:: Books I’ve Read

I hope that you too, will find some inspiration among those awesome gifts to the mankind -> books. 

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Enjoy the list of some of the books I have read studied.

Year 2017

September 2017

• You Are Here – Jenny Lawson

August 2017

• The Talent Lab – Owen Slot and Simon Timson
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
• If This Is a Man/Truce – Primo Levi
• The Yoga Kitchen – Kimberly Parsons

July 2017

• Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami

May and June 2017

• HC of the NW U13 😉

April 2017

• Creativity Inc. – Ed Catmull
• Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
• Tokyo – Maori Murota
• Flash Boys – Michael Lewis

March 2017

• Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
• The Lowland – Jhumpa Lahiri
• Basketball on Paper – Dean Oliver
• Blitz Basketball – Brian McCormick

February 2017

• Chicken and Rice – Shu Han Lee
• The Course of Love – Allain de Botton
• The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
• Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri

January 2017

• Magic Soup – Nicole Pisani and Kate Adams
• Liar’s Poker – Michael Lewis
• Three Men in a Boat –  Jerome K. Jerome

Year 2016

December 2016

• The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Maria Semple
• The Lottery and Other Stories –  Shirley Jackson
• Family Meal – Ferran Adria

November 2016

• Today Will Be Different – Maria Semple
• The Dinner – Herman Koch
• Dear Mr. M – Herman Koch
• The Invisible Woman – Claire Tomalin

October 2016

• The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
• The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
• Embroideries – Marjane Satrapi
• Ghost Boy – Martin Pistorius

September 2016

• Wild Swans – Jung Chang
• Shoot Like the Pros – Adam Filippi
• Mastering the Art of Free Throw Shooting – Adam Filippi

August 2016

• The Post Birthday World – Lionel Shriver
• Rivers of Babylon – Peter Pistanek

July 2016

• Black Milk – Elif Shafak

June 2016

• The Unmumsy Mum – Sarah Turner 

May 2016

• Orphan X (Evan Smoak) – Gregg Hurwitz 

April 2016

• Every Song Ever – Ben Ratliff
• The Sacred Combe: A Search for Humanity’s Heartland – Simon Barnes
• The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life – Michael Puett
• How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food – Nigella Lawson

March 2016

• The Expatriates – A Novel – Janice Y. K. Lee
• The Piano Teacher: A Novel –  Janice Y.K. Lee
• Scandi Kitchen – Bronte Aurell

February 2016

• Englischer Fussball: A German’s View of Our Beautiful Game – Raphael Honigstein
• Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World – Raphael Honigstein 

January 2016

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
• Simply Nigella – Nigella Lawson

Year 2015

December 2015

• The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
• Big Brother: A Novel (P.S.)– Lionel Shriver

November 2015

• Listener – Lemn Sissay
• Creating Your Home with Style – Adolf Loos
• Rising Strong – Brene Brown

October 2015

• Two Hours – Ed Caesar
• Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson

September 2015

• Married to a Beduin – Marguerite van Geldermalsen
• Once A Runner: A Novel – John L. Parker Jr.
• Again to Carthage: A Novel – John L. Parker Jr.

August 2015

• Wind / Pinball (Two Novels) – Haruki Murakami
• A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
• Eat & Run – Scott Jurek

July 2015

• The Untethered Soul – Michael A. Singer 

June 2015

• Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

May 2015

• Natural Born Heroes – Christopher McDougall
• I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that – Ben Goldacre 

April 2015

• The Way of the Runner – Adharanand Finn 
• Emotional First Aid – Guy Winch

March 2015

• And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini 
• Sacred Hoops – Phil Jackson 

February 2015

• Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals  – Robert M. Sapolsky

January 2015

• Happiness – Daniel Nettle
• Dog Songs  – Mary Oliver

Year 2014

December 2014

• The Four Steps to The Epiphany – Steve Blank

November 2014

• Zero to One – Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

October 2014

• One Thousand Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marqez

September 2014

• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal –  Nick Bilton
• Colorless Life of Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami 
• The Martian – Andy Weir

August 2014

• Adultery – Paulo Coelho
• Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Rui Zafon 

