Books & Reading

I love reading. Some of my friends borrow books or ask me what book I'd suggest. To get inspired, I'm keeping a webpage with the books I read, also listing my favourites in a few categories.

Started Reading:

What I loved Siri Huvstedt
Untergrundkrieg Harumi Marukami
Istanbul Orhan Pamuk
Kyoto Yasunari Kawabata
On the road Jack Kerouac
Lexicon des Unwissens Kathrin Passig & Aleks Scholz
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell

Read in 2011:

Born on a blue day Daniel Tammet (17.07.2011)
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese (22.05.2011)
Nocturnes Kazuo Ishiguro (22.02.2011)
The Daydreamer Ian McEwan (26.02.2011)

Read in 2010:

Alice Munro Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage (30.12.2010)
The girl who played with fire Stieg Larsson (November 2010)
One for my baby Tony Parsons (October 2010)
Le fait du prince Amelie Nothomb (18.10.2010)
Der Himmel ist blau, die Erde ist weiss Hiromi Kawakami (25.09.2010)
On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan (10.09.2010)
The elegance of a hedgehog Muriel Barbery (02.09.2010)
The old man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway (24.08.2010)
Sundays at Tiffany's James Patterson (21.08.2010)
The girl with the dragon tattoo Stieg Larsson (18.08.2010)
Historias Marginales Luis Sepulveda (23.07.2010)
A fine balance Rohinton Mistry (08.06.2010)
Bad Monkeys Matt Ruff (March 2010)
Grotesk Natsuo Kirino (09.02.2010)

Read in 2009:

Never let me go Kazuo Ishiguro
Travesuras de la nina mala Mario Vargas Llosa
City of thieves David Benioff (December 2009)
Het stenen bruidsbed Harry Mulisch (November 2009)
May contain nuts John O'Farell (October 2009)
White Tiger Aravind Adiga (August 2009)
Ghost Written David Mitchell (12.08.2009)
Omega Minor Paul Verhaegen (10.07.2009)
Quien de Nosotros Mario Benedetti (14.04.2009)
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee (12.03.2009)
Rituelen Cees Nooteboom (26.02.2009)
The world according to Garp John Irving (February 2009)

Read in 2008:

The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
Mister Aufziehvogel Harumi Marukami (December 2008)
Sea Otters John Benett (10.10.2008)
La nina mala Mario Vargas LLosa (October 2008)
Macho Pikant Daniel Chavarria (October 2008)
Cafe Brazil Tanja Duckers (October 2008)
Die Glut Sandor Marai (22.02.2008)

Read in 2007:

Things fall apart Achebe
Allerzielen Cees Nooteboom
The year of magical thinking Joan Didion
Drop City T.C. Boyle
Die dunkle Seite des Mondes Martin Suter (21.07.2007)
Hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world Harumi Murakami
Runaway Alice Munro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Que me quieres, amor? Manuel Rivas
Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
La part du mort Yasmina Khadra
Die Umarmung des Todes Natsuo Kirino
Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club Juan Marse
Nachtzug nach Lissabon Pascal Mercier
This is Your Life John O'Farrell
Lautlos Frank Schätzing
The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad

Read in 2006:

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
What a Carve Up Jonathan Coe
The Rotter's Club Jonathan Coe
The Closed Circle Jonathan Coe
11 Minutos Paulo Coelho
Absolute Friends John le Carre
The Spy that came in from the Cold John le Carre
Diana o la cazadora solitaria Carlos Fuentes
Pais de nieve Yasunari Kawabata
Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
Sputnik Sweetheart Harumi Murakami
South of the border, West of the sun Harumi Murakami
Tokyo Blues (Norwegian Wood) Harumi Murakami
My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk
Snow Orhan Pamuk

Read after 2000:

Moonpalace Paul Auster
Watermusic T.C. Boyle
Post Office Charles Bukowski
Supertex Leon de Winter
Ruimte van Sokolov Leon de Winter
Memoirs of a geisha Arthur Golden
Enigma Robert Harris
Archangel Robert Harris
Fatherland Robert Harris
Pompeii Robert Harris
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
Atonement Ian McEwan
Pollen Jeff Noon
The Best a Man Can Get John O'Farrell
Harry Potter (1-6) J.K. Rowling
Der Schwarm Frank Schätzing

Read before 2000:

Cronica de una muerte anunciada Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Del amor y otros demonios Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cien anos de soledad Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Smilla's sense of snow Peter Hoeg
De grap Kundera
Het boek van de lach en de vergetelheid Kundera
Ontdekking van de Hemel (Discovery of Heaven) Harry Mulisch
1984 George Orwell
Das Parfum Patrick Sueskind
The hobbit J.R. Tolkien
Lord of the rings J.R. Tolkien

Books I'd like to read soon:

The science of Cooking Peter Barham