Reading
Books
A curated list of my favorite books, grouped by theme.
Engineering & industry
How Big Things Get Done — Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Chip War — Chris Miller
Liftoff — Eric Berger
The Innovators — Walter Isaacson
Energy, environment & society
How the World Really Works — Vaclav Smil
Collapse — Jared Diamond
La Prochaine Peste (The Next Plague) — Serge Morand
Builders
Einstein — Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
Reluctant Pioneer — Thomas Osborne
Business & finance
Zero to One — Peter Thiel
A Random Walk Down Wall Street — Burton G. Malkiel
The Reckoning — Jacob Soll
History
Persian Fire — Tom Holland
Rubicon — Tom Holland
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes — Tamim Ansary
Crusaders: An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands — Dan Jones
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World — Jack Weatherford
Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) — Max Gallo
Le Chant du Départ — Max Gallo
Forgotten Voices of the Great War — Max Arthur
Ma Bataille d'Alger (My Battle of Algiers) — Ted Morgan
Leaders & war
Churchill: Walking with Destiny — Andrew Roberts
The Strategists — Phillips Payson O'Brien
Conflict — David Petraeus
A Promised Land — Barack Obama
Novels
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) — Alexandre Dumas
Les Rois Maudits (The Accursed Kings) — Maurice Druon
Harry Potter (all seven) — J.K. Rowling
Le Crime de l'Orient-Express (Murder on the Orient Express) — Agatha Christie
Les Vacances d'Hercule Poirot (Evil Under the Sun) — Agatha Christie
A.B.C. contre Poirot (The ABC Murders) — Agatha Christie
Ils étaient dix (And Then There Were None) — Agatha Christie