Victor Kropp

Books

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• Shift ^🎧

  Hugh Howey

• Three Men in a Boat

  Jerome K. Jerome

2025⁵

Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver ^🎧

Wool ^🎧

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think ^🎧

The Egg and Other Stories ^🎧

The Leadership Code ^🎧

2024¹⁰

Everything is hard, before it is simple ^🎧

Quicker than the eye ^🎧

The Happiness Trap ^🎧

We

Around the World in Eighty Days

Fooled by Randomness

Shift Happens

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

The Theory of Everything

Dune Messiah

2023²

Dune

Make Something Wonderful

2021⁸

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!

2020¹¹

Typography and layout

Kvyat

Grokking algorithms

Forward

2019³

User Interface

Category Theory for Programmers

Improve Your Communication Skills

2018³

Presentation Patterns

Secret support

The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep

2016⁴

Long After Midnight

Making transit fun!

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Badass: Making users awesome

2015²²

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

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

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard

Eat and Run

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Manual of the Warrior of Light

Getting Things Done

2014¹⁸

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

Kovrigin’s chronicles

Chi Running

The Singapore Story

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

The Rat Trilogy

Hear the Wind Sing

Pinball, 1973

A Wild Sheep Chase

Dance Dance Dance

2013¹⁹

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Design, Form, and Chaos

Remote: Office Not Required

White on Black

Transportation for Livable Cities

Fight Club

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be

The Wind in the Willows

Ivan Vasilievich

The Trial

Atlas Shrugged

Immortality, Inc.

Snow Crash

Eating for Endurance

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

2012⁹

Cities for People

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

1984

The Mythical Man-Month

The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years

The Tree of Possibles

Running Fast and Injury Free

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

At least he never walked.

Ender's Game

The list before 2012 is incomplete and dates are approximate.

2011¹

Kindergarten Is Too Late!

2008²

Herding Cats

The Mythical Man-Month

2007⁷

Harry Potter

2006¹

The Da Vinci Code ^🎧

2004²

Designing Web Usability

Don't make me think

2003³

The Master and Margarita

Solaris

The Catcher in the Rye

2002³

Crime and Punishment

2001⁴

1999¹

Lord of the Flies

1996¹

The Mysterious Island