Saturday, March 23, 2019

Books

The following is a list of my favorite books. I enjoy science fiction, adventures, and mysteries the most but also like to alternate between reading fiction and nonfiction.


Fiction: Contemporary


  • Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy) by Dan Abnett
  • The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
  • False Gods (The Horus Heresy) by Graham McNeill
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction: Classic


  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  • And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Emil und die Detektive von Erich Kästner
  • The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
  • Der kleine Prinz von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Der Schimmelreiter von Dominik Wexenberger nach Theodor Storm
  • Some Buried Caesar (Nero Wolfe) by Rex Stout
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde von Dominik Wexenberger nach Jules Verne
  • Warum es wichtig ist, ehrlich zu sein von Dominik Wexenberger nach Oscar Wilde
  • The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo and translated by Louise Heal Kawai

Nonfiction


  • Geography of the World by Simon Adams et al.
  • The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis