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I love reading. And with reading, I mean listening to audiobooks. I track the books I read (or abandon) on Goodreads, but I also keep a copy here.

2020: 40 books

Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing
Derek Sivers
★★★
Huh ?!: de techniek van het omdenken
Berthold Gunster
★★
SQL Antipatterns
Bill Karwin
★★★
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael C. Feathers
★★★★
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
Richard J. Evans
★★★★★
The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
Nate Berkopec
★★★★
The Shining
Stephen King
★★★★★
Real-Time Phoenix
Stephen Bussey
★★★
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
★★★★
The LogStash Book
James Turnbull
★★★
Design and Build Great Web APIs
Mike Amundsen
★★★
Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield
★★★
Mind Map Mastery
Tony Buzan
★★
Toolkit voor agile leiders
Peter Koning
★★★

2018: 52 books

Artemis
Andy Weir
★★★
Raising Girls
Steve Biddulph
★★★★
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried
★★★★
Have a Nice Day
Billy Crystal
★★★★
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
★★★
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
★★★★
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
★★★
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
★★★★
Je hebt wél iets te verbergen
Maurits Martijn
★★★
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
★★★
The Korean War
Max Hastings
★★★
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
★★★★
Gung Ho!
Kenneth H. Blanchard
★★★★
The Tao of Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
★★★★
The Pursuit of Italy
David Gilmour
★★★★
De bijenherder
Rini Van Solingen
★★
Essential Upstream Kanban
Patrick Steyaert
★★★

2019: 65 books

Designing Elixir Systems with OTP
James Edward Gray II
★★★
Elasticsearch in Action
Radu Gheorghe
★★★
99 Bottles of OOP
Sandi Metz
★★★★★
Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday
★★★★★
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
★★★★
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Max Hastings
★★★★
Web Development with ReasonML
J. David Eisenberg
★★
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
★★★★★
The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad
★★★★
Mastery
Robert Greene
★★★★
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
★★★★
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
★★★★
Programming Ecto
Darin Wilson
★★★★
Docker for Rails Developers
Rob Isenberg
★★★
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
★★★★
Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan
★★★★
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
★★★★
The Last Days of August
Jon Ronson
★★★
Lean from the Trenches
Henrik Kniberg
★★★★
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
★★★★★
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
★★★★★
The Dispatcher
John Scalzi
Essential Kanban Condensed
David J. Anderson
★★★★
Better Web Typography for a Better Web
Matej Latin
★★★★
De fluïde organisatie
Arne de Vet
★★

2016: 83 books

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
Edward B. Burger
★★★
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ernest Cline
★★★★★
Who: The A Method for Hiring
Geoff Smart
★★
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
James S.A. Corey
★★★★
The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Lars Brownworth
★★★
World Order
Henry Kissinger
★★★★
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble
Antony Beevor
★★★★
Badass: Making Users Awesome
Kathy Sierra
★★★★
The Red Flag: A History of Communism
David Priestland
★★★
The German War: A Nation Under Arms
Nicholas Stargardt
★★★★
Predicting the Unpredictable
Johanna Rothman
★★★★
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
★★★★
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Max Hastings
★★★★★
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings
★★★★★
Leading Snowflakes
Oren Ellenbogen
★★★★
1939: Countdown to War
Richard Overy
★★★
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
Richard Dawkins
★★★★
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Ian Kershaw
★★★★★
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
★★★★
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell
★★★
Sand Omnibus (Sand, #1-5)
Hugh Howey
★★★★
Actionable Agile Tools
Jeff Campbell
★★
Agile and Lean Program Management
Johanna Rothman
★★★
Building Maintainable Software
Joost Visser
★★★
Zen to Done
Leo Babauta
★★
Stop Starting, Start Finishing!
Arne Roock
★★★
Shift (Shift, #1-3; Silo, #2)
Hugh Howey
★★★
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
★★★★
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
★★★★

