Books read
(in reverse chronological order):
2019
Juan Moreno, Tausend Zeilen Lüge: Das System Relotius und der deutsche Journalismus, Rowohlt 2019 (December 2019)
Maxim Leo, Haltet euer Herz bereit, Karl Blessing Verlag 2009 (November 2019)
Richard Powers, The Overstory: A Novel, W. W. Norton & Company 2018 (October 2019)
Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, S. Fisher 2019 (September 2019)
Ulrike Herrmann, Kein Kapitalismus ist auch keine Lösung, Westend 2016 (August 2019)
Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers, Fischer Taschenbuch (June-July 2019)
Slavoj Zizek and Srecko Horvat, What does Europe want? The Union and Its Discontents, Columbia University Press 2015 (May 2019)
Adam Becker, What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, Basic Books 2018 (April 2019)
Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian, Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1954 (March-April 2019)
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Public Affairs 2019 (January-February 2019)
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914-1991, Vintage Books 1996 (December 2018-January 2019)
2018
Heinrich Böll, Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort, Routledge 1988 (June-November 2018)
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Vintage Books 1996 (September-October 2018)
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875, Vintage Books 1996 (August-September 2018)
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848, Vintage Books 1996 (July-August 2018)
Heinrich Böll, Der Zug war pünktlich, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1972 (May-June 2018)
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha: Eine indische Dichtung, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1974 (May 2018)
Erich Kästner, Das doppelte Lottchen: Ein Roman für Kinder, Buchgemeinschaft Donauland 1949 (May 2018)
Томас Ман, Вълшебната Планина, (March 2018)
Jeffrey Bennett, A Global Warming Primer, Big Kid Science 2016 (February 2018)
Германн Гессе, Игра в Биссер, (February 2018)
2017
Jeremy Rifkin, The Third Industrial Revolution, St. Martin’s Griffin 2011 (August 2017)
Aldous Huxley, Island, Harper Perennial 19?? (August 2017)
E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, Harper Perennial 1973 (August 2017)
Naomi Klein, No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics, Allen Lane 2017 (June 2017)
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Penguin Books 2007 (June 2017)
Adam Rothstein, The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution, New Scientist 2017 (June 2017)
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Penguin Books 2014 (June 2017)
Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, Princeton University Press 2010 (May-June 2017)
Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, St. Martin’s Griffin 2014 (May 2017)
Dani Rodrik, Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science, W.W. Norton & Company 2015 (May 2017)
Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Random House Business Books 2017 (May 2017)
Catherine Merridale, Lenin on the Train, Penguin Books 2017 (May 2017)
George Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, (April 2017)
Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, (April 2017)
Michael Goodwin, Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn’t Work) in Words and Pictures, Harry N. Abrams 2012 (February 2017)
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, Penguin Books 1998 (October 2016 – January 2017)
John Tyler Bonner, Randomness in Evolution, Princeton University Press 2013 (June 2016 – January 2017)
Leonid Tsypkin, Summer in Baden-Baden, New Directions Book 2001 (January 2017)
E. F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed, Abacus 1978 (October 2016 – January 2017)
2016
Itai Yanai & Martin Lercher, The Society of Genes, Harvard University Press 2016 (November 2016)
John Grisham, The Chamber, Arrow Books 1994 (October 2016)
Frederick Taylor, The Berlin Wall, Bloomsbury 2006 (September 2016)
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Vintage Books 2011 (September 2016)
John E. Mayfield, The Engine of Complexity, Columbia University Press 2013 (January – February 2016)
Nick Lane, The Vital Question, W. W. Norton & Co. 2015 (January 2016)
Harold J. Morowitz, Energy Flow in Biology, Ox Bow Press 1968 (January 2016)
Daniel J. Siegel, Mindsight, Bantam Books 2010 (January 2016)
2015
David Deamer, First Life, University of California Press 2011 (August 2015)
George Gamow, One, Two, Three … Infinity, Dover, 19?? (August 2015)
Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe, Vintage Books 2000 (June 2015)
Addy Pross, What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Oxford University Press 2012 (June 2015)
Brian Goodwin, How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity, Princeton University Press 2001 (April 2015)
Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence, St. Martin’s Griffin 2004 (March – April 2015)
Franklin M. Harold, The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life, Oxford University Press 2001 (February – March 2015)
Eugene V. Koonin, The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution, FT Press Science 2012 (March 2015)
Harold J. Morowitz, Beginnings of Cellular Life, Yale University Press 1992 (February 2015)
Soraya de Chadarevian, Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II, Cambridge University Press 2002 (January – February 2015)
Franklin M. Harold, In Search of Cell History: The Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks, The University of Chicago Press 2014 (January 2015)
Hallam Stevens, A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics, The University of Chicago Press 2013 (January 2015)
Michael S. A. Graziano, Consciousness and the Social Brain, Oxford University Press 2013 (January 2015)
2014
Nessa Carey, The Epigenetics Revolution, Columbia University Press 2012 (December 2014)
Michael S. A. Graziano, God, Soul, Mind, Brain, Leapfrog Press 2010 (August 2014)
Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe, Oxford University Press 1995 (January – March 2014)
Stuart Kauffman, Investigations, Oxford University Press 2000 (February 2014)
George Gamow, Mr Tompkins in Paperback, Cambridge University Press 1965 (January 2014)
2013
Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain, University of Chicago Press 2010 (December 2013)
Angela Creager, The Life of a Virus, University of Chicago Press 2002 (November 2013)
Lily Kay, Who Wrote the Book of Life, Stanford University Press 2000 (October 2013)
Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, ?? (August 2013)
Peter Hoffmann, Life’s Ratchet, Basic Books 2012 (2013)
Till Roenberg, Internal Time, Harvard University Press 2012 (2013)
George Church & Ed Regis, Regenesis, Basic Books 2012 (2013)
V.S. Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain, Harper Perennial 1998 (2013)
V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain, Norton 2011 (2013)
Sebastian Seung, Connectome, Houghtom Mifflin Harcourt 2012 (2013)
Gerlad M. Edelman & Giulio Tononi, A Universe of Conciousness, Basic Books 2000 (2013)
Gerald M. Edelman, Bright Air Brilliant Fire, Basic Books 1992 (2013)
2012
Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, ?? (2012)
Thomas Pynchon, V., Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2005 (March 2012)
Ed Regis, What is Life?, Oxford University Press 2008 (February 2012)
Carl Zimmer, Microcosm, Pantheon Books 2008 (February 2012)