Did Einstein have a favourite book and a favourite author?
Einstein liked reading very much and he read a lot. Therefore it is difficult to name single books or authors. Despite that fact a small selection in the following: He very much liked to read Don Quijote by Cervantes Saavedra and The Karamasow Brothers by Dostojewski. David Humes Traktat about human nature had according to Einsteins own words quite an influence on his development. Here the authors have to be mentioned Poincar, Mach, Tolstoi, Heine, Brecht, Shaw, Sinclair as well as Schopenhauer and Spinoza. As a student he read with increasing enthusiasm the Naturwissenschaftlichen Volksbcher (Natural-Scientific Popular Books) by Aaron Bernstein and dealt among other things with Ludwig Bchners Kraft und Stoff (Energy and Matter) and Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason).
