Some of my favourite Books
Some of my favourite Books
Reading is one of my big passions and since I don't drive and therefore spend a lot of time
on trains I get plenty of time to read books by the score. My interests are widespread. I
like SciFy, Fantasy, Technothrillers and lots more. As long as it is well written and
entertaining it doesn't even have to be politically correct which has led to long
discussions with one of my former girl friends ;-)
The following list is of course not comprehensive. It mainly contains "trivial"
literature without much claim for intellectual greatness. Don't judge me by this
list. I'd prefer for you to have a better impression than that ;-) This is just stuff
I enjoyed reading lately.
| Douglas Adams | |||
| The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy | |||
 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | ||
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | ||
| Life, the Universe and Everything | ||
| So Long and Thanks for All the Fish | ||
| Mostly Harmless | ||
| Others | |||
| Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | ||
| Scott Adams | |||
| The Dilbert Principle | ||
| The Dilbert Future | ||
| The Joy of Work | ||
| Jean M. Auel | |||
| Earth's Children | |||
| The Clan of the Cave Bear | ||
| The Valley of Horses | ||
| The Mammoth Hunters | ||
| The Plains of Passage | ||
| The Shelters of Stone | ||
| Heinrich Böll | |||
| Ansichten eines Clowns | ||
| Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen | ||
| Irisches Tagebuch | ||
| Wolfgang Borchert | |||
| Draussen vor der Tür | ||
| Die traurigen Geranien | ||
| Ben Bova | |||
| Mars | |||
| Mars | ||
| Return to Mars | ||
| Moon | |||
| Moonrise | ||
| Moonwar | ||
| The Asteroid Wars | |||
| I: The Precipe | ||
| II: The Rock Rats | ||
| III: The Silent War | ||
| Venus | ||
| Jupiter | ||
| Privateers | ||
| The Empire Builders | ||
| Others | |||
| As on a Darkling Plain | ||
| Dan Brown | |||
| The Da Vinci Code | ||
| Angels & Demons | ||
| Digital Fortress | ||
| Deception Point | ||
| Bill Bryson | |||
| Notes From a Small Country | ||
| Notes From a Big Country | ||
| A Walk in the Woods | ||
| The Lost Continent | ||
| Down Under | ||
| Mother Tongue | ||
| A short history of nearly everything | ||
| Tom Clancy | |||
| Patriot Games | ||
| Hunt for Red October | ||
| The Cardinal of the Kremlin | ||
| Clear and Present Danger | ||
| The Sum of all Fears | ||
| Without Remorse | ||
| Debt of Honor | ||
| Executive Orders | ||
| The Bear and the Dragon | ||
| Arthur C. Clarke | |||
| Space Odyssey | |||
| 2001: Space Odyssey | ||
| 2010 | ||
| 2067 | ||
| The Rama Series | |||
| Rendezvous with Rama | ||
| Rama II | ||
| The Garden of Rama | ||
| Rama Revealed | ||
| David Drake | |||
| The Lord of the Isles | |||
| The Lord of the Isles | ||
| Queen of Demons | ||
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |||
| Die Physiker | ||
| Der Besuch der alten Dame | ||
| Der Verdacht | ||
| Der Richter und sein Henker | ||
| David Eddings | |||
| The Belgariad | |||
| Pawn of Prophecy | ||
| Queen of Sorcery | ||
| Magician's Gambit | ||
| Castle of Wizardry | ||
| Enchanter's End Game | ||
| The Malloreon | |||
