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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!

Jan Peter Schmidt

Living to Tell the Tale
Some people's lives seem to spring from a fairy tale, as colorful, dramatic and full of excitement as they are. Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of his life, from his birth in 1927 to his marriage proposal in the 1950s. A story that is in no way inferior to his great novels.
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Elena Dubovitskaya

The Master and Margarita
Set in two cities, Moscow and Jerusalem, The Master and the Margarita is a devastating yet funny satire about the soviet union, a manifest for artistic freedom and a literary streak of light on the horizon for russians all over the world.
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Megha Amrith

Beloved
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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Diego Alburez-Gutierrez

One Hundred Years of Solitude
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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