Reading
This is my reading log. For the past years, I've been trying to read every
day.
I've published my thoughts about some
books that left a lasting impression. Books which I recommend without
qualification, I've marked with a dot.
That's all - back to reading!
Current
Germinal
Émile Zola (1885)
Cevdet und seine Söhne
Orhan Pamuk (1982)
2024
Method and Madness
Norman G. Finkelstein (2014)
The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat (1937)
Der Prozess
Franz Kafka (1925)
Big Sur
Jack Kerouac (1962)
Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov (1932)
Amerika
Franz Kafka (1927)
Normal People
Sally Rooney (2018)
Schoolgirl
Osamu Dazai (1939)
Rituals
Cees Nooteboom (1980)
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli (2017)
Zama
Antonio Di Benedetto (1956)
On the Line
Joseph Ponthus (2019)
God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens (2007)
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann (2017)
After Dark
Haruki Murakami (2004)
Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald (2001)
Shōgun
James Clavell (1975)
2023
Roman eines Schicksallosen
Imre Kertész (1975)
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne
Sarah Bakewell (2010)
Walden
Henry David Thoreau (1854)
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann (1912)
Straight Man
Richard Russo (1997)
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1605)
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel (2021)
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Hermann Hesse (1919)
Goodbye, Columbus
Philip Roth (1959)
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami (1982)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami (2007)
Das Schlimmste kommt noch
Charles Bukowski (1982)
A Strangeness in My Mind
Orhan Pamuk (2014)
Why Love Hurts
Eva Illouz (2011)
Das Buch vom Lachen und Vergessen
Milan Kundera (1979)
Das Leben ist anderswo
Milan Kundera (1973)
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust (1913)
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates (1961)
The Road
Cormac McCarthy (2006)
Everyman
Philip Roth (2006)
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson (1994)
The Four Agreements
Miguel Ruiz (1997)
Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy (2022)
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy (2022)
The Honjin Murders
Seishi Yokomizo (1946)
Sun & Steel
Yukio Mishima (1968)
La vampa d'agosto
Andrea Camilleri (2006)
2022
Narziss und Goldmund
Hermann Hesse (1930)
La costola di Adamo
Antonio Manzini (2014)
Snow
Orhan Pamuk (2002)
Pista nera
Antonio Manzini (2013)
The White Castle
Orhan Pamuk (1985)
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk (1998)
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
Life for Sale
Yukio Mishima (1968)
Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami (2017)
Un mese con Montalbano
Andrea Camilleri (1998)
Il giro di boa
Andrea Camilleri (2003)
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell (2016)
Das Glasperlenspiel
Hermann Hesse (1943)
Blindness
José Saramago (1995)
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx (1848)
La voce del violino
Andrea Camilleri (1997)
Stalin, Volume II
Stephen Kotkin (2017)
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Elif Shafak (2019)
The New Typography
Jan Tschichold (1928)
Il Gattopardo
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)
Stalin, Volume I
Stephen Kotkin (2014)
Russia
Martin Sixsmith (2011)
Columbine
Dave Cullen (2009)
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote (1965)
Se questo è un uomo
Primo Levi (1947)
The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule (1980)
Speak, Okinawa
Elizabeth Miki Brina (2021)
Fatal Vision
Joe McGinniss (1983)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Christiane Vera Felscherinow (1978)
The Human Stain
Philip Roth (2000)
Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces
Heidrun Osterer (2008)
I Married a Communist
Philip Roth (1998)
Molloy
Samuel Beckett (1951)
A Hangman's Diary
Franz Schmidt (1617)
The Passenger
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (1939)
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy (1869)
Understanding Wines
Jancis Robinson (2016)
Il ladro di merendine
Andrea Camilleri (1996)
2021
Il cane di terracotta
Andrea Camilleri (1996)
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburō Ōe (1964)
Satantango
László Krasznahorkai (1985)
La forma dell'acqua
Andrea Camilleri (1994)
2666
Roberto Bolaño (2004)
The Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari (1550)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden (1997)
Wines: Looking Behind the Label
Jancis Robinson (2008)
Dune
Frank Herbert (1965)
Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan (2018)
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
Francis D. K. Ching (1995)
Bodoni: Manual of Typography
Stephan Fussel (2016)
The Mask of Dimitrios
Eric Ambler (1939)
Beautiful Evidence
Edward R. Tufte (2006)
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius (180)
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo (2019)
L'étranger
Albert Camus (1942)
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck (1937)
