Reading List

These are books that I have read and it is supposed to act like a “bibliography” for some of my knowledge.

Favourites are marked in bold.

Currently reading

A Hacker’s Mind - Bruce Schneier
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection - John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick
Blood in the Machine - Brian Merchant (currently on hold)
Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky. Edited by John Schoeffel and R. Mitchell (currently on hold)

2024

Little Birds - Hannah Lee Kidder
Rust for Rustaceans - Jon Gjengset (started in 2023, finished 2024)
Enjoying the Gift of Being Uncommon - Willem Kuipers
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet - Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jérémie Zimmermann
Die Freiheit, frei zu sein - Hannah Arendt
Königskinder - Alex Capus
Das kleine Haus am Sonnenhang - Alex Capus
Der Tote am Wasserfall - Ann-Katrin Zellner
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
Flying Home - Ralph Ellison
In the Margins - On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing - Elena Ferrante
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual - Jocko Willink
Liebe findet uns - J. P. Monninger (English: The Map That Leads to You)
Ab die Post - Terry Pratchett (English: Going Postal)
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951)
Travel Light - Naomi Mitchison (1952)
True Names - Vernor Vinge (1981)
Ein Bruder kam zu Gast - Daniel Schick
Der Alchimist - Paulo Coehlo

The New Age of Intelligence - Paul Rosenberg and Jonathan Logan
Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum - Frank Schätzing (not finished yet)
Der Schockwellenreiter (“The Shockwave Rider”)- John Brunner
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology - David Graeber
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
The Freedom Factor - Gerald N. Lund
INFINITUM - Die Ewigkeit der Sterne - Christopher Paolini
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Der Marktmacher - Michael Ridpath
Daemon - Daniel Suarez (the second or third time)
Darknet - Daniel Suarez (the second or third time)

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel (about 60%)
The Big Five for Life - John Strelecky
Herr aller Dinge - Andreas Eschbach
NSA - Nationales Sicherheits-Amt - Andreas Eschbach
Der Tag des Opritschniks - Vladimir Sorokin
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent - James Duane
Der Fall Julian Assange: Geschichte einer Verfolgung - Nils Melzer
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald
Quiet - Susan Cain
Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt
Der Schneesturm - Vladimir Sorokin
Der Zuckerkreml - Vladimir Sorokin
Schöne neue Welt - Aldous Huxley
Selbs Justiz - Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp
Gefährliche Menschen - Frank Rieger and Christiane Hütter (an English version is planned, afaik)
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lautlos - Frank Schätzing

Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins
The Frontiers Saga - Episode 1: Aurora CV-01 - Ryk Brown
The Frontiers Saga - Episode 2: The Rings of Haven - Ryk Brown
The Frontiers Saga - Episode 3: The Legend of Corinair - Ryk Brown
Man’s Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws - Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto
Crypto Dictionary: 500 Tasty Tidbits for the Curious Cryptographer - Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Operation Crypto. Die Schweiz im Dienst von CIA und BND - Strehle Res
The Courage to Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Container Security - Liz Rice