Books

2026

The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati, ★ ★ ★
We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ★ ★ ★
Train dreams, Denis Johnson, ★ ★ ★
How to Rule the World, Theo Baker, ★ ★ ★
I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman, ★ ★ ★
The Divine Farce, Michael S.A. Graziano, ★ ★ ★
A Short Stay in Hell, Steven L. Peck, ★ ★ ★
Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, ★ ★ ★
Flesh, David Szalay, ★ ★
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, ★ ★
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Jules Verne, ★ ★
Probably Overthinking It, Allen Downey, ★ ★ ★
How They Get You, Chris Kohler, ★ ★ ★
The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges, ★ ★ ★
Termush, Sven Holm, ★ ★
Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut, ★ ★
Piano player, Kurt Vonnegut, ★ ★
American Carnage, Tim Alberta, ★ ★ ★
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, ★
Easy Money, Ben McKenzie, ★

2025

Notes on Being a Man, Scott Galloway
Vietnam Perkasie, W.D. Ehrhart, ★ ★ ★
Bitcoin billionaires, Ben Mezrich, ★
Cockpit Confidential, Patrick Smith, ★ ★
After Dark, Haruki Murakami, ★ ★
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, ★ ★ ★ ★
Wildland, Evan Osnos, ★ ★ ★
The Haves and Have-Yachts, Evan Osnos, ★ ★
A Fortunate Life, Albert Facey
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, ★ ★ ★
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
The world of yesterday, Stefan Zweig, ★ ★ ★
South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami, ★ ★
Careless people, Sarah Wynn-Williams, ★ ★ ★
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, ★ ★ ★
The Trading Game, Gary Stevenson, ★
American Desperado, Evan Wright, ★

2024

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien, ★ ★ ★
Deadly Quiet City, Murong Xuecun
War, Bob Woodward, ★ ★ ★
Going infinite, Michael Lewis, ★
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel, ★ ★
My War Gone By, I Miss It So, Anthony Loyd ★ ★ ★
L’Anomalie, Hervé Le Tellier, ★
Same as ever, Morgan Housel, ★
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez ★ ★ ★ ★
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo ★ ★ ★
American Gods, Neil Gaiman ★
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger ★ ★
The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Haruki Murakami ★ ★
Unreasonable Behaviour, Don McCullen ★ ★
The Veldt, Ray Bradbury
Journey Under the Midnight: Keigo Higashino ★
The Truce: Primo Levi ★ ★ ★ ★
If This Is a Man: Primo Levi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Station 11: Emily St. John Mandel, ★ ★ ★
Wish Lanterns: Alec Ash, ★ ★ ★
Folding Beijing: Hao Jingfang
The Songs of Distant Earth: Arthur C. Clarke
Flowers of Fire: Hawon Jung
Chien de printemps: Patrick Modiano ★ ★ ★
Brotopia: Emily Chang
The Deep Sky: A Novel Yume Kitasei ★

2023

Number Go Up: Zeke Faux
In Stahlgewittern: Ernst Jünger ★ ★ ★ ★
Fight club: Chuck Palahniuk
Men Without Women: Haruki Murakami
A wild sheep chase: Haruki Murakami
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, David Simon and Ed Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: Li Zhisui ★ ★ ★ ★
Heaven: Mieko Kawakami
This is going to hurt: Adam Kay
On all fronts: Clarissa Ward
The Beach: Alex Garland ★

2022

Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot, Mark Vanhoenacker ★ ★ ★ ★
The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang ★ ★ ★
Numbers Don’t Lie, Vaclav Smil ★ ★ ★
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets: David Simon ★ ★ ★ ★
Putin’s People: Catherine Belton
Lying for Money: Dan Davies ★
Invisible Women: Caroline Criado Perez ★
Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov
Kitchen confidential: Anthony Bourdain
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: David Gerard
Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir ★
Klara and the sun: Kazuo Ishiguro ★ ★
The remains of the day: Kazuo Ishiguro ★ ★ ★ ★
Bullshit jobs: David Graeber ★ ★ ★
The stranger: Albert Camus ★ ★ ★
Viral: Alina Chan, Matt Ridley ★ ★
Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite: Andrew Jenkinson ★ ★
The Elementary Particles: Michel Houellebecq ★
Eat a peach: David Chang ★ ★
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann, Ananyo Bhattacharya ★ ★ ★
Humankind: Rutger Bregman ★ ★
Catch-22: Joseph Heller ★★ ★ ★

