A collection of some of the books I enjoyed. Some relate to work or programming, few to fiction and more are popular science.
The Stuff of Thought
by Steven Pinker
Debt: The first 5000 years
by David Graeber
Outliers - The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
Future Perfect
by Steven Johnson
Why Nations Fail
by by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Discarded Science
by John Grant
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
The Selfish Gene
by
Influence
by Robert B. Cialdini
Generation X.
by Douglas Coupland
Deep Work
by Cal Newport
On the Map
by Simon Garfield
Language Instict
by Steven Pinker
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Utopia for Realists
by Rutger Bregman
1967: Als Pop unsere Welt für immer veränderte
by Ernst Hofacker
The Art of Immutable Architecture
by Michael L. Perry
Software Engineering at Google
by Titus Winters
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
by Dr. James Stanier
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology
by Matthew Skelton
Punished by Rewards
by Alfie Kohn
Thanks for the Feedback
by Douglas Stone
Crucial Conversations
by Joseph Grenny
Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software
by Jeff Meyerson
The Making of a Manager
by Julie Zhuo
Elixir in Action
by Saša Juric
Rust in Action
by Tim McNamara
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Simply Said: Communicating Better at Work
by Jay Sullivan
The Manager's Path
by Camille Fournier
Elastic Leadership: Growing self-organizing teams
by Roy Osherove
User Story Mapping
by Jeff Patton
The Joy of Clojure
by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
by Daniel S. Vacanti
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
by Will Larson
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari