List of Interesting Books

I have been reading since I was 6 years old. At the beginning it was all in Turkish, I tried to read in German, but my German vocabulary was not good enough, then I learned English. Since I improved my English much quicker then my German, the whole new world opened in literature. I always enjoy reading. Most of my friends are still book sellers. I was putting a kind of list of books I have been reading so far. I am sure there are many of them, I could not even simply add the list, just because I forget title of the book or the author’s name.
Anyhow the ones that I do remember I am writing here.

On Politics

The age of the warrior : selected essays by Robert Fisk ( I am still reading it )
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk ( this will be the longest political book I have been reading in English)

The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji

For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great (How Religion Poisons Everything) by Christopher Hitchens

Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories, by Roni Berger

9-11 by Noam Chomsky http://www.chomsky.info
Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky
Imperial Ambitions : Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky
Chomsky vs Foucault: A Debate on Human Nature by Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault

The Genesis of Young Ottoman Thought: A Study in the Modernization of Turkish Political Ideas (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East) by Serif Mardin ( hopefully I will finish reading it someday…)

Favorite Authors

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/
Mouse or Rat by Umberto Eco
On Literature by Umberto Eco
Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco ( It was great stories I loved it )
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco – I have read in Turkish translation and in English
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco – I have read this book in Turkish translation ( it is his best work in my opinion )
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco – I have read this book in Turkish translation
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Aaron Asher, Milan Kundera
Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
Identity by Milan Kundera
The Joke by Milan Kundera
Unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

The Museum of Innocence ( in Turkish Masumiyet Muzesi )
My Name Is Red (Benim adim Kırmızı) by Orhan Pamuk
New Life (Yeni Hayat )
The Black Book (Kara Kitap) by Orhan Pamuk
Snow (Kar) by Orhan Pamuk
In Turkish
Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları
Sessiz Ev
Beyaz Kale – White castle
Kara Kitap – Black book
Yeni Hayat – New life
Benim Adım Kırmızı – My name is red
Öteki Renkler – Other Colors
Kar – Snow
İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir – Istanbul Memories And the City (I have read in Turkish as well as in English)
Babamın Bavulu – My father’s suitcase

Contemporary Writers

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Women by Charles Bukowski http://bukowski.net
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

Tales from the expat Harem : Foreign Women in Modern Turkey by Ashman & Gökmen
Every Woman Has A Story : Many Voices, Many Lessons, Many Lives by Daryl Ott Underhill
The Last Word: And Other Stories : A collection of stories by Graham Greene

by Bill Bryson http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
I’m a Stranger Here Myself Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Balthasar’s Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf
The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf

Touba and the Meaning of Night (Women Writing the Middle East) by Shahrnush Parsipur
Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur

Daughter of Persia: A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s Harem Through the Islamic Revolution by Sattareh Farman Farmaian

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Classics

Anna Karenina by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Enduring Hemingway An Anthology of a Lifetime in Literature by Ernest Hemingway

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Animal Farm A Fairy Story by George Orwell

History

Izmir and the Levantine World 1550-1650 by Daniel Goffman
Atatürk by Andrew Mango
Turkey Unveiled : A history of modern Turkey by Nicole Pope & Hugh Pope

Philosophy

The Ethics of Aristotel; The Nicomachean ethics by Aristotle

The Dialogues of Plato by Plato

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art Volume I by G. W. F. Hegel

The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

Get a grip on Philosophy by Neil Turnbull

İbni Haldun by Ahmet Arslan
İlkçağ Felsefe Tarihi by Ahmet Arslan
Felsefeye Giriş by Ahmet Arslan

Mantık Klasik/Sembolik Mantık, Mantık Felsefesi by Doğan Özlem

Hegel Bilinç Problemi, Köle – Efendi Diyalektiği Fraksis Felsefesi by Tülin Bumin
Hegel by Tülin Bumin

