TED 2013 Summer Reading List

Beskrivelse
The TED conference asked its 2013 speakers for book recommendations. See http://blog.ted.com/2013/05/31/your-mega-summer-reading-list-180-books-recommended-by-tedsters/ for the list.
1
Jane Eyre
af Charlotte Brontë
57,429 medlemmer
902 anmeldelser
4.2
7 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
2
The Once and Future King
af T. H. White
14,979 medlemmer
197 anmeldelser
4.1
6 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, pschlik, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Good Omens
af Terry Pratchett
33,785 medlemmer
775 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
5 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, baconshire, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
4
Maus : en overlevende fortæller
af Art Spiegelman
8,387 medlemmer
248 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
5 Members
hipdeep, cej1027, debbielovesdogs, mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Den gode jord
af Pearl S. Buck
13,541 medlemmer
262 anmeldelser
4
4 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire
6
I Want My Hat Back
af Jon Klassen
2,865 medlemmer
264 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
3 Members
pateke, LoriAnnK, cej1027
7
Vejen til verden af i dag
af Jared Diamond
24,491 medlemmer
365 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, pschlik
8
Steen & Stoffer - Tunfisk og tøjtigre
af Bill Watterson
5,236 medlemmer
34 anmeldelser
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
af Bill Watterson
4,309 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
½ 4.6
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Neuromantiker : cyberpunk-roman
af William Gibson
22,722 medlemmer
368 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, mspixieears
11
Ender's strategi : roman
af Orson Scott Card
40,286 medlemmer
1,031 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
3 Members
ahef1963, debbielovesdogs, baconshire,ManWithAnAgenda
12
House of Leaves
af Mark Z. Danielewski
15,071 medlemmer
364 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
ahef1963, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
13
Det du har om halsen : noveller
af Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1,811 medlemmer
74 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, kara.shamy
14
Så var det slut
af Joshua Ferris
4,466 medlemmer
219 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
2 Members
kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
15
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
af Henry Louis Gates Jr.
114 medlemmer
3
2 Members
LoriAnnK, kara.shamy
16
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
af Richard Bach
4,595 medlemmer
76 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, Emmay
17
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
af Christopher Moore
10,444 medlemmer
412 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
bplas, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
af Joseph E. Stiglitz
1,096 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
LoriAnnK, kara.shamy
19
Vi er nødt til at tale om Kevin
af Lionel Shriver
7,656 medlemmer
393 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, mspixieears
20
Carry On, Jeeves
af P. G. Wodehouse
3,460 medlemmer
72 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
21
Bedemandens datter : en tragikomisk familiehistorie
af Alison Bechdel
7,896 medlemmer
361 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
mspixieears, ManWithAnAgenda
22
Lolita
af Vladimir Nabokov
31,154 medlemmer
546 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
kara.shamy, baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda,cej1027
23
Klit
af Frank Herbert
40,748 medlemmer
649 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
baconshire, ManWithAnAgenda
24
Middlesex
af Jeffrey Eugenides
26,837 medlemmer
622 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, kara.shamy
25
Det er Mængden, der gør det
af Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
4,617 medlemmer
80 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
cej1027, debbielovesdogs
26
1Q84
af Haruki Murakami
8,615 medlemmer
345 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
debbielovesdogs, baconshire
27
Tegneserier : fornøjelse, fremstilling, forståelse
af Scott McCloud
5,041 medlemmer
97 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
28
Fight club
af Chuck Palahniuk
18,966 medlemmer
322 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
29
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
af Walter Isaacson
5,278 medlemmer
79 anmeldelser
4
Member
pschlik
30
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
af Roddy Doyle
3,954 medlemmer
79 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
cej1027
31
This Is a Book
af Demetri Martin
542 medlemmer
31 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
Behind the Kitchen Door
af Saru Jayaraman
155 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
Member
bplas
33
Levende historie
af Hillary Rodham Clinton
3,222 medlemmer
39 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
34
All My Friends Are Dead
af Avery Monsen
1,038 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
Sådan mister du hende
af Junot Díaz
2,846 medlemmer
121 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
kara.shamy
36
Go the F**k to Sleep
af Adam Mansbach
1,876 medlemmer
148 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Company
af Robert Littell
1,266 medlemmer
24 anmeldelser
4
Member
LoriAnnK
38
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
af Alison Bechdel
1,906 medlemmer
99 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
af Tanner Colby
128 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
LoriAnnK
40
Hr. Penumbras døgnåbne bogbutik
af Robin Sloan
8,105 medlemmer
706 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
cej1027
41
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
af Tracy Kidder
4,824 medlemmer
145 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
42
Perdido Street Station
af China Miéville
9,218 medlemmer
313 anmeldelser
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
43
Everyone Poops
af Tarō Gomi
1,994 medlemmer
80 anmeldelser
4
Member
cej1027
44
Wonder
af R. J. Palacio
