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: EDAN LEPUCKI, ‚If you’re not yet like me‘, 102 pages, 2010
02: VANESSA VESELKA, ‚Zazen‘, 256 pages, 2011
03: A.S. KING, ‚Please ignore Vera Dietz‘, 336 pages, 2010 [YA Lit]
04: BEN TANZER, ‚Most likely you’ll go your way and I’ll go mine‘, 180 pages, 2008
05: BEN TANZER, ‚You can make him like you‘, 222 pages, 2011
06: JERRY MANDER, ‚Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television‘, 376 pages, 1978 [Essay]
07: CHRISTIE HODGEN, ‚Elegies for the Brokenhearted‘, 256 pages, 2010
08: MEGHAN O’ROURKE, ‚The Long Goodbye‘, 320 pages, 2011
09: ADAM LEVIN, ‚The Instructions‘, 1030 pages, 2010
10: PHILIP HENSHER, ‚King of the Badgers‘, 300 pages, 2011
11: COLIN MELOY [Singer of ‚The Decemberists‘], ‚Wildwood‘, 560 pages, 2011 [Kid’s Book/Genre]
12: JULIA WERTZ, ‚Drinking at the Movies‘, 192 pages, 2010 [Graphic Novel]
13: GRANT MORRISON, ‚Supergods‘, 431 pages, 2011 [Literary Theory of Super-Hero Graphic Novels]
14: MARTIN BÜSSER, ‚Der Junge von nebenan‘, 100 pages, 2009 [German Graphic Novel]
15: RICARDA JUNGE, ‚Die komische Frau‘, 188 pages, 2010 [German]
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Here are five books that made me curious enough to buy them:
01: ANTHONY POWELL, ‚A Dance to the Music of Time‘, 732 pages, 1951 [more here]
02: DOROTHEE ELMIGER, ‚Einladung an die Waghalsigen‘, 140 pages, 2010 [German]
03: MARIANA LEKY, ‚Die Herrenausstatterin‘, 208 pages, 2010 [German, Hildesheim Author]
04: JUDITH ZANDER, ‚Dinge, die wir heute sagten‘, 480 pages, 2010 [German, recommended by Sabrina Janesch]
05: SUSAN J. DOUGLAS, ‚Where the Girls are: Growing up female with the Mass Media‘, 349 pages, 1994 [Essay]
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…and finally, here are three books that I read – and that were really good:
5 of 5 stars: GABRIEL BÁ, FABIO MOON, ‚Daytripper‘, 256 pages, 2011 [Graphic Novel]
4 of 5 stars: JOSH KILMER-PURCELL, ‚The Bucolic Plague‘, 304 pages, 2010 [Memoir]
4 of 5 stars: BRENDA UELAND: ‚If you want to write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit‘, 179 pages, 1938 [Essay]
What have you read? What made you curious? Recommendations?
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