Demokrasi Arayışında Kent by Kürşat Bumin

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Batı Felsefesi Tarihi by Bertrand Russell (The history of western philosophy)

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean Paul Sartre

A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life by Andre Comte-Sponville ( still reading )

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Trial by Franz Kafka ( I am not sure if this book I should put into philosophy category?)
The Castle by Franz Kafka * I think Kafka needs his own category

In Turkish

Latife Hanım by İpek Çalışlar

Puslu Kıtalar Atlası by İhsan Oktay Anar
Kitab-ül Hiyel by İhsan Oktay Anar
Suskunlar by İhsan Oktay Anar ( I am still reading it )

Siyah Süt by Elif Şafak http://www.elifsafak.com
The Saint of Incipient Insanities by Elif Shafak
The Flea Palace
The Gaze
The Bastard of Istanbul

by Aziz Nesin website http://www.nesinvakfi.org
Ah Biz Eşekler
Gözüne Gözlük
Hoptirinam
Bir Koltuk Nasıl Devrilir
Zübük
Biz Adam Olmayız
Mizâh Hikâyeleri Antolojisi
Az Gittik Uz Gittik
Mahmut ile Nigâr

by Murathan Mungan
Kadından Kentler
Üç Aynalı Kırk Oda
Dağınık Yatak
Cenk Hikayeleri

Başucumda Müzik by Kürşat Başar
Aşkı Bulmanın ve Korumanın Yolları Kürşat Başar

Yaralısın by Erdal Öz
Gülünün Solduğu Akşam by Erdal Öz
Havada Kar Sesi Var by Erdal Öz

Sarnıç by Enis Batur

Oteller Kitabı by Ferhan Şensoy

Her Tuzluğum Var by Metin Uca http://www.metinuca.com.tr
Yes Yerine Orrayt Demek Caiz midir Hocam? by Metin Uca

by Duygu Asena
Aslında Özgürsün
Değişen Birşey Yok
Kadının Adı Yok

Gece Hayatım by Adalet Ağaoğlu

Aşık Papağan Barı by Nazlı Eray
Düş İşleri Bülteni by Nazlı Eray

Benim Sinemalarım by Füruzan

Bir fincan Türk kahvesi by Buket Uzuner http://www.buketuzuner.com
        

Kadın Olmak by Zeynep Oral http://www.zeyneporal.com

Adı: Aylin by Ayşe Kulin

Ölü Erkek Kuşlar by İnci Aral

Akışı Olmayan Sular by Pınar Kür
Bir Cinayet Romanı by Pınar Kür
Yarın Yarın by Pınar Kür
Asılacak Kadın Pınar Kür

Karartma Geceleri by Rıfat Ilgaz
Şimdi Saat Kaç by Ferit Edgü
Yanlış Kadınlar, Yanlış Erkekler by Attila İlhan

Dorian Grey’ in portresi by Oscar Wilde
İki Şehrin Hikayesi by Charles Dickens
Gazap Üzümleri by John Steinbeck
Sardalye Sokağı by John Steinbeck
İnci by John Steinbeck
Beyaz Diş by John Steinbeck

Ve O Hiç Bir Şey Demedi by Heinrich Böll
Trenin Tam Saatiydi by Heinrich Böll
Bülbülü Öldürmek by Harper Lee
Sofie’nin Dünyası by Jostein Gaarder
Kendine Ait Bir Oda by Virginia Woolf
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Babalar ve Oğullar by İvan Sergeyeviç Turgenyev
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Garp Cephesinde Yeni Bir Şey Yok by Erich Maria Remarque
Görme Biçimleri by John Berger
Sade’ı Yakmalı mı? by Simone de Beauvoir
Don Juan’ın Öğretileri by Carlos Castaneda
Silahlara Veda by Ernest Hemingway

Audio Books

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (still listening the story)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Allegory of the cave by Plato
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie ( The best book on audio to listen! )