some books
- Frans G. Bengtsson, Röde Orm
- Umberto Eco, Baudolino
- George R.R. Martin, A song of ice and fire (series)
- Jonathan Safron Foer, Extremely loud and incredibly close
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Richter und sein Henker
- Jared Diamond, Guns, germs and steel
- Jared Diamond, Collapse
- Roger Penrose, The emperor's new mind
- Richard Feynman, QED: Strange theory of light and matter
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore