Small list to start
- 🇫🇮Tove Jansson
- 🇫🇷 Eric L’Homme
- 🇫🇷 Pierre Bottero
- 🇧🇪 Emile Jadoul
- 🇧🇪 Mario Ramos
- 🇸🇪 Astrid Lindgren
- 🇩🇪Torben Kuhlmann
- 🇫🇷 Gilles Bachelet
- 🇮🇹 Geronimo Stilton’s team
- 🇪🇸 Meritxell Marti
- 🇳🇱 Dick Bruna
Andrey Kurkov (Death and the Penguin) Albert Camus Franz Kafka
Poland:
- Stanislaw Lem (Science Fiction)
Austria:
- Wolf Haas (dark humour, detective stories)
Sweden:
- stieg Larsson (crime fiction - he wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
- Astrid Lindgreen (children’s books)
England:
- Douglas Adams (science fiction, he wrote the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
- Oscar Wilde
- j.r.r. Tolkien - the lord of the rings , the hobbit
- Agatha Christie - crime novels
Germany:
- Walter Moers ( Fantasy but his own kind, not elves and orks)
- Erich kästner (famous for his children’s books that also are good reads for adults, famous for being present when the Nazis burned his books)
- Michael Ende (the best childrens books, and some actually too deep for children, “Momo”, “The Neverending Story” to name 2)
- Herman Hesse (must read for people between 15-25)
Nice list!
I would only add England - Terry Pratchett (Fantasy, but in an ironic, funny, quirky way, in its own world…with lots of “real world” ironies and sarcasm)
Then… its perfect ;)
I knew i forgot something. :D thanks.
🇵🇱 Stanisław Lem - sci-fi author, had some good predictions on future tech. There is a video game loosely based on one of his novels, “The Invincible”
🇵🇱 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Witcher series
🇬🇧 Dan Abnett - great Warhammer 40K books
Fan of Lem’s - didn’t know about the game, cool!
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett
🏴 Iain Banks
🇬🇧 China Mieville
🇬🇧 Charles Stross’ Laundry Files
Ooh, Iain Banks, good call.
🇨🇿 Jiri Weil
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett
🇬🇧 Charles Williams
🇩🇪 Walter Moers
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🇬🇧 Ed Winters
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🇬🇧 Mary Beard
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🇬🇧 George Orwell
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🇮🇪 Sally Rooney
🇦🇱 Ismail Kadere
🇩🇪 Hermann Hesse
🇮🇹 Elena Ferrante
🇬🇧 Agathe Christie - the best selling author in the world, creator of Hercule Poirot and Ms. Marple as well as the best selling novel of all time: “And Then There Were None”
🇬🇧 P. G. Wodehouse - a wonderful wielder of words and the creator of Jeeves and Wooster (although I prefer the Blandings novels)
🇬🇧 Mick Herron - the best spy fiction author since John le Carré but with a lot more failure and stains
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett - the Discworld creator and excellent satiristHmm, how dreadfully anglocentric of me. Hopefully this thread will give me some other ideas!
Can we please mark/divide them in fiction vs non-fiction or, even better, give a professional title to the non-fiction ones?
I don’t read fiction since 20 years now, but I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.
I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.
I suppose the modern go-to is Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
Very interesting, thanks! I am a Gary’s Economics follower and reader, despite not living in the UK which is undoubtedly his focus, so this is really my kind of thing.
Big fan of Gary’s Economics - he and Varoufakis got me thinking more about Neofeudalism.
And if anyone reading this hasn’t done so, it is worth subscribing to Gary’s Economics at least until we can get those channels off YouTube.
Introduction to Econophysics, by R N Mantegna. Italian author published by Cambridge UK.
Technofeudalism, by Y Varoufakis. Greek economist and former minister of finance of Greece.
Technofeudalism, by Y Varoufakis. Greek economist and former minister of finance of Greece.
His website draws together his articles and it is worth grabbing the RSS feed.
Reading Technofeudalism right now. How approachable is the first title?
I read it with physics major level math and almost no background in economics and it was a great insight for me. You certainly need some knowledge of math, but other than that it’s an introductory book so it’s beginner friendly.
but I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.
🇳🇱 Rutger Bregman comes to mind
Yep, he is the first I ever added to this very short list of mine, and has been the only one for a while.
Hans Rosling 🇸🇪
Sorry if I don’t abide by the format but:
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From Spain: Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Marcos Ana. All three are amazing poets. All of them have the spanish civil war as an over arching theme in their works.
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Julio Cortázar, wrote tales, nouvelles and novels. He was born in Switzerland, migrated to Argentina then spent his last years in France. His most acclaimed novel, Hopscotch, is a labyrinth of short stories that connect to create a greater narrative. Truly a work of art.
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Hugo Pratt. A graphic novel writer, author of Corto Maltese, probably my favourite graphic novel of all times. It’s a classic. He was born in… Crete I think? Began publishing in Italy, then migrated to Argentina where he made most of his carreer.
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Neil Gaiman. Author of The Sandman, an all-time favourite of mine, Books Of Magic, famously the work which “inspired” J K Rowling… He is british, although he migrated to America. Sadly he has recently been known for his abusive practices towards his female employees.
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Herman Hesse. Pretty sure he was german, awarded a novel prize. He was the go to author during my teenage years. His books are aimed to a young adult audience and are filled with existential and philosophical debates. My favourite book, The Glass Bead Game, was a turning point in my life.
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abusive practicesjust say rape, that’s what it was. Neil Gaiman is a serial rapist. Also female employee = a homeless woman he and his wife “hired” (i.e. she didn’t get paid until it was time to get rid of her when it looked like she was going to contact the police) and sexually and emotionally abused over the years.Oh wow. Sorry, I’m not from England, I didn’t know it was this harsh. I vaguely read about it in the news.
Gaiman was one of my favourite authors for nearly three decades. It fucking sucks and of course what he did doesn’t change his works, but it’s hard to recommend them anymore. New York magazine published a damning article in January. It’s awful, nightmarish and absolutely vile, what he did to those women, and sometimes even his son was in the same room… The article does a great job at painting this picture of a sad, lonely man traumatised by his heavy scientology past and abusive father.
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