Eva Bacon
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I'm a voracious (if slow) reader. Here are some of my all-time-favorites:

Essays

  • ​Anthony Lane: Only Mr. God Knows Why. The Meaning of the Eurovision Song Contest. The New Yorker.
  • Johan Galtung: Structure, culture, and intellectual style. An essay comparing saxonic, teutonic, gallic ond nipponic approaches. Transcend.
  • Michael Hobbes: Stop Trying to Save the World. Big ideas are destroying international development. New Republic.


Nonfiction

  • Noel Riley Fitch: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
  • Holm Friebe & Sascha Lobo: Wir nennen es Arbeit: Die digitale Boheme oder: Intelligentes Leben jenseits der Festanstellung
  • Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In
  • Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit
  • Dan Harris: 10% Happier

Contemporary Fiction

  • Jonathan Littell: Die Wohlgesinnten (The Kindly Ones)
  • Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
  • Patrick deWitt: The Sisters Brothers
  • Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated
  • Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
  • Haruki Murakami: Naokos Lächeln (Norwegian Wood)
  • Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • Lukas Bärfuss: Hundert Tage (One Hundred Days)
  • Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Classics

  • Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks
  • Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I
  • Friedrich Schiller: Don Carlos
  • Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
  • Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast
  • Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Jean Giono: Der Mann der die Bäume pflanzte (The Man Who Planted Trees)
[If the title is in German, I read it in German. :)]
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