July 2014

• Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts

June 2014

• The Marsh Arabs – Wilfred Thesiger

May 2014

• N/A

April 2014

• High Output Management – Andrew S. Grove

March 2014

• The Hard Things About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
• Moth Smoke – Mohsin Hamid
• How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia – Mohsin Hamid

February 2014

• Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer

January 2014

• The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
• Body of Work – Pamela Slim

Year 2013

December 2013

• The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield

November 2013

• Design for the real world – Victor Papanek

October 2013

• The Honoured Society – Norman Lewis

September 2013

• The Authentic Swing – Steven Pressfield

August 2013

• Voices of the Old Sea – Norman Lewis

July 2013

• The World The World – Norman Lewis

June 2013

• Manage Your Day – to – Day – Scott Belsky
• Tomas Bata – Reflections and Speeches [audiobook]
• Breaking the Time Barrier – Mike McDerment 
• Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking – Oliver Burkeman

May 2013

• Ireland – Frank Delaney

April 2013

• Manuscript Found in Accra – Paulo Coelho

March 2013

• None;-)

February 2013

• None?! 😉

January 2013

• The Beermat Entrepreneur – Mike Southon

Year 2012

December 2012

• Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

November 2012

• The War of the Worlds –  H. G. Wells

October 2012

• Start Up: A Siicon Valley Adventure – Jerry Kaplan
• How To Be a Woman – Caitlin Moran

September 2012

• Touching from a Distance – Deborah Curtis
• Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
• The Alchemy of Happiness – Al Ghazzali
• If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi

August 2012

• Songlines – Bruce Chatwin

July 2012

• The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes

June 2012

• Turning Pro – Steven Pressfield
• Your Effortless Business – Frances Schagen

May 2012

• Presenting with Credibility – Bruna Martinuzzi
• Too Big To Know – David Weinberger
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened  – Jenny Lawson
• The Creative Habit – Twyla Tharp

April 2012

• Start Up of You – Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha
• Aleph – Paulo Coelho
• Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
• Foundation – Isaac Asimov

March 2012

• Republic  – Plato
• Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure – Tim Harford
• Walden – Henry David Thoreau

February 2012

• The Lean Start Up  – Eric Ries
• The Garden of Truth – Seyyed Hossain Nasr 
• Stop Stealing Dreams – Seth Godin

January 2012

• The Wandering Falcon – Jamil Ahmad

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Year 2011

December 2011

• Wholeness and the Implicate Order – David Bohm

November 2011

• E- Myth Revisited – Michael E. Webber
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Adam Douglas
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• I Was Blind Now I See – James Altucher

October 2011

• I have not read any book this month.

September 2011

• On the Road – Jack Kerouac
• We Are All Weird – Seth Godin
• End Malaria – Michael Bungay
• Albert Einstein, the Human Side – Helen Dukas

August 2011

• Zarella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness – Dan Zarella
• The Other 90 % –  Robert K. Cooper
• Read This Before Our Next Meeting – Al Pittampalli
• The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

July 2011

• Anything You Want – Derek Sivers
• More Napalm and Silly Putty – George Carlin
• Just Kids – Patti Smith
• Brain Rules – John Medina

June 2011

• Unfettered Mind – Takuan Soho
• Enchantment – Guy Kawasaki
• Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
• Presentation Zen Design – Garr Reynolds

May 2011

• Crooked Cucumber: The Life & Zen Teaching of S. Suzuki – David Chadwick
• The Leader as a Mensch – Bruna Martinuzzi
• A Brief History of Everything – Ken Wilber
• Allah Is Not Obliged – Ahmadou Kourouma

April 2011

• The Museum Of Innocence – Orhan Pamuk
• Do the Work – Steven Pressfield
• America – Franz Kafka
• Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson

March 2011

• Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger – Peter Bevelin
• The Thank You Economy – Gary Vaynerchuck
• The Designful Company – Marty Neumeier
• Poke the Box: The Workbook (pdf.) – Seth Godin

February 2011

• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• Poke the Box – Seth Godin
• Evil Plan: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination – Hugh MacLeod
• A Search In Secret India – Paul Brunton

January 2011

• Freedom from the Known – Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert  M. Pirsig

