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Stephen King - It

past reads

Rachel Abbott - Sleep Tight

Craig Alanson - Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force Book 1)

Craig Alanson - SpecOps (Expeditionary Force Book 2)

Andreas Altmann - Im Land der Freien:

Philip Ball - Critical Mass:

Simon Becket - Die Chemie des Todes:

Simon Beckett - Flammenbrut

Simon Beckett - Kalte Asche:

Simon Beckett - Leichenblaesse: Good too.

Simon Beckett - The Calling of the Grave

Simon Beckett - Verwesung: Creepy.

Irving Belateche - H2O: not bad

Sibylle Berg - Ein paar Leute suchen das Gl�ck und lachen sich tot: Roman (German Edition)

Paul Bilton - The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss

Keith C Blackmore - Hellifax (Mountain Man Book 3)

Keith C Blackmore - Mountain Man

Keith C Blackmore - Safari (Mountain Man Book 2)

Keith C Blackmore - Well Fed (Mountain Man Book 4)

Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle

Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle:

Andy Borowitz - An Unexpected Twist

Dan Brown - Angels & Demons

Dan Brown - Deception Point:

Dan Brown - Inferno: A Novel: just WOW

Dan Brown - Origin

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

John D. Brown - Bad Penny

Ryk Brown - Arrival

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything: immensely interesting

Bill Bryson - Notes From A Big Country: dead-on and very funny

Italo Calvino - Der Baron auf den B�umen:

Steven Campbell - Hard Luck Hank: Basketful of Crap

Steven Campbell - Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy

W. Bernard Carlson - Tesla: if you know one thing or two about physics, you'll be disappointed

Gianrico Carofiglio - In freiem Fall:

John Carreyrou - Bad Blood

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep:

Robert B. Cialdini - Influence

Eric H. Cline - 1177 B.C.

George Clinton - Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir

James Comey - A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

Michael Connelly - The Burning Room

Douglas Coupland - JPod:

Michael Crichton - Airframe

Michael Crichton - Congo

Michael Crichton - Next

Michael Crichton - Prey

Michael Crichton - The Eaters of the Dead

Michael Crichton - Timeline

Blake Crouch - Abandon: nice

Evan Currie - Homeworld (Odyssey One): 3 of Odyssey One

Evan Currie - Into the Black: Odyssey One: Part 1,

Evan Currie - On Silver Wings

Evan Currie - The Heart of Matter: Odyssey One: 2 and

Evan Currie - Valkyrie Rising (On Silver Wings Book 2)

Chuck D - Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves:

Friedrich Christian Delius - Die Frau, f�r die ich den Computer erfand:

Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel:

Tim Draper - How to be The Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs

John Dreese - Red Hope: (Book 1)

Robert Dugoni - My Sister's Grave

�ke Edwardson - Rotes Meer

�ke Edwardson & Angelika Kutsch - Toter Mann

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama

Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis - The Informers

Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction

Craig A. Falconer - Not Alone

Peter Ernst Fischer - Schr�dingers Katze auf dem Mandelbrotbaum: Durch die Hintert�r zur Wissenschaft: Interesting read even for a physicist

Bruno Flexer - Mechanical

Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth

William R. Forstchen - One Second After: Frighteningly realistic EMP catastrophe

Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat

Michael Frye - Digital Landscape Photography:

Eduard Glatz - Betriebssysteme

Adam Grant - Originals

Glenn Greenwald - No Place to Hide

Brendan Gregg - Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

Christopher Greyson - JACKS ARE WILD (Detective Jack Stratton Mystery Thriller Series Book 3)

John Grisham - A Time To Kill: My first Grisham

Michael C Grumley - Breakthrough

Michael C Grumley - Evan After

Michael C Grumley - Leap

Joe Haldeman - Camouflage

Joe Haldeman - Forever Free - Forever War 03

Joe Haldeman - Forever Peace - Forever War 02

Joe Haldeman - The Forever War

Justin Halpern - I Suck at Girls

Justin Halpern - Sh*t My Dad Says

Peter F. Hamilton - Fallen Dragon:

Peter F. Hamilton - Pandora's Star

Peter F. Hamilton - The Dreaming Void:

Peter F. Hamilton - The Evolutionary Void:

Peter F. Hamilton - The Temporal Void:

James Hankins - Brothers and Bones

Yuval Noah Harari - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari - Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit

Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time: now (with a PhD in physics) I understand it better than 15 years ago

Heinrich Heine - Deutschland. Ein Winterm�rchen

Peer Heinlein - Dovecot

John Hibbing - Predisposed

Henry Hill - Gangsters and Goodfellas:

Tom Hillenbrand - Drohnenland

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything:

Michael Hjorth - Der Mann, der kein M�rder war:Die F�lle des Sebastian Bergman

Roger Hobbs - Ghostman: solid crime book

Colleen Hoover - Hopeless

G. Michael Hopf - The End - A Post Apocalyptic Novel: scaringly realistic

Sabine Hossenfelder - Lost in Math

Hugh Howey - Beacon 23: The Complete Novel

Hugh Howey - Dust (Silo Saga): Nice ending of the trilogy.

