The books I read in 2024

This is now the fifth consecutive year that I’m publishing the books that I’ve read (some posts are only available in Portuguese: 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020).

Productivity

• The Get Things Done Book, by Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschappeler
• Attention Span, by Gloria Mark
• Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman
• Effortless, by Greg McKeown
• Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield
• Feel-Good Productivity, by Ali Abdaal
• Personal Kanban, by Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry
• Slow Productivity, by Cal Newport
• The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
• Master of Change, by Brad Stulberg

Product Management

• Measure What Matters, by John Doerr
• Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey Moore
• The Cold Start Problem, by Andrew Chen
• Prompt Engineering for Generative AI, by James Phoenix, Mike Taylor

Other Nonfiction

• Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield
• Finding Me, by Viola Davis
• On Writing, by Stephen King
• Originals, by Adam Grant
• Musk, by Walter Isaacson
• 10x Is Easier Than 2x, by Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy
• Same as Ever, by Morgan Housel
• The First 90 Days, by Michael Watkins
• The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
• Bitcoin: The Currency in the Digital Age (not available in English, original title: “Bitcoin: A moeda na era digital”), by Fernando Ulrich
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari

Fiction

• After Dark, by Haruki Murakami
• Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
• Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
• I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
• Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami
• Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things…, by Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lemony Snicket, et al.
• The Creator’s Map, by Emilio Calderón
• Exemplary Suicides (not available in English, original title: “Suicídios exemplares”), by Enrique Vila-Matas
• A Russian Novel, by Emmanuel Carrère
• The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
• Never Any End to Paris, by Enrique Vila-Matas
• The Man Sitting in the Corridor, The Malady of Death, by Marguerite Duras
• The Vertical Journey (not available in English, original title: “El viaje vertical”), by Enrique Vila-Matas
• A Brief History of Portable Literature, by Enrique Vila-Matas