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

2. Post Office – Charles Bukowski
3. 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