Reading non-fiction books is a great source of learning and constant self-improvement. I like books on economic theories, technical topics, futurism, and entrepreneurship. This page is a timeline of all the books that I read. Some books may not have been fully read though, eg. technical books, as they rather serve an always-available knowledge backup purpose.

2022

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson;
  • Atomic Habits, James Clear;
  • ❤️ The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing, James Hoffmann;
  • Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World, Michal Zalewski;
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein;
  • ❤️ Contes de Silicium, Mickaël Rémond;
  • Heat Pumps for the Home, John Cantor;
  • Biogas For Beginners: Off Grid Eco Power a DIY Guide, George Eccleston;
  • Live in a Home that Pays You Back: A Complete Guide to Net Zero and Energy-Efficient Homes, Anna DeSimone;
  • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh;
  • The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, Christopher E. Mason;
  • The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Eric Swanson;
  • Winter Blues: Everything You Need to Know to Beat Seasonal Affective Disorder, Norman E. Rosenthal;
  • Nuclear Energy: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes, Raymond L. Murray and Keith E. Holbert;

2021

  • Practical Electronics for Inventors, Paul Scherz;
  • Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach, Margarita Madrigal;
  • ❤️ Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger;
  • Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov;
  • Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov;
  • Foundation, Isaac Asimov;
  • SwiftUI Cookbook: Discover solutions and best practices to tackle the most common problems while building SwiftUI apps, Giordano Scalzo and Edgar Nzokwe;
  • Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, Carlota Perez;
  • Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software, Elecia White;
  • ❤️ Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, Michael J. Neufeld;
  • ❤️ Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb;
  • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Joshua Foer;

2020

  • ❤️ Carbon Capture, Howard J. Herzog;
  • The High Frontier, Gerard K. O'Neill;
  • Mining The Sky, John S. Lewis;
  • Deep Space Propulsion, K. F. Long;
  • Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering, Travis S. Taylor;
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Soshana Zuboff;
  • Information Theory, A Tutorial Introduction, James V. Stone;
  • Autodesk Fusion 360: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users, John Willis and Sandeep Dogra;
  • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World, Timothy Ferriss;

2019

  • ❤️ Battery Management Systems for Large Lithium-Ion Battery Packs, Davide Andrea;
  • ❤️ The Art of Electronics, Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill;
  • Power Electronics, Ned Mohan;
  • Solar Energy, Olindo Isabella, Klaus Jäger, Arno Smets, René van Swaaij and Miro Zeman;
  • Lithium-Ion Batteries, Akiya Kozawa and Masaki Yoshio;
  • The 3D Printing Handbook, Ben Redwood, Brian Garret and Filemon Schöffer;
  • Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy, John Lewis;
  • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions, Johann Hari;
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari;

2018

  • Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street;
  • Hedge, Nicolas Colin;
  • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, Timothy Ferriss;
  • ❤️ Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman;

2017

  • ❤️ The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg;
  • ❤️ The Next 100 Years, George Friedman;
  • The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil;
  • Transcend, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman;
  • Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville;
  • Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele;

2016

  • Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom;
  • Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand;
  • The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand;
  • Play Bigger: How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets, Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead and Kevin Maney;
  • The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, David D. Friedman;
  • From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin;
  • How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, Ray Kurzweil;
  • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Paul Graham;
  • ❤️ Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime, Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae;

2015

  • ❤️ Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil de Grasse Tyson;
  • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future, Seth Godin;
  • The Tao of Roark, Peter Saint-Andre;
  • Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman;
  • Speed reading: How to read 3-5 times faster in less than 24 hours, Bret Purvis;
  • ❤️ Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future, Ashlee Vance;
  • Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, Robert Zubrin;
  • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future, Blake Masters and Peter Thiel;

2014

  • Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Walter Isaacson;

❤️ = Loved Book, ie. book that I enjoyed reading and found tremendous value in it.