Reads

I love to read and even more to talk about books. It’s always a pleasure to (accidentally) find someone who has read the same books and talk with him or her about their perspective of the written down. I also love to get reading recommendations and this page is a reminder for me which books I want and need to read, a starting point for discussions and maybe an inspiration for you.

“Long days and pleasant nights.” - Roland Deschain

Pile of Shame

Fiction

• Liu, C. (2021). Death’s End.
• Tesh, E. (2023). Some Desperate Glory.

Non-Fiction

• Geist, E. (2023). Deterrence under Uncertainty: Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Warfare.
• Ritchie, H. (2024). Not the End of the World.

Professional

• Calavera, D. & Fontana, L. (2019). Linux Observability With BPF: Advanced Programming for Performance Analysis and Networking.
• Beck, D. & Cowan, C. (2005). Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change.
• Rice, L. (2020). Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts That Protect Containerized Applications.
• Larson, W. (2021). Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track.

Pile of Honor

Fiction

• Alam, R. (2020). Leave the World Behind.
• Atwood, M. (1985). The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel.
• Beck, Z. (2023). Memoria.
• Boyle, T. C. (2016). The Terranauts.
• Brown, D. (2009). The Lost Symbol.
• Camus, A. (1947). The Plague.
• Dick, P. K. (1965). Dr. Bloodmoney Or, How We Got Along After the Bomb.
• Dostoevsky, F. M. (1848). White Nights.
• Eggers, D. (2013). The Circle.
• El Akkad, O. (2017). American War.
• Elsberg, M. (2012). Blackout.
• Fitzgerald, S. (1925). The Great Gatsby.
• Fitzek, S. (2008). Der Seelenbrecher.
• Fitzek, S. (2013). Der Nachtwandler.
• Fitzek, S. (2015). Passagier 23.
• Fitzek, S. (2017). AchtNacht.
• Gerritsen, T. (2003). The Sinner.
• Gerritsen, T. (2010). Totengrund.
• Gibson, W. (1984). Neuromancer.
• Grey, S. L. (2016). Under Ground
• Glukhovsky, D. (2002). Metro 2033.
• Glukhovsky, D. (2009). Metro 2034.
• Glukhovsky, D. (2015). Metro 2035.
• Haig, M. (2020). The Midnight Library.
• Hemingway, E. (1927). A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.
• Hemingway, E. (1927). The Killers.
• Hemingway, E. (1936). The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
• Hemingway, E. (1952). The Old Man and the Sea.
• Hillenbrand, T. (2014). Drohnenland.
• King, S. (1974). Carrie.
• King, S. (1982). Different Seasons.
• King, S. (1982). The Gunslinger.
• King, S. (1987). The Drawing of the Three.
• King, S. (1991). The Waste Lands.
• King, S. (1997). Wizard and Glass.
• King, S. (2003). The Wolves of the Calla.
• King, S. (2004). Song of Susannah.
• King, S. (2004). The Dark Tower.
• King, S. (2008). Duma Key.
• King, S. (2011). 11/22/63.
• King, S. (2012). The Wind Through the Keyhole.
• King, S. (2013). Joyland.
• King, S. (2019). The Institute.
• Kling, M. (2024). Views.
• Lem, S. (1961). Solaris.
• Liu, C. (2017). Spiegel.
• Liu, C. (2014). The Three-Body Problem.
• Liu, C. (2015). The Dark Forest.
• Lovecraft, H. P. (2015). Horror Stories.
• McCarthy, C. (2006). The Road.
• McEuen, P. (2010). Spiral.
• Meloy, M. (2017). Do not become alarmed.
• Orwell, G. (1949). 1984.
• Oskari, T. (2023). Roihu.
• Palahniuk, C. (1996). Fight Club.
• Peace, D. (2007). Tokyo Year Zero.
• Preston, D. (2014). The Kraken Project.
• Rekulak, J. (2022). Hidden Pictures.
• Remarque, E. M. (2014). All Quiet on the Western Front.
• Schenkel, A. M. (2006). Tannöd.
• Schätzing, F. (2004). Der Schwarm.
• Sigurðardóttir, Y. (2012). I Remember You.
• Slater. S. (2022). Auld Acquaintance.
• Stephenson, N. (1992). Snow Crash.
• Strunk, H. (2016). Der goldene Handschuh.
• St. James, S. (2020). The Sun Down Motel.
• Tsu, M. (2021). The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu.
• Walker, A. J. (2014). The End of the World Running Club.
• Wells, D. (2012). The Hollow City.
• Weir, A. (2021). Project Hail Mary.
• von Dürenmatt, F. (1951). Der Richter und sein Henker.
• von Schirach, F. (2013). Tabu.