2017: 248 books

Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting
Noel Janis-Norton
★★★★★
The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters
Emily Esfahani Smith
★★★★
Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead
Karen Kimsey-House
★★
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
★★★★
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
Miran Lipovača
★★★★
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
★★★★
Strategy: A History
Lawrence Freedman
★★★
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
Vanessa Van Edwards
★★★★
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin
★★★
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
★★★★
Project Management for Humans
Brett Harned
★★★
The Confidence Gap
Russ Harris
★★★★
Shiloh, 1862
Winston Groom
★★
The Story of World War II
Donald L. Miller
★★★★★
Medieval Europe
Chris Wickham
★★★
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Jonah Berger
★★★
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
Richard E. Nisbett
★★★
1861: The Civil War Awakening
Adam Goodheart
★★★
Pragmatic Guide to Sass
Hampton Catlin
★★
The Cucumber Book
Matt Wynne
★★★
The Rails View
Bruce Williams
★★★
Rails 3 in Action
Ryan Bigg
★★★★
Sinatra: Up and Running
Alan Harris
★★★
Refactoring: Ruby Edition
Jay Fields
★★★★
Working with UNIX Processes
Jesse Storimer
★★★
Wij; De kunst van het manipuhelpen
Remco Claassen
★★
CoffeeScript
Trevor Burnham
★★★
Backbone.js on Rails
Thoughtbot
★★★
The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women
Valerie Young
★★★
Objects on Rails
Avdi Grimm
★★★
Tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development
Brian P. Hogan
★★★★
Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
Sandi Metz
★★★★★
Async JavaScript
Trevor Burnham
★★★
Learning Javascript Design Patterns
Addy Osmani
★★★
Clean Ruby
Jim Gay
★★
JavaScript Patterns
Stoyan Stefanov
★★★
The Little Redis Book
Karl Seguin
★★★★
Eloquent Ruby
Russ Olsen
★★★★
Hiring Geeks That Fit
Johanna Rothman
★★★
Confident Ruby
Avdi Grimm
★★★★
Redis in Action
Josiah L. Carlson
★★★
Rails Test Prescriptions
Noel Rappin
★★★
The Rails 3 Way
Obie Fernandez
★★★★
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
Bruce A. Tate
★★★
Beginning Mac Programming
Tim Isted
★★★
Ruby Science
Thoughtbot
★★
Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
Staffan Nöteberg
★★★
The Healthy Programmer
Joe Kutner
★★★
Rework
Jason Fried
★★★
Learn you some Erlang for great good!
Fred Hebert
★★★★
Ruby Best Practices
Gregory T. Brown
★★★★
Remote: Office Not Required
David Heinemeier Hansson
★★★★
Agile Coaching
Rachel Davies
★★★
Ember.js in Action
Joachim Haagen Skeie
★★
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Working with Ruby Threads
Jesse Storimer
★★★★
The RSpec Book
David Chelimsky
★★
The Coding Dojo Handbook
Emily Bache
★★★★
The Mikado Method
Ola Ellnestam
★★★
Cocoa Programming
Daniel H. Steinberg
★★★
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
John Resig
★★★★
Object-Oriented JavaScript
Stoyan Stefanov
★★★
The Senior Software Engineer
David B. Copeland
★★★
The Well-Grounded Rubyist
David A. Black
★★★
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Ken Schwaber
★★★
1913: The Eve of War
Paul Ham
★★★★
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
Travis Swicegood
★★★
Elixir in Action
Saša Jurić
★★★★★
The Thoughtworks Anthology
ThoughtWorks Inc.
★★★
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Douglas Crockford
★★★
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
Aaron Hillegass
★★★★
Wars of Empire
Douglas Porch
★★★
The Ruby Programming Language
David Flanagan
★★★
Scrum and XP from the Trenches
Henrik Kniberg
★★★
Orientalism
Edward W. Said
★★★★
Design Patterns in Ruby
Russ Olsen
★★★★
jQuery in Action
Bear Bibeault
★★
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
★★★
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking
★★★
Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
Ross Harmes
★★★
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
★★★
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
★★★
Spain, 1808-1975
Raymond Carr
★★★★
Advanced Rails
Brad Ediger
★★
Beyond Legacy Code
David Scott Bernstein
★★★
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Hector Garcia Puigcerver
★★★
Intelligence Power in Peace and War
Michael Herman
★★★
Mindfulness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana
★★★
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
Kent Beck
★★★
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger
★★★★
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
★★★
Ship It!
Jared Richardson
★★
The Rails Way
Obie Fernandez
★★★
Trunk Based Development
Paul Hammat
★★
Everyday Scripting with Ruby
Brian Marick
★★
The Fall of Berlin 1945
Antony Beevor
★★★★
The Economist Style Guide
The Economist
★★★
7 Steps to Fearless Speaking
Lilyan Wilder
★★
Human Rights in International Relations
David P. Forsythe
★★★
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Mary Poppendieck
★★★
UNIX Power Tools
Jerry Peek
★★★★
A History of Islamic Societies
Ira M. Lapidus
★★★★★
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
Nicholas C. Zakas
★★★
Spain: A History
Raymond Carr
★★★★
The First World War
Hew Strachan
★★★
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
★★★
Refactoring to Patterns
Joshua Kerievsky
★★★
A Little History of the World
E.H. Gombrich
★★★
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Antony Beevor
★★★★
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
★★★★★
Advanced Rails Recipes
Mike Clark
★★★
War in European History
Michael Eliot Howard
★★★★★
Agile Estimating and Planning
Mike Cohn
★★★
Rails Recipes
Chad Fowler
★★★
Ruby Cookbook
Lucas Carlson
★★★

