# Take the Bookworm Challenge! šŸ“–ā€Œ **URL:** \ **Category:** Challenges\ **Tags:** community-challenge\ **Created:** [July 16, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626 "2024-07-16T13:45:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dannemca](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/dannemca/32/7215_2.png) [@dannemca](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/dannemca)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/21 "2024-07-18T19:46:25Z")
I never went that much to books until I got the Hitchhikerā€™s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Then I read the Game of Thrones and their side quests, from George RR Martin. Others I like are not fictional, no specific title, just any book that teach me how the finance world works. I would like to be prepared when retirement time comes. edit.: Oh, I almost forgotā€¦ since we are all IT guys here, I would like to recommend this: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, by Gene Kim. ---
**Author:** ![Kevinvdg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kevinvdg](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Kevinvdg)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/22 "2024-07-19T12:38:17Z")
I loved the Phoenix Project, reminded me of my time as an Engineer and you still see that stuff happening to date. Others I like: - Stephen King: Under the Dome, Misery, and Christine. - Jules Verne: _Around the World in 80 Days_ and _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ - Dan Brown: Angels and Demons - Douglas Adams: _The Hitchhikerā€™s Guide_ series - Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock series - Other books: The Company, The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, The Swarm ---
**Author:** ![Kevinvdg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kevinvdg](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Kevinvdg)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/23 "2024-07-19T12:40:02Z")
Oh and for the Dutch speaking community members a non fiction: 50 tinten nee. ---
**Author:** ![jegron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/jegron/32/12797_2.png) [@jegron](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/jegron)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 7:36am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/24 "2024-07-22T07:36:40Z")
I love biography! - Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson - Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson - Shoe Dog - Phil Knight ---
**Author:** ![GunterC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc29f/32.png) [@GunterC](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/GunterC)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/25 "2024-07-22T08:11:16Z")
- Ringworld and other books of Larry Niven - Almost all books of Stephen King. - The Pendergast series of Preston&Child. - Peter Straub books - Millennium-trilogy of Stieg Larsson - All Dan Brown stuff ---
**Author:** ![marina\_pollehn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/marina_pollehn/32/39120_2.png) [@marina\_pollehn](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/marina_pollehn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/26 "2024-07-22T09:52:05Z")
Since finishing my masterā€™s, I have really avoided books. Honestly, I prefer being outside or reading documentation or watch explanatory YouTube videos. I really lost the joy in reading as I had to consume 1200 pages of accounting and 400 pages of macroeconomics in 8 weeks and while it was also fun and challenging, it took me too much energy to read anything entertaining next to it. Maybe someone feels the same? šŸ˜… During my holiday, I forced myself to read again, and this one brought me quite some joy: ![marina_pollehn_0-1721641714858.jpeg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/d/f/df20ae1b3ddbce56ba9c01594478e6c4dea365a3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![AntonioSousa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/antoniosousa/32/50_2.png) [@AntonioSousa](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/AntonioSousa)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2024, 11:23am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/27 "2024-07-22T11:23:22Z")
I have felt the same in some occasions in the past, but one of the best was when I discovered Dynatrace. At the time, the appmon manual was something neat: ![appmon.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/2X/0/0fff6e209092a69a923bd9c33a9e23cdc453dbf4.png) ---
**Author:** ![Esam\_Eid](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/esam_eid/32/167_2.png) [@Esam\_Eid](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Esam_Eid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/28 "2024-07-23T13:41:40Z")
This is one of my favorite books  **The Richest Man in Babylon** ---
**Author:** ![ilya\_gutin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/ilya_gutin/32/28118_2.png) [@ilya\_gutin](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/ilya_gutin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/29 "2024-07-23T15:38:06Z")
I wish I had time and energy to read as much as a kid/teenager when I was swallowing books in hoards. Some of my favorites are: Lord of the Rings trilogy by John R. R. Tolkien. It was incepted as one book, and I canā€™t think of it in any other term. A colossal work, that remains as awesome today as when I first read it about two decades ago. Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. In particular, Halfblood Prince and Prisoner of Azkaban are my favorites. These are far better books than you might expect from a mainstream bestseller. Also, some personal ā€œachievementsā€ are associated with them: Philosopher Stone is the first book I read in the original English version, and I read the entire Deathly Hallows in one sit. Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque In recent years, I prefer non-fiction though. Real life has plenty of awesome stories šŸ™‚ Riding Rockets by Mike Mullaine Endurance by Scott Kelly Carrying the Fire by Mike Collins ---
