Tips for your holiday reading

Further recommendations by ETH members

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking – Christian Thurn, doctoral student from D-GESS
• Die Wahrheit über Eva – die Erfindung der Ungleichheit von Frauen und Männern (“The Truth about Eve – the Invention of Inequality between Women and Men”) by Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel – Martina Koch, from the Chair of Building Physics
• Kalmann by Joachim B. Schmidt – Peter Rüegg, from Corporate Communications
• Sextant by David Barrie – Felix Bindschädler, from IT Services
• The “Brittany Mystery” series by Jean-Luc Bannalec – Cornel Andreoli, from D-PHYS
• Daemon by Daniel Suarez – Charles Clavadetscher, from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute
• Über Menschen (“About People”) by Juli Zeh – Alfred Johny Wüest, from Eawag, and Eva Gottschewski, from Personnel Development
• The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce – Elke Bülow, from the Professorship of Information Technology and Education
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens – Andrea Waldburger, from D-MATH, and Birk Esther, from the Facility Management department
• The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells – Romano Meier, from D-ERDW
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine – Carina Känzig, doctoral student from D-BIOL
• The “Bruno, Chief of Police” series by Martin Walker – Cornelia Künzle, from the ETH Library
• Meine Väter (“My Fathers”) by Martin R. Dean – Eva-Karin Meierhans, from ETH transfer
• Grand Hotel Europa by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer – Jana Lipps, doctoral student from D-GESS
• Hot Milk by Deborah Levy – Cristiano Aires Teixeira, from D-ARCH
• Draußen ist es anders. Auf neuen Wegen zu einer Wissenschaft für den Wandel (“Things are Different Outside. New Routes to a Science for Change”) by Jan Freihardt – Jan Freihardt, doctoral student from D-GESS
• Flights by Olga Tokarczuk – Paulina Pacak, doctoral student from D-HEST
• Die nicht sterben (“Who do Not Die”) by Dana Grigorcea – Stefan Weiler, from the Chair of Pharmacoepidemiology
• What You Can See from Here by Mariana Leky – Nadja Taras, from the Chair of Systems Design
• Blindness by José Saramago – Harald Atmanspacher, from the Collegium Helveticum
• Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams – Betty Friedrich-Grube, from the Rector’s Staff
• Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch – Jan ten Pierick, from the Institute of Geophysics
• The “Seven Sisters” series by Lucinda Riley – Barbara Ritter, from the Professorship of Plant Biochemistry
• Mittagsstunde (“Midday”) by Dörte Hansen – Nina Wilhelm, from the Services department
• The “S.O.S. Svalbard” series by Frank Kauffmann – Frank Kauffmann, from the Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich
• Shantaram by Gregory Roberts – Madeleine Marchand, from Advanced Manufacturing
• Invisible Woman by Caroline Criado-Perez – Lorenz Schmid, doctoral student from D-BAUG
• A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin – Susanne Schawalder Bischof, from Teacher Training
• Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo – Anne Weyden, from Corporate Communications
• The Öland Quartet by Johan Theorin – Richard Krause, from ID Services

This article is a continuation of an article in the current "life" magazine