwerkeffekt (Murderbot diaries)
- Katharina Nocun, Pia Lamberty: Fake Facts. Wie Verschwörungstheorien unser Denken bestimmen
- Katharina Nocun, Pia Lamberty: True Facts. Was gegen Verschwörungserzählungen wirklich hilft
- Cal Newport: So good they can’t ignore you
- Oliver Burkeman: Four Thousand Weeks
- Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational
- Donald Hoffman: Relativ real (The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes)
- Lisa Brennan-Jobs: Beifang (Small Fry)
- Jacob Ward: The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
- Russ Harris: Wer dem Glück hinterherrennt läuft daran vorbei (The Happiness Trap)
- Devon Price: Laziness does not exist: A Defense of the Exhausted, Exploited, and Overworked
- Scott Young: Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
- Hannah Fry: Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
- Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
- Laura Vanderkam: 168 Hours: You have more time than you think
- Kurt Krömer: Du darfst nicht alles glauben, was du denkst: Meine Depression
- Andreas Eschbach: Das Jesus-Video
- Susan Cain: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing make us whole
- Clayton Christensen: How will you measure your life
- Dan Brown: Sakrileg (The Da Vinci Code)
- Stefanie Stahl: Jeder ist beziehungsfähig
- William Gibson: The Peripheral
- Jasmin Lee Cori: Wenn die Mutterliebe fehlte (The Emotionally Absent Mother)
- Tom Hillenbrand: Qube
- Robert Augustus Masters: To Be A Man
- James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger: Apollo 13 (Lost Moon)
- Tom Hillenbrand: Hologrammatica
- Philipp P. Peterson: Vakuum
- Tiago Forte: Building a second Brain
- Delia Owens: Der Gesang der Flusskrebse
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
- Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim: Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit
- Max Chafkin: The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
- William MacAskill: Gutes besser tun
- Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
- Matthew Walker: Why we sleep
- Viktor Frankl: Trotzdem ja zum Leben sagen
- William MacAskill: What we owe the Future
- David Brooks: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
- Matthew Ball: The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything
- Dave Cullen: Columbine
- Jens-Michael Wüstel: Männliche Depression
- Chris Hadfield: Die Apollo-Morde
- Francesca Specter: Alonement: How to be alone & absolutely own it
- Michael Crichton: The Andromeda Strain
- Gene Kranz: Failure is not an Option
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: Die Lange Erde
- Agatha Christie: And then there were none
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: Der Lange Krieg
- Johann Hari: Stolen Focus
- Dimitri Glukhowsky: Metro 2033
- Michael Crichton: Andromeda Evolution
- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: Der Lange Mars
- Dimitri Glukhowsky: Metro 2034
- Dan Hanks: Swashbucklers
- Cal Newport: How to Become a Straight-A Student
Books I read in 2021
- Sigrid Nesterenko: Das unterschätzte Epstein Barr Virus: Was tun bei einer chronischen EBV-Infektion?
- Andreas Michalsen: Heilen mit der Kraft der Natur
- Jakob Lund Fisker: Early Retirement Extreme
- Ash Ali & Hasan Kubba: The unfair advantage
- Maren Schneider: Stressfrei durch Meditation
- Mike Cernovich: Gorilla Mindset
- Aldous Huxlex: Brave New World (Audiobook)
- Morgan Housel: The Psychology of Money
- Alexandra Barton: Recovery from CFS
- Austin Kleon: Show your Work
- Donald Miller: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
- Austin Kleon: Keep going
- David Beales, Janice Benning, Helen Whitten, Julia MacDonald, Gina Johnson: Reclaim Health
- Austin Kleon: Steal like an Artist
- Ken Dychtwald: Körperbewusstsein
- Jeff Haden: The Motivation Myth
- James Clear: Atomic Habits
- Gerd Kommer: Souverän investieren mit Indexfonds & ETFs
- Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth
- Jacob Teitelbaum: From Fatigued to Fantastic
- Andreas Joppe: On/Off Gesundheit
- Steven Pressfield: The War of Art (Audiobook)
- Steven Pressfield: Turning Pro (Audiobook)
- Steven Pressfield: Do the work
- Tim Ferriss: Die 4-Stunden Woche
- Stephen King: The Green Mile
- Brown, Peter C., Roediger, Henry L., McDaniel, Mark A.: Make it stick
- Yuval Noah Harari: Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
- Angelika Gulder: Aufgewacht!: Finde das Leben, das dich glücklich macht.
- Andrew Bunnie Huang: The Hardware Hacker:Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
- David Kushner: Masters of Doom
- Bob Pape: It’s behind you
- Shunmyo Masuno: Zen your LIfe
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Das Universum für Eilige
- Dalai Lama: Die Lehren des tibetischen Buddhismus
- Florian Anwander: Synthesizer: So funktioniert elektronische Klangerzeugung
- Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Zentrum: Ayurveda
- Brockhaus: 50 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte 1949 - 1999
- Cal Newport: Deep work
- Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang: An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
- Toby Walsh: It’s alive: Wie künstliche Intelligenz unser Leben verändern wird
- Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Carol Dweck: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Linus Torvalds: Just for Fun
- Bill Burnett & Dave Evans: Designing your Life
- Bill Gates: Wie wir die Klimakatastrophe verhindern (How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need)
- John Carreyrou: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Andy Weir: Der Astronaut (Project Hail Mary)
- Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind
- Sahra Wagenknecht: Die Selbsgerechten
- Wolfgang Kaleck: Mit Recht gegen die Macht. Unser weltweiter Kampf für die Menschenrechte
- Nils Melzer: Der Fall Julian Assange: Geschichte einer Verfolgung
- MJ DeMarco: The Millionaire Fastlane
- Mary L Trump: The Reckoning
- Angela Duckworth: Grit
- Richard Matheson: I am Legend
- JD Salinger: the catcher in the rye
- John Brunner: The Shockwaverider
- Michael E. Gerber: The E-Myth revisited
- Cornelius Granig: Darknet: die Welt im Schatten der Computerkriminalität
- Sascha Lobo: Realitätsschock
- Stefan Mey: Darknet
- James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Falls
- Karl Pillemer: 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans
- Raelan Agle: Finding Freedom: Escaping from the Prison of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Arun Gandhi: Wut ist ein Geschenk
- Michael Ende: Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch
- Christian Stöcker: Das Experiment sind wir
Books I want to read
- Stephen Baxter: Nasa-Trilogie (Ares, Titan, Moonseed)
- David Sax: The revenge of analog
- David Sax: The Future of analog
- Gloria Mark: attention span
- Matthew Dicks: Storyworthy
- Andrew Carnegie: how to stop worrying and start living
- Jessica Brody: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need
- Blake Snyder: Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need
- Ezra Klein: Why we’re polarized
- Derren Brown: Happy
- Daniel Coyle: the little book of talent
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos: The Internet of Money
- Michael Collins Carrying the Fire
- Bjorn Lomborg: False Alarm
- Mona Simpson: A regular Guy
- Thomas Piketty: Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert
- Michael C. Bauer, Laura Deinzer: Zwischen Wahn und Wahrheit
If you have any recommendations for books I might enjoy, please send them my way!