📚 Books

Some books I’ve read.

2024 Q4

• The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods, Hank Haney
• Co-intelligentie - Slimmer werken met AI, Ethan Mollick

2024 Q3

• Grand Hotel Europa, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
• The Startup CTO’s Handbook, Zach Goldberg
• Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson

2024 Q2

• Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements, Paul Strathern

2024 Q1

• Edge of Eternity: The Century Trilogy #3, Ken Follett

2023 Q4

• Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy #2, Ken Follett

2023 Q3

• Fall of Giants: The Century Trilogy #1, Ken Follett

2023 Q2

• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife

2023 Q1

• Het spel van de engel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

2022 Q4

• Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, Bobby Fischer

2022 Q3

• Caravaggio: a life sacred and profane, Andrew Graham-Dixon
• Het naakte leven, Luigi Pirandello

2022 Q2

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
• De blauwe fabel: Waarom we de KLM al een eeuw lang tegen elke prijs in de lucht houden, Ties Joosten
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Learning Functional Programming in Scala, Alvin Alexander
• Eigen welzijn eerst, Roxane van Iperen

2022 Q1

• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Elizabeth Kolbert
• Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker. Second time reading it, as a New Year’s resolution to get more and better sleep; really helpful.
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, Melanie Mitchell
• Good Economics for Hard Times, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

2021 Q4

• Zo hadden we het niet bedoeld; De tragedie achter de toeslagenaffaire, Jesse Frederik
• Implementing DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing, Alex Lawrence
• Brieven aan ’t Hooge Nest, Roxane van Iperen
• Het recht van de snelste; Hoe ons verkeer steeds asocialer werd, Thalia Verkade

2021 Q3

• ’t Hooge Nest, Roxane van Iperen
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, Bill Gates
• Farm (and Other F Words): The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm, Sarah K. Mock
• Wat Iedereen zou Moeten Weten over Klimaatverandering, Bart Verheggen
• Drinkbare rivieren, Li-An Phoa & Maarten van der Schaaf

2021 Q2

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Erik Larson
• Ten zuiden van de grens, Haruki Murakami

2021 Q1

• Lorentz: gevierd fysicus, geboren verzoener, Frits Berends & Dirk van Delft
• Een klein land met verre uithoeken: ongelijke kansen in veranderend Nederland, Floor Milikowski
• Italiaanse manieren: omnibus van Italiaanse buren en Italiaanse opvoeding, Tim Parks

2020 Q4

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows
• Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell. Different stories about the good and the evil; I found it really hard to get through and now I only look forward to watch the movie.
• Nederland onder het systeemplafond, Marcel van Roosmalen

2020 Q3

• Life on the edge: the coming of age of quantum biology, Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe McFadden. the title sounds much more complicated than the book actually is. The theory is clearly explained step-by-step and repeated as necessary. I think a good introduction into life science.
• Cornelis Lely: ingenieur van het nieuwe Nederland, Cees Banning
• A gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
• The richest man in Babylon, George Samuel Clason
• Wegens vakantie gesloten: Italië in augustus, Jarl van der Ploeg
• The secret lives of planets: a user’s guide to the solar system, Paul Murdin

2020 Q2

• Il principe, Niccolò Machiavelli
• De graanrepubliek, Frank Westerman
• Principles: life & work, Ray Dalio
• SPQR: a history of ancient Rome, Mary Beard
• Difficult conversations: how to discuss what matters most, Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, et al.

2020 Q1

• Shoe dog, Phil Knight. You don’t build an empire by being nice. Best book I read in 2020.
• Skin in the game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Although I love his series, the author regularly develops into a grumpy man.
• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
• De meeste mensen deugen, Rutger Bregman
• Guns, germs and steel, Jared Diamond
• Einstein, Walter Isaacson
• Influence: the psychology of persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini Phd

2019 Q4

• Economics - the user’s guide, Ha-Joon Chang
• De schaduw van de wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Designing data-intensive applications, Martin Kleppmann. Provides so much context and insight, a must-read for developers.

2019 Q3

• Geschiedenis van de westerse filosofie, Bertrand Russell
• Germania: a personal history of germans ancient and modern, Simon Winder
• Zero to one, Pieter Thiel

2019 Q2

• Why we sleep, Matthew Walker
• 21 lessons for the 21st century, Yuval Noah Harari
• De onzichtbare hand, Bas van Bavel
• Spark: the definitive guide, Bill Chambers & Matei Zaharia

2019 Q1

• Factfulness, Hans Rosling
• Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom
• Blitzed - drugs in nazi Germany, Norman Ohler
• Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson