Books

Last update: 26 November 2025.

Since 2017 I started reading more and more books, it's now my preferred way of learning new information. In this page you can find all the books I have read. Unfortunately I only started keeping track of them in 2020, so a few years are missing, but better late than never.

I don't want to rate each individual book, but I'm going to mark my preferred 5 for each year with a *.

• Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Data Applications
• Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
• Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• The Elements of Style
• Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives
• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
• The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
• Energy: A Beginner's Guide
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
• Size: How It Explains the World
• Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction
• The Wealthy Renter: How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich
• Sette brevi lezioni di fisica
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
• Il conte Luna
• John Gill il signore del boulder
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

• * The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
• * Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
• * The Personal MBA
• Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence
• * So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
• More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
• The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
• Ragazzo mio: Lettera agli uomini veri di domani
• How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
• OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems
• The Zen Founder Guide to Founder Retreats
• The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital
• Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
• The Psychology of Money
• Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
• * Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

• How to build a low-tech internet
• How to downsize a transport network?
• Eravamo immortali
• Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
• You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
• * Wohpe
• Storie di informatici illustri: Richard Andrew Fox
• Major Taylor. Il negro volante: La storia del primo ciclista di colore, tra sport e razzismo
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
• Cash Flow for Creators: How to Transform your Art into a Career
• Get Remote Work Done: How to thrive and lead in a modern flexible workplace
• * What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
• The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
• Domesticate Your Badgers: Become a Better Writer through Deliberate Practice
• * How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: Saving the world and solving the biggest mysteries in science
• Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
• Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By the Man Who Did It
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
• The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
• * When McKinsey Comes to Town
• A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
• * Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
• Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
• Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

• * The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
• The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
• * Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
• Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry
• 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
• * Notti in bianco, baci a colazione
• Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
• * Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
• Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
• The Closing of the American Mind
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
• Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
• Writing A Compiler In Go
• Writing An Interpreter In Go
• * Programming from the Ground Up
• How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely
• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
• Surrounded by Psychopaths: How to Protect Yourself from Being Manipulated and Exploited in Business
• The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
• Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
• Sostiene Pereira
• Le Otto Montagne
• The Passenger - Portogallo
• Business Adventures
• * Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
• * Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
• The Most Dammed Country in the World
• No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
• Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
• UNIX: A history and a memoir
• Millions, Billions, Zillions: Defending Yourself in a World of Too Many Numbers
• Subprime Attention Crisis
• Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It
• Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
• The Richest Man in Babylon
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• * Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
• Offline Matters: The Less-Digital Guide to Creative Work
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
• Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need
• Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity
• After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
• No filter: The inside story of Instagram
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• * The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
• The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• Cold Storage
• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
• 1984
• The Art of The Good Life
• * The Art of Thinking Clearly
• Debt: The first 5,000 years

• Your Money or Your Life
• * The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• A little history of econimics
• Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon
• Principles: Life and Work
• * Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
• Remote: Office Not Required
• Rework
• Stillness is the key
• The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
• Educated
• * Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• The Go Programming Language
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
• The Eight
• * Surrounded by Idiots
• The unicorn project
• * Thinking, fast and slow