Hugh Howey - Half Way Home: nice

Hugh Howey - Sand Omnibus

Hugh Howey - Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Silo Saga): probably the weakest of the 3 parts

Hugh Howey - The Hurricane

Hugh Howey - Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5) (Silo Saga)

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang - Hacking The Xbox

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang - The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware

Christian Humberg - Der alte Mann und das Netz: Mein Vater entdeckt das Internet

Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs: Evil genius

Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: pretty funny indeed

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow

Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Robert Kanigel - The Man Who Knew Infinity

John Katzenbach - The Dead Student

John Katzenbach - The Madman's Tale

John Katzenbach - The Wrong Man

John Katzenbach - What Comes Next

Elliott Kay - Poor Man's Fight: not bad

Gerald M. Kilby - Colony One Mars: A SciFi Thriller (Colony Mars Book 1)

Gerald M. Kilby - Colony Two Mars: A SciFi Thriller (Colony Mars Book 2)

Sara King - Forging Zero (The Legend of ZERO): meh

Stephen King - 11/22/63: Very good

Stephen King - Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger: (Volume 1) (The Dark Tower)

Stephen King - End of Watch (The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 3)

Stephen King - Finders Keepers

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - Mr. Mercedes: A Novel

Stephen King - Salems Lot

Stephen King - Song of Susannah

Stephen King - The Dark Tower

Stephen King - The Drawing of the Three

Stephen King - The Outsider: A Novel

Stephen King - The Shining

Stephen King - The Stand

Stephen King - The Waste Lands

Stephen King - Under the Dome

Stephen King - Under the dome:

Stephen King - Wizard and Glass

Stephen King - Wolves of the Calla

Steven Konkoly - Black Flagged Alpha (The Black Flagged Series Book 1)

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Finishing off the trilogy

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire: OK they're good.

Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Join the hype

Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir): quite funny at times

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Mercy

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Sword

Elmore Leonard - 52 Pickup

Elmore Leonard - Charlie Martz and Other Stories

Elmore Leonard - Cuba Libre

Elmore Leonard - Djibouti

Elmore Leonard - Fire in the Hole

Elmore Leonard - Killshot

Elmore Leonard - Maximum Bob

Elmore Leonard - Mr. Paradise

Elmore Leonard - Out of Sight

Elmore Leonard - Pagan Babies

Elmore Leonard - Pronto

Elmore Leonard - Riding the Rap

Elmore Leonard - Stick

Elmore Leonard - Swag

Elmore Leonard - The Hunted

Elmore Leonard - The Moonshine War

Elmore Leonard - The Switch

Elmore Leonard - Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

Elmore Leonard - Tishomingo Blues

Elmore Leonard - When the Women Come Out to Dance

Cixin Liu - Death's End (The Three-Body Problem)

Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem

Omarosa Manigault Newman - Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

Thomas Mann - Der Zauberberg

Matthew Mather - CyberStorm: very good end-of-the-world story

Matthew Mather - Darknet

Matthew Mather - Nomad: A Thriller (The New Earth Series, Book 1)

Cormac McCarthy - The Road:

Mark Wayne McGinnis - The Simpleton

Pascal Mercier - Der Klavierstimmer:

Pascal Mercier - Nachtzug nach Lissabon

Paul Midler - Poorly Made in China

David Miller - AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

Kevin Mitnick - Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker: Amazing what social hacking can do.

Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Deception: too much bla bla

Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers

Rick Mofina - If Angels Fall: Nothing to write home about

Stephen Moss - Fear the Future (The Fear Saga Book 3)

Stephen Moss - Fear the Sky (The Fear Saga Book 1)

Stephen Moss - Fear the Survivors (The Fear Saga Book 2)

Randall Munroe - What If?

