Hacker’s Digest 2018 Edition

Hacker’s Digest

Here are my newsworthy favourites in alphabetical order:

Fiction

  • Artemis / The Martian (Andy Weir)
  • Die Henkerin / Die Tränen der Henkerin (Sabine Martin)
  • Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
  • Origin (Dan Brown)
  • Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Stanisław Lem)
  • The Power (Naomi Alderman)
  • ZERO – Sie wissen, was du tust (Marc Elsberg)

Book recommendations by other readers:

  • Dune (Frank Herbert)
  • Foundation series (Isaac Asimov)
  • The Fractal Prince (The Jean le Flambeur series) (Hannu Rajaniemi)
  • Thigmoo (Eugene Byrne)
  • Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota series) (Ada Palmer)

Non-fiction

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
  • Darm mit Charme (Giulia Enders)
  • Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser (Ernst H. Gombrich)
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hans Rosling) (TED Talk)
  • Kunst des klaren Denkens / Die Kunst des klugen Handelns (Rolf Dobelli)
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson)
  • Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (Michael Schrenk)

Book recommendations by other readers:

  • Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (David Sloan Wilson)
  • Das Digital (Viktor Mayer-Schönberger und Thomas Ramge)
  • Der Ego-Tunnel (Thomas Metzinger)
  • Der Mann und das Holz – Vom Fällen, Hacken und Feuermachen (Lars Mytting)
  • Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History (Scott Andrew Selby, Greg Campbell)
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner)
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein)
  • Preference Falsification (Timur Kuran)
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)
  • The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Tor Nørretranders)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
  • Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis & Allan Fisher)

PS: Here you’ll find A Helpful Guide to Reading Better. Thx Jonas for the pointer B-)


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