This is an incomplete list of books I've read (and reread) since 2009.
2025
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- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ↗
- 1959
2024
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- My Struggle (Book 6) ↗
- 2018
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- Briefe an einen jungen Dichter ↗
- 1929
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- Niels Lyhne ↗
- 1880
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- Make Something Wonderful ↗
- 2023
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- Working in Public ↗
- The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
- 2020
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- Nuclear War ↗
- A Scenario
- 2024
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- The Genesis Book ↗
- The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
- 2024
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- The Sound of Waves ↗
- 1954
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- Hillbilly Elegy ↗
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- 2016
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- The Mythical Man-Month ↗
- Essays on Software Engineering
- 1995
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- Blockchain Chicken Farm ↗
- And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
- 2020
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- Der Mensch und die Technik ↗
- Beitrag zu einer Philosophie des Lebens
- 1931
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- The Rise of Universities ↗
- 1957
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- Factotum ↗
- 2009
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- Submission ↗
- 2016
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- Bis zum Tod der Gräfin ↗
- Das Drama um den Hotelpalast des Grafen de Renesse in Maloja
- 1998
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- There Is No Antimemetics Division ↗
- 2021
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- Flowers for Algernon ↗
- 1966
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- White Nights ↗
- 1848
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- A Clockwork Orange ↗
- 1962
2023
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- Street Without Joy ↗
- The French Debacle in Indochina
- 1961
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- Die Welt von Gestern ↗
- Erinnerungen eines Europäers
- 1942
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- The Crying of Lot 49
- 1965
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- Die orange Pille ↗
- Warum Bitcoin weit mehr als nur ein neues Geld ist
- 2023
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- Aias
- 2011
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- Gothic Violence ↗
- 2021
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- Women of Trakhis
- 2011
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- Agesilaus
- 1997
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- Bacchae
- 1998
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- Platform
- 2001
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- The Unbearable Lightness of Being ↗
- 1984
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- Sun and Steel ↗
- 1968
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- Schachnovelle ↗
- 1943
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- Philoktetes
- 2011
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- A Christmas Carol
- 1843
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- Elon Musk ↗
- 2023
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- Phaedrus
- 2002
2022
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- Viral ↗
- The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
- 2021
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- The Book of Satoshi ↗
- The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
- 2014
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- Your Music and People ↗
- 2020
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- The Mandibles ↗
- A Family, 2029-2047
- 2016
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- The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat
- A Guide to Essential Features, Gear, and Handling
- 1999
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- My Struggle (Book 5) ↗
- 2010
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- Bitcoin is Venice ↗
- Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
- 2022
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- Deaf Republic ↗
- 2019
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- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ↗
- 1962
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- The Minimalist Entrepreneur ↗
- How Great Founders Do More with Less
- 2021
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- Bloodlands ↗
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- 2010
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- The Lessons of History ↗
- 1968
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- The Network State ↗
- How To Start a New Country
- 2022
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- Harassment Architecture ↗
- 2019
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- Reckless ↗
- The Story Of Cryptocurrency Interest Rates
- 2022
2021
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- Heart of Darkness
- 1899
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- The Plague
- 1947
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- When Money Dies ↗
- The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
- 1975
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- Gentle Regrets ↗
- Thoughts from a Life
- 2005
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- The Blocksize War ↗
- The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
- 2021
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- How to Live ↗
- 2021
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- The Psychology of Money
- Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
- 2020
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- The Physics of Climate Change ↗
- 2021
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- Out of the Ether ↗
- The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All
- 2020
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- Foundation (Foundation Series #3)
- 1951
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- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- 2021
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- History Has Begun
- The Birth of a New America
- 2020
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- Beowulf
- 2001
2020
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- Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
- 1929
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- The Master and Margarita
- 1967
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- Whole Earth Discipline
- Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, Radical Science, and Geoengineering are Necessary
- 2009
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- Blindness
- 1995
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- The Inside Story
- 2020
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- The Black Swan
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- 2017
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- Hunger
- 1890
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- The Sovereign Individual ↗
- Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
- 1997
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- Hell Yeah or No ↗
- What's Worth Doing
- 2020
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- Augustus
- 1972
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- The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962-1976
- 2016
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- Dominion ↗
- The Making of the Western Mind
- 2019
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- On Bullshit
- 2005
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- Debt ↗
- The First 5000 Years
- 2011
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- The Handmaid's Tale ↗
- 1985
2019
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- 12 Rules for Life ↗
- An Antidote to Chaos
- 2018
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- The Mastermind
- The Hunt for the World's Most Prolific Criminal
- 2019
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- Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 2018
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- Atomic Habits ↗