Year 2010

December 2010

• Pharaoh – Valerio Massimo Manfredi
• The Pilgrimage – Paulo Coelho
• The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing – Lisa Gansky
• The Essence of Rumi – John Baldock

November 2010

• Tales of Power – Carlos Castaneda
• Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay – John Lanchester
• The Art Of Non-Conformity – Chris Guillebeau
• Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – Alexander Kjerulf

October 2010

• Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
• Purple Cow – Seth Godin
• The Dip – Seth Godin
• Start With Why – Simon Sinek

September 2010

• Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead – David Meerman Scott & Brian Halligan
• Awakening Buddha Within – Lama Surya Das
• Happiness at Work – Srikumar Rao
• Cognitive Surplus – Clay Shirky

August 2010

• The Truth About Leadership – Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner
• Journey to Ixtlan – Carlos Castaneda
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life – John C. Bogle

July 2010

• Ignite the Genius Within – Christine Ranck & Christopher Nutter
• The Insubordinate – Seth Godin
• Separate Reality – Carlos Castaneda
• The War of Art – Steven Pressfield

June 2010

• 1984 – George Orwell
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Steig Larson
• The Girl Who Played With Fire – Steig Larsson

May 2010

• Long Walk to Freedom Vol.1 – Nelson Mandela
• Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky
• The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo – Stieg Larsson
• Braindroppings – George Carlin

April 2010

• Rama Revealed – Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee
• Garden Of Rama – Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee
• Rama II – Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee
  

March 2010

• Unleashing the SUPER Ideavirus – Seth Godin
• A Whole New Mind – Daniel  H. Pink
• Homo Faber – Max Frisch
• Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
• Future Shock – Alvin Toffler

February 2010

• Leadership Divided – Ron A. Carucci
• The Road – Corman McCarthy
• Linchpin – Seth Godin
• The Element – Sir Ken Robinson
  

January 2010

• Man’s Search for Meaning– Viktor Frankl
• The Man Who Planted Trees– Jean Giono
• Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity – Hugh MacLeod
• Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
  

Year 2009

December 2009

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections – C. G. Jung
• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found – Suketu Mehta
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book – don Miquel Ruiz
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
  

November 2009

• Crush It! – Gary Vaynerchuk
• Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life’s Terms – Zig Ziglar
• Foundation )– Isaac Asimov

October 2009

• Five Moral Pieces – Umberto Eco
• Animal Farm– George Orwell
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

September 2009

• Zen in the Art of Archery– Eugen Herrigel
• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge– Carlos Castaneda
• For Those I Loved– Martin Gray
• Identity– Milan Kundera
• The Tao of Physics– Fritjof Capra

August 2009

• Warrior of the Light: A Manual– Paulo Coelho
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Shack– Paul Young
• The Future of an Ilusion – Sigmund Freud

July 2009

• The Street Lawyer – John Grisham
• Stand Tall –Kelvin A. Redd
• The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life– Rosamund & Benjamin Zander

June 2009

• Love and Courage– Hugh Prather
• My Stroke of Insight– Jill Bolte Taylor
• Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius– Michael Michalko
• Nature and Selected Essays –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Outliers: The Story of Success– Malcolm Gladwell

May 2009

• Loving What Is– Byron Katie
• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Success– Karl Albrecht
• Eat, Pray, Love– Elizabeth Gilbert
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us– Seth Godin

April 2009

• The Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet– Benjamin Hoff
• Awareness the Way to Love – Anthony de Mello
• The First Ten Books – Confucius
• Eragon– Christopher Paolini
• Know-How–Ram Charan

March 2009

• Siddhartha– Herman Hesse
• The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters– Peter Block
• The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
• Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person– Hugh Prather

February 2009

• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Opening Doors Within– Eileen Caddy
• A Brief History of Time– Stephen Hawking
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose– Eckhart Tolle

January 2009

• What the Customer Wants You to Know – Ram Charan
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
• Can I live Forever? – Radheshyam Das
• Strange Powers of the Human Mind – Herbie Brennan’s
• Power vs. Force– David R. Hawkins
• The Prophet– Khalil Gibran