Victor Kropp

Books

Reading now

2024

Fooled by Randomness

Shift Happens

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

The Theory of Everything

Dune Messiah

2023

Dune

Make Something Wonderful

2021

Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss bei den Dinosauriern

Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy

The Making of a Manager

How to be German in 50 Easy Steps

Business for punks

Project Management

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

My child enjoys going to kindergarten!

2020

Typography and layout

Kvyat

Grokking algorithms

Forward

Asya Kazantseva

• Who would have thought! How the brain makes us do stupid things
• Someone on the Internet is wrong! Scientific research on controversial issues

2019

User Interface

Category Theory for Programmers

Improve Your Communication Skills

2018

Presentation Patterns

Secret support

The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep

2016

Long After Midnight

Making transit fun!

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Badass: Making users awesome

2015

Be Iron Fit

Heaven Has No Favorites

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Make Way for Ducklings

The Martian

Moscow–Petushki

C++ Today

Best interface is no interface

SQL Antipatterns

The Power of Habit

Getting real

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Flow
• Finding Flow

Fear and Trembling

Everyone knows that Japan has the highest suicide rate of any country in the world. What surprised me was that suicides were not more common.

Delivering Happiness

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

Pro Git

Terry Pratchett

• The Colour of Magic
• Mort

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard

Eat and Run

Bernard Werber

• The Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge
• New Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Manual of the Warrior of Light

Getting Things Done

2014

Watching the English: the hidden rules of English behaviour

The Best a Man Can Get

57 Minutes

The Minds of Billy Milligan

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Born to Run

Joel Spolsky

• Joel on Software
• More Joel on Software

Kovrigin’s chronicles

Chi Running

The Singapore Story

Don Norman

• The Design of Everyday Things
• The Design of Future Things

Brave New World

Swim Speed Secrets

ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever

Norwegian Wood

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade

Rabbits and Boa Constrictors

Animal Farm

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Numbers

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Haruki Murakami

The Rat Trilogy

• Hear the Wind Sing
• Pinball, 1973
• A Wild Sheep Chase
• Dance Dance Dance

2013

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Design, Form, and Chaos

Remote: Office Not Required

Stephen Covey

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

White on Black

Transportation for Livable Cities

Fight Club

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be

The Wind in the Willows

Ivan Vasilievich

The Trial

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

Immortality, Inc.

Snow Crash

Eating for Endurance

Kurt Vonnegut

• Galápagos
• Hocus Pocus

Catch-22

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking

The Humane Interface

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

2012

Cities for People

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

1984

Steven Levitt

• Freakonomics
• SuperFreakonomics

The Mythical Man-Month

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

Dale Carnegie

• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
• How to Win Friends and Influence People

The Tree of Possibles

Running Fast and Injury Free

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

At least he never walked.

Philip K. Dick

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• The Minority Report
• Pay for the Printer
• Sales Pitch
• The Infinities

Ender's Game

The list before 2012 is incomplete and dates are approximate.

2011

Kindergarten Is Too Late!

2006

The Da Vinci Code

2004

Designing Web Usability

Don't make me think

2003

The Master and Margarita

Solaris

The Catcher in the Rye

2002

Crime and Punishment

J. R. R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings

2001

Ray Bradbury

• Fahrenheit 451
• The Martian Chronicles
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Dandelion Wine

1999

Lord of the Flies

1996

The Mysterious Island