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173 books overall; 42 books read in the last year; 2 books read in the last month. That's an average of 3 books each month.

Planned books (20):

• The Affirmative Action Empire by Terry Martin
• The Age of Capital, 1848-75 by E.J. Hobsbawm
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• Rising ‘44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
• Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore
• All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani
• William Marshal by Georges Duby
• Hildegard of Bingen: Selections from Her Writings by Hildegard of Bingen
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
• To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding
• Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 by Richard J. Evans
• Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1 by Karl R. Popper
• The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 2 by Karl R. Popper
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargos Llosa
• Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf
• A Gun for Sale: An Entertainment by Graham Greene
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Current books (3):

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  Der Untergang des Abendlandes. Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte. Band 1 by Oswald Spengler

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  Planning Lessons and Courses: Designing Sequences of Work for the Language Classroom by Tessa Woodward

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  Der Hauptfeind. CIA und KGB in den letzten Tagen des Kalten Krieges by Milt Bearden, James Risen

Recent books (149):

• Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• We Saw Spain Die by Paul Preston
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot
• The Christmas Books Volume 1: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• Linguistik.: Eine Einführung by Heidrun Pelz
• The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle
• Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
• Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov
• The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti
• The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• A Brief History of English Literature by John Peck, Martin Coyle
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
• Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics by Bobo Lo
• Diamantenfieber / Casino Royale / Leben und sterben lassen by Ian Fleming
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
• Birds Without Wings by Louis de Berniéres
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Die Tagebücher von Adam und Eva by Mark Twain
• City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
• The Liar by Stephen Fry
• Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
• Рассказы современных русских писателей by Margret Fieseler
• Alice im Wunderland by Lewis Carroll
• Murray Walker: Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken by Murray Walker
• King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
• Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• The Brothers Karamazov by F. M. Dostoevsky
• Nero Corleone by Elke Heidenreich
• Jetzt lerne ich CSS by Florence Maurice, Patricia Rex
• Longitude by Dava Sobel
• Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind by V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee
• Englische Kriminal Geschichten: (Detective Stories) by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edgar Wallace
• Webdesign für Dummies by Lisa Lopuck
• What Maisie Knew by Henry James
• War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
• The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher
• The Christmas Books Volume 1: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
• Hackers Beware by Eric Cole
• A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
• Twin Tracks: The Unexplained Origins of the Modern World by James Burke
• The Complete Illustrated History of China by J.A.G. Roberts
• Call for the Dead by John Le Carre
• Al Jazeera by Hugh Miles
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
• On History by E.J. Hobsbawm
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• Monte Cassino by Sven Hassel
• Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• QI: The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
• Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones
• Poor Story: An Insider Uncovers How Globalisation and Good Intentions Have Failed the World’s Poor by Giles Bolton
• If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
• Without Feathers by Woody Allen
• Cosmos and Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• The Social Contract by Jean Jacque Rousseau
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
• The Lives of the Great Composers by Harold C. Schonberg
• Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas
• A History of the Weimar Republic: v. 2 by Erich Eyck
• The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom by Paulo Coelho
• Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
• The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
• A History of the Weimar Republic: v. 1 by Erich Eyck
• The Joke by Milan Kundera
• Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
• The Christmas Books Volume 1: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens
• The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• Lost In Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad by Charlie Croker
• The Journey Home by Olafur Johann Olafsson
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
• The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918-1933 by Sally Marks
• The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers
• The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
• Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
• The Passport by Martin Lloyd
• The Noodle Maker by Jian Ma
• The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science by Steve Jones
• Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
• Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe by David Blair
• London Match by Len Deighton
• The Weimar Republic by John Hiden
• Memoirs of a Spymaster: The Man Who Waged a Secret War Against the West by Markus Wolf
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• Mexico Set by Len Deighton
• The Analects by Confucius
• Barbarossa to Berlin: A Chronology of the Campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941-45: Long Drive East by Brian Taylor
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
• Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Economic and Social Behaviour by Paul Ormerod
• Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
• The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet by Unknown
• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
• The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by E.J. Hobsbawm
• Marx by Terry Eagleton
• Berlin Game by Len Deighton
• Raj by Lawrence James
• The Battle of Marengo, 1800 by David Hollins
• The African Queen by Cecil Scott Forester
• The Xenophobe’s Guide to the English by Antony Miall
• Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by E.J. Hobsbawm
• Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner
• Deception Point by Dan Brown
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
• City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga by Max Michelson
• Modern India, 1885-1947 by Sumit Sarkar
• Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
• The Practice of History by G.R. Elton
• What Is History? by Edward Hallett Carr
• Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
• Ataturk by Andrew Mango
• Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
• The Christmas Books Volume 1: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens
• Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
• Studying History 2nd ed by Jeremy Black
• Blitzfreeze by Sven Hassel
• Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
• In Defence of Marxism by L. Trotskii
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Last Word and Other Stories by Graham Greene
• Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays by George Orwell
• Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Lying in State: How Whitehall Denies, Dissembles and Deceives – From the Chinook Crash to the Kelly by Tim Slessor
• Lend Me Your Ears by Boris Johnson