Book Recommendations / What Are You Reading Right Now?

Dear users, dear authors,
this is the place for book recommendations and for sharing the books you’re currently reading.
Enjoy!

I’m currently reading *Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire* for about the thousandth time.

But another book I can absolutely recommend is *12 Years a Slave* by Solomon Northup. (I think the German title is *12 Jahre als Sklave*.)

I have a book for when I’m out and about, and at the moment it’s “The Moor of Peter the Great” by Pushkin - there was a film adaptation in the USSR, so I already roughly know what it’s about, but I still haven’t read it yet, and now I have to make up for that omission :-).
While I’m crafting, I’m listening to “Ich bin dann mal weg” by Hape Kerkeling for the umpteenth time - I find the book very uplifting.
I can also highly recommend “The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” by Jonas Jonasson.

I just finished “3000 Euro” by Thomas Melle. It’s depressing, but still a really great book.
Last night I started “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis. It’s off to a good start, though the tight, very small print in the English paperback edition is a bit of a strain… oh well, my eyes ;-)

Since I’m always on the go, I listen to books. It makes cleaning go by more easily. I love fantasy the most, and right now I’m listening to *Flammenwüste* by Akram El Bahay. One of my favorite authors is Andreas Eschbach, known for *Das Jesusvideo*, and I highly recommend his book *Herr aller Dinge*.

I’m currently reading *The Secret Legacy of Pan* by Sandra Regnier
It’s a young adult novel, and I like light reading like this in the afternoon. There’s a lot to laugh about in it. And plenty of fantasy.

Before that, I read *Midgard* by Hohlbeim, and that was really dark. It was just the right thing to read about the onset of eternal winter in winter. It leaves you feeling cold to the bone.

My son is currently recommending the Percy Jackson books to me. After a three-month reading slump, he’s finally found a book again that he can’t put down.

I just “devoured” *Das Paket* by Sebastian Fitzek. :-)
It’s really suspenseful and quite psychological. :-) I’m not reading much at the moment, because crocheting always wins out. 
We’re currently listening to the audiobook “Ausgefressen” by Moritz Matthies in the car. It’s the first of five books. A super funny but pretty crazy story. Meerkats from the Berlin Zoo solve criminal cases. The audiobook is narrated by Christoph Maria Herbst. If you need some light, funny entertainment, this is just the right thing.  

I just finished reading the book "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne.
On the jacket it says:
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is hard to describe. Normally, we’d give a few hints about the plot here, but with this book - we believe - it’s better not to know beforehand what it is about."
This book deeply moved and shook me.

I just finished the latest book in my beloved Black Dagger series by J.R. Ward. I love fantasy (vampires, shape-shifters, etc.)

I’m a real “bookworm” and love fantasy novels above all else. Right now, though, I’m a bit high and dry, since I’ve been waiting what feels like 5 years for the final volume of each of my two favorite series—on the one hand the series around "Der Name des Windes" and on the other the series around "Das Lied der Dunkelheit"... It seems both authors are suffering from writer’s block, which I hope they’ll overcome soon, because I’d so love to finally find out what happens next.....!

I’ve just read "Erinnerung an einen Mörder" for the umpteenth time.
I really like Petra Hammesfahr’s books in general.

Yes, I’ve read a lot of Petra Hammesfahr’s books, too. They’re always exciting—and a little spooky as well.

At the moment I’m reading "The Scent of Paradise" by Elif Shafak. The novel centers on Peri, a young Turkish woman, and her struggle between tradition and modernity. It’s about friendship, love, guilt, and faith, and is set in Istanbul and Oxford, between the 1980s and 201I like books that bring unfamiliar cultures a little closer to us.

I’m currently reading *The Mummies of Palermo* by Dr. Mark Benecke.
Among other things, it’s about Therese Neumann and her stigmata.

I'm reading another book by Ellen Berg "Blonder wird's nicht" (K )ein Friseur-Roman. She writes so wonderfully funny, and if I weren't always so tired from my main job, I'd want to read it in one sitting. I actually gave the book to my mom for Christmas, but already with the idea of borrowing it sometime. ; )


After that I'll read "Piercing is Not A Crime": 33 striking anecdotes from the life of a body piercer.


I picked that up recently at Kik for 1 euro because it sounded funny. I'm curious! : )

I’ve just read the four-part series “Hurenkönigin” by Ursel Zimmer. In 1511, the guild mistress investigates several murder cases that aren’t confined to the world of prostitution. Ursula Neeb writes so compellingly that I’ve already lost track of time more than once.

Now “Ich habe nein gesagt” by Annemarie Schoenle and, if too many memories of my own come back, “Hundewache”, a Gorch Fock thriller by Jan von der Bank, are sitting on my bedside table.

@Frollein-Haekelfein
Please send me a link to each of the two book descriptions you copied so I can replace the copied text with links.
Please don’t copy text—use links instead.

Oh, I see—those were from Amazon... sorry... I thought external links weren’t really welcome here

https://www.amazon.de/Blonder-wirds-nicht-ein-Friseur-Roman/dp/3746631904/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491146496&sr=8-1&keywords=blonder+wirds+nicht

and

https://www.amazon.de/Piercing-Not-Crime-bestechende-Bodypiercers/dp/3862652181/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491146565&sr=8-1&keywords=piercing+is+not+a+crime

@Frollein-Haekelfein
External links in promotional threads aren’t welcome, but copying text is simply not allowed. So you’ll just have to post links instead.

OK, noted :)

I'm currently reading "Racheherbst" by one of my favorite authors, Andreas Gruber.
It's a super exciting thriller set partly in Leipzig and partly in Vienna.

Now that I’ve finished reading “American Psycho,” which really shook me up because it’s so brutal, I desperately need a book that doesn’t hit me in the stomach ...

... and then a book I haven’t read in a long time jumped out at me: “A Wild Sheep Chase” by Haruki Murakami. A real gem, and I’m really looking forward to reading it again :-))))

I signed up for Audible yesterday :) and also got "Bartimaeus 1 - The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud" right away. 

I already read that years ago, and I just love that little demon. :)