The new one appears every week star with current bestsellers: Once a month, we also present the books reviewed in the print edition to you online.
It is a bit surprising that, despite increasing digitalization, so many people still buy “real” reading. On the other hand, it is also a good sign that so many readers still appreciate a good book. This is why you can find the star-Order of the print editions, which are published every Thursday, also online in the future. The following are the new October titles presented.
“Don’t forget mine – what you can’t see in light” by Kerstin Gier
The smart Quinn actually doesn’t like the nerdy “dimple-faced Matilda” with her love of fantasy novels. Recently, however, he has come across talking statues and grinning skulls. And because, as he notes, Matilda has this “sympathetic helper complex”, he prefers to seek her close. Which, in a nutshell, leads to the two falling in love. Even if second place here seems to prove that the story is pleasing: do you really have to keep telling the story of the prince, whose heart can be won over and over with endless care and kindness? Should the great Tim be alone in his shirt next time in front of the grinning skulls. Meanwhile, Matilda rushes off with Harry Potter on the broomstick. The book is available here.
“Project Lightspeed” by Joe Miller, Uur ahin, Özlem Türeci
Anyone reading this bestseller should be vaccinated. That’s the good news. The bad thing is the embarrassingly low German vaccination rate in international comparison: only 64.6 percent of the population were fully vaccinated at the time of going to press, compared with 78 in Spain and 85.2 percent in Portugal. That goes in the direction of herd immunity. With us, however, part of the herd is still chewing disinformation about the virus and vaccines instead of grabbing this book and immunizing itself against fake news with facts. It is admirable how the German-Turkish researcher couple created the world’s first approved mRNA vaccine against corona at the speed of light. You can pull your hat – and free your arm for the syringe. The book is available here.
“Crossroads” by Jonathan Franzen
The criticism was unanimous: masterpiece. We found it too and gave it the highest rating. People ran off and bought the book and read, and just as many people tweet while watching “Tatort”, so many also leave their reading impressions on social media. Well, and so the reading community discovered and discussed passages that many critics (in the German feuilleton actually mostly men) probably did not notice, such as this: “She stood on tiptoe to get a kiss, for which he bent down. He perceived an exciting, cat-chewed breath of decomposed sperm from his various Monday secretions in her. ” That’s pretty rancid, isn’t it? The “Bad Sex in Fiction” Prize 2021 goes to Jonathan “katzenfuttrig” Franzen. Congratulation! The book is available here.
“Man, earth! We could have it so beautiful” by Eckart von Hirschhausen
It is certainly no coincidence that Eckhart von Hirschhausen’s World Rescue Book returns to these charts just in the week in which the negotiations for a traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens and the Liberals began. In order not to screw it up again, the entire FDP parliamentary group has stocked up on our favorite doctor’s bestseller. After reading it, everyone will understand why a modern climate policy is non-negotiable: Anyone who is serious about the 1.5 degree target cannot leave the consumption of fossil fuels to the market. And if you are serious about co-governing, you not only have to worry about the atmosphere for discussion, but also about that on our planet.
The book is available here.
“The fruits that you reap” by Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt
May, yes, we don’t have to advise Swedes to stop writing more and more crime novels in order to try something new? Unfortunately, it won’t help, because the Swedes also know that if you don’t stick to the old ways, misfortune will only find blessings. Including a fat rain of money, one might add. After all, there is no happier person than the Swedish author who learns that his book has been sold to the German market of millions. The title of the new thriller by Hjort & Rosenfeldt is almost the program, but it’s not about how this duo also achieved success in the tail of the Henning-Mankell comet, but about three creepy murders within a few days. In the small town of Karlshamn! Still exciting. The book is available here.
“Obituary for myself” by Harald Welzer
“You have to write an obituary for yourself in good time,” says the blurb of Harald Welzer’s new bestseller, “so that you know how you want to have lived.” This is a strong sentence (for a book that is at least as strong!) That immediately makes you think – and most of us probably also a little sad, because a lot of things about one might not yet be so suitable for follow-up calls. But oh, there it is again, the good old gratitude for every day that you have until then! The moral of the story, we’ll be tackling that soon, really, definitely now. Just finish the other projects for a moment. Muck out the closet, paint the doors, replace the oil heater. Well, then of course Christmas will come first … But then! Yes, but then really.
The book is available here.
“The wrath of the octopus” by Dirk Rossmann, Ralf Hoppe
The second thriller of the drugstore king is again about saving the world, so far, so good, so dramatic. But it is even worse that all the best-selling book lists have got into trouble because some publishers are currently lacking paper for printing the second editions, seriously. A good occasion to finally praise the real hero of the book industry: the Finnish forest, which grows and grows northwards from Jyväskylä until it is murdered by hydraulic excavators, chopped up and pulped into pulp – so that we can buy books from Mr Rossman here and always enough toilet paper rolls from his drugstores. We are eagerly waiting for the revenge novel “The Vendetta of the Downy Birch”. The book is available here.
“I’m a mistake and I love it” by Jeffrey Kastenmüller
Aaach, dear coaching scene these days, we really don’t blame you, and your superstars Jeffrey Kastenmüller and his girlfriend Bahar Yilmaz certainly mean well with all of us. Only: could everything be a little less perfect, please? A little less beautiful and trained and “I’m someone else today”? Anyone who struggles even a little with themselves, actually everyone, would so much like to have the feeling that they don’t just have to exert themselves a little more or look at things differently. It’s your job, that’s clear. With us, however, the need for the almost forgotten “That’s how I am” is growing more and more. The book is available here.
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