Books

Inspired by Sam Ringer who got the idea from Patrick Collison, I started keeping track of the books I finished reading in November 2024. Books marked in green I found so moving or impactful that I'd recommend them to almost everyone. Books in blue I particularly enjoyed (purely personal taste, no claims about literary merit). Books marked re-read are ones I've read before (I like re-reading books; my mother likes to tease me by asking if I didn't understand them the first time around).

• Florian Illies: Wenn die Sonne untergeht: Familie Mann in Sanary
• Ottfried Preußler: Krabat re-read
• John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
• William Gibson: Neuromancer
• Ernest Cline: Ready Player One re-read
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Die Wahlverwandtschaften re-read
• Rebecca Goldstein: Incompleteness — The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
• Margaret Atwood: The Testaments
• Wolfgang Borchert: Draußen vor der Tür re-read
• Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary
• Jennifer Ackerman: What an Owl Knows
• Plato: Apologie des Sokrates (Apology of Socrates) re-read
• Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
• Franz Kafka: Der Process (The Trial)
• Lance Fortnow: The Golden Ticket
• Andy Weir: The Martian
• Samantha Harvey: Orbital
• Simon Sebag Montefiore: Jerusalem — The Biography
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Der Besuch der alten Dame re-read
• Han Kang: The Vegetarian
• Robert Littell: The Amateur
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise re-read
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Die Physiker re-read
• Steven Levy: Hackers — Heroes of the Computer Revolution