My 2016 reading list

in #reading8 years ago (edited)

I usually read something each day, mostly articles in the last months and less and less books. So my reading list for 2016 got really long and I'm pretty sure most of this books I will ned to move to my 2017 reading list.

I wanted to add this here for inspiration for other people (that are maybe looking for something to read) and motivation for myself to read as much as I can from this list.

Please be aware that according to my studies I'm an economist, an economist with an interest in design and web development. So most of the books will be related with these topics:


  1. The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau
  2. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! - Al Ries
  3. The Aeneid - Virgil
  4. Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly - Bertrand Meyer
  5. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
  6. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Doris Kearns Goodwin
  7. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street - John Brooks
  8. The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond
  9. Clean Code - Robert C. Martin
  10. The Clean Coder - Robert C. Martin
  11. Creativity, Inc - Ed Catmull
  12. Dealers of Lightning - Michael A. Hiltzik
  13. The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman
  14. Designing Web Usability - Jacob Nielsen
  15. The Effective Executive - Peter F. Drucker
  16. Emotional Design - Donald A. Norman
  17. The Essays of Warren Buffett - Warren Buffett
  18. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone
  19. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering - Robert L. Glass
  20. Geekonomics - David Rice
  21. How Asia Works - Joe Studwell
  22. How to Lie with Statistics - Darrell Huff
  23. The Industries of the Future - Alec Ross
  24. The Inevitable - Kevin Kelly
  25. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
  26. The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
  27. Interaction Design beyond Human Computer Interactions - Jennifer Preece/Yvonne Rogers/Helen Sharp
  28. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business - Clayton M. Christensen
  29. The Lean Startup - Eric Ries 
  30. Leonardo's Laptop - Ben Shneiderman
  31. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  32. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization - Vaclav Smil
  33. The Man Who Fed the World - Leon Hesser
  34. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  35. The Mythical Man Month - Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  36. The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World - Michael Spence
  37. The Old New Thing - Raymond Chen
  38. On Immunity - Eula Biss
  39. Originals: How non conformists move the world - Adam Grant
  40. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
  41. The Outsiders - William Thorndike, Jr.
  42. Peopleware - Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
  43. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind - Al Ries &  Jack Trout
  44. The Power of Broke - Daymond John
  45. The Psychology of Software Programming - Gerald M. Weinberg
  46. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - Seth Godin
  47. Rapid Contextual Design - Karen Holtzblatt/Jessamyn Burns Wendell/Shelley Wood
  48. Revolution in the Valley - Andy Hertzfeld
  49. Rework - Jason Fried & David Heinemeier
  50. The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
  51. The Success of Open Source - Steven Weber
  52. Should We Eat Meat? - Vaclav Smil
  53. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert
  54. Sprint - Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz
  55. Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises - Tim Geithner
  56. Stuff Matters - Mark Miodownik
  57. SuperFreakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  58. Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 - Carol Loomis
  59. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
  60. Usability Engineering - Jacob Nielsen
  61. What If? - Randall Munroe
  62. Zero to One: Notes on Startups Or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel
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Thank you. I hope to read as much as I can from this list.