| Guardians of the West | ||
| King of the Murgos | ||
| Demon Lord of Karanda | ||
| Sorceress of Darshiva | ||
| The Seeress of Kell | ||
| Sequels to The Belgariad and The Malloreon | |||
| Belgarath the Sorcerer | ||
| Polgara the Sorceress | ||
| The Elenium | |||
| The Diamond Throne | ||
| The Ruby Knight | ||
| The Sapphire Rose | ||
| The Tamuli | |||
| Domes of Fire | ||
| The Shining Ones | ||
| The Hidden City | ||
| The Dreamers | |||
| The elder gods | ||
| Others | |||
| The Redemption of Althalus | ||
| The Losers | ||
| Raymond E. Feist | |||
| The Riftwar Saga | |||
| Magician | ||
| Silverthorn | ||
| A Darkness at Sethanon | ||
| The Riftwar Cycle / Krondor's sons | |||
| Prince of the Blood | ||
| The King's Buccaneer | ||
| The Serpentwar Saga | |||
| Shadow of a Dark Queen | ||
| Rise of a Merchant Prince | ||
| Rage of a Demon King | ||
| Shards of a Broken Crown | ||
| The Riftwar legacy | |||
| The Betrayal | ||
| The Assassins | ||
| Tear of the Gods | ||
| Legends of the Riftwar (with William Forstchen) | |||
| Honoured Enemy | ||
| Murder in LaMut | ||
| Jimmy the Hand | ||
| The Empire Trilogy (with Janny Wurts) | |||
| Servant of the Empire | ||
| Daughter of the Empire | ||
| Mistress of the Empire | ||
| Conclave of Shadows | |||
| Talon of the silver hawk | ||
| King of foxes | ||
| Exile's return | ||
| Darkwar Saga | |||
| Flight of the nighthawks | ||
| Into a dark realm | ||
| Wrath of a mad god | ||
| Others | |||
| Faerie Tale | ||
| Helen Fielding | |||
| Bridget Jones's diary | ||
| The edge of reason | ||
| Jude Fisher | |||
| Fool's Gold | |||
| Sorcery Rising | ||
| Frederick Forsythe | |||
| The Day of the Jackal | ||
| The Odessa File | ||
| Dogs of War | ||
| The Fourth Protocol | ||
| The Veteran | ||
| Max Frisch | |||
| Andorra | ||
| Stiller | ||
| Homo Faber | ||
| Schweiz ohne Armee oder Ein Palaver | ||
| Montauk | ||
| David Gemmell | |||
| The Drenia Series | |||
| Legend | ||
| The King Beyond the Gate | ||
| Waylander | ||
| Quest for Lost Heroes | ||
| Waylander II: In the realm of the wolf | ||
| The first chronicles of Druss the Legend | ||
| The Legend of Deathwalker | ||
| Winter Warriors | ||
| Hero in the Shadow | ||
| The Rigante Series | |||
| Word in the Storm | ||
| Midnight Falcon | ||
| Ravenheart | ||
| Hawk Queen | |||
| Ironhand's Daughter | ||
| The Hawk Eternal | ||
| Skillgannon the Damned | |||
| White Wolf | ||
| Troy | |||
| Lord of the silver bow | ||
| The shield of thunder | ||
| Fall of kings | ||
| Others | |||
| Dark Moon | ||
| Echos of the great song | ||
| Sharon Green | |||
| The Blending | |||
| Convergence | ||
| Competitions | ||
| Challenges | ||
| Betrayals | ||
| Prophecy | ||
| The Blending Entrhoned | |||
| Intrigues | ||
| Deceptions | ||
| Destiny | ||
| Jan Guillou | |||
| Coq Rouge | ||
| Den demokratiske terroristen | ||
| I nationens interesse | ||
| Frank Herbert / Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson | |||
| Dune (Frank Herbert) | |||
| Dune | ||
| Dune Messiah | ||
| Children of Dune | ||
| God Emperor of Dune | ||
| Heretics of Dune | ||
| Chapter House Dune | ||
| Prelude to Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson) | |||
| House Atreides | ||
