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Reading tips for autumn 2022: non-fiction books to the point
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No matter where the temperatures are heading – a good book warms the soul. Here are our favorite non-fiction books.
Max Strohe – Cooking with an open heart
Max Strohe, 40, has a star restaurant in Berlin (the great “tulus lotrek”), the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, TV fame from various cooking shows – and real talent for writing, which he has in this ruthless, wild memoir about his “Lehr- und Wanderjahre” shows: school dropped out, apprenticeship at the inn in Sinzig, forays with his eccentric father, whom he only met at the age of 15, lots of drugs, even more (explicit) sex and a lot, a lot of heart.
256 p., 22 eurostropics
Ulrike Herrmann – The end of capitalism
For the journalist Ulrike Herrmann, the end of capitalism as we know it is not a question, but the only way to stop climate change and thus ensure our survival on this earth. Factual and knowledgeable, she explains why she considers the hope for “green growth” often expressed by economists to be illusory and why “green shrinkage” is the order of the day. The book on the topic of the hour, with plenty of fodder (and fuel) for political debates.
352 p., 24 eurosKiWi
Patrick Radden Keefe – Empire of Pain
In the art museums of the world one comes across the name Sackler again and again, the American entrepreneurial family from the pharmaceutical industry was a generous donor of many works. Here, however, it is brilliantly, shockingly and captivatingly told how the Sacklers came to their wealth and how they increased it immeasurably: with the aggressive marketing and conscious trivialization of a pain medication, an opioid, which caused millions of people in the USA to become dependent, impoverished and dead has driven.
Ü: ia Gregor Runge, 640 p., 36 eurosHanseatic blue
Dan McCrumHouse of Wirecard
A German payment service provider, valued so highly on the stock exchange that it was actually once thought that it could take over Deutsche Bank, turns out to be a fraudulent dabble whose success is based primarily on false accounting. This financial scandal was uncovered by British journalist Dan McCrum, who had to bump into a number of walls and was himself threatened before anyone believed him. A super exciting business thriller – but unfortunately true.
Ü: Ulrich Mihr, 465 p., 25 eurosEcon
Samantha Harvey – The Year Without Sleep
Is this really a non-fiction book? Writer Samantha Harvey can’t sleep. She doesn’t know what the trigger is. Perhaps the sudden death of her young cousin plays a role, causing her to lie awake every night pondering her own life, work, love and regret, despair and hope. A long inner monologue between mind and subconscious, dream and reality, literary powerful and in the end comforting.
Ü: Julia Wolf, 176 p., 23 eurosHanser Berlin