library.

"COLLECTING AND READING BOOKS CAN BE TWO SEPARATE ACTIVITIES"

- Fabian S. Klinke (my age old excuse)

these are the books i’ve read, half-read, dipped into, carried around, or bought because i knew i’d want them near me. some are tools, some are obsessions, some are promises to a later version of myself.

for academic sources and papers cited in my notes, see the bibliography.

Fiction

Classics

Science Fiction

Culture

Art & Design

Biography

Mathematics

Cooking

Programming

History

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.”

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!”

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

Think not of the books you’ve bought as a “to be read” pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.

— Luc van Donkersgoed

Fiction

22 Bahnen

Caroline Wahl

unread 9783832167240

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

explored 9781529077216

Alec

Juri Ricken

Bonjour Berlin

Oscar Coop-Phane

Das Parfum

Patrick Süskind

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

explored 9780571376490

Der Alchimist

Paulo Coelho

Der Tag an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf

Robert Habeck

unread 9783462005479

Die Bestie In Uns

Juri Ricken

unread 9783711804952

Die Cannabis GmbH

Rainer Schmidt

Er ist wieder da

Timur Vermes

Factotum

Charles Bukowski

Fatherland

Robert Harris

unread 9780099527893

Ham on Rye

Charles Bukowski

History of Violence

Edouard Louis

unread 9781784706074

Hollywood

Charles Bukowski

unread 9780876857632

Lie With Me

Philippe Besson

Michel aus Lönneberga. Wintergeschichten

Astrid Lindgren

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

unread 9780141189765

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

explored 9780141182674

Operation Schneewolf

Glenn Meade

Pleasures Of The Damned

Charles Bukowski

Post Office

Charles Bukowski

Pulp

Charles Bukowski

unread 9780753518175

Swimming in the Dark

Douglas Stuart

explored 9781526604989

The Baron Trump Collection

Ingersoll Lockwood

unread 9798309994496

The End of Eddy

Édouard Louis

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

Charles Bukowski

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

unread 9780141368979

Triggerwarnung.

Juri Ricken

Tschick

Wolfgang Herrndorf

Veronika beschliesst zu sterben

Paulo Coelho

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Christiane F.

Women

Charles Bukowski

Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

unread 9783492320436

Classics

Agricola - Germania

Cornelius Tacitus

Also sprach Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

explored 9783868200508

Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch

Fédor Michajlovič Dostoevskij

explored 9783866473072

Aus Dem Leben Eines Taugenichts (German Edition)

Joseph von Eichendorff

Candide oder Der Optimismus

Voltaire

Das Kapital

Karl Marx

explored 9783866473256

De vita beata.

Seneca

Der gallische Krieg

Gaius Iulius Caesar

Der Mythos des Sisyphos

Albert Camus

Der Sandmann / Das Ode Haus

E.T.A. Hoffmann

Der Staat

Plato

unread 9783866474598

Der Tod in Venedig (German Edition)

Thomas Mann

explored 9783596112661

Dialektik der Aufklarung

Theodor W. Adorno

unread 9783596274048

Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten

Arthur Schopenhauer

Die Physiker

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

Arthur Schopenhauer

unread 9783866474079

Effi Briest (German Edition)

Theodor Fontane

Erzählungen

Franz Kafka

explored 9783150094266

Faust I

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust II

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

unread 9783150000014

Gesammelte Werke

Franz Kafka

explored 9783866478497

Grimms Märchen

Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm

explored 9783730602041

Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Friedrich Nietzsche

unread 9783868204216

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

explored 9780812968255

Metamorphoses

Ovid

unread 0140440585

Poetik.

Aristoteles

explored 9783150078280

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

unread 9781721195091

The Library of Greek Mythology

Apollodorus

unread 0199536325

The Oresteia

Aeschylus

unread 0140443339

The Prince

Nicolo Machiavelli

unread 9781503017825

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek

unread 9780415253895

Utopia

Thomas Morus

Science_Fiction

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke

explored 9780451457998

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Die drei Sonnen

Cixin Liu

unread 9783453317161

Dune

Frank Herbert

explored 9780340960196

Forward the Foundation

Isaac Asimov

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Earth

Isaac Asimov

Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov

Foundation's Edge

Isaac Asimov

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Nineteen Eighty Four

George Orwell

Pebble in the Sky

Isaac Asimov

Prelude to Foundation

Isaac Asimov

Robots and Empire

Isaac Asimov

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Caves of Steel

Isaac Asimov

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft

unread 9781631060014

The Currents of Space

Isaac Asimov

The Deluge

Stephen Markley

unread 9781982123109

The Naked Sun

Isaac Asimov

The Robots of Dawn

Isaac Asimov

The Stars, Like Dust

Isaac Asimov

Culture

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

unread 9781784708283

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

unread 9780143036531

Becoming Earth

Ferris Jabr

unread 9780593133972

Careless People: The explosive memoir that Meta doesn't want you to read

Sarah Wynn-Williams

unread 9781035065936

Die zehn Lehren der indianischen Medizinmänner

Friedrich Abel

explored 9783451044052

Empört Euch!