Ramez Naam - Apex (The Nexus Trilogy Book 3)

Ramez Naam - Crux (The Nexus Trilogy Book 2)

Ramez Naam - Nexus (The Nexus Trilogy Book 1)

Jo Nesb� - Der Fledermausmann: Roman

Jo Nesb� - Die Larve: Harry Holes neunter Fall

Jo Nesb� - Rotkehlchen:

H�kan Nesser - Das zweite Leben des Herrn Roos: Roman - Ein Fall f�r Inspektor Barbarotti

H�kan Nesser - Die Einsamen: Ein Fall f�r Inspektor Barbarotti

Christopher Nuttall - Ark Royal

James Patterson - The President Is Missing: A Novel

Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture

M. Scott Peck - People of the Lie:

M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled:

Andrew Peterson - Contract to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 5)

Andrew Peterson - First to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 1)

Andrew Peterson - Forced to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 2)

Andrew Peterson - Option to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 3)

Andrew Peterson - Ready to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 4)

Douglas Phillips - Quantum Space (Quantum Series Book 1)

Douglas Phillips - Quantum Void (Quantum Series Book 2)

Richard Phillips - Immune (The Rho Agenda): 2 and

Richard Phillips - The Second Ship (The Rho Agenda): Part 1,

Richard Phillips - Wormhole (The Rho Agenda): 3 of the Rho Agenda - not too bad

Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Annihilation (Alien Invasion Book 4)

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Colonization (Alien Invasion Book 3)

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Contact

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Invasion (Alien Invasion Book 1)

Phil Price - Unknown (The Forsaken Series Book 1)

Marc Rainer - Capital Kill

Marc Rainer - Horns of the Devil: A Jeff Trask Legal Thriller

Douglas E. Richards - AMPED (The WIRED Sequel): better

Douglas E. Richards - Mind's Eye: Another cool scifi story

Douglas E. Richards - WIRED: good

A.G. Riddle - Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1)

Simon Riggs - PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook

Mary Roach - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction:

Luca Rossi - Galactic Energies

Philip Roth - Exit Ghost:

Philip Roth - The Plot Against America:

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Schatten des Windes:

Salman Rushdie - Shalimar The Clown:

Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses

Nick Sand - System of Fear : An Action-Packed Techno Thriller: not too bad

Brandon Sanderson - Legion

Christoph Schlingensief - So sch�n wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein!: Tagebuch einer Krebserkrankung

L.J. Sellers - Point of Control

Gary Shteyngart - Little Failure

Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

Nate Silver - The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don't: too much bla bla

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Effect: Don Tillman 2 (Don Tillman series)

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project: Don Tillman 1 (Don Tillman Series)

Gregory Smith - PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters:

Nicholas Sansbury Smith - Extinction Horizon (The Extinction Cycle Book 1)

Flavio Soriga - Der schwarze Regen

John Steinbeck - Cannery Row:

Neal Stephenson - Anathem

Neal Stephenson - Anathem:

Neal Stephenson - Cobweb:

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon: it IS a good book

Neal Stephenson - Interface:

Neal Stephenson - Reamde: Great fun.

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves

Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash: Very good

Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson - The Great Simolean Caper

Neal Stephenson - The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Neal Stephenson - Zodiac: Well done

Cliff Stoll - Cuckoo's Egg: Fascinating

Benjamin Stuckrad-Barre - Panikherz

Daniel Suarez - Change Agent

Daniel Suarez - Daemon

Daniel Suarez - Freedom

Daniel Suarez - Influx

Daniel Suarez - Kill Decision

Dennis E. Taylor - All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book 3)

Dennis E. Taylor - For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book 2)

Dennis E. Taylor - We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time: Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award

Michael Theurillat - Eistod:

Tim Tigner - Coercion

Kurt Tucholsky - Schlo� Gripsholm

Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Timur Vermes - Er ist wieder da: Der Roman

Tony Vigorito - Just a couple of days:

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse - Five: eh?

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest:

Henry S. Warren - Hacker's Delight

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 1

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 2

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 3

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 4

Andy Weir - Artemis

Andy Weir - The Martian: what a page-turner!

Martha Wells - All Systems Red (Kindle Single): The Murderbot Diaries

Robert Anton Wilson - Prometheus Rising

Leslie Wolfe - Las Vegas Girl: A Gripping, Suspenseful Crime Novel

Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury

David Wong - John Dies at the End: This is one strange book.

David Wong - This Book is Full of Spiders

Bob Woodward - Fear: Trump in the White House

Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel:

Leon de Winter - Das Recht auf R�ckkehr: