Reading

Dave Eggers: Zeitoun

Alan Beattie: False Economy. A surprising economic history of the world

2010

Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Yasmina Khadra: L'attentat

Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

Catherine Malabou: La Chambre du Milieu. De Hegel aux Neurosciences

Alain Finkielkraut: Un coeur intelligent

Tom Vanderbilt: Traffic. Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us)

Daniel Miller: Stuff

Tristram Stuart: Waste. Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

Herta Müller: Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger

Niall Ferguson: The Ascent of Money

Juan Goytisolo: Juan the Landless

Daniel Cohen: Globalization and its Enemies

José Eduardo Agualusa: The Book of Chameleons

Apostolos Doxiades and Christos H. Papadimitriou: Logicomix

2009

David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest

J.M.G. Le Clézio: Désert

Richard Dawkins: The Ancestor's Tale

John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

Bruno Munari: Design as Art

W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz

Misha Glenny: McMafia. Seriously Organized Crime

David Foster Wallace: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Richard Dowden: Africa. Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

Roberto Bolaño: By Night in Chile

J.M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians

Paul Bowles: Let It Come Down

John Fante: Ask the Dust

Mike Davis: Planet of Slums

J.G. Ballard: High-Rise

Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger

Gilles Lipovetsky and Sébastien Charles: Les Temps Hypermodernes

Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives

David Christian: Maps of Time. An Introduction to Big History

Jacques Rancière: Malaise dans l'esthétique

Joseph O'Neill: Netherland

Jorge Luis Borges: Fictions

James Wood: How Fiction Works

Peter Brook: The Empty Space

Gilles Lipovetsky et Jean Serroy: La Culture-monde: Réponse à une société désorientée

Sarah Thornton: Seven Days in the Art World

Georges Perec: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

2008

Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes Tropiques

Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Anne Enright: The Gathering

Gilles Lipovetsky et Jean Serroy: L'écran Global. Culture-médias et cinéma à l'âge hypermoderne

Roberto Saviano: Gomorrah

Jacques Rancière: Le spectateur émancipé

Alain Mabanckou: Verre Cassé

Catherine Malabou: Que faire de notre cerveau?

Giorgio Agamben: Qu'est-ce que le contemporain?

Rose George: The Big Necessity. Adventures in the World of Human Waste

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

Don DeLillo: The Names

Michael Tomasello: Origins of Human Communication

Nico Frijda: The Laws of Emotion

Robert McNeill and William H. McNeill: The Human Web. A Bird's-Eye View of World History

Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner: The Way We Think. Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities

Tyler Cowen: Creative Destruction. How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

Véronique Fabbri: Danse et Philosophie. Une Pensée en Construction

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson: Metaphors We Live By

William Easterly: The White Man's Burden

J.M. Coetzee: Foe

Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms. A Brief Economic History of the World

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes. Globalization, Institutions and Economic Growth

Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything

Alan Weisman: The World Without Us

Jeffrey Sachs: Common Wealth. Economics for a Crowded Planet

Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational

Richard Flanagan: The Unknown Terrorist

Pascal Mercier: Night Train to Lisbon

J.G. Ballard: The Atrocity Exhibition

Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media

Tim Harford: The Logic of life

Nathan Englander: The Ministry of Special Cases

Ray Jackendoff: Foundations of Language

Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage

Will Self: The Book of Dave

Saskia Sassen: A Sociology of Globalization

Pankaj Mishra: Temptations of the West. How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond

Pavan K. Varma: Being Indian. Inside the Real India

2007

Sarah Murray: Moveable Feasts. The Incredible Journeys of the Things We Eat

Dave Eggers: What is the What

Umberto Eco: On Ugliness

Marisha Pessl: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Jacques Ranciere: The Politics of Aesthetics

Olivier Rolin: L'invention du Monde

George Zhibin Gu: China and the New World Order

Julian Stallabrass: Art Incorporated

Saskia Sassen: Territory, Authority, Rights. From Medieval to Global Assemblages

Cormac McCarthy: The Road

Zygmunt Bauman: Consuming Life

Don DeLillo: Valparaiso

Rem Koolhaas: Delirious New York

Frédéric Beigbeder: 99 francs (€ 14:99)

Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion. Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Don DeLillo: Americana

Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist

Marc Levinson: The Box. How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Zygmunt Bauman: Liquid Modernity

Peter Sloterdijk: Im Weltinnenraum des Kapitals

Orhan Pamuk: Snow

Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore

Toni Morrison: Beloved

Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss

Edward Luce: In Spite of the Gods. The Strange Rise of Modern India

2006

Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr Ripley

Jared Diamond: Collapse

Peter Sloterdijk: Sphären I, II and III

Slavoj Zizek: The Parallax View

James Kynge: China Shakes the World. The Rise of a Hungry Nation

Mari Akasaka: Vibrator

Ali Smith: The Accidental

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics

John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces

Truman Capote: In Cold Blood

J.M. Coetzee: Youth

Bret Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Hélène Cixous: Stigmata. Escaping Texts

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye

Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Michel Houellebecq: La possibilité d'une ile

Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer

Ian McEwan: Saturday

2005

Mark Haddon: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Ian McEwan: Atonement

Orhan Pamuk: The Black Book

Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Social

Jean Baudrillard: The conspiracy of art

Georges Perec: W ou le souvenir d'enfance

Slavoj Zizek: Enjoy your symptom

Michel Foucault: Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault: The archeology of knowledge

DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little

Yann Martel: Life of Pi

Jared Diamond: Guns: Germs and Steel

Zadie Smith: White Teeth

J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children

Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty

Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint

J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello

Slavoj Zizek: Looking Awry

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

Prior to 2004

Until 2004 I listed the books I was reading in a section that I updated every few months, deleting the previous entries. Basically 1998-2001 were "science" years, during which I read a lot of pop science books.