2021

Becoming Steve Jobs: Brent Schlender ★ ★ ★
Norwegian wood: Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination: Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel ★ ★ ★
Food rules: Michael Pollan ★ ★
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Stephen Chbosky ★ ★ ★
Weapons of Math Destruction: Cathy O’Neil ★ ★ ★
There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job: Kikuko Tsumura ★ ★ ★ ★
Earthlings: Sayaka Murata ★ ★ ★
Who Stole the American Dream: Hedrick Smith ★ ★ ★ ★
Exhalation: Ted Chiang ★ ★ ★ ★
Annihilation: Jeff VanderMeer ★ ★ ★ ★

2020

His Master’s Voice: Stanislaw Lem ★ ★ ★ ★
Straight to Hell : True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-dollar Deals, John Lefevre ★ ★
A Promised Land: Barack Obama ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Convenience Store Woman: Sayaka Murata ★ ★ ★ ★
Disloyal: A Memoir: Michael Cohen ★
Aurora: Kim Stanley Robinson ★ ★
The Invincible: Stanislaw Lem ★ ★ ★
Return From the Stars: Stanislaw Lem ★ ★ ★ ★
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us: Michael Moss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
No Filter: Sarah Frier ★ ★ ★
Old Man’s War: John Scalzi ★ ★
Dune: Frank Herbert ★ ★ ★
Dune Messiah: Frank Herbert ★ ★
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army: Jeremy Scahill ★ ★ ★
The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick ★ ★ ★
A Very Stable Genius: Philip Rucker ★ ★
Altered Carbon: Richard Morgan ★

2019

The Caves of Steel: Isaac Asimov
On the Clock: Emily Guendelsberger
Less Than Zero: Bret Easton Ellis
Mindfck: Christopher Wylie
Limitless: Alan Glynn ★
Permanent Record: Edward Snowden
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow: Yuval Noah Harari ★
Prelude to Foundation: Isaac Asimov
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories: Kafka, Franz
Revelation Space: Alastair Reynolds
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China: Evan Osnos ★ ★ ★
Hella Nation: Evan Wright
The Looting Machine: Tom Burgis
1Q84: Haruki Murakami ★ ★

2018

Strangers in Their Own Land: Arlie Russell Hochschild ★ ★ ★ ★
The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis
Born a Crime: Trevor Noah
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life: Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: Thompson, Hunter S. ★ ★ ★ ★
Semiosis: Sue Burke
Americana: Bhu Srinivasan
Fear: Bob Woodward
War Is a Racket: Ventura, Jesse, Butler, Smedley Darlington
Countdown to Zero Day: Kim Zetter
American Kingpin: Nick Bilton
Monsignor Quixote: Greene, Graham
Permutation City: Greg Egan
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk: Edward St. Aubyn
Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America: Erik Larson
The Long Walk: Stephen King
Accidental Empires: Robert Cringely
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Vol. 3: Philip K. Dick
Second variety: Philip K. Dick
DISNEYLAND_WITH_THE_DEATH_PENALTY: Philip K. Dick
The Minority Report: Philip K. Dick
Leviathan Wakes: James S.A. Corey
One Bullet Away: Nathaniel Fick
Kafka on the shore: Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Siddhartha: Hermann Hesse
The Road Back: Erich Maria Remarque ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
All Quiet on the Western Front: Erich Maria Remarque ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Fire and Fury: Michael Wolff
Fooled by Randomness: Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy: Tim Harford

2017

The Logic of Life: Tim Harford
Incandescence: Greg Egan
Microserfs: Douglas Coupland
Griftopia: Matt Taibbi
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure: Tim Harford
Make Your Bed: William H. Mcraven
The Light of Other Days: Arthur Clarke
Nexus: Ramez Naam
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine: Michael Lewis
Dealers of Lightning: Michael Hiltzik
A Woman in Berlin : Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary: Marta Hillers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Andromeda Strain: Michael Crichton
Hiroshima: John Hersey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi
A Town Like Alice: Nevil Shute
Tau Zero: Poul Anderson
Virtual Light: William Gibson
Chaos Monkeys: Antonio Garcia Martinez
The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Michael Lewis
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal: David E. Hoffman
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis: J. D. Vance ★
Wool Omnibus Edition: Hugh Howey
Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
Stories of Your Life and Others: Ted Chiang ★ ★ ★ ★
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous: Gabriella Coleman
The Naked Sun: Isaac Asimov

2016

The Dorito Effect: Schatzker, Mark
DIARY OF AN OXYGEN THIEF By Anonymous (The Oxygen Thief Diaries): Anonymous
Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator: Edwin Lefevre
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story: Arnold Schwarzenegger
High Rise (1987): J.G. Ballard
American Gods: Neil Gaiman
Johnny Mnemonic: William Gibson
Kingpin: Kevin Poulsen
The Time Machine: H. G. Wells
Seveneves: Neal Stephenson
Emergency: Neil Strauss
Children of Time: Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Book of Strange New Things: Michel Faber
Dispatches: Michael Herr
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History: Elizabeth Kolbert ★ ★ ★ ★
The Short-Timers: Gustav Hasford ★ ★ ★ ★
Solaris: Stanislaw Lem ★ ★ ★ ★
Matterhorn: Karl Marlantes ★ ★ ★ ★
A Rumor of War: Philip Caputo
A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz: nan
How to Fly a Horse: Kevin Ashton
Neuromancer: William Gibson
Consider Phlebas: Iain M. Banks
The Currents of Space: Isaac Asimov
Superforecasting: Philip E. Tetlock
The Virgin Suicides: Jeffrey Eugenides
Submission: Michel Houellebecq
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century: George Friedman
No Country for Old Men: Cormac Mccarthy
The Most Dangerous Game: Richard Connell
Into the Wild: Jon Krakauer
Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes
Self-Made Man: Norah Vincent
The Sirens of Titan: Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.: Waldman, Adelle

2015

Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies: Jared M. Diamond
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch: Lewis Dartnell
Complexity: A Guided Tour: Melanie Mitchell
Hackers & Painters: Paul Graham
Brave New Worlds: Adams, John Joseph
Automate This: Christopher Steiner
Primary Inversion: Asaro, Catherine
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson
The Great Gatsby: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Forever Free: Joe Haldeman
Forever Peace: Joe Haldeman
The Forever War: Joe Haldeman ★ ★ ★ ★
Charlie Wilson’s War: Crile, George
Battle Royale: Kōshun Takami
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice: Bill Browder
When to Rob a Bank: …And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants: Steven D. Levitt
In Defense of Food: Pollan, Michael
Models. Behaving. Badly: Emanuel Derman
Boomerang: Lewis, Michael
Why We Lost: Daniel Bolger
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: Robin Sloan
George R. R. Martin - Sandkings: Sandkings v1.2
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War: Addario, Lynsey
I, Robot: Isaac Asimov
Deep Simplicity: John Gribbin
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution: Walter Isaacson
The Unwind Collection: Neal Shusterman
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals: Pollan, Michael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage: Cliff Stoll
The Martian: Andy Weir
Ken Segall: Insanely Simple
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Dick, Philip K. ★ ★ ★ ★
Requiem for a Dream: Hubert Selby Jr
Dit kan niet waar zijn: Joris Luyendijk
Slaughterhouse-Five: Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Foundation and Empire: Isaac Asimov
Foundation: Isaac Asimov
In My Skin: Holden, Kate
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: Tim Harford
Zero to One: Peter Thiel
Gomorrah: Roberto Saviano ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Redeployment: Phil Klay

