Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By Anna Funder (2003) Pages: 288, Final verdict: Great-read East Germany no longer exists, but its stories are still present everywhere in Berlin if you know where to look. When Anna Funder moved here in the late 1990s, she found that the most revealing parts of the former GDR were... Read more

History

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

By Patrick McGee (2025) Pages: 448 , Final verdict: Great-read. Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world, we all know that. It has created perhaps the most successful tech product of all time, the iPhone. It’s sold billions of those, and at a great profit too.... Read more

Business

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

By Eva Dou (2025) Pages: 448 , Final verdict: Great-read This story has it all: UN sanctions, Deng Xiaoping, the Iraq war, the smartphone market, and Trump. A lot of Trump. In House of Huawei, longtime Washington Post (and former Wall Street Journal) journalist Eva Dou pieces together the story of... Read more

Business

Focus: The ASML Way

By Marc Hijink (2024) Pages: 426 , Final verdict: Great-read Imagine a machine the size of a double-decker bus. It costs more than a Boeing 787, is built from over 100,000 precision-engineered parts, and can only be put together in a room that’s 1,000 times cleaner than a... Read more

Business Technology

Freedom

By Angela Merkel (2024) Pages: 720 , Final verdict: Great-read Angela Merkel is the longest-serving leader of a democratic nation in the 21st century, holding office for 16 years, from 2005 to 2021. In Freedom, her memoir, she reflects on her journey from an unlikely political outsider to one of the... Read more

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