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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate
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Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
Re-reading this masterpiece after some years have passed.
2024
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Disliked the writing style since it reads like a Netflix documentary and packs a lot of unrelated and unnecessary details, but interesting read nonetheless. TL;DR: Interacting with dogs leads to happier gut biome, probiotic foods are most likely a scam, one should eat mostly fresh and unprocessed food. Also, humans are crazy.
Scorpio (Frontlines Evolution Series) by Marko Kloos
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2023
Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa by Stephan Wackwitz
Not sure why I ended up reading this, but nice experience overall.
Breathe by Rickson Gracie
Memoirs of one of the most formative figures in the history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts.
The Terror by Dan Simmons
If you ever wondered just about how crazy of an undertaking crossing the north pole in the 19th century was, this book is for you.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volumes 1-4 by Arthur Conan Doyle
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2022
First Kill (Sentenced to War Book) by Jonathan P. Brazee and J.N. Chaney
Easily digestable yet somewhat catching sci-fi series
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
First Discworld series novel I've ever read. While I liked it, it'll also be the last one for a while.
Death's End by Cixin Liu
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Sentenced to War Book 11 by Jonathan P. Brazee and J.N. Chaney
Easily digestable yet somewhat catching sci-fi series
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
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Sentenced to War Book 10 by Jonathan P. Brazee and J.N. Chaney
Easily digestable yet somewhat catching sci-fi series
Lucky Thirteen (Frontlines Series) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following the protagonist from his youth in a dystopian suburb to joining the military, rising throught the ranks whilst defending earth from an alien threat.
Measures of Absolution (Frontlines Series) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following the protagonist from his youth in a dystopian suburb to joining the military, rising throught the ranks whilst defending earth from an alien threat.
Orders of Battle (Frontlines Book 8) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following the protagonist from his youth in a dystopian suburb to joining the military, rising throught the ranks whilst defending earth from an alien threat.
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
Having read The Forever War multiple times over the years, always recommending it and gifting it to others, it at some time dawned on me that I had never checked for other books of the same author. Great idea in retrospect, Camouflage takes an interesting scenario and develops into some surprising turns.
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
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My Uncle, The Jaguar by João Guimaraes Rosa
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Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt by Umberto Eco
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Sentenced to War Book 9 by Jonathan P. Brazee and J.N. Chaney
Easily digestable yet somewhat catching sci-fi series
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Eventually aborted reading after a couple hundred pages
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
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The Wirecard Story by Volker ter Haseborg, Melanie Bergermann
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Weirdly unsatisfying read, had hoped for more actual content after having watched one of the mainstream film adaption ages ago
Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Thrilling and fantastic story based on real-life in Colombia
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Finally got around reading this after only having dim memories of eventually watching half of a movie sometime back in school
Sentenced to War Book 1-8 by Jonathan P. Brazee and J.N. Chaney
Easily digestable yet somewhat catching sci-fi series
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying by Roald Dahl
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Aborted reading after a couple dozen pages
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Aborted reading after a couple dozen pages
2021
Decisive Moments in History by Stefan Zweig
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Computer Networking: Beginner’s guide for Mastering Computer Networking and the OSI Model by Ramon Nastase
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The employees by Olga Ravn
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Dune by Frank Herbert?
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
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Citadel (The Palladium Wars Book 3) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following a handful of protagonists through the struggles of interplanetary terrorism.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Incredible storytelling, heavily recommended over watchin a movie with the same name.
1984 by George Orwell
Somehow never came to reading that classic, ended up being even more disturbing than expected.
Ballistic (The Palladium Wars Book 2) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following a handful of protagonists through the struggles of interplanetary terrorism.
Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars Book 1) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following a handful of protagonists through the struggles of interplanetary terrorism.
Der Koch by Martin Suter
Roman on a tamilian asylum seeker cooking aphrodisiac food whilst navigating a satirical portrait of the global financial crysis around 2009.
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
First published in 1898, this is a great impression of how an extraterrestrial attack on earth was imagined to look like in rural England (and perhaps set the ground for a lot of what we consider sci-fi classics today).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Set after the notorious adventures with Tom Sawyer, this book follows Huckleberry Finn causing trouble in the Mississippi River area.
Orders of Battle (Frontlines Book 7) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following the protagonist from his youth in a dystopian suburb to joining the military, rising throught the ranks whilst defending earth from an alien threat.
Stuff by Daniel Miller
A study of material culture and a new way of looking at the objects that surround us.
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
Examinations on how childhood experiences shape our individual handling of anger and pain.
2020
The Community Cure: Transforming Health Outcomes Together by James Maskell
A comprehensive guide on how running group visits could revolutionize healthcare, especially around mental health.
Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
Exploring and sketching an antithesis to the Venture Capital centric way of starting a business by keeping things small and as profitable as possible (instead of operating at a loss while aiming for as much growth as possible).
Chronicler Of The Winds by Henning Mankell
A street child tells his extraordinary story while slowly passing away on the roof of an abandoned theatre.
Orders of Battle (Frontlines Book 1-6) by Marko Kloos
Science-fiction roman following the protagonist from his youth in a dystopian suburb to joining the military, rising throught the ranks whilst defending earth from an alien threat.