Spyros Maniatopoulos
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Welcome to my Reading List!
Last update: April 2018
Books I have already read
Artemis
Andy Weir
Managing Humans
Michael Lopp
★
The Martian
Andy Weir
Origin
Dan Brown
★
Scrumban
Corey Ladas
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Leading Snowflakes
Oren Ellenbogen
Kanban
David J. Anderson
★
Understanding Cryptography
C. Paar & J. Pelzl
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
★
Peopleware
Tom DeMarco & Timothy R. Lister
Sandworms of Dune
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
Continuous Integration
P. Duvall, S. Matyas, A. Glover
Continuous Delivery
J. Humble & D. Farley ★
Hunters of Dune
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune
Frank Herbert
The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
The Phoenix Project
G. Kim, K. Behr, G. Spafford
The Battle of Corrin
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
Three Deep Breaths
Thomas Crum
Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
★
The Tao of Seneca
Seneca
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The Truth
Neil Strauss
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Future Crimes
Marc Goodman
Taking a Stand
Rand Paul
The Achievement Habit
Bernard Roth
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
Ashlee Vance
★
Coffee Gives Me Superpowers
Ryoko Iwata
MONEY: Master the Game
Tony Robbins
★
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
BOLD
Steven Kotler & Peter H. Diamandis
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
The Magic of Thinking Big
David J. Schwartz
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Getting to Yes
R. Fisher, W. Ury, B. Patton
The Dip
Seth Godin
Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
★
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
★
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
★
Play Your Bigger Game
Rick Tamlyn
Think Like a Freak
S. D. Levitt & S. J. Dubner
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
★
The Winner Effect
Ian H. Robertson
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
The Obstacle is the Way
Ryan Holiday
Good to Great
Jim Collins
★
Mindfulness
Williams and Penman
Inferno
Dan Brown
The Art of Being Unmistakable
Srinivas Rao
Mastery
Robert Greene
★
StrengthsFinder 2.0
Tom Rath
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
Don Rosa
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
How to Deliver a TED Talk
Jeremy Donovan
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Man 2.0
Romaniello & Bornstein
The Wheel of Time
Carlos Castaneda
★
The Way of the Superior Man
David Deida
★
High Tech Start Up
John Nesheim
The Power of Unfair Advantage
John Nesheim
Marketing Warfare
Al Ries & Jack Trout
Manual of the Warrior of the Light
Paulo Coehlo
The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Choose Yourself
James Altucher
The Relaxation Response
Benson & Klipper
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
★
The Ultra Mind Solution
Mark Hyman
The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss
Entrepreneur's Toolkit
Harvard Business Essentials
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
S. Covey
★
The Machine Crusade
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
The Butlerian Jihad
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
DUNE
Frank Herbert
House Corrino
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
House Harkonnen
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
House Atreides
B. Herbert & K. Anderson
Logicomix
A. Doxiadis & C. Papadimitriou
The Alchemist
Paulo Coehlo
Social Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
★
Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
★
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
Deception Point
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
(Illuminati) Dan Brown
The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking
Stuff I read so long ago that I can barely remember ...
Books I am currently reading
Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferriss
Personal Kanban
Jim Benson & Tonianne Barry
Ansible for DevOps
Jeff Geerling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
Kenneth Reitz and Tanya Schlusser
The Product Book
Product School
Grit
Angela Duckworth
Books I will be starting soon
Own the Day, Own your Life
Aubrey Marcus
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Unshakeable
Tony Robbins
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
John Maxwell
Books I want to eventually read
Sex at Dawn
Christopher Ryan
The Mood Cure
Julia Ross
Driverless
Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman
The Explorers Guild, Vol. 1
Jon Baird & Kevin Costner
59 Seconds
Richard Wiseman
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
The One Thing
Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
The School of Greatness
Lewis Howes
The Machinery of Freedom
David D. Friedman
The Millionaire Fastlane
M. J. DeMarco
The Road to Character
David Brooks
Satisfaction
Gregory Berns
SuperBetter
Jane McGonigal
Make Space
Scott Doorley & Scott Witthoft
Creativity
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What If?
Randall Munroe
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
Work Rules!
Laszlo Bock
We Learn Nothing
Tim Kreider
The Art of Asking
Amanda Palmer
The Nerdist Way
Chris Hardwick
Free to Choose
Milton Friedman
Business Model Generation
Osterwalder & Pigneur
How to Read a Book
M. Adler & C. van Doren
Insanely Simple
Ken Segall
Driven from Within
Michael Jordan
Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
Mastery
George Leonard
The Power of Full Engagement
J. Loehr & T. Schwartz
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities
Kevin Kelly
Smartcuts
Shane Snow
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Strategic Storytelling
Dave McKinsey
What I Learned Losing a $1M
Paul and Moynihan
Getting Things Done
David Allen
The Pragmatic Programmer
A. Hunt & D. Thomas
The Clean Coder
Robert C. Martin
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
The Narrow Road
Felix Dennis
Letters from a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Nathaniel Branden
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
R. L. Moore, D. Gillette
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
R. Pirsig
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
Cracking the PM Interview
Gayle L. McDowell
Blue Ocean Strategy
Kim & Mauborgne
Purple Cow
Seth Godin
Linchpin
Seth Godin
Hannibal and Me
Andreas Kluth
Virtual Freedom
Chris Ducker
Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier
Daily Rituals
Mason Currey
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Silicon Valley Way
Elton B. Sherwin Jr.
The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau
Focus
Daniel Goleman
Common Denominator of Success
Albert E. N. Gray
Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
John Maxwell
Sometimes You Win-Learn
John Maxwell
Crucial Conversations
Kerry Patterson, et al.
Tribal Leadership
Logan, King, Fischer-Wright
Spiral Dynamics
Beck & Cowan
A First-Rate Madness
Nassir Ghaemi
Never Eat Alone
Keith Ferrazzi
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
Solitary
Giora Romm
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Write. Publish. Repeat.
Sean Platt
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Faith of my Fathers
John McCain, Mark Salter
The Essays of Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Books on the back burner
Self-Reliance & Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Architecture of Open Source Applications #1
Amy Brown & Greg Wilson
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
Peak
K. Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool
Decisive
Chip & Dan Health
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe
Magical Passes
Carlos Castaneda
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Hello, Startup
Yevgeniy Brikman
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
Ron Chernow
The Pathfinder
Nicholas Lore
Cracking the Coding Interview
Gayle L. McDowell
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Art of Computer Programming, Vol.1
D. E. Knuth
The Startup Owner's Manual
Steven Blank, Bob Dorf
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
The Irrational Bundle
(3 in 1) Dan Ariely
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
My Big TOE: Awakening
Thomas Campbell
Math in Minutes
Paul Glendinning
The Joy of X
Steven Strogatz
The Improvement of the Mind
Issac Watts