Books
A short list of books, which are worth reading. Whenever possible, I used original titles. The rating is reflecting my personal opinion. However, even one star books are quite good as I don't list bad ones in the first place.
Scientific text books
Biographies
Misc non-fiction
Thrillers
Historic novels
Science fiction
Fantasy
Anti-utopia
Humorous novels
Miscellaneous novels
| Title | Author | Rating |
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| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking |  |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | |
| The Double Helix | James D. Watson | |
| What is Life? | Erwin Schrödinger |
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| Fermat's Last Theorem | Simon Singh |
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| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson |
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| The First Three Minutes | Steven Weinberg |
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| Bones of Contention | Paul Chambers | |
| QED - The Strange Theory of Light and Matter | Richard P. Feynman |
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| Seitensprünge der Evolution | Matthias Glaubrecht | |
| How to Build a Time Machine | Paul Davies | |
| The Universe in a Nutshell | Stephen Hawking |
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| Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays | Stephen Hawking | |
| Gedankenexperimente | Henning Genz | |
| Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematic Matters | Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Title | Author | Rating |
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| DNA Computing - New Computing Paradigms | Gheorge Paun, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa |
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| Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics | Masatoshi Nei, Sudhir Cumar | |
| Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics | Warren J. Ewens, Gregory R. Grant | |
| Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation |
John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman |
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| Plant Physiology | Lincoln Taiz, Eduardo Zaiger |
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| Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Just for Fun | Linus Torvalds, David Diamond | |
| Der Teil und das Ganze | Werner Heisenberg | |
| Mein Leben, meine Weltansicht | Erwin Schrödinger | |
| Grüße aus der Hölle | Matti Nykänen, Egon Theiner | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Il Principe | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | |
| Der Selbstmord | Roger Willemsen | |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | |
| Manifest des evolutionören Humanismus | Michael Schmidt-Salomon | |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Eye of the Needle | Ken Follett | |
| The Man from St. Petersburg | Ken Follett | |
| The Third Twin | Ken Follett | |
| The Hammer of Eden | Ken Follett | |
| Whiteout | Ken Follett | |
| Ikiyö | Ilkka Remes | |
| Hiroshiman portti | Ilkka Remes | |
| Nimessä ja veressä | Ilkka Remes | |
| Ruttokellot | Ilkka Remes | |
| 6/12 | Ilkka Remes | |
| Pahan perimä | Ilkka Remes | |
| Dino Park | Michael Crichton | |
| Innan frosten | Henning Mankell | |
| Enigma | Robert Harris | |
| Fatherland | Robert Harris | |
| En busca de Klingsor | Jorge Volpi | |
| Kostan komissio | Taavi Soininvaara | |
| Ebola-Helsinki | Taavi Soininvaara | |
| Ikuisesti paha | Taavi Soininvaara | |
| inferno.fi | Taavi Soininvaara | |
| Cast of Shadows | Kevin Guilfoile | |
| The Alexander Cipher | Will Adams | |
| Der Schwarm | Frank Schätzing | |
| The Chemistry of Death | Simon Beckett | |
| Written in Bone | Simon Beckett | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | |
| World Without End | Ken Follett | |
| Sinuhe egyptiläinen | Mika Waltari | |
| Le Comte de Monte-Christo | Alexandre Dumas | |
| Les Trois Mousquetaires | Alexandre Dumas | |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | |
| Notre Dame de Paris | Victor Hugo | |
| Il nome della rosa | Umberto Eco | |
| Cien anos de soledad | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
| Pompeji | Robert Harris | |
| Imperium | Robert Harris | |
| The Last Kingdom | Bernhard Cornwell | |
| Die Vermessung der Welt | Daniel Kehlmann | |
| La Catedral del Mar | Ildefonso Falcones | |
| Keisri hull | Jaan Kross | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| A Stich in Time | Andrew J. Robinson | |
| The Lives of Dax | Marco Palmieri | |
| Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear | |
| Darwin's Children | Greg Bear | |
| The Foundation Triology | Isaac Asimov | |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | |
| The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells | |
| 2001 - A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| Evolution | Stephen Baxter | |
| Solaris | Stanislav Lem | |
| Zone Null | Herbert W. Franke | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
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| The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| Unfinished Tales | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| The Children of Hurin | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
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| 1984 | George Orwell | |
| Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | |
| We | Yevgeny Zamyatin | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
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| Russendisko | Wladimir Kaminer | |
| Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Jäniksen vuosi | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Hirtettyjen kettujen metsä | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Ukkosenjumalan poika | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Suloinen myrkynkeittäjä | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Herranen aika | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Maailman paras kylä | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Paratiisisaaren vangit | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Onnellinen mies | Arto Paasilinna | |
| Rovasti Huuskosen petomainen miespalvelija | Arto Paasilinna | |
| English Passengers | Matthew Kneale | |
| Canal Grande | Hannu Raittila |
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| Atlantis | Hannu Raittila | |
| Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Seitsemän veljestä | Aleksis Kivi | |
| About a Boy | Nick Hornby | |
| Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| Sofies verden | Jostein Gaarder | |
| Sirkusdirektoerens datter | Jostein Gaarder | |
| Maya | Jostein Gaarder | |
| La mort est mon metier | Robert Merle | |
| L'etranger | Albert Camus | |