your bookshelf we have some tips for you. one hundred books you need to know. translated from german into english here's the trailer for a one hundred german must read for use by date of his book experience and one that he's here with me in person and there you see him reading his book david leavitt's . culture hi david this is of course the first project of its kind one hundred videos about one hundred german books that are available in english not all of them are reading them change your perspective did it give me a least one hundred new perspectives actually a lot more than that one thing i really learned is that many great books just aren't available in english that was one of the one of our criteria another criterion we had is the books had to be good ok there are lots of code books but what we really wanted to do with this list was to sort of encapsulate the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty first century these books had to have everything