Books I read (January - August 2020)

January
- Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister
- An Armenian Sketchbook (Добро вам!), Vasily Grossman
- La flor púrpura, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- El día 3, Miguel Á. Giner Bou, Cristina Durán, Laura Ballester
- A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps, Katrina Clokie
- La espada de Damocles (Finstere Zeiten: Zur Krise in Griechenland), Petros Márkaris
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Bartleby, el escribiente (Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street), Herman Melville
- Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris, Miguel Delibes
- Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

February
- Personal Kanban: Mapping Work, Navigating Life, Jim Benson, Tonianne DeMaria Barry
- The Art of Peace, Morihei Ueshiba
- Theory of Constraints, Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness, Reinhard Kleist

March
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
- Vampir, Joann Sfar (2nd time)
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Stoner, John Williams

April
- The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
- Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
- Bloodchild, Octavia E. Butler
- Children of Dune, Frank Herbert

May
- Agile Coaching, Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley
- Guía de la buena comunicación, Gerardo Sánchez Lozano
- Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin.
- Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life (audiobook), Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
- Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, Viktor E. Frankl

June
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets Rate (audiobook), Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- A Princess of Mars (audiobook), Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (audiobook), Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
- God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
- Ironmind: Stronger Minds, Stronger Bodies: Stronger Minds, Stronger Bodies, Randall J. Strossen
- Man's Search for Meaning (audiobook), Viktor E. Frankl (2nd time)
- Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert
- Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert

July
- Moonglow, Michael Chabon
- Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development, Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya
- Alone in Berlin (Jeder stirbt für sich allein), Hans Fallada
- Building Maintainable Software, Java Edition, Joost Visser
- The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology, Gregg Krech
- The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje
- A solas, Silvia Congost
- Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

August
- Medio sol amarillo (Half of a Yellow Sun), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Lady Astronaut of Mars, Mary Robinette Kowal
- How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (audiobook), Massimo Pigliucci
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
- Una partida de ajedrez, Stefan Zweig
- A Country Doctor's Notebook (Записки юного врача), Mikhail Bulgakov
- Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, Kathryn Schulz
- Play It as It Lays, Joan Didion
- Panza de burro, Andrea Abreu
- The Power, Naomi Alderman

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• The Evolution of the Self

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• Seeking Out Disagreement

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• Better Living Through Stoicism

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