**Author:** ![darynakovyrina](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/darynakovyrina/32/30846_2.png) [@darynakovyrina](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/darynakovyrina)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/30 "2024-07-24T00:29:23Z")
My all-time favorites are: 1. Harry Potter (Order of Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince) 2. Handmaidā€™s Tale by Margaret Atwood 3. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare ---
**Author:** ![jitse](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/jitse/32/34632_2.png) [@jitse](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/jitse)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 7:13am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/31 "2024-07-24T07:13:21Z")
Some of my favorite (tangentially) work related books that are both insightful _and_ pleasant to read: - **On Writing Well** by William Zinsser - **The Mythical Man-Month** by Fred Brooks - **The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy** by Mark Schwartz My absolute favorite, definitely not work related, books are  **Crime and Punishment** and  **The Brothers Karamazov** by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Iā€™m looking forward to some time off to finish (some of) the books Iā€™m currently reading:  **Capital** by Karl Marx,  **Thinking, Fast and Slow** by Daniel Kahneman and  **The Road to Unfreedom** by Timothy Snyder. ---
**Author:** ![Miguel\_RinconG](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/miguel_rincong/32/29455_2.png) [@Miguel\_RinconG](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Miguel_RinconG)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/32 "2024-07-25T16:47:31Z")
Hi, My  top ten favorite books are: 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 2. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 3. Fundation by Issac Asimov. 4. Of Ants and Dinosaurs  by Liu Cixin. 5. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. 6. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury 7. 3001: The Final Odyssey  by Arthur C. Clarke 8. Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin 9. Enderā€™s Game by Orson Scott 10. JubiabĆ” by Jorge Amado I discovered while making my top ten books, I donā€™t have read many women writers; this year, it will be my new goal. ---
**Author:** ![Patrick\_H](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/patrick_h/32/37540_2.png) [@Patrick\_H](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Patrick_H)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/33 "2024-07-26T10:08:29Z")
I donā€™t really have favorites - but Iā€™ currently reading ā€œAlles, was ein Mann im Kopf haben muss: UnnĆ¼tzes Wissen fĆ¼r alle Lebenslagenā€ - which is a light reading but pretty interesting facts of useless knowledge. Things you donā€™t really need but easily remember šŸ˜‰ ![713ySQNPUvL._SL1500_.jpg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/2X/8/871f9cfcd5a673c34f5be51521cdfe3c275a61db.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![kuncarlos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/kuncarlos/32/32091_2.png) [@kuncarlos](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/kuncarlos)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/34 "2024-07-30T14:45:17Z")
Based on your list, I recommend N.K. Jemesin. She is a great scifi/fantasy writer. ---
**Author:** ![jarinmusarrat](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/jarinmusarrat/32/13318_2.png) [@jarinmusarrat](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/jarinmusarrat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/35 "2024-08-02T16:24:03Z")
My list: - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - Looking for Alaska by John Green - Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - Oliver Twist by Charles (I couldnā€™t post his last name). Obviously thereā€™s more but these are what came into my mind ---
**Author:** ![VenkataSainath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@VenkataSainath](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/VenkataSainath)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/36 "2024-08-06T12:03:03Z")
Here is My favorite book : Kargil: Untold Stories from the War ![VenkataSainath_0-1722945870946.jpeg](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/original/3X/c/7/c7bc022a6cec4c7421459f39b1fc4d66b7649500.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![richard\_guerra](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/richard_guerra/32/9592_2.png) [@richard\_guerra](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/richard_guerra)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/37 "2024-08-07T13:24:18Z")
Fiction - ā€œThe Count of Monte Cristoā€, Alexandre Dumas ā€œStarship Troopersā€, Robert A. Heinlein ā€œFoundationā€, Isaac Asimov (already mentioned above) Non-fiction - ā€œGetting Things Doneā€, Robert Allen ---
**Author:** ![Miguel\_RinconG](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/miguel_rincong/32/29455_2.png) [@Miguel\_RinconG](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Miguel_RinconG)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/38 "2024-08-07T14:54:00Z")
Hi [@kuncarlos](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/40761) , Thanks. I will start reading the Broken Earth series next week. ---
**Author:** ![dannemca](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/dannemca/32/7215_2.png) [@dannemca](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/dannemca)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/39 "2024-08-07T15:08:52Z")
So far I am relief that the ā€œThe Catcher in the Ryeā€ was not mentioned by anyone, yet. :not_sure_if2: ---
**Author:** ![JoseRomero](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/joseromero/32/19486_2.png) [@JoseRomero](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/JoseRomero)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626/40 "2024-08-07T15:47:29Z")
Hi Dynatrace Community, Summer is perfect for catching up on books! Here are mine: **Mangas:** 1. **Naruto** - The story of a young ninja to become a hokage. 2. **One Piece** - The epic adventures of Luffy and his crew for find the ONE PIECE. 3. **Jujutsu Kaisen** - Action and mystery. **Science Book:** - **Physics of the Future** by Michio Kaku - A fascinating journey into the future of science and technology. Looking forward to seeing your recommendations! [Previous page](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/take-the-bookworm-challenge/46626.md?page=3)