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse (1922)
Moby-Dick or, the Whale
Herman Melville (1851)
American Pastoral
Philip Roth (1997)
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild (1998)
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair (1905)
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth (1969)
Umberto Eco (2000)
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai (1948)
History of Beauty
Umberto Eco (2004)
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf (1928)
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Visual Explanations
Edward R. Tufte (1997)
Stoner
John Williams (1965)
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman (1988)
Orhan Pamuk (2008)
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders (2017)
Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte (1990)
Richard Wagamese (2012)
The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1861)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte (1983)
Thomas Mann (1924)
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher W. Alexander (1964)
Thomas Mann (1901)
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf (1925)
Why I Write
George Orwell (1946)
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio (2011)
Auf die sanfte Tour
Castle Freeman Jr. (2009)
John Steinbeck (1952)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
Mapping Experiences
James Kalbach (2015)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1973)
The Great Mental Models, Volume 2
Shane Parrish (2019)
Practices of the Python Pro
Dane Hillard (2020)
2020
The Woman in the Dunes
Kōbō Abe (1962)
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Hans Fallada (1947)
Haruki Murakami (1987)
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Lord of the Flies
William Golding (1954)
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima (1963)
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu (2020)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami (1994)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde (1890)
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami (2002)
Code
Charles Petzold (1999)
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende (2019)
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
Shane Parrish (2018)
Strategic Management
Giovanni B. Dagnino (2013)
Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
Die Verwandlung
Franz Kafka (1915)
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead (2019)
Grokking Algorithms
Aditya Y. Bhargava (2015)
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino (1972)
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee (2017)
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens (2017)
Invitation to a Beheading
Vladimir Nabokov (1938)
Another Day of Life
Ryszard Kapuściński (1976)
The Only Plane in the Sky
Garrett M. Graff (2019)
Peak
K. Anders Ericsson (2016)
Natural Language Processing in Action
Hobson Lane (2019)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou (1969)
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett (1989)
In der Wand
James Salter (1979)
Umberto Eco (1980)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung (1931)
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson (2003)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman (1985)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas (1844)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
Lushins Verteidigung
Vladimir Nabokov (1929)
Babel
Kenah Cusanit (2019)
Hagard
Lukas Bärfuss (2017)
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak (1957)
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes (1959)
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson (2007)
Sofies Welt
Jostein Gaarder (1991)
Was ich euch nicht erzählte
Celeste Ng (2014)
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1939)
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller (2011)
Calypso
David Sedaris (2018)
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1879)
Atomic Habits
James Clear (2018)
Scrum
Chris Sims (2012)
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles (2016)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thomas C. Foster (2003)
The Origin of Consciousness
Julian Jaynes (1976)
The Intelligent Heart
Dzigar Kongtrül III (2016)
2019
Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima (1967)
The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham (1919)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969)
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne (1926)
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking (1988)
Attached
Amir Levine (2010)
Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari (2015)
The Four Tendencies
Gretchen Rubin (2017)
The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman (1990)
Cosmos
Carl Sagan (1980)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee (1960)
Der Mensch vor der Frage nach dem Sinn
Viktor E. Frankl (2010)
Educated
Tara Westover (2018)
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers (1940)
Kraft
Jonas Lüscher (2017)
I Thought It Was Just Me
Brené Brown (2007)