Stéphane Hessel

Engagiert Euch!

Stéphane Hessel

Everyday Utopia

Kristen R. Ghodsee

unread 9781982190217

Ikigai

Héctor García & Francesc Miralles

unread 9781529902402

Irresistible

Adam Alter

Mama, bitte lern Deutsch

Tahsim Durgun

unread 9783426561140

Native American Wisdom

Louise Mengelkoch & Kent Nerburn

explored 9780931432781

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari

unread 9781911717089

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention

Johann Hari

explored 9781526620217

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

unread 9780593230381

The Other Significant Others

Rhaina Cohen

unread 9781250280916

Vernetzt Euch!

Lina Ben Mhenni

Warum unsere Studenten so angepasst sind

Christiane Florin

Wir

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

unread 9783518432150

Art_&_Design

Analogue: A Field Guide

Deyan Sudjic

unread 0711293015

Another Kind of Life

Michael Sherborne

explored 9783791384276

Bauhaus. Updated Edition

Magdalena Droste

unread 9783836565547

Bild - Handbuch Baustile, Architekturgeschichte. Vergleichende Stilkunde.

Herbert Pothorn

explored 9783436015077

Botanik für Künstler

Sarah Simblet

Das Grundgesetz der Farbenlehre

Harald Küppers

Dictionary of Color Combinations

Sanzo Wada

explored 9784861527722

Dieter Rams

Klaus Klemp

Egon Schiele. Die Gemälde. 40th Ed.

Tobias G. Natter

unread 9783836581226

Emotional Design

Don Norman

explored 9780465051366

Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung

Josef Müller-Brockmann

explored 9783721201451

Stierblutjahre: Die Boheme des Ostens (German Edition)

Jutta Voigt

unread 9783841211279

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

unread 9780465050659

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

unread 9780881792126

The Laws of Simplicity

John Maeda

Thinking with Type: A Primer for Designers: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

Ellen Lupton

unread 9781568984483

Vincent van Gogh. Leben und Werk

Christoph Wetzel

Zehn Thesen für gutes Design

Dieter Rams

Biography

A Man for All Markets

Edward O. Thorp

unread 9780812979909

An Exorcist Speaks

Milivoj Bolobanić

unread 9780898707106

Das Abenteuer des Denkens

David Chotjewitz

Die Nacht ist Leben: Autobiographie

Sven Marquardt

Ein Leben ist zu wenig

Gregor Gysi & Hans-Dieter Schütt

unread 9783746635200

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

unread 9781398527492

Johanna Schopenhauer (German Edition)

Laura Frost

unread 9783955800451

Jony Ive

Leander Kahney

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story

Alexander Shulgin

unread 9780963009609

Source Code

Bill Gates

unread 9780241736678

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

unread 9781408703748

The Art of Power

Nancy Pelosi

explored 9781398541061

The Man who Solved the Market

Gregory Zuckerman

explored 9780593086315

Tim Cook

Leander Kahney

Where There's Smoke...

William B. Davis

Mathematics

Calculus Made Easy

Silvanus P. Thompson

unread 9780312185480

Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik

Gottlob Frege

explored 9783150084250

Die Mathematik und das Göttliche (German Edition)

Clifford A. Pickover

explored 9783827414304

Differential Equations with Applications and Historical Notes, Third Edition

George F. Simmons

unread 9781498702591

Formelsammlung Hohere Mathematik

Wilhelm Göhler

explored 9783817118816

How to Solve It : A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

George Polya

Introduction to Probability

Joseph K. Blitzstein & Jessica Hwang

unread 9781138369917

Mathematik - Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch. Band 4: Vektoranalysis, Funktionentheorie, Transformationen

Rainer Schark & Theo Overhagen

explored 9783817118236

Cover of Mathematik: Grundrechenarten, Mengenlehre, Prozentrechnung, Geometrie, Gleichungen, Funktionen, Lineare Algebra, Vektorrechnung, Differentialrechnung, Integralrechnung

Mathematik: Grundrechenarten, Mengenlehre, Prozentrechnung, Geometrie, Gleichungen, Funktionen, Lineare Algebra, Vektorrechnung, Differentialrechnung, Integralrechnung

Heinrich Hemme

explored 9783868200232

No bullshit guide to linear algebra

Ivan Savov

explored 9780992001025

The Art of Computer Programming

Donald E. Knuth

explored 9780201896831

The Art of Statistics

David Spiegelhalter

explored 9780241258767

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

Matt Parker

unread 9780141975863

Cooking

CHINA: Die Küche des Herrn Wu

Ursula Heinzelmann

Das Beste vom Wochenmarkt: Neue frische und saisonale Rezepte aus dem ZEITmagazin

Elisabeth Raether

explored 9783742303097

Der Silberlöffel

Domus Editorial Team

Eine Freundschaft - 100 Rezepte

Johann Lafer & Eckart Witzigmann

Hamburger America: A State-By-State Guide to 200 Great Burger Joints

George Motz

explored 9780762462063

kochen.

