Reading non-fiction books is a great source of learning and constant self-improvement. I like books on economic theories, technical topics, futurism, and entrepreneurship. This page is a timeline of all the books that I read. Some books may not have been fully read though, eg. technical books, as they rather serve an always-available knowledge backup purpose.
2024
- ❤️ The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI, Ray Kurzweil;
- The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less, Sahil Lavingia;
- Free To Choose: A Personal Statement, Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman;
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu;
- ❤️ The Sheikh CEO, Dr. Yasar Jarrar;
- Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life, Héctor García and Francesc Miralles;
2023
- ❤️ The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, Richard McGregor;
- XMPP: The Definitive Guide: Building Real-Time Applications with Jabber Technologies, Peter Saint-Andre, Kevin Smith and Remko Tronçon;
- Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson;
- ❤️ Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play, David Foster;
2022
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson;
- Atomic Habits, James Clear;
- ❤️ The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing, James Hoffmann;
- Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World, Michal Zalewski;
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein;
- ❤️ Contes de Silicium, Mickaël Rémond;
- Heat Pumps for the Home, John Cantor;
- Biogas For Beginners: Off Grid Eco Power a DIY Guide, George Eccleston;
- Live in a Home that Pays You Back: A Complete Guide to Net Zero and Energy-Efficient Homes, Anna DeSimone;
- Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh;
- The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, Christopher E. Mason;
- The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Eric Swanson;
- Winter Blues: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder, Norman E. Rosenthal;
- Nuclear Energy: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes, Raymond L. Murray and Keith E. Holbert;
2021
- Practical Electronics for Inventors, Paul Scherz;
- Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach, Margarita Madrigal;
- ❤️ Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger;
- Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov;
- Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov;
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov;
- SwiftUI Cookbook: Discover solutions and best practices to tackle the most common problems while building SwiftUI apps, Giordano Scalzo and Edgar Nzokwe;
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, Carlota Perez;
- Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software, Elecia White;
- ❤️ Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, Michael J. Neufeld;
- ❤️ Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb;
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Joshua Foer;
2020
- ❤️ Carbon Capture, Howard J. Herzog;
- The High Frontier, Gerard K. O'Neill;
- Mining The Sky, John S. Lewis;
- Deep Space Propulsion, K. F. Long;
- Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering, Travis S. Taylor;
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Soshana Zuboff;
- Information Theory, A Tutorial Introduction, James V. Stone;
- Autodesk Fusion 360: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users, John Willis and Sandeep Dogra;
- Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World, Timothy Ferriss;
2019
- ❤️ Battery Management Systems for Large Lithium-Ion Battery Packs, Davide Andrea;
- ❤️ The Art of Electronics, Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill;
- Power Electronics, Ned Mohan;
- Solar Energy, Olindo Isabella, Klaus Jäger, Arno Smets, René van Swaaij and Miro Zeman;
- Lithium-Ion Batteries, Akiya Kozawa and Masaki Yoshio;
- The 3D Printing Handbook, Ben Redwood, Brian Garret and Filemon Schöffer;
- Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy, John Lewis;
- Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions, Johann Hari;
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari;
2018
- Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street;
- Hedge, Nicolas Colin;
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, Timothy Ferriss;
- ❤️ Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman;
2017
- ❤️ The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg;
- ❤️ The Next 100 Years, George Friedman;
- The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil;
- Transcend, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman;
- Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville;
- Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele;
2016
- Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom;
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand;
- The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand;
- Play Bigger: How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets, Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead and Kevin Maney;
- The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, David D. Friedman;
- From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin;
- How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, Ray Kurzweil;
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Paul Graham;
- ❤️ Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime, Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae;
2015
- ❤️ Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil de Grasse Tyson;
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future, Seth Godin;
- The Tao of Roark, Peter Saint-Andre;
- Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman;
- Speed reading: How to read 3-5 times faster in less than 24 hours, Bret Purvis;
- ❤️ Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future, Ashlee Vance;
- Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, Robert Zubrin;
- Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future, Blake Masters and Peter Thiel;
2014
- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Walter Isaacson;
❤️ = Loved Book, ie. book that I enjoyed reading and found tremendous value in it.