History
Currently reading
- Benveniste, Meron. Sacred landscapes. The buried history of the Holy Land since 1948. London: University of California Press, 2000. – 366 pp.
- Carpenter, Teresa (ed.). New York diaries. 1609 to 2009. New York: Modern Library, 2012. – 486 pp.
- Cech, Brigitte. Lukullische Genüsse. Die Küche der alten Römer. Darmstadt: WBG, 2013. – 208 pp
- Gunnarsjaa, Arne. Norges arkitekturhistorie. Oslo: Abstrakt forlag, 2006. – 528 s.
- Gruen, Erik S. The Last Generation of the Roman Republic. Berkeley. University of California Press, 1994 (1974). – 596 s.
- Hazard, Paul. The crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715. Kindle.
- Jaeger, Werner. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume III: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato. Oxford University Press: 1944. – 384 pp. Kindle.
- Lewis, Mark Edward. China’s Cosmopolitan Empire. The Tang Dynasty. Kindle.
- Livy. The Early History of Rome. Books I-V of The History of Rome from its Foundation. London: Penguin, 2003. – 488 pp.
- La nation. Le matériel. Paris: Gallimard. (= Les lieux de mémoire I, p. 1103-1643).
- La république. Paris: Gallimard. (= Les lieux de mémoire I, p. 15-567).
Completed
- Cambridge History of South Africa. Vol. 1. From Early Times to 1885. Ed. by Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga and Robert Ross. Cambridge: CUP, 2012. – 467 pp.
- Casemir, Kirstin; Christian Fischer. Deutsch. Die Geschichte unserer Sprache. Darmstadt: WBG, 2013. – 288 pp.
- Douglas, Mary. Purity and danger. An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (1966). Kindle.
- Douglas, Mary. Natural symbols. Explorations in cosmology. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973 [1970]. – 219 pp.
- Francois, Etienne und Hagen Schulze (eds.). Deutsche Erinnerungsorte. Band 1. München: Beck, 2003. – 724 pp.
- Knight, Ian. Zulu Rising. The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke’s Drift. London: Pan Books, 2011. Kindle.
- La nation. L’immatériel. Paris: Gallimard. (= Les lieux de mémoire I, p. 571-1098).
- Price, Simon and Peter Thonemann. The birth of classical Europe. A history from Troy to Augustine. London: Penguin, 2011. – 398 pp.
- Snodgrass, Anthony. An Archaeology of Greece
Other non-fiction
Current
- Davidson, Cathy. Now you see it. How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Kindle.
- Ebert, Roger. The Great Movies. Kindle.
- Jacques, Martin. When China Rules the World. London: Penguin, 2012 [2009]. – 812 pp.
- Rheingold, Howard. Net Smart. How to Thrive Online. Kindle.
- de Waal, Edmund. The Hare with Amber Eyes. London: Vintage, 2009. – 354 pp.
Completed
- Berman, Avis. Edward Hopper’s New York. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2005. – 112 pp.
- Goldacre, Ben. Bad Pharma. London: Fourth estate, 2012. – 430 pp.
- Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. London: Penguin, 2012. – 499 pp.
- Law, John. Organizing modernity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. – 219 pp.
Classics old and new
Current
- Bilingual New Testament. King James Version/Clementine Vulgate. Kindle. [Latin/English]
- Cavafy, C.P. The collected poems. Oxford: OUP, 2007. – 238 s. [Modern Greek/English]
- Eliot, T.S. Poiimata. Athen: PRINTA, 2002. – 233 s. [= Selected Poems. English/Modern Greek]
- Homer “Ilias” und “Odyssee”. Die Zeichnungen von John Flaxman. Mit einer kunsthistorische Einleitung von Anja Grebe. Darmstadt: Lambert Schneider (WBG), 2013. – 160 pp.
Completed
- Horace. Odes II. Vatis Amici. Text, translation and commentary by David West. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. – 156 pp.
- Milne, A.A. Chatka Puchatka. The House at Pooh Corner. Wersja dwujezyczna. Warszawa: Proszynski i S-ka, 2000. – 226 pp. [Polish/English]
Light reading
Completed
- Child, Lee [Jim Grant]. Bad luck and trouble. Kindle.
- - . Echo burning. Kindle.
- - . Gone tomorrow. Kindle.
- - . The hard way. Kindle.
- - . Persuasion. Kindle.
- - . Without fail. Kindle.
- - . Worth dying for. Kindle.
