1 day ago2 minWhy Marx Was Right by Terry EagletonWhy Marx Was Right is Terry Eagleton’s attempt at making Karl Marx’s theory accessible to all and to provide socialists with some...
May 122 minHow to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah BakewellHow to live? Read a lot, forget most of what you’ve read, and be slow-witted! How do you make peace with the fact of death? How do you...
Apr 262 minThe Women of Troy by Pat BarkerThe Trojan War has left destruction in its wake. The city is defeated, its men have been murdered, and the women enslaved. But the Greek...
Apr 193 minThe Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly,” is the brutal opening line of Elena Ferrante’s most...
Apr 125 minIf This Is a Man by Primo LeviWhat can you say about a work such as this? It has been several weeks now since I read it, and I still feel lost for words. If This Is a...
Mar 232 minAttached by Amir Levine and Rachel HellerFirst developed in the 1940s, attachment theory originally dealt with the relationship between infants and their caregivers and is one of...
Mar 173 minParadise by Abdulrazak GurnahUncle Aziz comes by the house every year. His visits are always a cause for excitement. The wealthy merchant and his men are not only...
Mar 23 minThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerHolden Caulfield has been expelled from his prep-school. Again. Having failed all subjects but English he now has to pack his bags and go...
Feb 152 minHarlem Shuffle by Colson WhiteheadIt is hot in this 1960s Harlem summer where we meet Ray Carney for the first time. A respectable furniture salesman, Carney is well-liked...
Feb 82 minSmall Things Like These by Claire KeeganIt is a bitter cold winter in Ireland, 1985. We are in a small town, among good Christian citizens and meet Bill Furlong, the coal...
Feb 22 minConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyFrances and Bobbi are students at Trinity College, Dublin. They used to be lovers, now they are best friends who perform poetry together....
Jan 252 minTar Baby by Toni MorrisonL’Isle des Cheavliers is a tropical paradise where the rich American candy manufacturer Valerian Street has chosen to retire with his...
Jan 182 minWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithArchie Jones and Samad Iqbal have been best friends since their adventures during World War II, though none of their friends and family...
Jan 113 minMy Top Reads of 2021Here are the top 5 fiction and non-fiction books out of the 73 I’ve read this year. Fiction: Beloved by Toni Morrison Beloved is a...
Jan 42 minMilkman by Anna BurnsIn an unnamed city, where two communities live in conflict with each other, where there is a right and a wrong kind of butter, just as...
Nov 2, 20215 minThe Booker Prize 2021Tomorrow, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize will be announced. Over the past few weeks I read my way through the shortlist, and it was...
Oct 26, 20212 minLost in Translation: Life in a New Language by Eva HoffmanIn 1959, when Eva Hoffman was just 13 years old, her family decided to turn their back on the prevalent anti-Semitism in Poland and...
Oct 19, 20213 minThe Secret History by Donna TarttIt is late summer in Vermont in the 1980s and Richard Papen has just moved to the East Coast from California to study at the liberal arts...
Oct 12, 20212 minThe Good Immigrant by Nikesh ShuklaWhat does it mean to have to change your name for your classmates to be able to pronounce and remember it? How does it feel to be...
Oct 5, 20212 minTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiThe family Gifty remembers from early childhood is a family of four, that quickly became a family of three and way too soon was cut into...
Sep 28, 20213 minOur Bodies Their, Battlefields by Christina LambOur Bodies, Their Battlefields is a brutal, shocking, devastating read. And it could not be any other way. Christina Lamb, co-author of I...
Sep 21, 20212 minStrange Flowers by Donal RyanMoll Gladney is a quiet girl, not known to cause troubles to her devout and hardworking parents. But one night she disappears from her...
Sep 14, 20213 minA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayFrederic Henry, known simply as “tenente” by most, is an American lieutenant fighting with the Italian Army in World War I. He meets the...
Sep 7, 20212 minAll That Is Worth Remembering“We may be intolerant even in advocating the cause of Toleration, and so bent on making proselytes to free-thinking as to allow no one to...
Aug 31, 20214 minFamiglia di Natalia Ginzburg(english version below) Famiglia di Natalia Ginzburg contiene due novelle sulla vita della borghesia romana nella seconda metà del secolo...
Aug 24, 20212 minThe Vanishing Half by Brit BennettDesiree and Stella Vignes are identical and inseparable. Only those who know them well will be able to tell them apart: Desiree, the...
Aug 17, 20212 minNormal People by Sally RooneyThe social laws of high school dynamics govern Connell and Marianne’s behaviour. He is the popular star of the school’s football team,...
Aug 10, 20212 minHood Feminism by Mikki Kendall The term intersectional feminism was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how different dimensions of oppression – for example sexism...
Aug 3, 20212 minGrand Union by Zadie SmithGrand Union is Zadie Smith’s collection of short stories, comprising eleven completely new works as well as eight stories previously...
Jul 27, 20213 minA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesMoscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov – member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – faces a Bolshevik tribunal and the end to life as...
Jul 20, 20212 minA Little History of Religion by Richard HollowayIn face of the recent war in Israel and Palestine (and the outbreak of sharing other people’s 240-character opinions on social media), I...
Jul 13, 20213 minIch Würde So Etwas Nie Ohne Lippenstift Lesen von Michaela KarlHeute ist sie fast in Vergessenheit geraten, doch einst war Maeve Brennan gefeierte Autorin und Ikone der New Yorker Modewelt. Die schöne...
Jul 6, 20213 minRevolutionary Road by Richard YatesFrank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...
Jun 29, 20212 minVoices of the Lost by Hoda BarakatFive letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...
Jun 22, 20213 minall about love by bell hooksFeminist writer bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is a passionate exploration of how we do and appeal to how we should love. What...
Jun 15, 20213 minNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe pain of growing up is the main character in Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Woods. Toru Watanabe finds himself at a crossways, having to...
Jun 8, 20213 minIl Diavolo, Certamente di Andrea Camilleri(english version below) Andrea Camilleri è l’autore molto amato dei romanzi polizieschi sul commissario Montalbano (28 romanzi ed alcuni...
Jun 1, 20213 minHomegoing by Yaa GyasiYaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing traces the story of a Ghanaian family as it plays out both in the Asante region and in...
May 25, 20212 minFathers and Sons by Howard CunnellFathers and Sons is Howard Cunnell’s beautiful memoir about growing up, about love and masculinity, about fathers and sons. This short...
May 18, 20212 minThe Sellout by Paul BeattyThe Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...
May 11, 20212 minConjure Women by Afia Atakora“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...
May 4, 20213 minThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanEveryone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...
Apr 27, 20213 minDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidIn the 1970s everyone knows The Six. Their songs are played on every radio station, their records and world tours sell out in the blink...
Apr 20, 20213 min5 Things I Loved about To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeI have finally (!!) read To Kill a Mockingbird, after it had waited on top of my to-be-read list for years. Books with so much history...
Apr 13, 20212 minHumankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger BregmanWhat would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...
Apr 6, 20212 minRevolting Prostitutes by Molly Smith and Juno MacIn their powerful and eye-opening manifesto Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac and Molly Smith make the point for sex workers’ rights loud...
Mar 30, 20213 minI'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja SpiegelmanAh, this book! This is one that is going to stay with me for a long time. While reading it, I was already looking forward to starting it...
Mar 16, 20212 minFiction and Non-Fiction by Chinua AchebeLast week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...
Mar 9, 20213 minBeloved by Toni MorrisonPoetic and heart-breaking. Those are the first words that come to mind when I think about Toni Morrison’s masterpiece Beloved. I only...
Mar 2, 20213 minCity of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."