Kerstans Kanon - Leserempfehlungen

Updated 9 months ago
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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

Details	Rating	Readers Count
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking	4.18	439 reads
Against Interpretation Susan Sontag	3.83	27 reads
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.12	588 reads
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lucia Berlin	4.3	51 reads
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.25	337 reads
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas Virginia Woolf	4.01	181 reads
Beloved Toni Morrison	3.91	437 reads
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates	4.56	568 reads
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88	2,434 reads
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Karl Marx Edward Aveling (translator) Samuel Moore (translator)	3.97	38 reads
Catch-22 Joseph Heller	4	907 reads
Corpus Delicti Juli Zeh	3.58	16 reads
Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant	3.49	59 reads
Crowds and Power Elias Canetti	3	1 read
Das Dritte Reich und die Juden Saul Friedländer Orna Kenan	0	0 reads
Das Gesamtwerk Das Gesamtwerk Wolfgang Borchert	4	1 read
Der Existentialismus ist ein Humanismus und andere philosophische Essays Jean-Paul Sartre	0	0 reads
Der geteilte Himmel Christa Wolf	3.5	2 reads
Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V Elfriede Jelinek	0	0 reads
Die gestundete Zeit Ingeborg Bachmann	0	0 reads
Die Vereindeutigung der Welt Thomas Bauer	0	0 reads
Die Welle Morton Rhue	2.64	16 reads
Dune Frank Herbert	4.29	3,654 reads
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt	4.28	58 reads
Ellbogen Fatma Aydemir	3	1 read
Erfolg Lion Feuchtwanger	5	1 read
Erkenntnis und Interesse Jürgen Habermas	0	0 reads
Ethics for the new millennium Dalai Lama XIV	3.75	5 reads
Every Man Dies Alone Hans Fallada Michael Hofmann (Translator)	4.6	15 reads
Frankenstein Mary Shelley	3.85	2,093 reads
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler	4.47	42 reads
Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi	3.89	10 reads
Gretchen Sackmeier Christine Nöstlinger	0	0 reads
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides	0	0 reads
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.26	298 reads
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	4	1,349 reads
Jugend ohne Gott Ödön von Horváth	3.28	16 reads
Kulturindustrie Max Horkheimer Theodor W. Adorno	4.5	1 read
Momo Michael Ende	4.26	112 reads
My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Ann Goldstein (Translator)	4.06	365 reads
Mythologies Roland Barthes Annette Lavers (Translator)	4.29	33 reads
On the Road Jack Kerouac	3.36	552 reads
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Florence Lamborn (Translator)	4.01	184 reads
Rumi's World: The Life and Works of the Great Sufi Poet Annemarie Schimmel	0	0 reads
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari	4.21	1,349 reads
Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig	3.94	41 reads
The Art of War Sun Tzu	3.68	640 reads
The Bhagavad Gita Juan Mascaró (Translator) Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa	3.91	51 reads
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Gustave Le Bon	3.8	9 reads
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy	3.85	284 reads
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck	3.81	779 reads
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	3.72	3,336 reads
The History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell	4.05	48 reads
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins	4.11	4,760 reads
The Inferno Nicholas Kilmer (Translator) Dante Alighieri	4.03	214 reads
The Neverending Story Michael Ende Ralph Mannheim (Translator)	4.19	297 reads
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.06	1,450 reads
The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	4.07	1,737 reads
The Qur'an	1.7	13 reads
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir	3.99	67 reads
The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Patrick Bowles (Translator)	3.56	40 reads
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	3.63	491 reads
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	4.17	3,281 reads
Water Music T. C. Boyle	4.13	10 reads
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr	4	16 reads
White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.83	182 reads
Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys	3.44	150 reads