The whole shelf
Here's a list of books I've read, with some scattered notes. They're sorted by how much I liked them, totally subjective and partial, as usual. Feel free to browse the notes, but don't expect anything comprehensive. You'll find technical, psychology, lifestyle, history, and science books, basically anything I managed to take notes on. I usually don't review fiction, but a few are included too.
242 books - got a recommendation?
- WorkThe Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- LifestyleWorkThe Art of Victory
- PsychologyLifestyleAtomic Habits
- LifestyleWorkCreativity, Inc.
- Lifestyle10% Happier
- LifestyleKitchen Confidential
- LifestyleFebbre
- WorkBecome an Effective Software Engineering Manager
- ITCommunicationHow to Make Things Faster
- PsychologyLifestyleBrain Rules for Baby
- LifestyleGreenlights
- ScienceWe Have No Idea
- ScienceThe Muscle Ladder
- FictionWorld War Z
- NutritionThe Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
- CommunicationGli Sdraiati
- WorkITSQL Antipatterns
- HistoryPsychologyHidden Valley Road - Inside the Mind of an American Family
- ScienceThe Music Of Primes
- CommunicationThe Culture Map
- CommunicationSimply Said: Communicating Better at Work and Beyond
- WorkBeing Geek
- CommunicationEverybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide for Creating Ridiculously Good Content
- FictionProject Hail Mary
- LifestyleHow to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
- LifestyleHow to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
- WorkITThe Phoenix Project
- FictionEveryone in My Family Has Killed Someone
- LifestylePhilosophyFour Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
- Current affairsScienceHow the World Really Works
- WorkCommunicationPresentation Patterns
- ITCode: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
- CommunicationHow To Talk To Anyone
- ScienceComplete Car Care Manual
- ITThe Definitive Guide to DAX
- WorkThe Tech Resume Inside Out
- ITHands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow
- EconomyThe 4 Pillars of Investing
- NutritionLifestyleFood Rules: An Eater's Manual
- PsychologyLifestyleLa Rana Bollita, Una Storia di Ansia
- HistoryA Short History of Nearly Everything
- ITHead First Design Patterns
- LifestyleCommunicationThe Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- LifestylePsychologyNever Split The Difference
- Current affairs21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- ITAutomate the boring stuff with Python
- LifestyleFictionHow to Stop Time
- ITPython Machine Learning
- PsychologyLifestyleEmotional First Aid
- EconomyThe Accounting Game
- LifestylePhilosophyThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- EconomyLifestyleThe Simple Path to Wealth
- WorkSeven Tenths Of A Second
- HistoryITBlood, Sweat, and Pixels
- HistoryPsychologyThe Minds of Billy Milligan
- EconomyThe Algebra of Wealth
- HistoryMinecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything
- FictionHistorySay Nothing
- PsychologyFictionThe Silent Patient
- Current affairsThe $12 Million Stuffed Shark
- WorkCommunicationThe Mom Test
- HistoryAll Quiet on the Western Front
- FictionA Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
- FictionAn Absolutely Remarkable Thing
- PhilosophyMeditations for Mortals
- CommunicationPsychologyQuiet
- ScienceFrequently Asked Questions About the Universe
- HistoryFictionIl Genio Non Esiste
- WorkITZero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Current affairsThis Is Vegan Propaganda (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
- PhilosophyThe Year of Magical Thinking
- CommunicationThe Conversation Code
- SciencePale Blue Dot
- CommunicationYou Can Be Funny and Make People Laugh
- CommunicationWorkEscaping the Build Trap
- CommunicationMarketingThe Best Story Wins
- WorkCommunicationInspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- Current affairsBrotopia
- ITWorkThe Engineering Executive’s Primer
- WorkRuined by Design
- NutritionSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat
- PsychologyCommunicationHow to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
- FictionCommunicationOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- HistorySapiens - A Brief History of Humankind
- HistoryBackstabbing for Beginners
- LifestyleScienceLa Scienza Delle Pulizie
- ScienceBad Science
- HistoryCar Guys vs. Bean Counters
- Current affairsLe Cene Eleganti
- PsychologySuperhuman Social Skills
- PsychologyLove, sex and long-term relationships
- HistoryDifficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism
- LifestyleWorkThe Productivity Project
- ITRefactoring UI
- Current affairsBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- FictionThe Shadow of the Wind
- SciencePacking For Mars
- NutritionHow Not To Die
- LifestylePhilosophyThe Book of Awesome
- Current affairsNutritionSalt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
- ITRefactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- HistoryMythos
- ITCurrent affairsUncanny Valley
- Current affairsWorth Dying for - The Power and Politics of Flags
- LifestylePhilosophyThe Defining Decade
- LifestylePsychologyA Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
- PsychologyWhat Every Body is Saying
- CommunicationHow to Win Friends and Influence People
