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Three books worth reading: By @coupSCA

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By COUP – The Intake of 2015/16

 

Three books worth reading:

Blaz:

  1. Canon – Massimo Vignelli 2. Things I have learned in my life so far – Stefan Sagmeister 3. Velocity: The Seven New Laws for a World Gone Digital – Ajaz Ahmed

Ranj:

  1. ANGELS AND DEMONS – DAN BROWN
  2. THE LAST SUPPER – PHILIP WILLAN
  3. 100 GREATEST TV ADS – MRAK ROBINSON

Dennis:

  1. Branding & Strategy – Olaf G. Rughase
  2. The Art of Seduction – Robert Greene
  3. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism – Ha-Joon Chang

Nadia:

The Prophet; Khalil Gibran

Heart of Darkness; Joseph Conrad
The Picture of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde

Ben T.

1: The Magus – John Fowles

2: Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
3: Vertigo – W.G Sebald

Katy

  1. If this is a Man – Primo Levi
    2. Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
    3. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nick K.

  1. Killer Koala & Wombat Revenge – Kenneth Cook
    2. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
    3. The Bible (pocket edition)

Matthew B.

  1. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  3. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Zac

A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
2: Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
3: South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami

Samuel

  1. The count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
    2. Canary Row – John Steinbeck
    3. Never cry wolf – Farley Mowat

Adriano

  1. Blindness – José Saramago
    2. Spirits – Stefano Benni
    3. On Photography – Susan Sontag

Becci

  1. The hand maids tale – Margaret Atwood
    2. The virgin and the gypsy – D H Lawrence
    3. How to be woman – Catlin Moran

Ben G.

  1. The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
  2. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Murakami
  3. All the pretty horses – Cormack McCarthy

Tristan

  1. On language – Noam Chomsky
    2. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge – Carlos Castaneda
    3. Food Of The Gods – Terence McKenna

Nick L.

  1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  2. Encore Tricolore III
  3. Empire – Hardt & Negri

Bea

  1. You’re the roots that sleeps by my feet, and holds the earth in its place – Eli Levi
    2. The red room – August Strindberg
    3. Beijing doll – Chun Sue

Drew

  1. How to win friends and influence people – Dale Carnegie
    2. 48 laws of power – Robert Greene
    3. Influence – Robert Chaldini

Orla

  1. Hunger games.
    2. Dr Seuss all of them
    3. Any Dave Trott

Laura

  1. Think Happy, Be Happy. – Various artist
    2. On being an Artist – Michael Craig Martin
    3. Creative Mischief – Dave Trott

Sokaina

  1. A room of one’s own – Virginia Woolf
  2. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  3. Syrup – Max Barry

Rhiannon

  1. Paradise by Toni Morrison
  2. Illuminations by Walter Benjamin

(gonna have to get back to you on a third my brain is all melted right now)

Nunu

  1. How to steal as an artist
    2. Destroy this diary
    3. La sombra del vent

Sebastien

  1. On the road – Jack Kerouac
    2. Fiesta: The sun also rises – Ernest Hemingway
    3. One hundred years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nihal

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan kundera

  1. Post Office – Charles Bukowski
  2. The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor

Larry

  1. Anything you want – Derek Sivers
    2. Eleven Rings – Phil Jackson
    3. Changing the world is the only fit work for a grown man – Steve Harrison

Federica

Honestly I haven’t read many books recently…

The only one I suggest is “understanding media” – Marshall McLuhan

Tomasz

  1. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) by Carol Tarvis/Elliot Aronson – social insight about us hurting ourselves or others around us
  2. Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem – amazing storytelling pictured in the lands far far away
  3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – scary depiction of technology’s impact on the world to come

Chloe

  1. This book will change your life
    2. Illusive (1, 2, or 3. All amazing)
    3. Roger’s profanisaurus – Vis

Alex

  1. På Vegne av Venner — Kristopher Schau
  2. Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works — Erik Spiekermann
    3. Poseur — Marc Spitz

Angus

  1. Finally 14
  2. Heart to Heart – Britney Spears
  3. Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren

Owen

  1.  Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook – Terry Hope Romero
  2.  Nanophysics and Nanotechnology: An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience -Edward L. Wolf
  3.  Dictionary German – English – PONS GmbH

Alicia

  1. The Rainbow Book – Kate Ohrt

2. Relativity: The Special and General Theory –

Albert Einstein

Into The Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage –

Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell

Matt K.

The Anarchist Cookbook –

William Powell

Mastering Cheese: Lessons for Connoisseurship by Maître Fromager –

Max McCalman

Fifty Shades of Bacon –

Benjamin Myhre

Ethan

Made in Chelsea: Life and Style Essentials: The Official Handbook

2.

Mushrooming without Fear: The Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms –

Alexander Schwab

Teletubbies Play Hide-And-Seek!, A Lift-The-Flap Book

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