Weekly Filet Book Club
Book recommendations by interesting people: the readers of the Weekly Filet.
2024 edition
What book do you want to read next?
by Ursula K. Le Guin
by Khalid Hosseini
by Stuart Turton
by Kristen Hannah
by E.B. White
by Braithwaite, Oyinkan
by Brian Klass
by David Talbot
by Daniel Marwecki
by Bradd Shore
by Matthew B. Crawford
by John Bunyan
by Eric Larsen
by Adam Grant
by Nicholas Janni
by Timothy Egan
by Peter Attila
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2023 edition ↗️
What book changed your perspective on something important?
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by Rebecca Solnit - Yes to the Mess
by Frank Barrett - How to Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm - The Impossible Country
by Brian Hall - The Overstory
by Richard Powers - The Art of Frugal Hedonism
by Annie Raser-Rowland, Adam Grubb - Think again
by Adam Grant - Trust
by Hernan Diaz - Quiet
by Susan Cain - Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan - City of Thorns
by Ben Rawlence - The Lost Pianos of Siberia (2020)
by Sophy Roberts - The Black Cloud
by Fred Hoyle - Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott - Fen, Bog and Swamp
by Annie Proulx - Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
by Sarah Williams - How the Word is Passed
by Clint Smith - The Living Mountain
by Nan shepard - Why We Sleep
by Matthew Walker - The Mind is Flat
by Nick Chater - The Dawn of Everything
by David Graeber and David Wengrow - The Red Zone
by Chloe Caldwell - The Psychology of Money
by Morgan Housel - King Leopold's Ghost
by Barbara Kingsolver - The three body Problem trilogy
by Liu Cixin - Humanly Possible
by Sarah Bakewell - Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen Covey - Factfulness
by Hans Rosling - Non-violent communication
by Marshal Rosenberg - Our Final Invention
by James Barrat - Memnoch the Devil
by Anne Rice - Life Is In The Transitions
by Bruce Feiler - Maybe you should talk to someone
by Lori Gottlieb - Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Atomic Habits
by James Clear - Why Does He Do That? Inside The Minds Of Angry and Controlling Men
by Lundy Bancroft - Allein
by Daniel Schreiber - Syllabus
by Lynda Barry - Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
by By Tony Fadell - Maid
by Stephanie Land - Germs, Guns and Steel
by Jared Diamond - A Soldier of the Great War
by Mark Helprin - Barking to the Choir
by Gregory Boyle - A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
2022 edition ↗️
What book makes you feel hopeful?
- A Pocketful of Crows
by Joanne Harris - Factfulness
by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling - Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman - A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers - Come Matter Here
by Hannah Brencher - Fleishman Is In Trouble
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman - How do you live?
by Genzaburo Yoshino - Humankind
by Rutger Bregman - Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir - The Misremembered Man
by Christine McKenna - The Overstory
by Richard Powers - Then The Trees Said Hello
by HJ Corning - How I Learned to Understand the World
by Hans Rosling - The Beginning of Infnity
by David Deutsch - Something Like Happy
by Eva Woods - Atomic Habits
by James Clear - Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro - Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius - The Rational Optimist
by Matt Ridley, L. J. Ganser, et al. - The Art of Gathering
by Priya Parker - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
by Becky Chambers - Digital Minimalism
by Cal Newport - Lamb
by Christopher Moore - Unscripted
by Ernie Johson - Regenerative Leadership
by Giles Hutchins & Laura Storm - A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara - A Course In Miracles
by Helen Schucman - Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
by Jacqueline Novogratz - Little, Big
by John Crowley - The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
by John Mark Comer - The Longevity Economy
by Joseph Coughlin - The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson - Managing the Moment
by Lisa Parker - Dog Songs
by Mary Oliver - The Other Mother
by Matthew Dicks - The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins - The Better Angels of Our Nature
by Steven Pinker - Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah - The Life of Pi
by Yann Martell - The Bible
- Work Clean
by Dan Charnas
2021 edition ↗️
What’s a book more people should know?
