2022

• The Practicing Stoic

  A Philosophical User’s Manual

  by Ward Farnsworth

  ★★★★★

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• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

  A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

  by Eric Jorgenson

  ★★★☆☆

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• A Treatise on Possibility

  Perspectives on Humanity Hereafter

  by Rou Reynolds

  ★★★★★

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• Factfulness

  Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

  by Hans Rosling

  ★★★★★

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• Man’s Search for Meaning

  The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

  by Viktor E. Frankl

  ★★★★★

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• Ruined By Design

  How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

  by Mike Monteiro

  ★★★★☆

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• The Psychology of Money

  Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

  by Morgan Housel

  ★★★★★

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• Becoming Ironman

  Mein Weg zum Weltmeister im Triathlon

  by Patrick Lange

  ★★★★☆

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• In Search of Al Howie

  by Jared Beasley

  ★★★★★

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• Influence

  The Psychology of Persuasion

  by Robert B. Cialdini

  ★★★★★

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• Die Schule meines Lebens

  Weisheiten und Lebenstricks von ziemlich außergewöhnlichen Menschen

  by Matze Hielscher

  ★★★★☆

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• Your Money or Your Life

  Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence

  by Vicki Robin

  ★★★★★

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2021

• Siddhartha

  Eine indische Dichtung

  by Hermann Hesse

  ★★★★★

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• Digital Minimalism

  Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

  by Cal Newport

  ★★★★★

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• Show Your Work

  10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

  by Austin Kleon

  ★★★★☆

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• Worth It

  How a Million-Dollar Pay Cut and a $70,000 Minimum Wage Revealed a Better Way of Doing Business

  by Dan Price

  ★★★★☆

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• Steal Like an Artist

  10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

  by Austin Kleon

  ★★★☆☆

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• Better Onboarding

  by Krystal Higgins

  ★★★★★

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• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

  The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

  by Bill Gates

  ★★★★★

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• The Defining Decade

  Why your Twenties matter– and how to make the most of them now

  by Meg Jay

  ★★★★☆

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• Unconditional Parenting

  Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

  by Alfie Kohn

  ★★★★☆

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• Carrying the Fire

  An Astronaut’s Journeys

  by Michael Collins

  ★★★★★

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• The Art of Happiness

  A Handbook for Living

  by The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler

  ★★★★★

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• The Making of a Manager

  What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

  by Julie Zhou

  ★★★★★

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• Sustainable Web Design

  by Tom Greenwood

  ★★★★☆

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• The Hobbit

  Or There And Back Again

  by J. R. R. Tolkien

  ★★★★★

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• The Mastermind

  The Hunt for the World’s Most Prolific Criminal

  by Evan Ratliff

  ★★★★★

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• Running The World

  My World Record Adventure to Run a Marathon in Every Country on Earth

  by Nick Butter

  ★★★★☆

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• Unheimlich nah

  by Johann Scheerer

  ★★★★☆

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• Who Not How

  The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork

  by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

  ★★★☆☆

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2020

• Never Wipe Your Ass with a Squirrel

  A trail running, ultramarathon, and wilderness survival guide for weird folks

  by Jason Robillard

  ★★★☆☆

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• Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen

  Aber wissen sollten

  by Alice Hasters

  ★★★★☆

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• The E-Myth Revisited

  Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

  by Michael E. Gerber

  ★★☆☆☆

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• Meditations

  (George Long Translation)

  by Marcus Aurelius

  ★★★☆☆

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• The Culture Code

  The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

  by Daniel Coyle

  ★★★★☆

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• Good to Great

  Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t

  by Jim Collins

  ★★★★★

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• Remote

  Office Not Required

  by David Heinemeier Hansson & Jason Fried

  ★★★★☆

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• Facebook: The Inside Story

  by Steven Levy

  ★★★★☆

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• Vier Freundinnen, ein Boot

  5500 Kilometer im Ruderboot über den Atlantik

  by Janette Benaddi, Helen Butters, Frances Davies, Niki Doeg

  ★★★☆☆

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• Saturday

  by Ian McEwan

  ★★★★★

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• Rails Toward the Sky

  The Story of Driving Creek Railway

  by Barry Brickell

  ★★★★☆

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• Wovon ich rede, wenn ich vom Laufen rede

  by Haruki Murakami

  ★★★☆☆

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• Wer jetzt noch umblättert ist selber schuld

