My (Photography) bookcase to find inspiration

Books are a great source of inspiration for me, both in terms of my photography and business skills, as well as for gaining a broader perspective on the world.

For this reason, I decided to share my favorite books in this article. It may inspire you to read some of these, or based on these, you can give me more great recommendations on what to read.

I organize my bookcase in four categories, so I’ll do the same for this article as well. I have separated them by overall genres: fiction (mostly scifi & fantasy), non-fiction (business, science, productivity, …), photography information (how to, biography, …), and photobooks (just pretty pictures)

Ofcourse, my bookcase is far bigger than this list, but I only wanted to highlight the books I can recommend. Books I reread myself.

Fiction books: Mostly sci-fi and fantasy

• The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Silo trilogy – Hugh Howey
• The Three-Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Hobbit by Tolkien
• Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry

Non-Fiction books: business, productivity, science, …

• Rework by Fried, Jason
• Grip: Het geheim van slim werken by  Rick Pastoor
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Tapestries of Life by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
• The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales
• Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
• How to Speak Whale by Tom Mustill
• Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte
• See What You’re Missing by Will Gompertz
• The Laws of Connection: by David Robson

Photography books with information

• Authentic Portraits: by Chris Orwig
• Find Your Frame: A Street Photography Masterclass by Craig Whitehead
• The Bored Photographer by Stefano Broli
• Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography by Pierre Assouline
• The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman
• Think Like a Street Photographer by Matt Stuart
• The Meaning in the Making by Sean Tucker
• Looking at Photographs by Laurent Julier

Photobooks to browse through

• MOØDe by Anton Corbijn
• Duologues by Nina Welch-Kling
• Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
• All about Saul Leiter by Saul Leiter
• Last Days by Lieve Blancquaert
• Found, Not Lost by Elliot Erwitt
• Lee Miller in print by Saskia van Kampen-Prein
• En Route by Ad van Denderen

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Read any of these books? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Or tell me a book you can recommend to me!