| House Harkonnen | ||
| House Corrino | ||
| The Butlerian Jihad | ||
| Robin Hobb | |||
| The Farseer Trilogy | |||
| Assasin's Apprentice | ||
| Royal Assasin | ||
| Assasin's Quest | ||
| The Liveship Traders | |||
| Ship of Magic | ||
| The Mad Ship | ||
| Ship of Destiny | ||
| Franz Hohler | |||
| Der Grantiblock im Kino | ||
| Tschippo | ||
| Der neue Berg | ||
| Die Torte | ||
| Die Karawane am Boden des Milchkrugs | ||
| Michel Houellebecq | |||
| Elementarteilchen | ||
| George Johnston | |||
| My Brother Jack | ||
| Clean Straw for nothing | ||
| A Cartload of Clay | ||
| Robert Jordan | |||
| The Wheel of Time | |||
| The Eye of the World | ||
| The Great Hunt | ||
| The Dragon Reborn | ||
| The Shadow Rising | ||
| The Fires of Heaven | ||
| Lord of Chaos | ||
| A Crown of Swords | ||
| Winter's Heart | ||
| J.V. Jones | |||
| The Barbed Coil | ||
| The Book of Words | |||
| The Baker's Boy | ||
| A Man Betrayed | ||
| Master and Fool | ||
| Sword of Shadows | |||
| A Cavern of Black Ice | ||
| A Fortress of Grey Ice | ||
| Katherine Kerr | |||
| The Deverry Tales | |||
| Daggerspell | ||
| Darkspell | ||
| Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood | ||
| Dragonspell: The Southern Sea | ||
| The Westland Cycle | |||
| A Time of Exile | ||
| A Time of Omens | ||
| A Time of War | ||
| A Time of Justice | ||
| The Dragon Mage | |||
| The Red Wyvern | ||
| The Black Raven | ||
| Henning Mankell | |||
| Wallander | |||
| Mördaren utan ansikte | ||
| Hundarna i Riga | ||
| Den vita lejoninnan | ||
| Mannen som log | ||
| Villospår | ||
| Den femte kvinnan | ||
| Steget efter | ||
| Brandvägg | ||
| Pyramiden | ||
| Others | |||
| Danslärarens återkomst | ||
| Megan Lindholm (aka Robin Hobb) | |||
| The Reindeer People | ||
| James A. Michener | |||
| Centennial | ||
| Caribbean | ||
| Chesapeake | ||
| Texas | ||
| L.E. Modesitt | |||
| Saga of Recluce | |||
| The Magic of Recluce | ||
| The Towers of the Sunset | ||
| The Magic Engineer | ||
| The Order War | ||
| The Death of Chaos | ||
| Fall of Angels | ||
| The Chaos Balance | ||
| The White Order | ||
| Colours of Chaos | ||
| Mages of Cyador | ||
| Scion of Cyador | ||
| Wellspring of Chaos | ||
| Ordermaster | ||
| Natural Ordermage | ||
| Mage Guard of Hamor | ||
| The Spellsong Cycle | |||
| The Soprano Sorceress | ||
| The Spellsong War | ||
| Darksong rising | ||
| The Shadow Sorceress | ||
| The Corean Chronicles | |||
| Legacies | ||
| Darkness | ||
| Scepters | ||
| Alector's Choice | ||
| Cadmian's Choice | ||
| Soarer's Choice | ||
| The Corean Chronicles | |||
| Gravity Dreams | ||
| The Eternity Artifact | ||
| Lukas Moodysson | |||
| Fucking Åmål | ||
| Milena Moser | |||
| Die Putzfraueninsel | ||
| Gebrochene Herzen oder Mein erster bis elfter Mord | ||
| Das Schlampenbuch | ||
| Blondinenträume | ||
| Sven Regner | |||
| Herr Lehmann | ||
| Neue Vahr Süd | ||
| Kim Stanley Robinson | |||
| Mars | |||
| Red Mars | ||
| Green Mars | ||
| Blue Mars | ||
| Others | |||
| The Wild Shore | ||
| Icehenge | ||
| The Years of Rice and Salt | ||
| Terry Pratchet | |||
| The colour of magic | ||
| The light fantastic | ||
| Mort | ||
| Nightwatch | ||
| Monstrous regiment | ||
| J.K. Rowling | |||
