WELCOME TO MY BOOKSHELF

Whether we like it or not, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives and social interactions. The technologies have...

Michael Pollan is one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. This is Your Mind on Plants is his most recent book, consisting of...

Why Marx Was Right is Terry Eagleton’s attempt at making Karl Marx’s theory accessible to all and to provide socialists with some...

How to live? Read a lot, forget most of what you’ve read, and be slow-witted! How do you make peace with the fact of death? How do you...

What can you say about a work such as this? It has been several weeks now since I read it, and I still feel lost for words. If This Is a...

First developed in the 1940s, attachment theory originally dealt with the relationship between infants and their caregivers and is one of...

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields is a brutal, shocking, devastating read. And it could not be any other way. Christina Lamb, co-author of I...

“We may be intolerant even in advocating the cause of Toleration, and so bent on making proselytes to free-thinking as to allow no one to...

The term intersectional feminism was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how different dimensions of oppression – for example sexism...

In face of the recent war in Israel and Palestine (and the outbreak of sharing other people’s 240-character opinions on social media), I...

Feminist writer bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is a passionate exploration of how we do and appeal to how we should love. What...

Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...

What would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...

In their powerful and eye-opening manifesto Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac and Molly Smith make the point for sex workers’ rights loud...

Ah, this book! This is one that is going to stay with me for a long time. While reading it, I was already looking forward to starting it...

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

“This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or...

“Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.” Disguised as a gardening book,...

In the Bec-da-Gaz bar, towards the end of 1932, philosopher Raymond Aron made a statement that would kickstart the development of...

In 2020 I read 69 books, fiction and non-fiction and all very different. So it was of course hard to pick favourites. But here are my top...