  10 Jahre The Hirsch Effekt aus der Sicht von mir

  by Nils Wittrock

  ★★★★★

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2019

• Permanent Record

  by Edward Snowden

  ★★★★★

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• Holyge Bimbel

  Storys vong Gott u s1 Crew

  by Shahak Shapira

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• Greif – for running life

  by Peter Greif

  ★★★★★

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• How To

  Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

  by Randall Munroe

  ★★★★☆

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• Running Human

  Humans Are Perfect Barefoot Runners

  by Sidy Diallo

  ★★★★★

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• Deutscher Buchpreis 2019, Die Nominierten, Leseproben

  by Diverse

  ★★★★★

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• War on Peace

  The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

  by Ronan Farrow

  ★★★★☆

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• Die Reise zum Riss

  Berichte aus einem gespaltenen Land

  by Peter Maxwill

  ★★★★★

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• Can’t Hurt Me

  Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

  by David Goggins

  ★★★★★

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• Living with a SEAL

  31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

  by Jesse Itzler

  ★★★☆☆

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• Herr Sonneborn geht nach Brüssel

  Abenteuer im Europaparlament

  by Martin Sonneborn

  ★★★★★

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• The Brain

  The Story of You

  by David Eagleman

  ★★★★★

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• Creativity, Inc.

  Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

  by Ed Catmull

  ★★★★★

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• The Miracle Morning

  The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life – Before 8AM

  by Hal Elrod

  ★★★★☆

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• Barefoot Running Step by Step

  by Ken Bob Saxton

  ★★★★☆

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• Guns, Germs, and Steel

  The Fates of Human Societies

  by Jared Diamond

  ★★★☆☆

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• Getting More

  How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life

  by Stuart Diamond

  ★★★★☆

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• Triggers

  Creating Behavior That Lasts – Becoming the Person You Want to Be

  by Marshall Goldsmith

  ★★★★☆

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• Forever Outnumbered

  Tales of Our Family Life

  by Simon Hooper

  ★★★☆☆

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2018

• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

  by Alan Sillitoe

  ★★★☆☆

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• Deep Work

  Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

  by Cal Newport

  ★★★★☆

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• Unbeholfen Golfen

  by Ulrich Blohm

  ★★★☆☆

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• Eat and Run

  My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

  by Scott Jurek

  ★★★★★

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• North

  Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail

  by Scott Jurek

  ★★★★★

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• Der Ultralauf-Kompass

  by Norbert Madry

  ★★★★☆

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• Eine Frage der Leidenschaft

  Mit Mut und Motivation zum Erfolg

  by Jan Frodeno

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• Im Keller

  by Jan Philipp Reemtsma

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• Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen

  Die Geschichte einer Entführung

  by Johann Scheerer

  ★★★★☆

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• Tribe

  On Homecoming and Belonging

  by Sebastian Junger

  ★★★☆☆

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2016

• Finding Ultra

  Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

  by Rich Roll

  ★★★★★

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• Im Zelt

  Von einem, der auszog, um draußen zu schlafen

  by Wigald Boning

  ★★★★☆

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• Born to Run

  The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

  by Christopher McDougall

  ★★★★☆

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• The 4-Hour Workweek

  Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and join the New Rich

  by Timothy Ferriss

  ★★★★☆

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• UltraMental

  An unconventional approach to training for endurance events on a few hours a week (or less)

  by Andy Magness

  ★★★☆☆

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• Ultramarathon Man

  Confessions of an All-Night Runner

  by Dean Karnazes

  ★★★★★

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• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying

  A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever

  by Marie Kondo

  ★★★★★

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• Getting Things Done

  The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

  by David Allen

  ★★★★★

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2014

• Bringing Nothing to the Party

  True Confessions of a New Media Whore

  by Paul Carr

  ★★★★☆

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• Die Prüfung

  by Kristian Schlüter

  ★★★★★

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2013

• A Game of Thrones

  A Song of Ice and Fire

  by George R.R. Martin

  ★★★★★

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• Around Africa on My Bicycle

  by Riann Manser

  ★★★★☆

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2012

• Losing My Virginity

  How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

  by Richard Branson

  ★★★★☆

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• Decision Points

  by George W. Bush

  ★★★☆☆

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• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

  by Walther Isaacson

  ★★★★☆

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2008

• Fahrenheit 451

  by Ray Bradbury

  ★★★★☆

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• 1984

  by George Orwell

  ★★★★★

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