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Four years of Amazon Wishlists

Phew. Here’s what’s left unread after four years collection on three different Amazon wishlists:

Fiction

  • A Woman Who (Rebecca Miller)
  • Any Human Heart (William Boyd)
  • Berlin. Steinerne Stadt (Jason Lutes)
  • Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  • Die Bibliothek von Babel. (Jorge L. Borges)
  • Fiktionen. Erzählungen 1939 – 1944 (Jorge L. Borges)
  • Liebesgedichte (Spanisch – Deutsch) (Pablo Neruda)
  • Love Poems (Erich Fried)
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
  • Talk Talk (T. C. Boyle)
  • The Big Over Easy. An investigation with the Nursery Crime Division (Jasper Fforde)
  • The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Children’s Edition (Mark Haddon)
  • The Fourth Bear (Jasper Fforde)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Communication and Communities

  • Communities Dominate Brands: Business and Marketing Challenges for the 21st Century (Tomi Ahonen)
  • Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities (Amy Jo Kim)
  • Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge (Etienne Wenger)
  • Die heimliche Medienrevolution – Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern (TELEPOLIS) (Erik Möller)
  • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (William Zinsser)
  • Style Guide (Profile Books Ltd)
  • Sustainable Development and Learning: Framing the Issues (Sir Neil Chalmers)
  • The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (Paul H. Ray)
  • Zielgerichtet moderieren (Martin Hartmann)

Music

  • Altes Gasthaus Love (Erdmöbel)
  • Faking the Books (Lali Puna)
  • Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday)
  • Lilith Fair [2cd] (Various)
  • Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen (Tocotronic)
  • Stolz der Rose – das Beste und mehr (Rosenstolz)

Politics

  • A Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Nelson Mandela)
  • An Inconvenient Truth (DVD ~ Davis Guggenheim)
  • Erste Rechts-Hilfe (Rolf Gössner)
  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change – Is Time Running Out? (Elizabeth Kolbert)
  • go. stop. act! (Marc Amann)
  • Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Amartya Sen)
  • Rules for Radicals (Saul Alinsky)
  • The Campaigning Handbook (Mark Lattimer)
  • The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen)
  • The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss (Alexander Wood)
  • Trade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development (Lloyd Axworthy)
  • Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (by Haruki Murakami)
  • Was für eine Welt wollen wir? (Richard von Weizsäcker)

Life and Stuff

  • Kauderwelsch, Scots, die Sprache der Schotten (Manfred Malzahn)
  • Kochen (fast) ohne Rezept (Hans Gerlach)
  • Kochen! Das Gelbe von GU. 1295 Rezepte, die man wirklich braucht (Sebastian Dickhaut)
  • Proofs from the Book (Martin Aigner)
  • Self-Made Man (Norah Vincent)
  • The Ancestor’s Tale (Richard Dawkins)
  • The Good Shopping Guide: Your Guide to Shopping with a Clear Conscience (Ethical Consumer Research Association)
  • The Return of the Naked Chef (Jamie Oliver)
  • The Tao of Pooh & the Te of Piglet (Benjamin Hoff)

Business and Productivity

  • Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out (Douglas Rushkoff)
  • Getting Things Done. The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (David Allen)
  • Managing from Clarity (James L. Ritchie-Dunham)
  • Never Check E-mail in the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work (Julie Morgenstern)
  • On Bullshit (by Harry G. Frankfurt)
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
  • The Dilbert Principle (Scott Adams)
  • The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management (Peter F. Drucker)
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (by Malcolm Gladwell)
  • The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations (by James Surowiecki (Author))
  • What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Guide for Job-Hunters and Career Changers (Richard N. Bolles)
  • Why Smart People Do Dumb Things (Mortimer R. Feinberg)

Guess it’s time for a visit to my local bookshop.

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