Kerstans Kanon - Leserempfehlungen

October 10, 2024
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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
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Details	Rating
Die Vereindeutigung der Welt Thomas Bauer	0
Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V Elfriede Jelinek	0
Gretchen Sackmeier Christine Nöstlinger	0
Der Existentialismus ist ein Humanismus und andere philosophische Essays Jean-Paul Sartre	0
The Bhagavad Gita Juan Mascaró (Translator) Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa	3.77
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56
White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.93
Water music T.C. Boyle	5
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	4.28
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.36
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.23
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler	4.62
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.1
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	3.99
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys	3.41
Psychologie der Massen Gustave Le Bon	2
Mythologies Roland Barthes Annette Lavers (Translator)	4.18
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.95
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06
Crowds and Power Elias Canetti	3
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Florence Lamborn (Translator)	3.92
Against Interpretation Susan Sontag	3.4
The Qur'an Anonymous N.J. Dawood (Translator)	1.38
Jugend ohne Gott Ödön von Horváth	2.63
Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada Michael Hofmann (Translator)	4.5
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.15
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.73
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.14
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	4.06
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.88
Der geteilte Himmel Christa Wolf	3.5
Die gestundete Zeit Ingeborg Bachmann	0
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.76
Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.86
Erkenntnis und Interesse Jürgen Habermas	0
Erfolg Lion Feuchtwanger	5
Ellbogen Fatma Aydemir	0
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas Virginia Woolf	3.96
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt	4.25
Das Dritte Reich und die Juden Saul Friedländer Orna Kenan	0
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi	3.93
Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess Juli Zeh	3.45
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.99
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir	4.07
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.25
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr	4.17
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde	4.05
Kulturindustrie Max Horkheimer Theodor W. Adorno	0
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.19
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.08
Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig	3.42
Die Welle Morton Rhue Hans-Georg Noack (Translator)	3
The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Patrick Bowles (Translator)	3.5
The History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell	4.14
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.9
Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Carl Sagan Ron Miller	4.19
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides	0
The Art of War Sun Tzu Thomas Cleary (Translator)	3.67
Dune Frank Herbert	4.28
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Manheim (Translator)	4.11
Momo Michael Ende	4.28
Das Gesamtwerk Das Gesamtwerk Wolfgang Borchert	4
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Karl Marx Edward Aveling (translator) Samuel Moore (translator)	3.94
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant	3.3
Ethics for the new millennium Dalai Lama XIV	4
Rumi's World: The Life and Works of the Great Sufi Poet Annemarie Schimmel	0

Details	Rating
Die Vereindeutigung der Welt Thomas Bauer	0
Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V Elfriede Jelinek	0
Gretchen Sackmeier Christine Nöstlinger	0
Der Existentialismus ist ein Humanismus und andere philosophische Essays Jean-Paul Sartre	0
The Bhagavad Gita Juan Mascaró (Translator) Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa	3.77
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56
White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.93
Water music T.C. Boyle	5
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	4.28
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.36
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.23
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler	4.62
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.1
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	3.99
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys	3.41
Psychologie der Massen Gustave Le Bon	2
Mythologies Roland Barthes Annette Lavers (Translator)	4.18
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.95
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06
Crowds and Power Elias Canetti	3
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Florence Lamborn (Translator)	3.92
Against Interpretation Susan Sontag	3.4
The Qur'an Anonymous N.J. Dawood (Translator)	1.38
Jugend ohne Gott Ödön von Horváth	2.63
Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada Michael Hofmann (Translator)	4.5
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.15
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.73
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.14
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	4.06
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.88
Der geteilte Himmel Christa Wolf	3.5
Die gestundete Zeit Ingeborg Bachmann	0
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.76
Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.86
Erkenntnis und Interesse Jürgen Habermas	0
Erfolg Lion Feuchtwanger	5
Ellbogen Fatma Aydemir	0
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas Virginia Woolf	3.96
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt	4.25
Das Dritte Reich und die Juden Saul Friedländer Orna Kenan	0
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi	3.93
Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess Juli Zeh	3.45
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	3.99
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir	4.07
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.25
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr	4.17
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.64
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde	4.05
Kulturindustrie Max Horkheimer Theodor W. Adorno	0
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.19
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.08
Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig	3.42
Die Welle Morton Rhue Hans-Georg Noack (Translator)	3
The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Patrick Bowles (Translator)	3.5
The History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell	4.14
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.9
Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Carl Sagan Ron Miller	4.19
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides	0
The Art of War Sun Tzu Thomas Cleary (Translator)	3.67
Dune Frank Herbert	4.28
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Manheim (Translator)	4.11
Momo Michael Ende	4.28
Das Gesamtwerk Das Gesamtwerk Wolfgang Borchert	4
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Karl Marx Edward Aveling (translator) Samuel Moore (translator)	3.94
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant	3.3
Ethics for the new millennium Dalai Lama XIV	4
Rumi's World: The Life and Works of the Great Sufi Poet Annemarie Schimmel	0

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