Reading List
The books our Akris team is loving this summer
Sunscreen aside, a good book is your best summer companion. To create the ultimate summer 2024 reading list, we asked our Akris teams to share their favorite books to pair with the warm, sunny days ahead. All have that can’t-put-down essence that makes reading an essential part of a perfect summer; from dramatic thrillers to eye-opening memoirs and swoon-worthy romance novels, here is our handpicked selection of literary gems.
Biography
- Between Two Kingdoms - Suleika Jaouad
- Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life - Matthias Brunner
- C is for Curator - Brice Curiger
- Untamed - Glennon Doyle
- Everything I know about love - Dolly Alderton
- Born a crime - Trevor Noah
- Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
- selbstverständlich - Akris
Crime & Drama
- Verbrechen - Ferdinand von Schirach
- Die Physiker - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
Fiction
- Ein perfekter Freund - Martin Suter
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Klara and the sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Melody - Martin Suter
- Hard Land - Benedict Wells
- Fünf Jahreszeiten - Meral Kureyshi
- Die Mitte der Welt - Andreas Steinhöfel
- Blutbuch - Kim de L'Horizon
- Alte Sorten - Ewald Arenz
Poetry
- Clarity & Connection - Yung Pueblo
- The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton
Romance
- It ends with us - Colleen Hoover
- One day - David Nicholls
- The great gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Bronze Horseman - Paulina Simons
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
- All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr
- The Paris Secrect - Karen Swan
- Sonntags am Strand - Alexander Oetker
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Der Papier Palast - Miranda Cowley Heiler
- Conversations with friends - Sally Rooney
Personal Growth
- Think like a monk - Jay Shetty
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
- New dark age - James Bridle
- Ikigai - Ken Mogi
- 50 Sätze die das Leben leichter machen - Karin Kuschik
Psychological Thriller Novel
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
- Other People's Clothes - Calla Henkel
Belletristik
- La mia commedia dell'arte - Edition Patrick Frey
- The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - Charlie Macksey