- 2018
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- Kokoro
- 1914
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- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- 2018
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- Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62
- 2011
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- My Struggle (Book 3) ↗
- 2010
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- My Struggle (Book 4) ↗
- 2010
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- The Iron Kingdom ↗
- The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- 2006
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- The Box ↗
- How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- 2006
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- Exhalation
- Stories
- 2019
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- Bitcoin Billionaires
- A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
- 2019
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- Il barone rampante
- 1957
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- Inventing Bitcoin
- The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained
- 2019
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- Barbarian Days
- A Surfing Life
- 2015
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- Permanent Record ↗
- 2019
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- Cryptonomicon
- 1999
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- The Elementary Particles
- 1998
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- The Bed of Procrustes
- Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- 2010
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- The Man Who Solved The Market ↗
- How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
- 2019
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- Life 3.0
- Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- 2017
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- Seeing Like a State ↗
- How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- 1998
2018
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- Travels in Siberia
- 2010
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- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
- 1962
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- Lacci ↗
- 2014
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- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ↗
- An Inquiry into Values
- 1974
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- Butcher's Crossing ↗
- 1960
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- Skin in the Game
- Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- 2017
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- On the Move
- A Life
- 2015
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- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- 2013
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- Liar's Poker
- 1989
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- Portnoy's Complaint
- 1969
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- Il Gattopardo
- 1958
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- The Bitcoin Standard ↗
- The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
- 2018
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- Why Nations Fail
- The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- 2012
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- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- 2010
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- Norse Mythology
- 2017
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- Americanah
- 2013
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- Fahrenheit 451
- 1953
2017
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- The Road ↗
- 2006
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- Alan Turing ↗
- The Enigma
- 1983
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- American Psycho ↗
- 1991
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- Sapiens ↗
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 2011
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- The Singapore Story
- 1998
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- Zero to One
- Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- 2014
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- Siddharta
- 1922
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- The Penguin History of New Zealand
- 2003
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- Stoner
- 1965
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- Snow Country
- 1956
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- Stories of your Life and Others
- 2002
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- Vagabonding
- 2002
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- Blood Meridian
- 1985
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- No Country for Old Men
- 2005
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- Homo Deus
- 2015
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- American Pastoral
- 1997
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- Demian
- 1919
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- My Struggle (Book 1) ↗
- 2009
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- My Struggle (Book 2) ↗
- 2009
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- Peter Camenzind
- 1904
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- The Underground Railroad
- 2016
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- A Mind at Play
- How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- 2017
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- The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1)
- 2008
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- Matterhorn
- A Novel of the Vietnam War
- 2009
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- ZeroZeroZero
- 2013
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- The Remains of the Day
- 1989
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- Conquest
- Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico
- 1993
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- Le città invisibili
- 1972
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- Pachinko
- 2017
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- Narziß und Goldmund
- 1930
2016
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- Das Glasperlenspiel ↗
- 1943
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- To Kill a Mockingbird ↗
- 1960
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- Digital Gold
- Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
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- The Catcher in the Rye ↗
- 1951
-
- Deep Work
- Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
-
- Stiller
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- Das Versprechen
2015
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- Herzog
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- The Opposing Shore ↗
- 1951
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- The Manipulated Man
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- Cannery Row
- 1945
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- East of Eden
- 1952
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- Flash Boys ↗
- A Wall Street Revolt
- 2014
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- Reise an den Rand des Universums
2014
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- Der Verschollene
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- Women
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- A Farewell to Arms
- 1929
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- Cryptonomicon
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- Im Westen nichts Neues
- 1928
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- Antifragile
- Things That Gain from Disorder
-
- Snow Crash
- 1992
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- Man's Search for Meaning
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- Stoner
- 1965
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- Revolutionary Road
- 1961
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- Of Mice and Men
- 1937
2013
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- Der Steppenwolf
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- Ghetto at the Center of the World ↗
- Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
- 2011
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- Siddharta
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- Grapes of Wrath
- 1939
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- Norwegian Wood