2015: 44 books

Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
★★★★
The Nature of Software Development
Ron Jeffries
★★★
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
★★★★
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Niall Ferguson
★★★★★
Beacon 23
Hugh Howey
★★★★
The Martian
Andy Weir
★★★★★
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
★★★★
The Norman Conquest
Marc Morris
★★★
Working Effectively with Unit Tests
Jay Fields
★★★★★
The Eastern Front 1914-1917
Norman Stone
★★★
Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
★★★★★
Programming Clojure
Stuart Halloway
★★★
Version Control with Git
Jon Loeliger
★★★
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
Frank Herbert
★★★★★
Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
Luke Wroblewski
★★★
Company (Beacon 23, #4)
Hugh Howey
★★★★

2014: 23 books

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson
★★★
The Thirty Years War
C.V. Wedgwood
★★★★
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
★★★★
The Good Creative
Paul Jarvis
★★
Dust (Silo, #3)
Hugh Howey
★★★★★
Third Shift: Pact (Shift, #3)
Hugh Howey
★★★
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
★★★★
The Unraveling (Wool, #4)
Hugh Howey
★★★★
Proper Gauge (Wool, #2)
Hugh Howey
★★★
First Shift: Legacy (Shift, #1)
Hugh Howey
★★★
The Stranded (Wool, #5)
Hugh Howey
★★★★
Casting Off (Wool, #3)
Hugh Howey
★★★★
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
Hugh Howey
★★★★
The Productive Programmer
Neal Ford
★★★
Cell
Stephen King
★★★
The Long Walk
Richard Bachman
★★
De aanslag
Harry Mulisch
★★★
The Mist
Stephen King
★★★

2013: 71 books

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
★★★★
Test-Driven JavaScript Development
Christian Johansen
★★★
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
★★★
Wool (Wool, #1)
Hugh Howey
★★★★
Responsive Web Design
Ethan Marcotte
★★★★
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
★★★
CSS3 For Web Designers
Dan Cederholm
★★★★
Hardboiled Web Design
Andy Clarke
★★★★
HTML5 for Web Designers
Jeremy Keith
★★★
Metaprogramming Ruby
Paolo Perrotta
★★★
Pro Git
Scott Chacon
★★★★
The Passionate Programmer
Chad Fowler
★★★
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★
Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
Chang Sau Sheong
★★
The Odyssey
Homer
★★
The Iliad
Homer
★★
A Clash of Kings  (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
George R.R. Martin
★★★★
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
★★★
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
★★★
Professional Ruby on Rails
Noel Rappin
★★
The Trial
Franz Kafka
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
George R.R. Martin
★★★★
Utopia
Thomas More
★★
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
★★
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Praise of Folly
Erasmus
Animal Farm
George Orwell
★★★★
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
★★★
Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
★★★
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
George R.R. Martin
★★★★
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
★★★★
De brief voor de koning
Tonke Dragt
★★★
Nooit meer slapen
Willem Frederik Hermans
★★
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
George R.R. Martin
★★★★
Pole to Pole
Michael Palin
★★★
Hersenschimmen
J. Bernlef
★★★★
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
George R.R. Martin
★★★★
Kruistocht in spijkerbroek
Thea Beckman
★★★
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
★★★
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton
★★
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
★★
Culture and Imperialism
Edward W. Said
★★
1984
George Orwell
★★★★★