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
Acht Berge
Paolo Cognetti (2016)
Kirschblüten und rote Bohnen
Durian Sukegawa (2013)
Becoming
Michelle Obama (2018)
The Power of Vulnerability
Brené Brown (2013)
2018
Life Safari
John P. Strelecky (2007)
The Brain: The Story of You
David Eagleman (2015)
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens (2018)
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon (2015)
How to American
Jimmy O. Yang (2018)
Komm, ich erzähl dir eine Geschichte
Jorge Bucay (1994)
The Obstacle is the Way
Ryan Holiday (2014)
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins (1976)
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng (2017)
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Sue Townsend (1982)
And We Are Not Saved
Derrick A. Bell (1987)
The Lover's Dictionary
David Levithan (2011)
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson (2018)
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë (1847)
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein (2017)
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath (1963)
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr (2014)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan (2012)
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore (2006)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman (2017)
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle (1997)
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander (2010)
The Other "F" Word
John Danner (2015)
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren (2016)
The Art of the Start 2.0
Guy Kawasaki (2004)
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries (2011)
Inside the Tornado
Geoffrey A. Moore (1995)
The Scientist's Guide to Writing
Stephen B. Heard (2016)
Update!
Joël Luc Cachelin (2016)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon (2003)
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell (2012)
Das größere Wunder
Thomas Glavinic (2013)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera (1984)
Heather, the Totality
Matthew Weiner (2017)
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven (2015)
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ned Vizzini (2006)
Dead End
David Signer (2017)
The Code Book
Simon Singh (1999)
Arbeit und Struktur
Wolfgang Herrndorf (2013)
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen (1997)
2017
Tschick
Wolfgang Herrndorf (2010)
Der Richter und sein Henker
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1951)
Ethereum
Henning Diedrich (2016)
Investieren in Kryptowährungen
Philipp Giese (2017)
Der Appell des Dalai Lama an die Welt
Dalai Lama XIV (2015)
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason (1926)
The Course of Love
Alain de Botton (2016)
Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
Women
Charles Bukowski (1978)
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi (2016)
L'étranger
Albert Camus (1942)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson (2016)
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore (2006)
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance (2016)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
Traffic
John Ruskin (2015)
Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands
Ivan Turgenev (1883)
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy (2010)
Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh (2010)
Gooseberries
Anton Chekhov (1898)
The Meek One
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1876)
The Steel Flea
Nikolai Leskov (1881)
The Nose
Nikolai Gogol (1836)
How Much Land Does A Man Need?
Leo Tolstoy (1886)
Jason and Medea
Apollonius of Rhodes (-250)
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
Marco Polo (1298)
Mrs Rosie and the Priest
Giovanni Boccaccio (1353)
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Thomas De Quincey (1827)
The Symposium
Plato (-380)
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca (49)
Praxiswissen Innovationsmanagement
Oliver Gassmann (2013)
The Business Model Navigator
Oliver Gassmann (2013)
A Confession
Leo Tolstoy (1880)
Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace (2005)
2016
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder (2010)
Value Proposition Design
Alexander Osterwalder (2013)
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck (2006)
Hooked
Nir Eyal (2013)
Zero to One
Peter Thiel (2014)
Grundeinkommen
Enno Schmidt (2016)
Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
Amy Finkelstein (2014)
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande (2009)
Sunrise
Michael Köhlmeier (1994)
Navigieren in Zeiten des Umbruchs
Fredmund Malik (2015)
The Art of War
Sun Tzu (-500)
Drive
Daniel H. Pink (2009)
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie (1936)
Managing Oneself
Peter F. Drucker (2007)
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen (1997)
This is Water
David Foster Wallace (2009)
2015
Das St. Galler Management-Modell
Johannes Rüegg-Stürm (2014)
Das Marketingkonzept im SGMM
Thomas Bieger (2013)
2014
Storia della mia gente
Edoardo Nesi (2010)
2013
Der Auftrag
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986)