- 1987
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- Slaughterhouse-Five
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- Lolita
- 1955
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- Midnight's Children
- 1981
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- Il deserto dei tartari
- 1940
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- Understanding Power
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- Cypherpunks
- Freedom and the Future of the Internet
2012
-
- On The Road
- 1957
-
- Program or Be Programmed
- Ten Commands for a Digital Age
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- O Banqueiro Anarquista
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- Die Geschichte der Schweiz
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- Ich bin dann mal weg
- Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg
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- L’étranger
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- No Country for Old Men
-
- 1Q84 Book 1
- 2009
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- 1Q84 Book 2
- 2009
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- 1Q84 Book 3
- 2009
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- The Great Gatsby
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- The 4-Hour Workweek
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- Il cimitero di Praga
2011
-
- Soros on Soros
-
- Outliers
-
- Shop Class as Soulcraft
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- From Dictatorship to Democracy
-
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
-
- Daode Jing
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- The Master Switch
- The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
-
- Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
-
- From the Earth to the Moon
-
- Alles Leben ist Problemlösen
-
- Animal Farm
-
- The Law
- 1850
-
- Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
-
- Notes from the Underground
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- Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
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- I am a Strange Loop
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- Capitalism
- The Unknown Ideal
-
- Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader
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- Civil Disobedience
-
- A Mathematician's Apology
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- The Intelligent Investor
- The Definitive Book on Value Investing
-
- Stay Small
- A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
-
- Frankenstein
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- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 1968
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- Into The Wild
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- The Hobbit
2010
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- Founders at Work
- Stories of Startups' Early Days
- 2001
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- Too Big to Fail
- The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System and Themselves
- 2009
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- Lord of the Flies
- 1954
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- You Are Not a Gadget
- 2010
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- The Black Swan
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- 2007
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- The Law
- 1850
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- A Splendid Exchange
- How Trade Shaped the World
- 2008
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- Der Richter und sein Henker
- 1951
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- Homo Faber
- 1957
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- The Big Short
- Inside the Doomsday Machine
- 2010
-
- The Greatest Trade Ever
- The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
- 2009
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- Essays on Political Economy
-
- Underground
- Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
- 1997
-
- Ecce homo
- Wie man wird, was man ist
- 1908
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- Betrachtung
- 1912
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- Pride and Prejudice
-
- Discourse on the Method
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- Triumph of the Optimists
- 101 Years of Global Investment Returns
- 2002
-
- The Art of War
-
- Our Posthuman Future
- Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
- 2002
-
- Liar's Poker
- 1929
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- The Cuckoo's Egg
- Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
- 1989
-
- Lords of Finance
- The Bankers Who Broke the World
- 2009
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- Othello
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- Creative Capital
- Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
- 2008
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- The Prince
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- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
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- La giara
- 1916
-
- Brave New World
- 1932
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- Fortune's Formula
- The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
- 2005
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- Utilitarianism
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- Unterm Rad
- 1906
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- Flatland
- 1884
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- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- 1923
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- Andorra
-
- Hackers
- Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 1984
2009
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- My Life as a Quant
- Reflections on Physics and Finance
- 2004
-
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- 1923
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- Outliers
- The Story of Success
- 2008
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- The Misbehavior of Markets
- A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
- 2004
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- A Demon of Our Own Design
- Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
- 2007
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- The Art of War
-
- Fortune's Formula
- The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
- 2005
-
- The Snowball
- Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
- 2008
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- The Fountainhead
- 1943
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- Practical Speculation
- 2003
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- Atlas Shrugged
- 1957
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- The Mind of the Mathematician
-
- Herr und Knecht
- 1895
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- Kleider machen Leute
- 1874
-
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- 2004
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- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- 1987
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- Nineteen Eighty Four
- 1949
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- Die Verwandlung
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- Der Prozeß
- 1915
-
- Das Abenteuer der Erkenntnis
- Eine kleine Geschichte des Wissens
- 2002
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- Shop Class as Soulcraft
- 2009
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- The Education of a Speculator
- 1996
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- Der Tod in Venedig
- 1912
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- Dantons Tod
- 1902
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- Hegemony or Survival
- America's Quest for Global Dominance
- 2003
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- The Art of Learning
- 2007
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- Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
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- The Cash Nexus
- Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
- 2001
-
- Makers
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- Marcovaldo
-
- Psychologie der Massen
-
- Nerds on Wall Street
- 2009
-
- The Gambler
- 1866
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- Status Anxiety
- 2004
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- The Communist Manifesto