Books
cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books I've read throughout the years. While the number of books read isn't particularly meaningful, it's still fun to see this list grow.
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2026
- Our Enemies Will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov
2025
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- De hel van Azovstal by Joanie de Rijke, Jasper Christiaens
- Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
- Beter leven zonder vrije wil by Farah Focquaert
- Tosca by Maud Vanhauwaert
- Russisch voor beginners by Dominique Biebau
- The Iliad by Homer
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Ochtend en avond by Jon Fosse
- Isola by Allegra Goodman
- The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1) by Antonia Hodgson
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley
- Don't Let Her Stay by Nicola Sanders
- Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
- The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts
- Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health by Daniel E. Lieberman
- So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
- The Forester's Daughter by Claire Keegan
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
2024
- Foster by Claire Keegan
- Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
- In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1) by James Islington
- Ward D by Freida McFadden
- The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal
- The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement by Shane Benzie
- Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey
- Holly (Holly Gibney, #3) by Stephen King
2023
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
- De Kremlinfluisteraar by Giuliano da Empoli
- Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) by Neal Shusterman
- No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen
- On Earth as It Is on Television by Emily Jane
- Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy
- The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1) by Shantel Tessier
- The 7 A.M. Workout Edge: Wake Up, Work Out, Own the Day by Anthony Arvanitakis
- I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
- The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
- Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura
2022
- Statusangst by Alain de Botton
- Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes
- The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology) by Richard J. Haier
- Het No-Nonsense Slaapboek by Steven Laureys
- The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1) by T.J. Klune
- Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction by Gary Wilson
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2021
- Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness by Jonas Salzgeber
- Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Epictetus
- Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1) by Lee Child
- Dag liefje, met Mila gaat het goed en ik klungel lekker verder by Stefaan Degand
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid by Will Bardenwerper
- Extraterrestrials by Wade Roush
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
2020
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Want by Lynn Steger Strong
- The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1) by Alexis Henderson
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Outsider by Stephen King
- Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet
- Solo by Nathalie Le Blanc
- The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan
- The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) by Pat Barker
- The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5) by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by B.J. Fogg
- One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1) by Karen M. McManus
- Het moois dat we delen by Ish Ait Hamou
- The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1) by Katherine Arden
2019
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
- Het No-Nonsense Meditatieboek by Steven Laureys
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
- How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides
- Your User's Manual: A Guide for Purpose and an Anxiety Free Life in the 21st Century (Stoicism for a Better Life Book 1) by Anderson Silver
- Lieve mama by Esther Verhoef
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Educated by Tara Westover
- De mythe van Sisyphus: Een essay over het absurde by Albert Camus
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Headspace: Voor een hoofd vol leegte by Andy Puddicombe
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
2018
- The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
- Becoming a Barbarian by Jack Donovan
- The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War by Neal Bascomb
- The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
- The Fisherman by John Langan
- Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki
- Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
- A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book by Dan Harris
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke
- Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
2017
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Book, Big Profits) by John C. Bogle
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- Metro 2033 (Metro, #1) by Dmitry Glukhovsky
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
2016
- The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
- De vegetariër by Han Kang
- The Circle (The Circle, #1) by Dave Eggers
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
- A Darkness at Sethanon (The Riftwar Saga, #4) by Raymond E. Feist
- Silverthorn (The Riftwar Saga, #3) by Raymond E. Feist
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
- The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things, #1) by John Connolly
- Gij nu by Griet Op de Beeck
- Kom hier dat ik u kus by Griet Op de Beeck
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Vele hemels boven de zevende by Griet Op de Beeck
- The Shining (The Shining, #1) by Stephen King
- The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8) by J.K. Rowling
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
- How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
- Elantris (Elantris, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
- International Security: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher S. Browning
- Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction by Véronique Mottier
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- Armada by Ernest Cline
- Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
- The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Worth Pursuing by L.K. Chapman
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas) by Seneca
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Hell House by Richard Matheson
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
- Alice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson
- Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World by Fred Waitzkin
- The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
- One Second After (After, #1) by William R. Forstchen
2015
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
- Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) by Robin Hobb
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
- Het diner by Herman Koch
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism by Marcel H. Van Herpen
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Enchiridion by Epictetus
- Women by Charles Bukowski
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Way of Men by Jack Donovan
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Stoner by John Williams
- Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
- There Will Come Soft Rains (Tale Blazers) by Ray Bradbury
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) by M.R. Carey
- Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline
- The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price
2014
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- De Groote Trek by Marc Helsen
- Holes (Holes, #1) by Louis Sachar
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5) by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Way of Kings, Part 1 (The Stormlight Archive, #1, Part 1 of 2) by Brandon Sanderson
- Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
- Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1) by Ira Levin
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- De helaasheid der dingen by Dimitri Verhulst
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
- Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
- A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
- Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Leander Kahney
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- The Juliette Society (The Juliette Society, #1) by Sasha Grey
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
2013
- Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1) by Mark Lawrence
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks
- Katarakt by Betty Antierens
- De macht van Google by Peter Olsthoorn
- The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- Design Crazy by Max Chafkin
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1) by Rachel Joyce
- Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) by Jojo Moyes
- The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) by Jonas Jonasson
- The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco
- The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
2012
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) by Robin Sloan
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1) by Elizabeth Wein
- The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) by Brandon Sanderson
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3) by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) by Stieg Larsson
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2) by Patrick Rothfuss
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Heldere hemel by Tom Lanoye
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Dearly, Departed (Gone With the Respiration, #1) by Lia Habel
- Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson
- The Diamond of Darkhold (Book of Ember, #4) by Jeanne DuPrau
- The Mist by Stephen King
- The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1) by Terry Pratchett
- Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) by Terry Pratchett
- Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1) by Terry Pratchett
- The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1) by Jeanne DuPrau
- The Prophet of Yonwood (Book of Ember, #3) by Jeanne DuPrau
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling
- Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) by Stephen King
- The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2) by Terry Pratchett
- The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) by Stephen King
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling
- Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1) by Raymond E. Feist
- Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga, #2) by Raymond E. Feist
- Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2) by Orson Scott Card
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
- Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) by Orson Scott Card
- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) by Roald Dahl
- The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) by Stephen King
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The People of Sparks (Book of Ember, #2) by Jeanne DuPrau
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling
2010
- Ender's Shadow (Shadow Series, #1) by Orson Scott Card
- Until It's Over by Nicci French
- De vijfde macht by Pieter Aspe
- Kiss of the Bees (Walker Family, #2) by J.A. Jance
- Killer Smile (Rosato & Associates, #9) by Lisa Scottoline
- Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe Publication Order, #6) by Tom Clancy
- The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss
- Net Force (Tom Clancy's Net Force, #1) by Steve Perry
- Cro-Magnon by Jef Geeraerts
- Stad in de storm by Thea Beckman
- Kruistocht in spijkerbroek by Thea Beckman
- De gouden dolk by Thea Beckman
- Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1) by David Peace
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) by Douglas Adams
- Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3) by Christopher Paolini
- Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card
- The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2) by Robert Jordan
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) by Robert Jordan
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds
- Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1) by Christopher Paolini
- Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2) by Christopher Paolini
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup, #1) by Roddy Doyle
- The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3) by Robert Jordan
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin
- Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown
- Deception Point by Dan Brown
- Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2003
- Robinson Crusoe by Ed Franck