Book Recommendations

Beloved
Toni Morrison
The story about the trauma of former slave Sethe who lost her baby shows how the experiences of slavery continue to traumatize generations, long after it has been believed to have been overcome. A classic of American literature, heartbreaking and masterly written.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written a masterpiece: The colorful and epic saga about the Columbian Buendía family and the city they built, Macondo.
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg
Lean in is not only the title of Sheryl Sandberg's bestseller on women and leadership, but has also become a slogan of empowerment for women who seek the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Beyond

If you want to get to know the scientists behind the work even better, this is just the right place for you. In this section of Beyond, the researchers present books which have impacted their lives and their ways of thinking in meaningful ways. The books presented range from novels, to memoirs, to science books of all sorts. You can filter the books by genre or just scroll through the list. This is also a great way to get inspiration for your own reading!

Franziska Jundt's Pick
I do believe that this is the book where you learn that you cannot organize everything in life completely, but there are certain things happening coming from the outside, which completely disturb what you planned to do and you have to deal with it.
Franziska Jundt, Franziska Jundt
Friederike Welter's Pick
A really interesting book from 1944 about how markets changed, how cultures changed, how societies changed. I've been recommending it to very many people because I think it's highly relevant nowadays.
Friederike Welter, Friederike Welter
Missing asset
Georg Weizsäcker's Pick
Three books on the downfall of the British Empire - a sad topic, but told with so much humor and dignity that I found it extremely uplifting and funny.
Georg Weizsäcker, Georg Weizsäcker
Greta Giljan's Pick
To me it was very fascinating how this book was illustrated, and that many fundamental societal questions were addressed in a very playful way.
Greta Giljan, Greta Giljan
Han Ye's Pick
When I was reading this book I was quite inspired, because you see the stories behind Anderson's intellectual work.
Han Ye, Han Ye
Hannah Illing's Pick
It's not only in economics that researchers have often focused on men - in medicine and health too, where it has even more severe consequences.
Hannah Illing, Hannah Illing
Hans Segura's Pick
Books are a liberation. In a world of TikTok and Twitter, you have to really focus and understand what it's telling you.
Hans Segura, Hans Segura
Husnu Dalgic's Pick
Science fiction is like building an economic model - creating a universe from scratch to understand what might happen in our own.
Husnu Dalgic, Husnu Dalgic