| Harry Potter | |||
| The Philosopher's Stone | ||
| The Chamber of Secrets | ||
| The Prisoner of Azkaban | ||
| The Goblet of Fire | ||
| The Order of the Phoenix | ||
| Half-blood prince | ||
| The Deathly Hallows | ||
| Sean Russel | |||
| The Swan's war | |||
| The one kingdom | ||
| The isle of battle | ||
| Das Schwarze Auge | |||
| Das Jahr des Greifen (Wolfgang Hohlbein, Bernhard Hennen) | |||
| Der Sturm | ||
| Die Entdeckung | ||
| Die Amazone | ||
| Das Zerbrochene Rad (Ulrich Kiesow) | |||
| 1. | Der Scharlatan | ||
| Das Zerbrochene Rad | ||
| "Aigolf Thuranson" (Uschi Zietsch) | |||
| 2. | Tuam der Wanderer | ||
| 8. | Der Drachenkönig | ||
| Das Leben der Thalionmel (Ina Kramer) | |||
| 4. | Die Löwin von Netha | ||
| 5. | Thalionmels Opfer | ||
| Scheïjian (Karl-Heinz Witzko) | |||
| 11. | Treibgut | ||
| 20. | Spuren im Schnee | ||
| Drei Nächte in Fasar (Bernhard Hennen) | |||
| 12. | Der Tanz der Rose | ||
| 13. | Die Ränke des Raben | ||
| 14. | Das Reich der Rache | ||
| Die Piraten des Südmeers (Hans Joachim Alpers) | |||
| 15. | Hinter der Eisernen Maske | ||
| 19. | Flucht aus Ghurenia | ||
| 23. | Das letzte Duell | ||
| Die Reise nach Salza (Ina Kramer) | |||
| 16. | Im Farindelwald | ||
| 17. | Die Suche | ||
| Rabenchronik (Lena Falkenhagen) | |||
| 27. | Die Boroninsel | ||
| 29. | Kinder der Nacht | ||
| Others | |||
| 3. | Die Zeit der Gräber | (Björn Jagnow) | |
| 6. | Feuerodem | (Pamela Rumpel) | |
| 7. | Katzenspuren | (Christel Scheja) | |
| 9. | Der Göttergleiche | (Ulrich Kiesow, Hrsg.) | |
| 10. | Die Legende von Assarbad | (Jörg Raddatz) | |
| 18. | Die Gabe der Amazonen | (Ulrich Kiesow) | |
| 21. | Schlange und Schwert | (Lena Falkenhagen) | |
| 22. | Der Spieler | (Christian Jentzsch) | |
| 24. | Das Gesicht am Fenster | (Bernhard Hennen) | |
| 25. | Steppenwind | (Niels Gaul) | |
| 26. | Der Lichtvogel | (Hadmar von Wieser) | |
| 28. | Aus dunkler Tiefe | (Barbara Büchner) | |
| 30. | Von Menschen und Monstern | (Ina Kramer, Hrsg.) | |
| 31. | Heldenschwur | (Johan Kerk) | |
| 32. | Das letzte Lied | (Gun-Britt Tödter) | |
| 33. | Das Galgenschloss | (Barbara Büchner) | |
| 34. | Tod eines Königs | (Karl-Heinz Witzko) | |
| 35. | Der Schwertkönig | (Hadmar von Wieser) | |
| 36. | Schatten aus dem Abgrund | (Barbara Büchner) | |
| 37. | Seelenwanderer | (Barbara Büchner) | |
| 38. | Der Dämonenmeister | (Hadmar von Wieser) | |
| 39. | Das magische Erbe | (Christel Scheja) | |
| 40. | Der Geisterwolf | (Linda Budinger) | |
| 41. | Und Altaja brannte | (Momo Evers) | |
| 42. | Blutopfer | (Barbara Büchner) | |
| 43. | Die Nebelgeister | (Lena Falkenhagen) | |
| 44. | Die beiden Herrscher | (Karl-Heinz Witzko) | |
| 45. | Die Nacht der Schlange | (Bernhard Hennen) | |
| 46. | Das Wirtshaus zum lachenden Henker | (Barbara Büchner) | |
| 47. | Die Königslarve | (Karl-Heinz Witzko) | |
| 48. | Geteiltes Herz | (Tobias Frischhut) | |
| 49. | Erde und Eis | (Hadmar von Wieser) | |
| 50. | Gassengeschichten | (Britta Herz (Hrsg.)) | |
| 51. | Sphärenschlüssel | (Jörg Raddatz & Heike Kamaris) | |
| 52. | Die Hand der Finsternis | (Alexander Huiskes) | |
| 53. | Zwergenmaske | (Martina Nöth) | |
| 54. | Koboldgeschenk | (Gunn-Britt Tödter) | |
