Books
Personal notes, summaries and excerpts of books I have read.
Excellent Advice for Living, Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier – Kevin Kelly
A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jenniger Egan
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. E. Schwab
Ce que le mirage doit à l'oasis – Yasmina Khadra
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – John Koenig
Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
Dans les forêts de Sibérie – Sylvain Tesson
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide – Kieran Setiya
Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries) – Martha Wells
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries) – Martha Wells
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) – Martha Wells
Think Again, The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know – Adam Grant
I consider myself a realist – True Detective, Season 1
Dans la solitude des champs de coton – Bernard-Marie Koltès
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
Everybody Lies – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Jaguar Smile – Salman Rushdie
Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Tyranny of Metrics – Jerry Z. Muller
Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Venture Capital and How to Get It – Scott Kupor
The Victorian Internet – Tom Standage
Trillion Dollar Coach – Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories – Ken Liu
La Tristesse du Samouraï – Victor del Arbol
Dieu n'habite pas La Havane – Yasmina Khadra
Grit, the power of passion and perseverance – Angela Duckworth
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
21 lessons for the 21st century – Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
When: the scientific secrets of perfect timing – Daniel H. Pink
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity – Kim Scott
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World – Adam Grant
13 truths (speech) – Matthew McConaughey
Real artists don't starve – Jeff Goins
The Coaching Habit – Michael Bungay Stanier
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
Chronique japonaise – Nicolas Bouvier
Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights – Salman Rushdie
Des hommes sans femmes – Haruki Murakami
La Veille de presque tout – Victor del Arbol
The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle
L'usage du monde – Nicolas Bouvier
Le grand Coeur – Jean-Christophe Rufin
How Google Works – Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
S'abandonner à vivre – Sylvain Tesson
L'amour aux temps du choléra – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Joseph Anton: A Memoir – Salman Rushdie
Confessions of a public speaker – Scott Berkun
La carte et le territoire – Michel Houellebecq