Non-Fiction

• Acemoglu, D. & Robinson, J. A. (2013). Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty.
• Adams, S. (2013). How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.
• Adorno, T. W. (2019). Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus.
• Anderson, C. (2016). TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking: Tips and tricks for giving unforgettable speeches and presentations.
• Boaz, D. (2015). The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom.
• Butler, E. (2017). Wie wir wurden, was wir sind: Einführung in den Klassischen Liberalismus.
• Carreyrou, J. (2019). Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
• Chomsky, N. (2016). Who Rules the World?.
• Desmond, M. (2023). Poverty, by America.
• Dobelli, R. (2014). The Art of Thinking Clearly.
• Dündar, C. Tut was! / Bir şey yap!: Plädoyer für eine aktive Demokratie.
• Erikson, T. (2019). Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life).
• Fisher, R. & Ury, W. (2012). Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in.
• Fukuyama, F. (2018). Identity.
• Galloway, S. (2017). The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
• Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success.
• Graham, M. (2017). Epic Survival: Extreme Adventure, Stone Age Wisdom, and Lessons in Living From a Modern Hunter-Gatherer.
• Greenblatt, S. (2018). Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics.
• Greenspan, A. & Wooldridge, A. (2018). Capitalism in America: A History.
• Greenwald, G. (2014). No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.
• Greffrath, M. (2017). RE: Das Kapital: Politische Ökonomie im 21. Jahrhundert.
• Harari, Y. N. (2016). Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
• Hawking, S. (2013). Meine kurze Geschichte.
• Herrmann, U. (2022). Das Ende des Kapitalismus: Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind – und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden.
• Higginbotham, A. (2019). Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster.
• Holland, J. (1999). Emergence: From Chaos To Order.
• Hornby, N. (1992). Fever Pitch.
• Hübl, P. (2012). Folge dem weißen Kaninchen … in die Welt der Philosophie.
• Isaacson, W. (2011). Steve Jobs.
• Kahnemann, D. (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow.
• King, S. (2000). Das Leben und das Schreiben.
• Kishimi, I. & Koga, F. (2018). The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness.
• Koschorrek, G. K. (2009). Vergiss die Zeit der Dornen nicht: Ein Soldat der 24. Panzerdivision erlebt die sowjetische Front und den Kampf um Stalingrad.
• Krakauer, J. (1997). Into Thin Air.
• Kurz, C. & Rieger, F. (2018). Cyberwar – Die Gefahr aus dem Netz: Wer uns bedroht und wie wir uns wehren können.
• Lammert, N. (2017). Wer vertritt das Volk? : Reden über unser Land.
• Lanier, J. (2019). Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.
• Le Bon, G. (2009). Psychology of Crowds.
• Leiris, A. (2016). You Will Not Have My Hate.
• Lüders, M. (2015). Wer den Wind sät: Was westliche Politik im Orient anrichtet.
• Manson, M. (2016). The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life.
• Mason, P. (2015). Postkapitalismus: Grundrisse einer kommenden Ökonomie.
• Masters, B. & Thiel, P. (2014). Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future.
• McNamara, M. (2019). I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.
• Mitnick, K. D. (2011). Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker.
• Mogi, K. (2017). The Little Book of Ikigai: The secret Japanese way to live a happy and long life.
• Müller, N. (2017). Ich bin mal eben wieder tod.
• Münkler, H. & Münkler, M. (2016). Die neuen Deutschen: Ein Land vor seiner Zukunft.
• Noah, T. (2017). Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.
• Ormsby, E. (2020). Psycho.com.
• O’Neill, C. (2016). Weapons of Math Destruction.
• Perlroth, N. (2021). This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends.
• Piketty, T. & Lorenzer, S. (2015). Die Schlacht um den Euro.
• Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
• Pink, D. H. (2011). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
• Precht, R. D. (2018). Jäger, Hirten, Kritiker: Eine Utopie für die digitale Gesellschaft.
• Rosling, H., Rosling, O. & Rosling Rönnlund, A. (2018). Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think.
• Saito, K. (2023). Slow Down. The Degrowth Manifesto.
• Schreier, J. (2017). Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made.
• Schreier, J. (2021). Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry.
• Sinek, S. (2011). Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action.
• Singh, S. (1999). The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography.
• Smith, A. (2012). Wealth of Nations.
• Snowden, E. (2019). Permanent Record.
• Snyder, T. (2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
• Snyder, T. (2019). The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America.
• Soentgen, J. (2007). Selbstdenken!: 20 Praktiken der Philosophie.
• Somers, B. (2018). Zusammen leben: Meine Rezepte gegen Kriminalität und Terror.
• Spitz, M. (2017). Daten - das Öl des 21. Jahrhunderts? Nachhaltigkeit im digitalen Zeitalter.
• Strunk, W., White, E. B. & Kalman, M. (2007). The Elements of Style.
• Tapscott, D. & Tapscott, A. (2016). Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World.
• Unsichtbares Komitee (2010). Der kommende Aufstand.
• Vance, J. D. (2017). Hillbilly Elegie: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.
• Wehre, M. (2017). Der Klügere denkt nach.
• White, M. (2016). The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution.
• Willemsen, R. (2016). Wer wir waren: Zukunftsrede.
• Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power.
• von Lucke, A. (2017). Die schwarze Republik und das Versagen der deutschen Linken.
• von Schirach, F. & Kluge, A. (2017). Die Herzlichkeit der Vernunft.
• von Schirach, F. (2014). Die Würde ist antastbar: Essays.
• von Schirach, F. (2019). Kaffee und Zigaretten.
• von Schirach, F. (2023). Regen.
• Zetter, K. (2015). Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon.

