Here are 15 books that caught my interest lately.
Fresh, off-beat, quirky or curious titles that might deserve more attention:
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01: ANDREW SHAFFER: ‚Great Philosophers who failed at Love‘, 208 pages, 2011. [Nonfiction]
02: ERNEST CLINE: ‚Ready Player One‘, 384 pages, 2011.
03: BLAKE BUTLER: ‚There is no Year‘, 416 pages, 2011.
04: ANNETT GRÖSCHNER, ‚Walpurgistag‘, 448 pages, 2011. [German]
05: NAVID KERMANI, ‚Dein Name‘, 1200 pages, 2011. [German]
06: GARY D. SCHMIDT: ‚Okay for now‘, 368 pages, 2011. [Young Adult Lit]
07: JESSICA VALENTI: ‚The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is hurting Young Women‘, 263 pages, 2009. [Nonfiction]
08: GEORGE ORWELL: ‚A Collection of Essays‘, 316 pages, 1954. [Nonfiction]
09: DOOGIE HORNER: ‚Everything explained through Flowcharts‘, 168 pages, 2010. [Nonfiction, Humor]
10: THOMAS MALLON: ‚A Book of one’s own: People and their Diaries‘, 314 pages, 1984. [Nonfiction]
11: FREDERIC MARTEL: ‚Mainstream‘, 464 pages, 2010. [Nonfiction]
12: JOE SACCO: ‚Safe Area Gorazde‘, 240 pages, 2000. [Graphic Novel]
13: RAINA TELGEMEIER, ‚Smile‘, 224 pages, 2010. [Graphic Novel]
14: GRANT MORRISON, ‚We3‘, 104 pages, 2005. [Graphic Novel]
15: JOE KELLY, ‚I Kill Giants‘, 184 pages, 2009. [Graphic Novel]
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Here are five books that made me curious enough to buy them:
01: BEN TANZER, ‚You can make him like you‘, 222 pages, 2011.
02: DAN GARDNER, ‚Risk: The Science & Politics of Fear‘, 320 pages, 2008.
03: THOMAS LEHR, ‚Nabokovs Katze‘, 511 pages, 1999. [German, recommended by Marcel Maas]
04: JEFF SMITH, ‚Bone‘, 1343 pages. [Graphic Novel]
05: KRISTOF MAGNUSSON, ‚Das war ich nicht‘, 283 pages, 2010. [German]
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…and finally, here are three books that I read – and that were really good:
5 of 5 stars: GARY SHTEYNGART, ‚Super Sad True Love Story‘, 464 pages, 2010.
4 of 5 stars: BARBARA HONIGMANN, ‚Das überirdische Licht: Rückkehr nach New York‘, 160 pages, 2008. [Memoir, German]
4 of 5 stars: CRAIG THOMPSON: ‚Blankets‘, 582 pages, 2003 [Graphic Novel… what took me so long?]
What have you read? What made you curious? Recommendations?
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