Reading List

Below you’ll find books i’m currently reading. If you have any recommendation which one(s) to include, please let me know as i’ll always try to keep it updated. Ty!

⏯ Reading right now

• Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
• Sarah Drasner - Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

⏸️ Up Next

These are already bought and waiting until I can start with them

• Cal Newport - Deep Work
• Christopher Clark - The Sleepwalkers
• Frederick P. Brooks Jr. - The Mythical Man-Month
• Geoffrey A. Moore - Crossing the Chasm
• Kim Scott - Radical Candor
• Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy - Big Feelings
• Melissa Perri - Escaping the Build Trap
• Tijen Onaran - Nur wer sichtbar ist, findet auch statt

🌠 Wishlist

My wishlist currently features 50 books. If you are looking for a gift, this is the right place.

Gold Tier

• Amy C. Edmondson - The Fearless Organization
• Amy Webb - The Big Nine
• Andrew Chen - The Cold Start Problem
• Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-Deception
• Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Dr. Leon Windscheid - Besser fühlen
• Ellen Gottesdiener - Discover to Deliver
• Geoff Watts - Team Mastery
• Joana Breidenbach, Bettina Rollow - New Work needs Inner Work
• John P. Kotter - Leading Change
• John P. Strelecky - The Big Five for Life
• Kate Raworth - Doughnut Economics
• Kübra Gümüsay - Sprache und Sein
• Maja Göpel - The Great Mindshift
• Marty Cagan - INSPIRED
• Michael D. Watkins - The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded
• Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim - Accelerate
• Nir Eyal - Hooked
• Rutger Bregman - Humankind
• Tiago Forte - Building a Second Brain

Silver Tier

• April Dunford - Obviously Awesome
• Dan Olsen - The Lean Product Playbook
• Darren Hardy - The Compound Effect
• David A. Aaker - Spanning Silos
• Elad Gil - High Growth Handbook
• Erin Meyer - The Culture Map
• Gary Vaynerchuk - Crushing It!
• Harvard Business Review - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
• Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson - It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• Jurgen Appelo - Startup, Scaleup, Screwup
• Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler - Crucial Conversations
• Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying
• Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker
• Nir Eyal - Indistractable
• Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton - Getting to Yes
• Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In
• Therese Huston - Let's Talk
• Tom DeMarco - The Deadline
• Waldemar Zeiler - Unfuck the Economy

Bronze Tier

• Brigitte Witzer - Die Fleißlüge
• Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore You
• Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit
• Gigi Sayfan - Mastering Kubernetes
• Hal Elrod - The Miracle Morning
• James F. Richardson - Ramping Your Brand
• Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim - Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit
• Manuel Jork - Artgerechte Haltung von Menschen
• Richard P. Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
• Ryan Holiday - Growth Hacker Marketing
• Tim Phillips - Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

✅ Completed

2022

In this year I was able to complete 7 books so far.

• Chris Bailey - Hyperfocus
• Harvard Business Review, Deborah M. Kolb, Rob Cross, Joseph L. Badaracco, Laura Morgan Roberts - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2 (with bonus article Be Your Own Best Advocate by Deborah M. Kolb)
• Maja Göpel - Unsere Welt neu denken
• Philippa Perry - The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)
• Rutger Bregman - Utopia for Realists
• Sebastian Klein, Ben Hughes - The Loop Approach
• Swantje Allmers, Christoph Magnussen, Michael Trautmann - ON THE WAY TO NEW WORK

2021

In this year I was able to complete these 10 books.

• Adam Grant - Give and Take
• Alice Hasters - Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten
• Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations
• Geoff Watts - Product Mastery
• Insa Klasing - Der 2-Stunden-Chef
• James Clear - Atomic Habits
• Janina Kugel - It's now
• Jurgen Appelo - Management 3.0
• Jörg Zeyringer, Adi Hütter - Teamgeist
• Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer - No Rules Rules

2020

In this year I was able to complete these 9 books.

• Anselm Grün - Menschen führen - Leben wecken
• Blake Masters, Peter Thiel - Zero to One
• C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, Michael Connors - Product Roadmaps Relaunched
• Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
• David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried - ReWork
• Franz Kafka - Die Verwandlung
• L. David Marquet - Turn the Ship Around!
• Simon Sinek - Start with Why
• Stephen R. Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

2019

In this year I was able to complete these 7 books.

• Andy Weir - The Martian
• Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People
• David Allen - Getting Things Done
• Eric Ries - The Lean Startup
• Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
• Leo Martin - Ich krieg dich!
• Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant - Spy the Lie