Specialist Books

• Arkin, R. C. (1998). Behavior-Based Robotics.
• Baldick, R. (2009). Applied Optimization: Formulation and Algorithms for Engineering Systems.
• Bass, L., Kazman, R. & Clements, P. (1997). Software Architecture in Practice.
• Bellifemine, F. L., Caire, G. & Greenwood, D. (2007). Developing Multi-Agent Systems with JADE.
• Beyer, B., Jones, C., Petoff, J. & Murphy, N. R. (2016). Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems.
• Bishop, C. M. (2007). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.
• Burns, B., Beda, J. & Hightower, K. (2019). Kubernetes: Up and Running.
• Davis, C. (2019). Cloud Native Patterns: Designing change-tolerant software.
• DeMarco, T. & Lister, T. (1999). Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (2nd Edition).
• Eckert, C. (2001). IT-Sicherheit.
• Ferber, J. (1999). Multi-agent systems: An introduction to distributed artificial intelligence.
• Forsgren, J. H. G. K. N. (2018). Accelerate.
• Forshaw, J. (2017). Attacking Network Protocols: A Hacker’s Guide to Capture, Analysis, and Exploitation.
• Ghallab, M., Traverso, P. & Nau, D. S. (2016). Automated Planning and Acting.
• Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y. & Courville, A. (2016). Deep Learning.
• Hastings, R. & Meyer, E. (2020). No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.
• Hohmann, L. (2003). Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions.
• Humble, J. & Farley, D. (2010). Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation.
• Junqueira, F. & Reed, B. (2013). Zookeeper: Distributed Process Coordination.
• Kim, G., Humble, J., Debois, P. & Willis, A. The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations.
• Kleppmann, M. (2017). Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems.
• Lanzi, P. L. (2000). Learning Classifier Systems: From Foundations To Applications.
• Larson, W. (2019). An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management.
• Lencioni, P. (2002). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.
• Long, J. & Bastani, K. (2017) Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems With Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry.
• Martin, R. C. (2008). Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
• Martin, R. C. (2017). Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design.
• Palino, T., Shapira, G. & Narkhede, N. (2017). Kafka: The Definitive Guide.
• Patton, J. (2014). User Story Mapping.
• Pfeifer, R. (1999). Understanding Intelligence.
• Schneider, K. (2012). Abenteuer Softwarequalität: Grundlagen und Verfahren für Qualitätssicherung und Qualitätsmanagement.
• Schneier, B. (2018). Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World.
• Skelton, M., & Pais, M. (2019). Team topologies: Organizing business and technology teams for fast flow.
• Sonmez, J. (2014). Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual.
• Squirrel, D. & Fredrick, J. (2020). Agile Conversations: Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture.
• Strong, J. & Lancey, V. (2021). Kubernetes Networking: A Deep Dive: A Layered Approach.
• Vossen, G., Haselmann, T. & Hoeren, T. (2012). Cloud-Computing für Unternehmen: Technische, wirtschaftliche, rechtliche und organisatorische Aspekte.
• Weiß, G. & Jakob, R. (2004) Agentenorientierte Softwareentwicklung: Methoden und Tools.
• Wooldridge, M. (2002). An Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems.
• Many more during my studies.