On the bookshelf:
John Catsoulis - "Designing Embedded Hardware" (O'Reilly) [English] Info at amazon.com
Vera John-Steiner - "Notebooks of the Mind" (Perennial Library) [English] Info at amazon.com
Ralph Koster - "A Theory of Fun" (Paraglyph Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Amy Spencer - "DIY: The rise of lo-fi culture" (Marion Boyars) [English] Info at amazon.com
Kurl G. Bluechel - "Bionik" (c. Bertelsmann) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - "Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention" (Harper Perennial) [English] Info at amazon.com
Arno Geiger - "Es geht uns gut" (Hanser) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
B.K.S. Iyengar - "Light on Yoga" (Schocken) [English] Info at amazon.com
Malcolm Gladwell - "Blink" (Back Bay Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
Currently reading:
Eric von Hippel - "Democratizing Innovation" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Robert H. McKim - "Experiences in Visual Thinking" (PWS Engineering) [English] Info at amazon.com
Henning Nelms - "Thinking with a Pencil" (10 Speed Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Alex Ross - "The Rest is Noise" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [English] Info at amazon.com
Finished Books:
2008-01
Stewart Brand - "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built" (Penguin) [English] Info at amazon.com
2007-12
David Brooks - "Bobos in Paradise" (Simon and Schuster) [English] Info at amazon.com
Martin Suter - "Der Teufel von Mailand" (Diogenes) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Christoph Hein - "In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Heinrich Steinfest - "Die Feine Nase der Lilli Steinbeck" (Piper) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Peter Stamm - "Ungefaehre Landschaft" (btb) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Minka Pradelski - "Und da kam Frau Kugelmann" (btb) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Jakob Hein - "Herr Jensen steigt aus" (Piper) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Claudia Schreiber - "Emmas Glück" (Goldmann) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2007-10
Mikhail Bulgakov - "Heart of a Dog" (Grove Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2007-09
Geoff Dyer - "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
Eliot Pattison - "The Skull Mantra" (Minotaur) [English] Info at amazon.com
2007-07
Scott McCloud - "Making Comics" (Harper) [English] Info at amazon.com
Gay and Laney Salisbury - "The Cruelest Miles" (Norton) [English] Info at amazon.com
2007-06
Frank Schaetzing - "Die dunkle Seite" (Goldmann) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Bill Buxton - "Sketching User Experiences" (Morgan Kaufmann) [English] Info at amazon.com
Joh Thackara - "In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2007-05
Bill Moggridge - "Designing Interactions" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2007-04
D. Price - "How to make a journal of your life" (10 Speed Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-12
Fred Turner - "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" (Chicago) [English] Info at amazon.com
Susan M. Lammers - "Programmers at Work" (Microsoft Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-11
Stewart Brand - "The Clock of the Long Now" (Basic Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-10
Daniel Kehlmann - "Die Vermessung der Welt" (Rowohlt, Reinbek) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Wolf Haas - "Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren" (Hoffmann und Campe) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2006-09
Ian Johnson - "Wild Grass" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-08
William Gurstelle - "Adventures from the Technology Underground" (Clarkson Potter) [English] Info at amazon.com
Tim McCreight - "The Complete Metalsmith" (Davis) [English] Info at amazon.com
Joanna Gollberg - "Making Metal Jewelry" (Lark Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-07
Henry Dreyfuss - "Designing for People" (Allworth Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Bruce Sterling - "Shaping Things" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-06
Douglas Coupland - "JPod" (Bloomsbury) [English] Info at amazon.com
Phillip K. Dick - "Ubik" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
Phillip K. Dick - "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-05
Keith Johnstone - "Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre" (Routledge) [English] Info at amazon.com
T. Jefferson Parker - "California Girl" (Harper Torch) [English] Info at amazon.com
2006-01
Sherwood Anderson - "Winesburg, Ohio" (Bantam Classic) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-12
Bob Parks - "Makers" (O'Reilly) [English] Info at amazon.com
Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne - "ReadyMade: Hot to Make {Almost} Everything" (Potter) [English] Info at amazon.com
John Markoff - "What the Dormouse Said" (Viking) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-11
Sakyong Mipham - "Ruling Your World" (Morgan Road Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-10
Jerry H. Gill - "The Tacit Mode - Michael Polanyi's Postmodern Philosophy" (State University of New York Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Michael Polanyi - "The Tacit Dimension" (Routledge) [English] Info at amazon.com
Paul Dourish - "Where the Action Is" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Italo Calvino - "Invisible Cities" (Harcourt) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-09
Brian Massumi - "Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation" (Duke University Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Catherine Belsey - "Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-08
Henri Lefebvre - "The Production of Space" (Blackwell) [English] Info at amazon.com
N. Katherine Hayles - "How we became posthuman" (U Chicago Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-07
Shoshana Zuboff - "In the age of the smart machine" (Basic Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
Rich Gold - "The Plenitude" (pdf) [English] Info at amazon.com
Kim Vicente - "The Human Factor" (Routledge) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-06
Irina Denezhkina - "give me" (Simon&Schuster) [English] Info at amazon.com
Neil Gershenfeld - "Fab" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Ishmael Reed - "The Terrible Twos" (Allison & Busby) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-05
Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt - "Contextual Design" (Morgan Kaufmann) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-04
Mark Haddon - "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-02
Bonnie A. Nardi - "A Small Matter of Programming" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
2005-01
Frank Schaetzing - "Der Schwarm" (Fischer) [German]
Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores - "Understanding Computers and Cognition" (Addison-Wesley) [English] Info at amazon.com
2004-12
Dan O\Sullivan, Tom Igoe - "Physical Computing" (Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade) [English] Info at amazon.com
Virginia Postrel - "The Substance of Style" (Perennial) [English] Info at amazon.com
2004-09
J.D. Salinger - "Franny and Zooey" (Little, Brown) [English] Info at amazon.com
Kobo Abe - "The Woman in the Dunes" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
Martin Suter - "Ein perfekter Freund" (Diogenes) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Michail Bulgakow - "Der Meister und Margarita" (dtv) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2004-08
Max Frisch - "Montauk" (Insel) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Alfred Döblin - "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (Insel/dtv) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Thomas Pakenham - "The Scramble for Africa" (Abacus) [English] Info at amazon.com
2004-07
Don DeLillo - "Cosmopolis" (Picador/Scribner) [English] Info at amazon.com
Lawrence Lessig - "Free Culture" (Penguin/Creative Commons) [English] Info at amazon.com
Umberto Eco - "Serendipities: Language and Lunacy" (Harvest) [English] Info at amazon.com
2004-06
Gabor Steingart - "Deutschland - Der Abstieg eines Superstars" (Piper) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2004-05
Paul Ekman - "Emotions Revealed" (Owl Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
M.S. Kleiner/A. Szepanski (Hrsg.) - "Soundcultures" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Haruki Murakami - "after the quake" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
Edwin A. Abbott - "Flatland" (Dover) [English] Info at amazon.com
2004-04
Alan Warner - "Morvern Callar" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
Gregor Hens - "Himelssturz" (btb) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Marco von Münchhausen - "So zähmen sie ihren inneren Schweinehund!" (Piper Serie) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2004-03
Jasper Fforde - "The Well of Lost Plots" (New English Library) [English] Info at amazon.com
Simon Singh - "The Code Book" (Anchor Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
2004-02
Lawrence Lessig - "The Future of Ideas" (Vintage Books USA) [Englisch]
J.M. Coetzee - "Schande" (Fischer) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2004-01
Moritz Rinke - "Der Blauwal im Kirschgarten" (rororo) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2003-12
Yann Martel - "Life of Pi" (Canongate) [English] Info at amazon.com
Chinua Achebe - "Termitenhügel in der Savanne" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Paul Auster - "The Books of Illusions" (Picador USA) [English] Info at amazon.com
