Booklist

A (mostly) up-to-date of books that I’ve read, are currently reading, or want to read.

To read

Fictional

  • Heidi (original German version) by Johanna Spyri
  • The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Non-Fictional

  • Stop Acting Rich by Thomas J. Stanley
  • Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster by Dave Farley

Currently

None at this time

Already read

2024

  • ADHD Pro by Robert Merki
  • The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn
  • Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
  • Your Money or your Life by Vicki Robin
  • Gregs Tagebuch: Gibt’s Probleme? (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules’s German translation) by Jeff Kinney
  • My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss
  • Lost Boy by Brent Jeffs
  • On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals by Sarah Labensky
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
  • Classic German Baking by Luisa Weiss
  • Der Tag, an dem die Oma das Internet kaputt gemacht hat (On The Day Grandma Broke the Internet) by Marc-Uwe Kling
  • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
  • Gregs Tagebuch: Von Idioten umzingelt! (Diary of a Wimpy Kid’s German translation) by Jeff Kinney
  • Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • World on Fire by Amy Chua
  • Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  • Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning by Xi Van Fleet
  • Struwwelpeter (original German version) by Heinrich Hoffmann
  • Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
  • The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
  • Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
  • Der kleine Klo-König (German; “The Toddler Loo King”) by Sandra Grimm

2023

  • Mein Haus ist zu eng und zu klein (A Squash and a Squeeze’s German translation) by Julia Donaldson
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
  • Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Rich Woman by Kim Kiyosaki
  • Limitless by Jim Kwik
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

2022

  • The Bushbabies by William Stevenston
  • To the Point by Robert Hartwell Fiske

2020

  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki