Some books I’ve read.
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 Zaf贸n
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: Itali毛 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, Niccol貌 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 Zaf贸n
- 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