Same post as every year, here are the book I read last year. However, this time around there are several novelties: first off, my Spanish got good enough to actually read books, so there are 3 languages now (English, German, Spanish). Also my Kindle Fire allowed me to get back into comics, so I (re-)read a lot of the classics and great stuff I missed out on over the years. Last but not least this is also the year where I started listening to audiobooks, mostly because they are really practical on long bus journeys because they keep you occupied but you can still enjoy the landscape.

The links are affiliate links by the way, I have to finance my reading habit somehow ;-)

Books:

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem
• The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
• Eleven, Mark Watson
• Aristoi, Walter Jon Williams
• Sin noticias de Gurb, Eduardo Mendoza (Spanish)
• Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Essays in Humanism, Albert Einstein
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
• A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
• The Bad Girl, Mario Vargas Llosa
• Dog, Daniel Pennac
• An Easy Thing, Paco Ignacio Taibo II
• One Life To Ride, Ajit Harisinghani
• The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
• Reise durch einen einsamen Kontinent, Andreas Altmann
• Damned, Chuck Palahniuk
• El Rey Solito, Rafael Estrada (Spanish)
• Bhakta - Eine indische Odysee, Walther Eidlitz
• Food Inc.: A Participant Guide, Karl Weber
• La Ultima Jugada, Fernando Trujillo Sanz (Spanish)
• American Empire: Blood & Iron, Harry Turtledove
• El club de la pelea, Chuck Palahniuk (Spanish)
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle
• Delirium, Laura Restrepo
• Myths and Legends of All Nations, Logan Marshall
• Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
• The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru
• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
• Fundamental Chess Patterns, Rodolfo Pardi
• First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung
• Mi primera vez, Juan Goytisolo et al. (Spanish)
• Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
• Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
• The Awakening of Lovingkindness: Chin Kung
• Essence of Islam: Islamic Propagation Centre International Malaysia
• Bhagavad-Gita, Edwin Arnold
• La Primera Detective De Botsuana, Alexander McCall Smith (Spanish)
• Nonviolent Communication, Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Ruby Under a Microscope, Pat Shaughnessy
• The Magus, John Fowles
• Die Dritte Jungfrau, Fred Vargas
• Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
• Hello Kitty Must Die, Angela S. Choi
• The Geography of Thought, Richard E. Nisbett
• Machine of Death, Ryan North
• The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide, Cameron Tuttle
• Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card
• Year Zero, Rob Reid
• The Tiger’s Wife, Téa Obreht
• The Bird Artist, Howard Norman
• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
• AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, Ivor W. Hartmann

Comics:

• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street, Warren Ellis
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life, Warren Ellis
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard, Warren Ellis
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum, Warren Ellis
• Maus 1: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman
• Maus, Vol. 2: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City, Warren Ellis
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away, Warren Ellis
• V for Vendetta, Alan Moore
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider’s Thrash, Warren Ellis
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
• Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, Brian Azzarello
• Betrayal, Vol. 1, Scott Allie
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 8: Dirge, Warren Ellis
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure, Warren Ellis
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
• Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, Marjane Satrapi
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time, Warren Ellis
• Crimson Empire, Volume 1, Mike Richardson
• Coraline, P. Craig Russell
• xkcd: volume 0, Randall Munroe
• American Vampire Vol. 1, Scott Snyder
• Blacksad, Juan Díaz Canales
• Blacksad: A Silent Hell, Juan Díaz Canales
• Mind the Gap, Vol. 1: Intimate Strangers, Jim McCann
• Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye, Frank Miller
• Mind the Gap Volume 2: Wish You Were Here, Jim McCann
• Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For, Frank Miller
• Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill, Frank Miller
• Sin City, Vol. 4: That Yellow Bastard, Frank Miller
• Epileptic, David B.
• Saga, Volume 1, Brian K. Vaughan
• Saga, Volume 2, Brian K. Vaughan
• Mind the Gap Volume 3: Out of Bodies TP, Jim McCann
• Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
• Sin City, Vol. 5: Family Values, Frank Miller
• Sin City, Vol. 6: Booze, Broads, and Bullets, Frank Miller
• Sin City, Vol. 7: Hell and Back, Frank Miller
• Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile, Bill Willingham
• Thor MAX: Vikings, Garth Ennis
• Save Yourself, Mammal!, Zach Weiner
• The Most Dangerous Game, Zach Weiner
• Watchmen, Alan Moore
• Doraemon, Vol. 1, Fujiko F. Fujio
• Doraemon, Vol. 2, Fujiko F. Fujio
• Fables Vol. 2: Animal Farm, Bill Willingham
• Doraemon, Vol. 3, Fujiko F. Fujio
• Signal to Noise, Neil Gaiman

Audiobooks:

• Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Michael Lewis
• The Art Of Happiness: A Handbook For Living, Dalai Lama XIV
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Radio Series, Douglas Adams