The Aikido-Dojo Erlangen publishes its
List of Recommended books for ambitious Aikidoka
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Sankyo |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Lord of the Tatami |
| Michael Chrichton | Aikido Park |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Ki- Island |
| Master Takuan | Zen and the art of making potato salad without potatoes |
| Franz Alt | Practicing is possible |
| Antoine de St.-Exupéry | The little Nage |
| Erik van Lustbader | Shikko |
| Gabriel Garcia-Marquez | 100 years seiza |
| Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Dojo |
| Eugen Roth | An Uke |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Myth of Aikido |
| Jules Verne | Journey to the Centre of the Universe |
| Betty Mahmoody | Not without my Dogi |
| Umberto Eco | The Name of the Uke |
| John Steinbeck | East of Practice
Of Ukes and Nages |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall in the Randori |
| Ambrose Bierce | Incident in the Dojo |
| N.H. Kleinbaum | Dead Senseis' Society |
| John le Carré | The sensei who came in from the cold |
| Carlos Castaneda | The Teachings of Yoshigasaki |
| Arthur Hailey | Tatami |
| Harper Lee | To disturb the training |
| Isabel Allende | The Dojo of Spirits |
| Molière | L'Uke imaginaire |
| Arthur Miller | Death of an Aikidoka |
| Noah Gordon | The Sensei |
| Jonathan Swift | Yoshigasaki's Travels |
| Allan Sillitoe | The Loneliness of the Meditating |
| Gustave Flaubert | The Education of Ki |
| Jean de la Fontaine | The Taigi |
| Fiedrich Schiller | Collected Techniques |
| Stephen W. Hawking | A short history of Ki |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New Technique |
| Ray Bradbury | Taigi 451 |
| George Orwell | The Ki-Machine |
| Alexandre Dumas | The three Aikidoka |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Hakama |
| James D. Salinger | The Uke in the Rye |
| Friedrich Schiller | The Misogi-Bells |
| Francoise Sagan | Bonjour Sensei |
| Koichi Tohei | Kneeling in daily life |
| Karl Marx | The Aikido Manifesto |
| Herbert W. Franke | The Tatami Planet |
| Frederik Hetman | Aikido Tales |
| Tom Clancy | Hunt for the Black Belt |
| Aristoteles | De Aikidibus |
| Ostrander/Schröder | Super-Extending |
| Marion Zimmer-Bradley | The Mists of Ki No Sato |
How to get hold of these works of literature should be obvious to everyone, therefore
no sources are mentioned here.
Some of the books - and some others have been turned into films...
| Hunt for the Black Belt (with Harrison Ford and Sean Connery) |
| The Tatami Planet |
| Brave New Technique |
| Taigi 451 |
| The Ki-Machine |
| The three Aikidoka |
| The Scarlet Hakama |
| Indiana Jones and the Dojo of Death |
| The Third Uke (with Orson Wells) |
| Searching the Golden Bokken (with Eddie Murphy) |
| James Bond: License to Sankyo (with Roger Moore) |
| Asterix and the Master's unbendable arm |
| Aikido-Turtles |
| The Aikido-Turtles strike again |
| Nikkyo (with Steven Seagal) |
| Stephen King's Randori of Horrors |
| Walt Disney's funny world of Aikido |
| Aikido-Brothers |
| Ki-Quest (with Roy Scheider) |
| Dances with Senseis (with Kevin Costner) |
| Conan, the Aikidoka (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) |
| Training of no return (with Liz Taylor and John Wayne) |
| A Dogi for two (with Doris Day) |
| Aikido Academy 1 - 20 |
Some of you might have noticed that some books and films from the German list are missing
in this more international one. This is partly because I felt that either the titles were
typically German (in their reference in the world of film or the world of Aikido) or
simply because I didn't find the English titles of the books or films or because only
the German title was suitable for a slight adaptation into the world of aikido...
Copyright © 1998 Marion und Helmut Schweinzer