13,519 medlemmer
1,222 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
Member
debbielovesdogs
45
Ringverden
af Larry Niven
9,736 medlemmer
180 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Horn
af Joe Hill
4,382 medlemmer
289 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
kara.shamy
47
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean
af Nick Bantock
666 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
48
Vindens skygge
af Carlos Ruiz Zafón
27,413 medlemmer
1,026 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Power of Myth
af Joseph Campbell
7,617 medlemmer
61 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
baconshire
50
John Adams
af David McCullough
13,381 medlemmer
192 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
51
Hyldest til Catalonien
af George Orwell
6,011 medlemmer
102 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
baconshire
52
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't
af Nate Silver
3,114 medlemmer
83 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
baconshire
53
Mysteries of Winterthurn
af Joyce Carol Oates
313 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
kara.shamy
54
Austerlitz
af W. G. Sebald
4,042 medlemmer
96 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
kara.shamy
55
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
af Paul Auster
1,204 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
ahef1963
56
An Intimate History of Humanity
af Theodore Zeldin
1,018 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
baconshire
57
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
af Brian Greene
1,589 medlemmer
38 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
baconshire
58
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
af Michael Ruhlman
1,152 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
4
Member
baconshire
59
Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness
af Jessica Valenti
155 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
Member
kara.shamy
60
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
af Isabel Wilkerson
4,973 medlemmer
177 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
61
The Principles of Uncertainty
af Maira Kalman
845 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
baconshire
62
The Forever War
af Joe Haldeman
9,214 medlemmer
244 anmeldelser
4
63
Hotel New Hampshire
af John Irving
7,246 medlemmer
74 anmeldelser
3.9
64
Mit navn er Rød
af Orhan Pamuk
6,922 medlemmer
169 anmeldelser
3.8
65
The Player of Games
af Iain M. Banks
6,307 medlemmer
191 anmeldelser
4.1
66
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
af Kurt Vonnegut
6,172 medlemmer
52 anmeldelser
3.9
67
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
af Michelle Alexander
5,054 medlemmer
137 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
68
On a Pale Horse
af Piers Anthony
4,986 medlemmer
89 anmeldelser
3.8
69
Ways of Seeing
af John Berger
4,838 medlemmer
59 anmeldelser
4
70
The Essential Rumi
af Jalal al-Din Rumi
4,174 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
71
Moonwalk med Einstein : kunsten at huske alt
af Joshua Foer
4,132 medlemmer
131 anmeldelser
3.8
72
On Basilisk Station
af David Weber
3,993 medlemmer
113 anmeldelser
3.9
73
Ankomsten
af Shaun Tan
3,902 medlemmer
354 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
74
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
af Tom Holland
3,516 medlemmer
68 anmeldelser
4
75
Accelerando
af Charles Stross
3,311 medlemmer
121 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
76
Når verden bryder sammen : vejledning til svære tider
af Pema Chödrön
3,109 medlemmer
58 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
77
Press Here
af Hervé Tullet
2,937 medlemmer
182 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
78
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
af Robert A. Caro
2,777 medlemmer
46 anmeldelser
½ 4.6
79
Personal History
af Katharine Graham
2,652 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
4
80
Daemon
af Daniel Suarez
2,640 medlemmer
148 anmeldelser
3.9
81
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
af Richard Holmes
2,629 medlemmer
60 anmeldelser
4.1
82
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
af Richard Louv
2,463 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
4
83
ReWork
af Jason Fried
2,258 medlemmer
82 anmeldelser
3.8
84
The Intuitionist
af Colson Whitehead
2,163 medlemmer
61 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
85
The Neutronium Alchemist
af Peter F. Hamilton
2,011 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
4
86
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
af William McDonough
1,922 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
4
87
Banksy: Wall and Piece
af Banksy
1,921 medlemmer
30 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
88
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
af Cheryl Strayed
1,809 medlemmer
82 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
89
Tristes Tropiques
af Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,760 medlemmer
22 anmeldelser
3.9
90
Warren Buffett - et liv med milliarder
af Alice Schroeder
1,751 medlemmer
25 anmeldelser
4.1
91
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
af Rosamund Stone Zander
1,581 medlemmer
34 anmeldelser
3.9
92
Await Your Reply
af Dan Chaon
1,557 medlemmer
151 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
93
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
af Sudhir Venkatesh
1,455 medlemmer
48 anmeldelser
3.9
94
The narrow road to the Deep North : and other travel sketches
af Matsuo Bashō
1,434 medlemmer
25 anmeldelser
3.9
95
Letters to a Young Contrarian
af Christopher Hitchens
1,338 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
4
96
A Dark-Adapted Eye
af Barbara Vine
1,205 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
3.8
97
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
af Manning Marable
1,112 medlemmer
29 anmeldelser
4.1
98
Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu
af Osamu Tezuka
1,092 medlemmer
35 anmeldelser
4
99
The Way of Chuang Tzu
af Thomas Merton
1,074 medlemmer
13 anmeldelser
4.1
100
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
af Esther Perel
958 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
3.8