Joseph Conrad - "Heart of Darkness" (Penguin Classics) [English] Info at amazon.com
Philip Gourevitch - "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with out families" (Picador) [English] Info at amazon.com
2003-11
Janko Röttgers - "Mix, Burn and R.I.P." (Heise/Creative Commons) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
John Reader - "Africa" (Vintage Books USA) [English] Info at amazon.com
2003-09
Paul Watzlawick - "Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit?" (Piper) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Hermann Hesse - "Siddhartha" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Paulo Coelho - "The Alchemist" (HarperCollins) [English] Info at amazon.com
2003-08
Theodor Fontane - "Effi Briest" (Insel, Frankfurt) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Josef Kirschner - "Die Kunst, ein Egoist zu sein" (Knaur) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Michel Houellebecq - "Ausweitung der Kampfzone" (rororo) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Michael Moore - "Stupid White Men" (Harpter int'l edition) [English] Info at amazon.com
2003-07
Cees Noteboom - "Allerseelen" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Wassily Kandinsky - "Point and Line to Plane" (Dover) [English] Info at amazon.com
Theodor Fontane - "Frau Jenny Treibel" (Insel, Frankfurt) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2003-06
E.T.A. Hoffmann - "Die Elixiere des Teufels" (Insel, Frankfurt) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Heiner Feldhoff - "Paris,Algier - Die Lebensgeschichte des Albert Camus" (Beltz) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2003-05
Gijs van Hensbergen - "Gaudi: a biography" (HarperCollins) [English] Info at amazon.com
Walter Benjamin - "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit" (Edition Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Raymond Queneau - "Zazie in der Metro" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Wolf Haas - "Der Knochenmann" (rororo) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt - "Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran" (Ammann) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2003-04
J.W. Goethe - "Die Leiden des jungen Werther" (Insel, Frankfurt) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
J.W. Goethe - "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" (Insel, Frankfurt) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Max Frisch - "Homo Faber" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2003-03
W.G. Sebald - "Austerlitz" (Fischer) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "The Gambler" (Dover Thrift) [English] Info at amazon.com
Michael Capuzzo - "Close To Shore - The terrifying shark attacks of 1916" (Broadway Books) [English] Info at amazon.com
2003-02
Wolf Haas - "Wie die Tiere" (rororo) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Peter Stamm - "Blitzeis" (btb) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Arnold Stadler - "Der Tod und ich, wir zwei" (Suhrkamp) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Jens Sparschuh - "Der Zimmerspringbrunnen" (btb) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
2003-01
Michael Chabon - "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" (Picador USA) [English] Info at amazon.com
Mitch Alboom - "Tuesdays with Morrie" (Doubleday) [English] Info at amazon.com
J.D. Salinger - "The Catcher in the Rye" (Little Brown and Company) [English] Info at amazon.com
Abandoned:
C. Maar/H. Burda - "Iconic Turn - The neue Macht der Bilder" (DuMont) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Kenneth T. Jackson - "Crabgrass Frontier" (Oxford) [English] Info at amazon.com
Wilfried Liebchen - "Goethes Farbenlehre 1999" (Eigenverlag) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Ulrike Draesner - "Spiele" (Btb) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Robert M. Pirsig - "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" (Harper Collins) [English] Info at amazon.com
Gordon MacKenzie - "Orbiting the Giant Hairball" (Viking) [English] Info at amazon.com
Jared Diamond - "Guns, Germs and Steel" (Vintage) [English] Info at amazon.com
Jonathan Crary - "Suspensions of Perception" (MIT Press) [English] Info at amazon.com
Stanislaw Lem - "Solaris" (Heyne) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
John Man - "Alpha Beta" (Headline) [English] Info at amazon.com
Vriginia Woolf - "The Waves" (Harvest) [English] Info at amazon.com
Ian Stewart - "Concepts of Modern Mathematics" (Dover) [English] Info at amazon.com
G. Deleuze/F. Guattari - "a thousand plateaus" (Minnesota) [English] Info at amazon.com
David Lodge - "Das Handwerk des Schreibens" (List) [Deutsch] Info at amazon.de
Jonathan Coe - "The House of Sleep" (Penguin UK/Vintage USA) [English] Info at amazon.com
James P. Carse - "Finite and Infinite Games" (Ballantine) [English] Info at amazon.com