My reading list of technical or scientific books

This is a list of all technical or scientific books I've read during the past years with some comments on how I liked them (latest reads first):

2019:

• Martin Fowler: "Refactoring - Improving the design of Existing Code" - I just received that book a few days ago and fell in love with it. It's actually a physical "real" book, so I can not read it when I'm in bed in the evening, but this would b pointless anyway, since I need some fresh mind, although it's quite easy to read. I guess it won't take too long until I have read it fully.

2018:

• Sandro Mancuso: "The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Robert C. Martin Series)" - One of my favourite books on software development in general. Read it fully at the end of 2018.
• Ferdinand Laudage: "Noch mehr Craft-Bier selber brauen: Optimieren, variieren, experimentieren" - I am a hobby brewer and this book is a follow-up of the one that finally made me start brewing at home. Highly recommended as an addition!
• McDowell, Gayle Laakmann: "Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions" - A real heavyweight full of work. Probably the right book if you want to prepare yourself for tougher software development applications, but also full of stuff that's good to know. Very profound and well written.
• Robert C. Martin: "Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)" - Despite I love the work of "Uncle Bob" (Robert C. Martin), I did not enjoy this book and did not read it fully. I guess if you know his "Clean Code" book already, then you can skip this one. But I might be wrong here, as I'm not a software architect.
• Cal Newport: "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World" - I've read it fully, but I guess I would not recommend it. It is not a bad book, but a book teaching you why you should learn and practice "deep work" - times of highly focussed working - is possibly not what I was looking for after all. No one to blame but me.
• Michael Lewis, Jürgen Neubauer, Sebastian Vogel: "Aus der Welt: Grenzen der Entscheidung oder Eine Freundschaft, die unser Denken verändert hat" - A story about the friendship between the Nobel price awarded psychologist Daniel Kahneman and the psychologist Amos Tversky, that is highly entertaining and taught me a lot about Israel.
• Jan Brücklmeier: "Bier brauen: Grundlagen, Rohstoffe, Brauprozess" - A big compendium about home brewing teaching you everything you'll possibly ever need to know. Well written and organized - not for beginners!
• Ferdinand Laudage: "Craft-Bier einfach selber brauen: Brew it yourself" - The beginner's book on home brewing that got me started brewing at home. To me the best beginner's book on home brewing available.
• Kyle Simpson: "You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar" & "You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes" & "You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures" - I definitely highly recommend the complete "You don't know JS" series to every frontend developer. It is very well written and easy to understand, yet it gives you a very deep understanding of how JS works in detail. I've bought the whole series, but can't find am too lazy right now to find all the titles. I've read them fully except the one about promises which I'll yet have to read. And then I'll have to read them again to make all of this knowledge stick.

2017:

• Simon Sinek: "Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action" - Simon Sinek is an inspirational writer and speaker - you can watch videos with him on Youtube. This book got me hooked and I've read it fully. If you want to know how to promote a (good) product - e.g. for better being able to support your company - you should definitely read this book!
• Daniel Kahneman: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" - One of my favourite books ever. Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahnemann knows how to write entertaining whilst delivering knowledge about how we think. Highly recommended.
• Chrystia Freeland: "Die Superreichen: Aufstieg und Herrschaft einer neuen globalen Geldelite" - Also a book I enjoyed a lot despite the sensational title ("The super-rich: The rise and domination of a new global money elite"). It explains a lot and tells details of why and how some people become super rich and what the impact of them on the world is.
• Andrew Hunt, David Thomas: "The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master" - I just realized that I have bought this ebook and cannot remember having read it. So I just put it on my to-read list now, in January 2019.
• Stephen R. Covey: "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" - I was positively surprised by this book and enjoyed reading it until I came to the passage where I had to actually start doing something. Having arrived there I just wanted to wait for the right time when I could find the passion to start thinking seriously about that task and taking notes - and that was it. So this definitely is one of the books I want and hopefully will pick up again and continue reading until the end.

2016:

• Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow: "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Lessons in Living" - A book I did not find as interesting as I thought, but I would still recommend reading it. It is the real last lecture of Randy Pausch at the Carnegie Mellon University he gave before he died on cancer, which was diagnosed sometime before that. He gives his view of life and what and how to achieve stuff knowing that his life would come to an end pretty soon after that lecture.
• Dale Carnegie: "The Quick And Easy Way To Effective Speaking" - I was a fan of Dale Carnegie when I discovered his famous books at the age of 16, and so I thought I should read this one also - I was disappointed and did not read it until the end. This book probably makes sense for people that have to do talks in front of audiences regularly, but even then I guess nowadays there are better books helping with this topic. Anyways I am not interested enough to read this book until it ends.
• Vera F. Birkenbihl: "Kommunikationstraining: Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen erfolgreich gestalten" - I do not like this book - neither the contents nor the style of writing does affect me in any way, so I put it away again pretty fast.
• Dan Lyons: Disrupted: "My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble" - A really very good and fun read is this book about the experiences of a journalist in his forties starting a job at the startup HubSpot in Boston. I recognized a lot of weird ongoings from my own experiences working in different startups and it was as much fun reading this book as it is sad that it is a true story and stuff like that really happens. Recommended to everyone who wants to learn about what it is like working in one of the big startups.
• Robert Greene: "The 48 Laws Of Power (The Robert Greene Collection Book 1)" - I guess I read this book fully although I found it hard to keep going on sometimes. It's an interesting read for someone that wants to learn how power-oriented people think and make their decisions.
• David Eagleman: "The Brain: The Story of You" - A great and entertaining book that teaches modern insights into how the human brain works. Highly recommended to everyone with interest in this kind of science.
• GEO Magazin, GEO eBook, GEO: "Psychologie: Wie uns Willenskraft erfolgreich macht" - A short essay teaching about the importance of willpower for successful carreers. A very good and informative read.

There are more books I have read before and also more books I have read in-between, but I did not buy all the books I've read at Amazon, so it's hard for me to figure out which book I read when. So I will try to keep this list up-to-date from now on.