Clifford Stoll - The Cuckoo's Egg: Fascinating

Ernst Peter Fischer - Schrödingers Katze auf dem Mandelbrotbaum: Interesting read even for a physicist

Kevin Mitnick - Ghost in the Wires: Amazing what social hacking can do.

Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs: Evil genius

Neal Stephenson - Reamde: Great fun.

Simon Beckett - Leichenblässe: Good too.

Daniel Goleman - Primal Leadership: Mainly common sense stuff

Simon Beckett - Verwesung: Creepy.

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest: Finishing off the trilogy

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire: OK they're good.

Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Join the hype

M. Scott Peck - People of the Lie: Naja.

Jo Nesbø - Rotkehlchen: Suspense.

Peter F. Hamilton - The Evolutionary Void: Finishing off the trilogy

Andreas Altmann - Im Land der Freien: Quite condescending at times

Tony Vigorito - Just a couple of days: weird.

Gianrico Carofiglio - In freiem Fall: I enjoyed it a lot.

Michael Frye - Digital Landscape Photography: Bringing Ansel's magic into the 21st century.

M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled: Sometimes trivial, but often insightful.

Italo Calvino - Der Baron auf den Bäumen: This, I'm sorry to say, is crap.

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything: Unfortunately he's right.

Salman Rushdie - Shalimar The Clown: Very good book.

Stephen King - Under the dome: Wow!

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest: Put on hold - needs more contiguous time to read.

Friedrich Christian Delius - Die Frau, für die ich den Computer erfand: Nice Konrad Zuse story.

Peter F. Hamilton - Fallen Dragon: Pretty darn good.

Pascal Mercier - Der Klavierstimmer: I absolutely loved his Nachtzug nach Lissabon.

Leon de Winter - Das Recht auf Rückkehr: Compelling storytelling.

Simon Becket - Die Chemie des Todes: As thrilling as the other one.

Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters: Stalled for the moment. Too many words for too little content.

Neal Stephenson - Interface: Honestly? The weakest Stephenson I've read so far.

Peter F. Hamilton - The Temporal Void: Part II of the trilogy.

Peter F. Hamilton - The Dreaming Void: Best SciFi writer I know.

John Steinbeck - Cannery Row: Great as always.

Philip Roth - Exit Ghost: Probably I just cannot fathom his brilliance.

Philip Ball - Critical Mass: A mighty work indeed.

Dan Brown - Deception Point: A lot better than I thought.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Schatten des Windes: A truly wonderful book.

Simon Beckett - Kalte Asche: What a page-turner.

Neal Stephenson - Anathem: Great.

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep: Very funny.

Michael Theurillat - Eistod: Set in Zurich.

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves: Plain creepy.

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: Very insightful.

Douglas Coupland - JPod: Haha.

Henry Hill - Gangsters and Goodfellas: Can this be true?

Philip Roth - The Plot Against America: Not bad, but Nobel prize candidate?

Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle: Amazing.

Neal Stephenson - Cobweb: Enthralling.

Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel: Great train/plane literature.

Cormac McCarthy - The Road: Saddest book I've ever read.

Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction: Tom's my hero.