2014

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China: Osnos, Evan ★ ★ ★ ★
The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged Penguin): Alexandre Dumas
Chaos: James Gleick
Fahrenheit_451: nan
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite: Sebastian Mallaby
The Bang-Bang Club: Greg Marinovich
The Great Stagnation: Cowen, Tyler
Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story: Greg Smith
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Going Solo: Dahl, Roald
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers: Kevin Mitnick
Status Anxiety: Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★
Yellow Birds: Kevin Powers
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell: Lapsley, Phil
Wind, Sand and Stars: Antoine de Saint-exupery ★ ★ ★ ★
Love and Math: Frenkel, Edward
Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed: Priceonomics
The Physics of Wall Street: James Owen Weatherall
On The Beach: Nevil Shute
Probably Approximately Correct: Valiant, Leslie
How To Win Friends And Influence People: Carnegie, Dale
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market: John Allen Paulos
The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald
Who Moved My Cheese: Johnson, Spencer
With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful: Glenn Greenwald
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software: Charles Petzold
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Loewen, James W. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Anon: 20ebooks
The Upside of Irrationality: Dan Ariely
Thank You for Smoking: Christopher Buckley
The Crash of 2016: Thom Hartmann
Candide: Voltaire
Maiden Voyage: Tania Aebi ★ ★ ★ ★
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits: Roose, Kevin
The Road: Cormac McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★
I Am Legend: Matheson, Richard
How to Think More About Sex (The School of Life): de Botton, Alain
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: Jonas Jonasson
The Hot Zone: Richard Preston
Generals Die in Bed: Charles Yale Harrison
Essays in Love: Alain De Botton
War: Sebastian Junger
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers: Mary Roach
3001: The Final Odyssey: Clarke, Arthur C.
2061: Odyssey Three: Clarke, Arthur C.
Night: Elie Wiesel; Marion Wiesel
2010: Odyssey Two: Clarke, Arthur C.
2001 - A Space Odyssey: Clarke, Arthur C.
More Sex Is Safer Sex: Steven E. Landsburg
The Accidental Billionaires: Ben Mezrich

2013

A Briefer History of Time: Stephen Hawking
Packing for Mars: Roach, Mary
In The Plex: Steve Levy
How Proust Can Change Your Life: Alain De Botton
What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: nan
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: Chris Hadfield
Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed: Alexis Ohanian
Generation Kill: Evan Wright
Enders Game 1 - Ender’s Game: Card, Orson Scott
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency: Parmy Olson
Bonk: Roach, Mary
The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell ★
Rise of the Warrior Cop: Radley Balko
SuperFreakonomics: Steven D. Levitt
The Devil’s Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . And Are Ready to Do It Again: Nicholas Dunbar
Outliers: The Story of Success: Malcolm Gladwell
The Forever War: Dexter Filkins
This Machine Kills Secrets: Andy Greenberg
The Black Swan: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Misbehavior of Markets: Benoit Mandelbrot
Not On the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate: Lawrence, Felicity
Underground: Suelette Dreyfus
Steve Jobs: Isaacson, Walter
The Bookseller of Kabul: Asne Seierstad
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It: Richard A. Clarke
WikiLeaks: Harding, Luke
Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution / Chapters 1 and 2: Steven Levy
Fast Food Nation: What The All-American Meal is Doing to the World: Schlosser, Eric
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It: Scott Patterson
The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess: Duff, Turney
The Wolf of Wall Street: Jordan Belfort
Leaving las vegas: John O’brien ★ ★ ★ ★
Bad Science: Ben Goldacre
The Undercover Economist: Tim Harford
The Shallows: Nicholas Carr
Predictably Irrational: Dan Ariely
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins
The Drunkard’s Walk: Leonard Mlodinow ★ ★ ★ ★
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures: Malcolm Gladwell
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: Reingold, Dan
Dark Pools: Scott Patterson
iWoz: Steve Wozniak
Contact: Carl Sagan
Starship Troopers: Robert A. Heinlein
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker: Mitnick, Kevin
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t: Silver, Nate ★ ★ ★ ★
Het zijn net mensen: Joris Luyendijk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
0061240427: nan
Je hebt het niet van mij, maar… Een maand aan het Binnenhof (NL, 1987): Joris Luyendijk
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Mark Haddon ★ ★ ★ ★
Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card
2001 - Life of Pi: Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Chaos: James Gleick
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
Kafka on the Shore: Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★
Masters Of Doom: How Two Guys Created An Empire And Transformed Pop Culture: David Kushner
Rama 01 - Rendezvous With Rama: Arthur C. Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand
Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card
Bad Pharma: Ben Goldacre
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: Chad Orzel
The Mind’s I:Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★