Even though I have become a computer person who rarely chooses to spend free time away from the computer, I still read sometimes. There also was a time when I did little but reading, so here's my personal canon of books you should have read in your lifetime.

• Erich Fromm: To Have or to Be?
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
• John Irving: The World According to Garp
• Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
• J.R.R Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
• Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• David Foster Wallace: Girl with Curious Hair
• Philipp Kerr: The Second Angel