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!

Volker Nocke

Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.

Isnaldi R. Filho Souza

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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.

Greta Giljan

Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher

The genius manuscript of a unknown author makes the young poet Hildegunst von Mythennetz seek out the city of Buchhaim. Because if there's somewhere he can find the mysterious author, it's in the catacombes of this book-crazy city. Entering the city is like entering a giant library and he is drawn into a place where reading is actually dangerous.

Matthias Sutter

Jack Reacher: Killing Floor

Jack Reacher is the protagonist of a series of crime thriller novels by British author Lee Child.[1] In the stories, Jack Reacher was a major in the US Army's military police. Having left the Army at age 36, Reacher roams the United States, taking odd jobs and investigating suspicious and frequently dangerous situations.