Weekly Filet Book Club
Book recommendations by interesting people: the readers of the Weekly Filet.

2023 edition
What book changed your perspective on something important?
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- 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
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- 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