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Keep the Aspidistra Flying Orwell, George
For anyone who has ever tried to be an artist, or harboured dreams of breaking free from convention, or looked at an advert and felt slightly sick, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is ...
Living to Tell the Tale Márquez, Gabriel García
'Tell him the only thing I want in life is to be a writer, and that's what I'm going to be.' In Living to Tell the Tale , one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, Gabriel Garcia ...
The Human Stain Roth, Philip
What would you do if at the centre of your whole life there was a secret? A secret so fundamental that it would change everything about you if it were ever known? A secret that you had kept for ...
The Cluetrain Manifesto (The End of Business as Usual) Levine, Rick Locke, Christopher , Searls, Doc & Weinberger, David,
This book is a seminal work that was so forward thinking that we are only getting closer to implementing the main tenets in 2007. This description represents my viewpoint: "IMHO, The ...
Smart Mobs Rheingold, Howard
Rheingold writes a seminal work, describing a process involving social networking we have only really begun to apply. Howard was one of the original members of the WELL and is considered to ...
The Future of Ideas Lessig, Laurence
This is it: 'Tragedies occur when resources held in common get overused. If everybody's cattle consume a pasture, at some point the cattle will overuse the pasture, so there will not be ...
Post War (A History of Europe Since 1945) Judt, Tony
I agree with this assessment: 'This is the best history we have of Europe in the postwar period and not likely to be surpassed for many years.' [Publishers Weekly, 29 Aug 2005, p. 43]
City Whyte, William H
I stumbled across this book through a description of the Street Life Project in the book The Wisdom of Crowds and actually expected something a little bit different. This does not mean I ended ...
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
One of the ten books everyone should read before they die, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls sweeps readers through the vast and craggy landscape of the human spirit. Set during ...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence, T.E.
Lawrence of Arabia's narrative of his involvement in the Arab Revolt during WWI.
A tale of two cities Dickens, Charles
One never feels the importance of a period in history unless he is confronted not only with facts but emotions that stimulate the desire to impose light upon an era. It is then the job of a ...
The Reader Schlink, Bernhard
There are a few topics that only some novelist venture to write about. One of them is trying to answer the question: whey did the people who had participated in exterminating six million Jews do ...
Hideous Kinky Freud, Esther
This is the story of a five-year -old girl and her sister. This is the story of a long and strange holiday, the story of an unconventional mother, the story of an exciting year. This is also a ...
Solomon Gursky was here Richler, Mordechai
Mordechai Richler is a real story teller. By real, I mean a storyteller who spellbinds, who twists and weaves the narrative into a rich texture of tales. His novel about a Canadian Jewish dynasty, ...
On Beauty Smith, Zadie
How do I love this book? So much that I read it twice within a six-month period and dreamt about one of its protagonists. It is one of the best novels I've ever read. Zadie Smith skewers academic ...
What Is the What Eggers, Dave
What Is the What is a stunning memoir of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee from Southern Sudan and one of the country's generation of 'Lost Boys'. Leaving his village without parents or family ...
Reservate der Sehnsucht Dressler, Iris
Exhibition catalogue with texts by Iris Dressler, Vanessa Müller, Antoni Muntadas, Kirsten Wächter u.a. Artists: Daniel G. Andùjar, Siegrun Appelt, John M. Armleder, Peter Bogers, Marie José ...
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
Jane Austen skewers human nature in this masterful story about love, first impressions, and the rewards of self-reflection. It may be almost 200 years old, but its satirical take on what fools we ...
Jaiva Dharma Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja,
The groundbreaking spiritual novel by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura Jaiva-dharma reveals the ultimate development of the path of pure devotion to the English-speaking world.
Bhagavad Gita Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja,
This profound translation of Srimad Bhagavad-Gita by Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja is sure to inspire sincere students of bhakti in their practices. It is considered complimentary to the ...
Bonjour Tristesse Sagan, Françoise
Cécile is 17 and spending the summer at the French seaside with her lovable playboy father, who has rented a big house for Cécile, himself and his young girlfriend Elsa. Cécile spent several ...
Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Keresztesi József writes about the Hungarian edition of Utazás az éjszaka mélyére Céline's classical work from 1932 is considered to be one of the wildest novels of the 20th century. ...
The Catcher In The Rye Salinger, J-D
The Catcher In The Rye is the teen-angst novel of all times, which is why it belongs in all libraries on the globe, public or private - and even if you only have one silly little bookshelf at ...
Naive. Super. Loe, Erlend
Erlend is a 25 year-old Norwegian guy who has somehow wandered a little off track in life. He doesn't really know where he's going and nothing seem to excite him anymore. When his brother ...
Ulysses Joyce, James
Németh Zoltán writes about the Hungarian edition of Ulysses It is rather strange and perhaps even bizarre to write about a novel, that is considered to be the Odyssey of the 20th century ...
Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Multatuli,
Beat Mazenauer wirtes about the German edition of Max Havelaar oder Die Kaffeeversteigerungen der niederländischen Handelsgesellschaft - the original text is written in Dutch Nowadays the ...
Moscow Stations Erofeev, Venedikt
Michael Stavaric writes about the German edition of Die Reise nach Petuschki Take 200 grams comedy, 200 grams tragedy, 150 grams paraphrasing, mix these carefully, add a dash of absurdity, ...
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent von Humboldt, Alexander
Christian Eigner writes about the German edition of Ansichten der Kordilleren und Monumente der eingeborenen Völker Amerikas While Humboldt's contemporaries were working on revealing the ...
