List of books that I recommend 📚 (French & English)

This is a list of books that I have read and that I recommend, it will serve as a reminder for me and as a suggestion for you.

Not all of them are related to programming, but I think that they are all worth reading, you will find some french books as well.

Notes:

• ⭐️ means that I really like and recommend this book.
• 🔈 means that I listened to the audiobook.

80 books in total.

English 🇬🇧

Programming

• Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho ⭐️

• Effective Python by Brett Slatkin

• Grokking Data Structures by Marcello La Rocca

• Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava ⭐️

• Python Crash Course by Eric Matthes

• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

• Clean Code by Robert C. Martin

• Two Scoops of Django by Daniel Roy Greenfeld and Audrey Roy Greenfeld ⭐️

• Python testing with pytest by Brian Okken

• Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python and Django by William S. Vincent

• The Hacker Playbook 3: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing (English Edition) by Peter Kim

• JavaScript from Beginner to Professional: Learn JavaScript quickly by building fun, interactive, and dynamic web apps, games, and pages by Laurence Lars Svekis (Author), Maaike van Putten (Author), Codestars By Rob Percival (Author)

• Hypermedia Systems by Carson Gross (HTMX creator) and Adam Stepinski and Deniz Aksimsek ⭐️ (free online book)

Electronics

• Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery by Charles Platt

Biography

• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah ⭐️

Psychology

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini ⭐️

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt

History and exploration

• The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides ⭐️

• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari ⭐️⭐️

• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (English Edition) by Loung Ung

• Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior (English Edition) by Ric Prado

• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann ⭐️

• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann ⭐️

• Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic (English Edition) by Michael Smith

Future studies

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

World History

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Philosophy

• Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others? by Peter Singer

• Making sense : Conversations on Consciousness, Morality and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris

• The art of peace by Morihei Ueshiba

Classics and literature

• 1984 by George Orwell ⭐️

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• The Odyssey by Homer

• The Iliad by Homer

Internet and technology

• This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth ⭐️

• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden ⭐️⭐️

• So you’ve been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson

• Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick

• Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter 🔈

• Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

Marketing and business

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries ⭐️ 🔈

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal 🔈

• Launch by Jeff Walker 🔈

• Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday ⭐️ 🔈

Personal Development

• Atomic Habits by James Clear ⭐️

• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Petter Attia

• The daily stoic: 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living by Ryan Holiday ⭐️⭐️

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport ⭐️

• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer ⭐️

Geopolitics

• Black flags: The rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick

French 🇫🇷

Société

• La France sous nos yeux. Economie, paysages, nouveaux modes de vie by Jerome Fourquet et Jean-laurent Cassely ⭐️ 🔈

• Médecin du RAID: Vivre en état d’urgence by Matthieu Langlois

• Tueurs à gages. Enquête sur le nouveau phénomène des shooters by Jean-Michel Décugis ⭐️

• Les morts ont la parole : Philippe Boxho, médecin légiste, fait parler les cadavres by Philippe Boxho

Économie

• Non ce n’était pas mieux avant by Johan Norberg ⭐️

• Destruction massive: Géopolitique de la faim by Jean Ziegler

Géopolitique

• Syrie, une guerre pour rien by Frédéric Pichon

• Maman s’en va-t-en guerre : Ma vie de grand reporter by Dorothée Olliéric ⭐️

Guerre

• Chef de guerre by Louis Saillans ⭐️

• D’une guerre à l’autre: De la Côte d’Ivoire à l’Afghanistan avec le 2e RIMa by Yohann Douady

• Stick Action Spéciale: Un opérateur du 1er RPIMa raconte by Alexandre Alex ⭐️

• Task Force Baguette. Deux soldats français sur le front Ukrainien by Adam K ⭐️

Psychologie

• Psychologie de la connerie by Jean-François Marmion

• Quand est-ce qu’on biaise ? by Thomas C. Durand

• Les vertus de l’échec by Charles Pépin ⭐️

• Aventures au coeur de la mémoire by Joshua Foer ⭐️

Histoire

• Pour Napoléon by Thierry Lentz 🔈

• L’Univers, les Dieux, les Hommes. Récits grecs des origines by Jean-Pierre Vernant

• Nos ancêtres les Gaulois et autres fadaises by François Reynaert ⭐️ 🔈

• La grande histoire du monde by François Reynaert ⭐️ 🔈

• Napoléon: L’ombre de la Révolution by Bart Van Loo ⭐️

Médias et internet

• Les Marchands de nouvelles : Essai sur les pulsions totalitaires des médias by Ingrid Riocreux ⭐️

• La langue des médias : Destruction du langage et fabrication du consentement by Ingrid Riocreux ⭐️

• Total bullshit: Au cœur de la post-vérité by Dieguez Sebastian

• La face cachée d’internet : hackers, dark net… Stamboliyska Rayna

• Hyperconnexion by Michael Stora