Books
A list of some of the books I’ve read (this is an export from my goodreads account, compiled with emacs orgmode). I update this list every few months. If you have any questions or want me to review any of them, contact me. contact@bessonflorian.com
| Date | Title | Author | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-24 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | 2/5 |
| 2025-12-18 | The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk | 5/5 |
| 2025-12-12 | L’art subtil de s’en foutre | Mark Manson | 2/5 |
| 2025-10-23 | ORO: Trilogie Cizia Zykë (1) | Cizia Zykë | 3/5 |
| 2025-10-12 | The Miracle Morning | Hal Elrod | 1/5 |
| 2025-08-04 | Japanese Hiragana & Katakana for Beginners: First Steps to Mastering the Japanese Writing System | Timothy G. Stout | 4/5 |
| 2025-07-19 | La Ferme des animaux | George Orwell | 3/5 |
| 2025-07-01 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 5/5 |
| 2025-06-28 | Et si c’était vrai… | Marc Levy | 4/5 |
| 2025-06-28 | In the Swarm: Digital Prospects | Byung-Chul Han | 3/5 |
| 2025-06-28 | The C Programming Language | Brian W. Kernighan | 3/5 |
| 2025-05-25 | EAT2 : Des morts & des vivants | Gilles Lartigot | 4/5 |
| 2025-05-07 | EAT : Chroniques d’un fauve dans la jungle alimentaire | Gilles Lartigot | 4/5 |
| 2025-04-18 | The Renaissance Diet 2.0 | Mike Israetel | 3/5 |
| 2025-02-19 | Come as You Are | Emily Nagoski | 3/5 |
| 2025-01-27 | Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time | Brian Tracy | 2/5 |
| 2025-01-09 | Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker | 3/5 |
| 2024-12-27 | Siddartha | Hermann Hesse | 4/5 |
| 2024-12-13 | The Easy Peasy Way to Quit Porn | Hackauthor² | 4/5 |
| 2024-11-25 | The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoy | 5/5 |
| 2024-11-20 | Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 5/5 |
| 2024-11-15 | The Inner Game of Tennis | W. Timothy Gallwey | 4/5 |
| 2024-11-08 | Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI | Yuval Noah Harari | 5/5 |
| 2024-10-19 | After Dark | Haruki Murakami | 4/5 |
| 2024-10-17 | Le Prince de Nicolas Machiavel, Traduit & Commenté (Éd.1684) | Niccolò Machiavelli | 2/5 |
| 2024-10-12 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea | Yukio Mishima | 3/5 |
| 2024-10-07 | Slow Productivity | Cal Newport | 2/5 |
| 2024-10-04 | Wherever You Go, There You Are | Jon Kabat-Zinn | 3/5 |
| 2024-10-02 | In Praise of Shadows | Jun’ichirō Tanizaki | 2/5 |
| 2024-08-19 | Never Finished | David Goggins | 5/5 |
| 2024-07-26 | When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | 5/5 |
| 2024-07-12 | How to Win at College | Cal Newport | 1/5 |
| 2024-07-02 | Night | Elie Wiesel | 5/5 |
| 2024-07-01 | Scarcity Brain | Michael Easter | 5/5 |
| 2024-06-19 | Nutrition de la force | Julien Venesson | 3/5 |
| 2024-06-02 | Novelist as a Vocation | Haruki Murakami | 3/5 |
| 2024-05-30 | The Devotion of Suspect X | Keigo Higashino | 5/5 |
| 2024-05-13 | AI Superpowers | Kai-Fu Lee | 3/5 |
| 2024-04-25 | Subprime Attention Crisis | Tim Hwang | 3/5 |
| 2024-04-16 | Zero to One | Peter Thiel | 4/5 |
| 2024-04-07 | 1984 | George Orwell | 5/5 |
| 2024-03-21 | Ma vie sans gravité | Thomas Pesquet | 4/5 |
| 2024-03-03 | The Comfort Crisis | Michael Easter | 4/5 |
| 2024-02-24 | Stoner | John Williams | 5/5 |
| 2024-02-21 | Bigger Leaner Stronger | Michael Matthews | 3/5 |
| 2024-02-10 | Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson | 5/5 |
| 2024-01-22 | The Wise Man’s Fear | Patrick Rothfuss | 5/5 |
| 2024-01-12 | Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari | 5/5 |
| 2024-01-11 | How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age | Dale Carnegie | 2/5 |
| 2024-01-01 | The Slow Regard of Silent Things | Patrick Rothfuss | 4/5 |
| 2023-12-28 | Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | 5/5 |
| 2023-12-01 | This Is Water | David Foster Wallace | 4/5 |
| 2023-11-30 | Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | 4/5 |
| 2023-11-16 | Starting Strength | Mark Rippetoe | 3/5 |
| 2023-10-20 | The Art of Communicating | Thich Nhat Hanh | 4/5 |
| 2023-10-08 | Resilience | Eric Greitens | 5/5 |
| 2023-10-04 | Le Petit Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 3/5 |
| 2023-10-02 | Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness | Tim S. Grover | 1/5 |
| 2023-09-29 | Models | Mark Manson | 4/5 |
| 2023-09-26 | How to Not Die Alone | Logan Ury | 2/5 |
| 2023-09-25 | The Defining Decade | Meg Jay | 4/5 |
| 2023-09-13 | Wooden on Leadership | John Wooden | 5/5 |
| 2023-09-02 | Coach Wooden and Me | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 5/5 |
| 2023-08-28 | Wooden | John Wooden | 5/5 |
| 2023-08-22 | Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | 5/5 |
| 2023-07-23 | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami | 4/5 |
| 2023-07-08 | Striking Thoughts | Bruce Lee | 3/5 |
| 2023-06-29 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | 5/5 |
| 2023-06-28 | The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | Eric Jorgenson | 3/5 |
| 2023-06-06 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | 3/5 |
| 2023-05-30 | Learn to Perform When It Matters Most | Lars Robl | 3/5 |
| 2023-05-10 | The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching | Thich Nhat Hanh | 4/5 |
| 2023-04-27 | The Travelling Cat Chronicles | Hiro Arikawa | 4/5 |
| 2023-04-10 | Stolen Focus | Johann Hari | 4/5 |
| 2023-03-30 | The Millionaire Fastlane | M.J. DeMarco | 5/5 |
| 2023-02-25 | The Pragmatic Programmer | Andy Hunt | 3/5 |
| 2023-02-22 | Digital Minimalism | Cal Newport | 4/5 |
| 2023-02-13 | Can’t Hurt Me | David Goggins | 4/5 |
| 2023-02-13 | The Psychology of Money | Morgan Housel | 2/5 |
| 2023-01-30 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | 5/5 |
| 2023-01-29 | Le chevalier à l’armure rouillée | Robert Fisher | 2/5 |
| 2023-01-17 | Your Brain On Porn | Gary Wilson | 4/5 |
| 2023-01-16 | Sous ton regard | Laurence Lemarchal | 5/5 |
| 2022-12-09 | Deep Work | Cal Newport | 4/5 |
| 2022-11-17 | Practical Vim | Drew Neil | 5/5 |
| 2022-11-01 | Le Guide du voyageur galactique | Douglas Adams | 3/5 |
| 2022-10-25 | Atomic Habits | James Clear | 5/5 |
| 2022-10-25 | Gustave Doré | Gustave Doré | 3/5 |
| 2022-10-25 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu | 2/5 |
| 2022-10-24 | The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | 5/5 |