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

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