- LifestyleEconomyThe 100-Year Life
- LifestylePsychologyThe Slight Edge
- PsychologyEconomyYour Money and Your Brain
- ScienceA Brief History of Time - From the Big Bang to Black Holes
- LifestyleThe Power of Habit
- EconomyYour Money or Your Life
- HistoryLost Girls
- FictionThe Secret of Secrets
- WorkThe Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
- PsychologyAddiction by Design
- FictionNorwegian Wood
- UtilitiesHow Not to Kill Your Houseplant
- WorkLifestyleHow Big Things Get Done
- FictionCounter Clock World
- LifestylePhilosophyThe Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
- ITSystem Design Interview
- Fiction11/22/63
- PsychologyCommunicationEmotional Agility
- FictionNever Flinch
- ITFictionThe Cuckoo's Egg
- PsychologyWorkTurn the Ship Around
- HistoryL’inganno dei confini: Come la geografia governa il mondo
- ScienceThe Black Hole War
- HistoryThe Worst Journey in the World
- PhilosophyIt's Ok That You're Not Ok
- FictionWool
- ITLooks Good to Me
- LifestyleTools of Titans
- HistoryPsychologyMan's Search for Meaning
- PhilosophyLifestyleThe Scout Mindset
- FictionThe Zombie Survival Guide
- PsychologyThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- ITCracking the Coding Interview
- CommunicationWorkThe Culture Code
- ITTidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
- ScienceFinding Moonshine
- LifestyleFictionThe Game
- HistoryScienceGuns, Germs, and Steel
- WorkLifestyleIt Doesn't Have To Be Crazy at Work
- CommunicationWorkSmart Brevity
- UtilitiesHow Your House Works
- WorkThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- ITGrokking Algorhithms
- FictionHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- EconomyPsychologyThe Black Swan
- ITWorkFundamentals of Data Engineering
- FictionCloud Atlas
- Current AffairsScienceLa Scienza Delle Verdure
- PsychologyThe Elephant In The Brain
- Current affairsEconomyTreasure Islands
- WorkLifestyleThe Manager's Path
- LifestyleNonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
- MarketingAll Marketers Are Liars
- LifestyleThe Great Mental Models
- WorkMarketingThe Personal MBA
- Current affairsScienceSaggio Erotico sulla fine del Mondo
- FictionFoundation (Series)
- LifestyleWorkThe Monk and The Riddle
- HistoryCurrent affairsIl Fascismo Eterno
- HistoryThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- ITHead First HTML and CSS
- PsychologyCommunicationHow to Have Impossible Conversations
- WorkLifestyleThe Dip
- EconomyThe Warren Buffett Way
- ScienceLifestyleWhy We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- WorkCurrent affairsBullshit Jobs: A Theory
- FictionPhilosophyThe Gervais Principle
- EconomyLifestyleThe 4-Hour Work Week
- PsychologyThe Body Keeps The Score
- LifestyleNudge
- LifestyleEconomyThe Millionaire Fastlane
- LifestyleEconomyAntifragile. Thriving in Disorder
- LifestyleReckoning with Risk
- PhilosophyThe Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- EconomyThe Intelligent Investor
- LifestyleSmarter Faster Better
- EconomyBogleheads' Guide To Investing
- MarketingThis is Marketing
- PsychologyThinking in Bets
- Current affairsPsychologyHow to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
- HistoryNo One Would Listen
- LifestyleWorkSlow Productivity
- EconomyFooled by Randomness
- CommunicationPsychology48 Rules For Power
- FictionEast of Eden
- CommunicationReading Like A Writer
- WorkLeading Effective Engineering Teams
- PhilosophyMeditations
- PhilosophyThe Obstacle is The Way
- ITWorkDeveloper Relations
- ITLLM Engineer's Handbook
- CommunicationImpro
- NutritionThe Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity
- ITLearn Git in a Month of Lunches
- CommunicationSay It Like Obama and WIN!
- PsychologyThe Art of Seduction
- ScienceThe Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
- WorkITEngineers Survival Guide
- PsychologyInfluence : the psychology of persuasion
- PhilosophyLetters from a Stoic
- WorkThe E-Myth Revisited
- ITThe Art of SQL
- HistoryCandide (Optimism)
- EconomyCurrent affairsAll the Presidents' Bankers
- LifestyleHold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- WorkCommunicationAn Elegant Puzzle
- PhilosophyGödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid
- LifestylePhilosophyEverything Is F*cked
- PhilosophyThe Four Agreements
- ITWorkThe Lean Startup
- WorkCompany of One
- HistoryEconomyDevil Take The Hindmost
- LifestyleSpark
- LifestyleExtreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- LifestyleSo Good They Can't Ignore You
- ITCodeless Data Structures and Algorithms
- ITThe Art Of Data Science
- EconomyThe Millionaire Next Door
- WorkThe Design of Everyday Things
- LifestyleGetting Things Done
- ITDesigning data-intensive applications
- PsychologyThinking, Fast and Slow
- ITGuerrilla Analytics : A Practical Approach to Working with Data
- ITClean Code
- EconomyThe Richest Man in Babylon
- EconomyLifestylePrinciples
- CommunicationWorkYou Can Negotiate Anything
- PsychologyCommunicationEmotional Intelligence
- WorkITImpact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects
- ScienceGood Calories, Bad Calories
- PhilosophyZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- PsychologyLifestyleDigital Dementia
- LifestyleEconomyWhat Color is your Parachute?
- PhilosophyAn Open Heart