- Gegen den Hass
by Carolin Emcke - In Defence of Food
by Michael Pollan - Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke - Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari - The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig - Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman - Leaves Of Grass
by Walt Whitman - The Psychology of Money
by Morgan Housel - Harry Potter
by JK Rowling - The Human Side of Enterprise
by Douglas McGregor - Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams - How much is enough?
by Robert & Edward Skidelsky - The Way of Integrity
by Martha Beck - My Own Devices
by Dessa - How to measure anything
by Douglas Hubbard - Ministry of the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson - All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr - Hidden spring
by Mark Solms - Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell - Into the Distance
by Hernan Diaz - Melnitz
by Charles Lewinsky - Min Kamp
by Karl Ove Knausgård - Limonow
by Emmanuel Carrere - Notes from the Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson - The Little Virtues
by Natalia Ginzburg - Über leben
by Dirk Steffens & Fritz Habekuss - The Wet Engine
by Brian Doyle - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
by Chris Hadfield - Zwei Grad. Eine Tonne
by Christof Drexel - Luftkrieg und Literatur
by W.G.Sebald - Wozu wir da sind
by Axel Hacke - Infinite Detail
by Tim Maughan - Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann - Show Your Work
by Austin Kleon - You're Not Listening
by Kate Murphy
Earlier recommendations
- A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara - The Legend of the Holy Drinker
by Joseph Roth - Distrust That Particular Flavor
by William Gibson - 1Q84
by Haruki Murakami - Congo - The Epic History of a People
by David Van Reybrouck - Swing Time
by Zadie Smith - The Road
by Cormac McCarthy - The Tortilla Curtain
by TC Boyle - On the Road
by Jack Kerouac - Narcopolis
by Jeet Thayil - The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf - The Way Things Work
by David Macaulay and Neil Ardley - When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi - The Small Backs of Children
by Lidia Yuknavitch - Chinaman
by Shehan Karunatilaka - The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa - Tender Bar
by J.R. Moehringer - Death with Interruptions
by José Saramago - Beim Auftauchen der Himmel
by Anna Stern - Filters Against Folly
by Garrett Hardin - Oranges are not the only fruit
by Jeanette Winterson - Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer - Leviathan Wakes
by James S. A. Corey - Watermark
by Joseph Brodsky - Delivering Happiness. A Path To Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh - The Edible Woman
by Margaret Atwood - Pirate Cinema
by Cory Doctorow - Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan - Léon und Louise
by Alex Capus - South of the Border, West of the Sun
by Haruki Murakami - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon - Stringer
by Anjan Sundaram - Das Muschelessen
by Birgit Vanderbeke - Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond - The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares - Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes - King Leopold's Ghost
by Adam Hochschild - I am Zlatan
by David Lagercrantz - Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo - Vanished Kingdoms, The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
by Norman Davies - The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand - Getting More
by Stuart Diamond - Hyperion
by Dan Simmons - Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
by Christof Koch - The New Confessions
by William Boyd - Patrimony
by Philip Roth - The Commonwealth of Thieves
by Tom Kennealy - Beat the Reaper
by Josh Bazell - Agnes
by Peter Stamm - A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini - The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin - Master & Marguerita
by Bulgakov - Accabadora
by Michela Murgia - Die Ökonomie von Gut und Böse
by Tomáš Sedláček - Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
by Tom Robbins - Gang Leader for a Day
by Sudhir Venkatesh - House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski - Alamut
by Vladimir Bartol - Endgame
by Frank Brady - Das finstere Tal
by Thomas Willmann - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain - Lamb
by Christopher Moore - Light Years
by James Salter - Paddy Clark, ha ha ha!
by Roddy Doyle - Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede
by Sten Nadolny - Strong Motion
by Jonathan Franzen - The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath - The Day of The Triffids
by John Wyndham - The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Lion
by William Manchester - The Meme Machine
by Susan Blackmore - Unwinding
by George Packer - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami - The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi - Bis ich dich finde
by John Irving - Written In Bone
by Simon Beckett