Since I started a new GIS-class in the middle of August, I've to travel 2 hours by train every day...enough time to read some CLASSICS that where on my "books-I-need-to-read/I-am-curious-about-and-a-lot-of-my-friends-told-me-about"-list:
Sten Nadolny - The Discovery of Slowness (german.: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit)
Max Frisch - Homo Faber
Jules Verne - A Journey to the Center of the Earth (french: Voyage au centre de la Terre)
(The movie from 1959 with James Mason as Professor Lindenbrook is one of my All-time Favourites)
In Search of the Castaways/The Children of Captain Grant (french: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant)
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations (Finally! My current read...)
Aaaand, if you havn't read it (you should have) and just because I had a discussion with some collegues today about the best books we read so far/that left the most impressions:
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Still, after ten years since I read it for the first time in school, it's unbelieveable for me that this anti-war novel was written in 1929...and that some years after the release one of the most cruel and darkest times in history took place.