Books: My wishlist

Soon it will be Christmas. And Hanukkah. And my birthday. National holidays, anniversaries of the end of wars or the foundation of the European Union, my graduation, plus many more events worthy of celebration. Or maybe you want to show your appreciation for the work I put into this blog or for some legal advice I have given you. Plenty of occasions for you to scratch your head and wonder what to get me as a present that will make me truly happy.

But it’s so easy: Cigars or books.

Cigars are easier but some of you might be opposed to smoking, even at the very moderate level at which I enjoy it, and might thus prefer to contribute to my intellectual stimulation. For you, I have put together a list of a few books that I am currently interested in:

For my time in Eastern Europe:

• And Kovno Wept by Waldemar Ginsberg
• The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven
• Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki
• The Christening by Denise Neuhaus
• The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekov
• Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today by Edward Lucas
• Fragile Empire: How Russia fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah
• Heshel’s Kingdom by Dan Jacobson
• Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism by Paul Lendvai
• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
• The Issa Valley by Czeslaw Milosz
• Just send me Word: A true Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
• Kaddish for Kovno: Life and Death in a Lithuanian Ghetto 1941-1945 by William Mishell
• The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944 by Herman Kruk
• The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen
• The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder
• Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
• Red Racisms: Racism in Communist and Post-Communist Contexts by Ian Law
• The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe by Marci Shore
• Ukraine travel guide by Lonely Planet
• Walking since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins

Non-fiction:

• Against Security by Harvey Molotch
• Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell
• Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious Rescue in History by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio
• The Battle for the Arab Spring by Lin Noueihed and Alex Warren
• China goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh
• Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World by John Broome
• Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela by Rory Carroll
• Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and its Consequences by James Buchan
• Direct Action by David Graeber
• The Dream of Rome by Boris Johnson
• Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomáš Sedláček
• Escape from Camp 14: One man’s remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
• Foley: The Spy who saved 10,000 Jews by Michael Smith
• The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
• The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better by Tyler Cowen
• Guide to Decision-making: Getting it more right than wrong by Helga Drummond
• I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
• The Lifespan of a Fact by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal
• How Much is Enough? by Robert and Edward Skidelsky
• Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam by David Dalin and John Rothmann
• In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
• Injustice: why social inequality persists by Daniel Dorling
• Iraq’s Last Jews by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha and Robert Shasha
• The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz
• Karski: How one Man tried to Stop the Holocaust by E. Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski
• Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
• Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
• Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf
• Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
• On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present by Alan Ryan
• Orient Express by John Dos Passos
• Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
• Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
• Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
• The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
• The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmour
• Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy
• Rome: An Empire’s Story by Greg Woolf
• A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man became History’s Greatest Traveller by Jason Roberts
• Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński
• Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
• Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl
• Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a sustainable Future by Saleem Ali
• Why the West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History and what they Reveal about the Future by Ian Morris
• From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust by Meir Litvak and Ester Webman
• Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
• Dangerous Times? The International Politics of Great Power Peace by Christopher Fettweis
• Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? What History Teaches Us about Strategic Barriers and International Security by Brent Sterling
• Lend me Your Ears by Antony Jay
• Handbook of Economics and Ethics
• What’s Mine is Yours -The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
• Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End by Daniel Gordis
• How Wars End by Dan Reiter
• Eight Theories of Ethics by Gordon Graham
• Nonsense – Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How we abuse Logic in our Everyday Language by Robert Gula
• Book Lust To Go by Nancy Pearl
• Exceptional People: How Migration shaped our World and will define our Future by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan
• World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It by Pankaj Ghemawat
• A Time to Betray by Reza Kahlili
• Poor Economic: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
• Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
• The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
• We Meant Well by Peter van Buren
• The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
• How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone by Rosie Garthwaite
• When the Money runs out: The End of Western Affluence by Stephen King
• Work like a Spy – Business Tips from a former CIA Officer by J. C. Carleson
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Fiction:

• Beaufort by Ron Leshem
• The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• The Ebb-Tide by Robert Lousi Stevenson
• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Garden Party and Other Plays by Vaclav Havel
• The Golden Spruce: A true Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
• A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
• Logicomix: an epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Oil on Water by Helon Habila
• Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright
• Seventy-Two Virgins by Boris Johnson
• A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
• In the Sea there are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
• The Afrika Reich by Guy Seville
• The Spy who came in from the Cold by John le Carré
• Taxi by Khaled Al Khamissi
• The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant
• The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
• Young Philby by Robert Littell

My current address is: Andreas Moser, Savanoriu pr. 47-12, 03130 Vilnius, Lithuania. Thank you very much in advance!

(Es gibt auch eine deutschsprachige Wunschliste.)