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Toni Morrison

The story about the trauma of former slave Sethe who lost her baby shows how the experiences of slavery continue to traumatize generations, long after it has been believed to have been overcome. A classic of American literature, heartbreaking and masterly written.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written a masterpiece: The colorful and epic saga about the Columbian Buendía family and the city they built, Macondo.

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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg

Lean in is not only the title of Sheryl Sandberg's bestseller on women and leadership, but has also become a slogan of empowerment for women who seek the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

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Beyond

If you want to get to know the scientists behind the work even better, this is just the right place for you. In this section of Beyond, the researchers present books which have impacted their lives and their ways of thinking in meaningful ways. The books presented range from novels, to memoirs, to science books of all sorts. You can filter the books by genre or just scroll through the list. This is also a great way to get inspiration for your own reading!

Monika Betzler

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee's novel has all the themes and emotions to make it memorable: A complex father-daughter relationship, a mid-life professor facing "Me-too" -allegations, and a South Africa at the end of apartheid.

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Josef Drexl

Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch

Psychoanalysis according to freud made waves in europe. Now, after his return from exile in france, psychoanalyst muo is trying to establish this in china as well - in vain. An entertaining culture shock from the author of "Balzac" and "The Little Chinese Seamstress".

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Claudia Tiersch

The Museum of Innocence

In the masterfully written romance novel by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, Kemal, son of one of the richest families in Istanbul, falls in love with the saleswoman Fusun. He begins to collect objects that, on the one hand, reflect his obsession with Fusun and, on the other hand, depict Istanbul between tradition and modernity.

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Kai Sundmacher

What is Life?

Originally written for laypeople, Erwin Schrödinger's "What is Life" became a starting point for molecular biology and the discovery of dna. Along with the essay "Mind and Matters" and autobiographical details, this book is a great collage of Schrödinger's work

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead