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5/5★

• Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
• A Death on Diamond Mountain by Scott Carney

4/5★

• The quest for the simple life by William James Dawson
• Human as media. The emancipation of authorship by Andrey Miroshnichenko
• The secret of our success by Joseph Henrich
• Rigged by Ben Mezrich
• Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich

3/5★

2/5★

5/5★

• Deep by James Nestor
• American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Muscle and Strength Pyramid: Training by Eric Helms
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

4/5★

• The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
• Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• Ich weiss, wie Du tickst by Martin Betschart
• Ultralearning by Scott H. Young
• The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff
• The Surrender Experiment by Micheal Singer
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
• Reality is not what it seems by Carlo Rovelli
• Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna
• Herr Sonneborn geht nach Brüssel by Martin Sonneborn
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Entrepreneur Roller Coaster by Darren Hardy
• Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez

3/5★

• Quantum Space by Jim Baggott
• Fatherland by Robert Harris
• Imperium by Robert Harris
• Falsch by Gerd Schildendorfer
• Apocalypsis by Mario Giordano
• The Forge of God by Greg Bear
• The Backpacker by John Harris

2/5★

• Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
• Straight to Hell by Jon LeFevre

5/5★

• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The 10 Pillars of Wealth by Alex Becker
• The Boron Letters by Gary C. Halbert
• Unscripted by MJ DeMarco
• Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Teufelsgold by Andreas Eschbach
• The Leangains Method by Martin Berkhan

4/5★

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• No B.S. Direct Marketing by Dan S. Kennedy
• DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson
• Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson
• The Physics of Wallstreet by James Owen Weatherall
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• Investment Punk by Gerald Hörhan
• Null Bock Komplott by Gerald Hörhan
• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
• Ein König für Deutschland by Andreas Eschbach
• One Trillion Dollars by Andreas Eschbach
• The Singularity Trilogy by Joseph S. Wickham

3/5★

• Ca$hvertising by Drew Eric Whitman
• Web Copy That Sells by Maria Veloso
• The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
• Origin by Dan Brown
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Gegengift by Gerald Hörhan
• House of spies by Daniel Silva
• Oxen by Jens Henrik Jensen
• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
• Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
• NSA by Andreas Eschbach

2/5★

• Startup: A Novel by Doree Shafir
• Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
• Der stille Raub by Gerald Hörhan
• Noah by Sebastian Fitzek

5/5★

• Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
• Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
• The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
• How Nature Works by Per Bak
• Street-Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

4/5★

• Love and Math by Edward Frenkel
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
• A different Universe by Robert B. Laughlin
• My Life as a Quant by Emanuel Derman
• Not even Wrong by Peter Woit
• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
• Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestley
• Smartcuts by Shane Snow
• Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
• Inferno by Dan Brown
• The Reason You’re Alive by Matthew Quick
• Blackout by Michael Elsberg

3/5★

• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
• Young Money by Kevin Roose
• Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
• State of the Union by Brad Thor
• The Third Option by Vince Flynn
• The Buy Side by Turney Duff

5/5★

• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis is a Wall Street novel, which feels like a “behind the scenes look” of this subculture.
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe
• She Comes First by Ian Kerner
• Three Roads To Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin helped me understand what people in the Quantum Gravity field are currently work on and what the main ideas in Loop Quantum Gravity and String Theory are.

4/5★

• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The China Syndrome by Karl Taro Greenfeld, which tells the story of the SARS outbreak is an awesome potrait of the Chinese society with, as in a all Taro Greenfeld books, amazing storytelling. 
• The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle, reads like a Dan Brown book, but with more science and less religion. Highly entertaining!
• The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose
• The Infinity Puzzle by Frank Close
• Bluffers Guide to Wine by Jonathan Goodall
• Term Limits by Vince Flynn

3/5★

• Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

2/5★

• Lucifer’s Hammer by Jerry Pournelle und Larry Niven

5/5★

• Red Notice by Bill Browder
• Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
• Wool by Hugh Howey is one of the best post-apocalyptic books I’ve ever read. Howey manages to create a whole new world and includes a big conspirary and numerous plot-twists without beeing gimmicky.  Also one of the rare books in this genre solely about humans without any fantasy monsters.
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kehlmann

4/5★

• Traction by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
• Bigger Learner Stronger by Michael Mathews
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
• American Assassin by Vince Flynn

3/5★

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• Killing Floor by Lee Child
• The 500 by Matthew Quirk

5/5★

• Surely you’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Standard Deviations by Karl Taro Greenfeld
• Trust me I’m lying by Ryan Holiday
• Steal like an Artist by Austin Kleon
• Elements of Style by William Strunk
• The Black Swan By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• This is Water by David Foster Wallace
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy
• Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh

4/5★

• Speed Tribes by Karl Taro Greenfeld
• Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken
• Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
• Farewell to Reality by Jim Baggott
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• Rick Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• FRA-MUC-FRA by Karsten Sauer and Michael Sahnau
• Bildung by Dietrich Schwanitz
• Der Meister aus Shanghai by Hong Li Yuan
• Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews

3/5★

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown