Kerstans Kanon - Leserempfehlungen

October 10, 2024
67 Books
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Kerstans Kanon is an attempt to create a common collection of knowledge that may be considered "cultural canon". This collection is limited by a very germano-centric perspective, however, others may find this collection interesting nonetheless or specifically therefore.

Kerstan divides his canon into three literary categories:
- History and Philosophy (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-philosophie-geschichte)
- Language and Communication (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-sprache-kommunikation)
- History and Philosophy (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-mathematik-naturwissenschaft)

Beneath the article where this canon was published, a lively discussion developed, where many more works were suggested to be added. I have collected many here: https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-leserempfehlungen

The original article (in german) can be found here:
https://fd.phwa.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Kerstan-Kanon.pdf

As published in Zeit:
https://www.zeit.de/2018/34/allgemeinwissen-kanon-globalisierung-digitalisierung-jugend-bildung

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Kerstans Kanon - Leserempfehlungen

October 10, 2024
67 Books
Stats

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Die Vereindeutigung der Welt Thomas Bauer	0	0 reads
Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V Elfriede Jelinek	0	0 reads
Gretchen Sackmeier Christine Nöstlinger	0	0 reads
Der Existentialismus ist ein Humanismus und andere philosophische Essays Jean-Paul Sartre	0	0 reads
The Bhagavad Gita Juan Mascaró (Translator) Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa	3.77	34 reads
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56	390 reads
White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.93	114 reads
Water music T.C. Boyle	5	3 reads
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	4.28	41 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.37	353 reads
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.22	186 reads
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler	4.62	26 reads
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.11	3,008 reads
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	3.99	882 reads
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys	3.41	94 reads
Psychologie der Massen Gustave Le Bon	2	1 read
Mythologies Roland Barthes Annette Lavers (Translator)	4.18	22 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.95	272 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06	246 reads
Crowds and Power Elias Canetti	3	1 read
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Florence Lamborn (Translator)	3.95	100 reads
Against Interpretation Susan Sontag	3.4	15 reads
The Qur'an Anonymous N.J. Dawood (Translator)	1.38	10 reads
Jugend ohne Gott Ödön von Horváth	2.63	7 reads
Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada Michael Hofmann (Translator)	4.5	9 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.14	374 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.73	2,025 reads
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.14	2,100 reads
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	4.06	142 reads
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.87	179 reads
Der geteilte Himmel Christa Wolf	3.5	2 reads
Die gestundete Zeit Ingeborg Bachmann	0	0 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.76	478 reads
Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.85	1,324 reads
Erkenntnis und Interesse Jürgen Habermas	0	0 reads
Erfolg Lion Feuchtwanger	5	1 read
Ellbogen Fatma Aydemir	0	0 reads
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas Virginia Woolf	3.96	110 reads
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt	4.25	37 reads
Das Dritte Reich und die Juden Saul Friedländer Orna Kenan	0	0 reads
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi	3.93	8 reads
Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess Juli Zeh	3.45	13 reads
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.98	592 reads
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir	4.07	42 reads
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.25	237 reads
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr	4.17	8 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64	318 reads
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde	4.06	867 reads
Kulturindustrie Max Horkheimer Theodor W. Adorno	0	0 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.19	815 reads
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.08	933 reads
Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig	3.42	19 reads
Die Welle Morton Rhue Hans-Georg Noack (Translator)	3	7 reads
The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Patrick Bowles (Translator)	3.5	27 reads
The History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell	4.14	27 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.9	1,544 reads
Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Carl Sagan Ron Miller	4.2	255 reads
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides	0	0 reads
The Art of War Sun Tzu Thomas Cleary (Translator)	3.67	316 reads
Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	2,294 reads
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Manheim (Translator)	4.11	187 reads
Momo Michael Ende	4.28	65 reads
Das Gesamtwerk Das Gesamtwerk Wolfgang Borchert	4	1 read
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Karl Marx Edward Aveling (translator) Samuel Moore (translator)	3.94	21 reads
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant	3.3	39 reads
Ethics for the new millennium Dalai Lama XIV	4	4 reads
Rumi's World: The Life and Works of the Great Sufi Poet Annemarie Schimmel	0	0 reads

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Die Vereindeutigung der Welt Thomas Bauer	0	0 reads
Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V Elfriede Jelinek	0	0 reads
Gretchen Sackmeier Christine Nöstlinger	0	0 reads
Der Existentialismus ist ein Humanismus und andere philosophische Essays Jean-Paul Sartre	0	0 reads
The Bhagavad Gita Juan Mascaró (Translator) Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa	3.77	34 reads
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56	390 reads
White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.93	114 reads
Water music T.C. Boyle	5	3 reads
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	4.28	41 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.37	353 reads
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.22	186 reads
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler	4.62	26 reads
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.11	3,008 reads
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	3.99	882 reads
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys	3.41	94 reads
Psychologie der Massen Gustave Le Bon	2	1 read
Mythologies Roland Barthes Annette Lavers (Translator)	4.18	22 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.95	272 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06	246 reads
Crowds and Power Elias Canetti	3	1 read
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Florence Lamborn (Translator)	3.95	100 reads
Against Interpretation Susan Sontag	3.4	15 reads
The Qur'an Anonymous N.J. Dawood (Translator)	1.38	10 reads
Jugend ohne Gott Ödön von Horváth	2.63	7 reads
Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada Michael Hofmann (Translator)	4.5	9 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.14	374 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.73	2,025 reads
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.14	2,100 reads
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	4.06	142 reads
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.87	179 reads
Der geteilte Himmel Christa Wolf	3.5	2 reads
Die gestundete Zeit Ingeborg Bachmann	0	0 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.76	478 reads
Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.85	1,324 reads
Erkenntnis und Interesse Jürgen Habermas	0	0 reads
Erfolg Lion Feuchtwanger	5	1 read
Ellbogen Fatma Aydemir	0	0 reads
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas Virginia Woolf	3.96	110 reads
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt	4.25	37 reads
Das Dritte Reich und die Juden Saul Friedländer Orna Kenan	0	0 reads
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi	3.93	8 reads
Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess Juli Zeh	3.45	13 reads
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.98	592 reads
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir	4.07	42 reads
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.25	237 reads
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr	4.17	8 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64	318 reads
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde	4.06	867 reads
Kulturindustrie Max Horkheimer Theodor W. Adorno	0	0 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.19	815 reads
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.08	933 reads
Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig	3.42	19 reads
Die Welle Morton Rhue Hans-Georg Noack (Translator)	3	7 reads
The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Patrick Bowles (Translator)	3.5	27 reads
The History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell	4.14	27 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.9	1,544 reads
Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Carl Sagan Ron Miller	4.2	255 reads
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides	0	0 reads
The Art of War Sun Tzu Thomas Cleary (Translator)	3.67	316 reads
Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	2,294 reads
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Manheim (Translator)	4.11	187 reads
Momo Michael Ende	4.28	65 reads
Das Gesamtwerk Das Gesamtwerk Wolfgang Borchert	4	1 read
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Karl Marx Edward Aveling (translator) Samuel Moore (translator)	3.94	21 reads
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant	3.3	39 reads
Ethics for the new millennium Dalai Lama XIV	4	4 reads
Rumi's World: The Life and Works of the Great Sufi Poet Annemarie Schimmel	0	0 reads

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