| 55. | Blutrosen | (Heike Kamaris & Jörg Raddatz) | |
| William Shakespeare | |||
| A Midsummernight's dream | ||
| King Lear | ||
| Merchant of Venice | ||
| Neville Shute | |||
| A Town like Alice | ||
| On the Beach | ||
| Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö | |||
| Mannen som gick up i rök | ||
| Mannen på balkongen | ||
| Den skrattande polisen | ||
| Brandbilen som försvann | ||
| Polis, polis, potatismus | ||
| Den vedervärdiga mannen från Säffle | ||
| Det slutna rummet | ||
| Polismördaren | ||
| Terroristerna | ||
| Wilbur Smith | |||
| River God | ||
| The Courtney Series | |||
| Birds of Prey | ||
| Monsoon | ||
| Blue Horizon | ||
| When the Lion Feeds | ||
| The Sound of Thunder | ||
| A Sparrow Falls | ||
| The Burning Shore | ||
| Power of the Sword | ||
| Rage | ||
| A Time to Die | ||
| Golden Fox | ||
| The Ballantyne Novels | |||
| A Falcon Flies | ||
| John Steinbeck | |||
| Of Mice and Men | ||
| The Pearl | ||
| The Wayward Bus | ||
| Grapes of Wrath | ||
| J.R.R. Tolkien | |||
| The Hobbit | ||
| The Lord of the Rings | |||
| The Fellowship of the Rings | ||
| The Two Towers | ||
| The Return of the King | ||
| Background Books to The Lord of the Rings | |||
| The Silmarillion | ||
| Per Wahlöö | |||
| see Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö | ||
| Jane Welch | |||
| The Book of Man | |||
| Dawn of a Dark Age | ||
| The Broken Chalice | ||
| The Allegiance of Man | ||
| Various Authors | |||
| Australia | |||
| While the Billy Boils | (Henry Lawson) | |
| Wake in Fright | (Kenneth Cook) | |
| The Dead Heart | (Douglas Kennedy) | |
| A Fortunate Life | (Albert B. Facey) | |
| The Harp in the South | (Ruth Park) | |
| Eucalyptus | (Murray Bail) | |
| Rock'n'Roll Babes from Outer Space | (Linda Jaivin) | |
| Ireland | |||
| A star called Henry | (Roddy Doyle) | |
| Angela's Ashes | (Frank McCourt) | |
| The Thruth about the OIrish | (Terry Eagleton) | |
| Geek stuff | |||
| Fermat's last theorem | (Simon Singh) | |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach, an eternal Golden Braid | (Douglas R. Hofstadter) | |
| The mythical man-month | (Frederick P. Brooke) | |
| Just for Fun | (David Diamond and Linus Torvalds) | |
| True Names | (Vernor Vinge) | |
| The Illuminatus! Trilogy | (Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson) | |
| Other | |||
| Trainspotting | (Irvine Welsh) | |
| Catch-22 | (Joseph Heller) | |
| The English Patient | (Michael Ondaatje) | |
| Out of Africa | (Karen Blixen) | |
| Leaves of Grass | (Walt Whitman) | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | (Mark Twain) | |
| A Farewell to Arms | (Ernest Hemmingway) | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | (Harper Lee) | |
| The Virgin and the Gipsy | (D.H. Lawrence) | |
| The Last of the Mohicans | (J. Fenimore Cooper) | |
| Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde | (R.L. Stevenson) | |
| On the Road | (Jack Kerouac) | |
| Too small for basketball | (Kris Kenway) | |
| A bridge of years | (Robert Charles Wilson) | |
| Dooms Day Book | (Connie Willis) | |
| Looking for Maya | (Atima Shivastava) | |
| Stupid White Men | (Michael G. Moore) | |
| Breakfast of champions | (Kurt Vonnegut) | |