Stevan Paul

explored 9780371060322

Küchenlabor: Besser kochen mit wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen

Jan Groenewold & Eke Marién

explored 9783747104835

Pasta fantastica: Spektakuläre Nudeln einfach selber machen

Mateo Zielonka

Zucchini

Irmela Erckenbrecht

Programming

C Programming Language, 2nd Edition

Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)

Robert C. Martin

explored 9780134494166

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

explored 9780132350884

Code the Classics Volume 1

David Crookes et al.

unread 9781912047598

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Erich Gamma & Richard Helm & Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides

explored 9780201633610

Effective Modern C++

Scott Meyers

explored 9781491903995

Modern CMake for C++

Rafał Świdziński

explored 9781801070058

The Rust Programming Language

Carol Nochols Steve Klabnik

explored 9781718503106

History

Der Klang der Familie

Felix Denk & Sven von Thülen

Die ersten Tage von Berlin

Ulrich Gutmair

Diesseits der Mauer

Katja Hoyer

unread 9783455015683

Prenzlauer Berg-Tour

Daniela Dahn

unread 9783871344305

Tamtam und Tabu: Meinungsmanipulation von der Wendezeit bis zur Zeitenwende

Rainer Mausfeld & Daniela Dahn

unread 9783864899157

The Age of Wonder

Richard Holmes

unread 9780007149537

The Computers That Made Britain

Tim Danton

unread 9781912047857

Science

Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie

Gerhard Schurz

explored 9783534264483

Extraterrestrial

Avi Loeb

unread 9780358278146

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

Michael A. Nielsen & Isaac L. Chuang

explored 9781107002173

Statistik und Forschungsmethoden

Michael Eid & Mario Gollwitzer & Manfred Schmitt

explored 9783621282017

Sternstunden des Universums: Von tanzenden Planeten und kosmischen Rekorden

Harald Lesch & Jörn Müller

explored 9783442745951

The Outer Limits of Reason

Noson S. Yanofsky

unread 9780262529846

Finance

Option Volatility and Pricing

Sheldon Natenberg

explored 9780071818773

Quantitative Trading

Ernest P. Chan

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

unread 9780063356726

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing

John C. Bogle

explored 9781119404507

Trading Volatility: Trading Volatility, Correlation, Term Structure and Skew

Colin Bennett

explored 9781461108757

Spirituality

Die Bibel (Geschenkausgabe, Cabra-Leder)

Martin Luther

explored 9783730607565

The Apocryphon of John: A Gnostic Gospel

Joseph Lumpkin

unread 9798371509994

The Faith Instinct

Nicholas Wade

unread 9780143118190

Waking Up

Sam Harris

Wherever You Go - There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn

unread 9780306832017

Philosophy

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas R. Hofstadter

explored 9780465026562

In My Time of Dying

Sebastian Junger

unread 9780008670207

Langeweile

Barbara Streidl

Philosophie kompakt - Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und einfach erklärt (German Edition)

Siegfried König

The Art of Living an Absurd Existence: Paradoxes and Thought Experiments That Change the Way You Think

Robert Pantano

explored 9798883685681

Audio

Audio Metering

Eddy B. Brixen

explored 9781138909113

Der Tonmeister

Carlos Albrecht

Discrete Time Signal Processing PNIE

Alan V. Oppenheim

explored 9781292025728

Hack Audio

Eric Tarr

explored 9781138497559

Technische Akustik

Michael Möse

explored 9783662477038

Productivity

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Getting Things Done

David Allen

How to Take Smart Notes

Sönke Ahrens

Music

Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers

Dennis DeSantisDennis DeSantis

explored 9783981716504

Rock und Pop: Von Elvis Presley bis Lady Gaga

Peter Wicke

Other

Handbuch für das Haus

Werner Curth

unread 9783730400395

Hungrig auf Berlin

Anne-Dore Krohn & Denis Scheck

explored 9783834233240

Psychology

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

explored 9780141978611

The Elephant in the Brain

Robin Hanson

explored 9780190495992

Business

Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

unread 9780553418286