Books

You can still find the old list of books I’ve read on my old website. But this is a new design, and as such I will start anew with 2015. Find more blog entries about books here. Last update: September 28, 2018.

2018

• Bitch Planet Vol. 1 (Comic)
• Word by Word – Kory Stamper
• On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder
• Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway – Cherie Currie
• Six Four – Hideo Yokoyama
• Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
• Überleben als Übersetzer – Miriam Neidhardt
• My One-Night Stand With Cancer – Tania Katan

2017

• The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
• Gunsights – Elmore Leonard
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Talent Is Overrated – Geoff Colvin
• I’m Just A Person – Tig Notaro
• The Birthday Of The World – Ursula K. LeGuin
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels – Jason Schreier

2016

• Orange Is The New Black – Piper Kerman
• Postcards From The Edge – Carrie Fisher
• Salaryman in Japan – Japan Travel Bureau
• Saga 5 – Brian K. Vaughan
• The Last Of Us: American Dreams – Neil Druckmann, Faith Erin Hicks
• Through The Language Glass – Guy Deutscher
• Drift – Rachel Maddow
• Keller On The Spot – Lawrence Block
• Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
• The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
• What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 – Tina Seelig
• The City & The City – China Miéville
• Lumberjanes – Noelle Stevenson et. al.
• Alpha – Greg Rucka
• Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
• Galápagos – Kurt Vonnegut
• An Astronaut’s Guide To Life on Earth– Chris Hadfield
• Planetfall – Emma Newman
• The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition – Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
• Stumptown – Greg Rucka
• You’re Never Weird on the Internet – Felicia Day

2015

• The End of Normal – Stephanie Madoff Mack
• The Martian – Andy Weir
• Queen & Country: The Definitive Edition Vol. 1 – Greg Rucka
• The Sculptor – Scott McCloud
• The Hare With Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal
• Think Like A Cat – Pam Johnson-Bennett
  Excellent. Full of info on cats. Recommended for everyone who has a cat or wants a cat.
• My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
  About Gerald Durrell’s childhood, which he spent in Corfu with his crazy family.

• Beloved – Toni Morrison
  Disturbing. Intentionally, though, since it’s about slavery in the US.
• The ABC Murders – Agatha Christie
  Entertaining enough. A simple murder mystery.
• Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen: Japan – Florian Coulmas
  This answers lots of questions about Japan. Interesting.
• Watching the English – Kate Fox
  Very interesting read. Written by an anthropologist, so certainly more scientific and in-depth than the Xenophobe’s Guides. Covers things like pub talk, the English class system, queuing…