Legenda

Posted Aug 26, 2020

This is a list of books I intend (re)reading at some point. I added a link to the corresponding notes for the books I managed to read meanwhile. I libri già letti sono in grassetto.

Legenda:

Calling bullshit - C. Bergstrom, J. West (non-fiction) link
Fictions - J.L. Borges (fiction) link
Wuthering Heights - E. Brönte (fiction) link
The mind illuminated - J. Y. Culadasa (non-fiction) link
L’uomo e la natura - Leonardo da Vinci (non-fiction) link
Notes from underground - F. Dostoevskij (fiction) link
Trattato di semiotica generale - U. Eco (non-fiction) link
The discourses - Epictetus (non-fiction) link
The 85 ways to tie a tie - T. Fink, Y. Mao (non-fiction) link
Animal Minds - D. R. Griffin (non-fiction) link
Plant-Animal Interactions - C.M. Herrera, O. Pellmyr (biology) link
Aion - C. G. Jung (psychology) link
Symbols of transformation - C. G. Jung (psychology) link
The structure and dynamics of the psyche - C. G Jung (psychology) link
Poems - H. Kendall (poetry) link
Journey to the moon - J. Kirsch (psyschology) contained in link
Arsène Lupin - M. Leblanc (fiction) link
Canti - G. Leopardi (poetry) link
Mathematics as metaphor - Y. Manin (non-fiction) link
Salt, fat, acid, heat - S. Nosrat (cooking) link
The memory police - Y. Ogawa (sci-fi) link
Dragonflies and Damselflies - Dennis Paulson (biology) link
La disparition - G. Perec (oulipo) link
How the mind works - S. Pinker (non-fiction) link
Parallel lives - Plutarch (bio) link
Letters, numbers, forms - R. Queneau (oulipo) link
Petite cosmogonie portative - R. Queneau (poetry) link
The fountainhead - A. Rand (fiction) link
Lettere morali a Lucilio - Seneca (philosophy) link
King Lear - W. Shakespeare (theatre) link
Germania - Tacito (history) link
War and peace - L. Tolstoj (fiction) link
Aeneid - Vergil (poetry) link
Histoire de notre image - A. Virel (non-fiction) link
Christina Alberta’s father - H.G. Wells (fiction/psychology) link

Lecta:

Dirk Gently’s holistic detective agency - D. Adams (sci-fi) link, LN (27.01.21)
The long dark tea-time of the soul - D. Adams (sci-fi) link, LN (29.01.21)
Open - A. Agassi (biography) link, LN (21.07.22)
La maschera di Dimitrios - E. Ambler (fiction), link, LN (08.06.22)
Dschinns - F. Aydemir (fiction) link, LN (01.03.23)
A piece of the world - C. Baker (fiction) link, LN (30.08.20)
Concrete island - J. G. Ballard (fiction) link, LN (27.05.22)
Abel - A. Baricco (fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
Omero, Iliade - A. Baricco (fiction) link, LN (01.11.21)
Elizabeth Finch - J. Barnes (fiction) link, LN (31.3.23)
Tecnica mista su tappeto - F. Battiato (bio) link, LN (03.06.21)
The man from the future - A. Bhattacharya (biography) link, LN (21.09.22)
The unabridged Devil’s dictionary - A. Bierce (fiction?) link, LN (04.05.21)
The Aleph - J.L. Borges (fiction) link, LN (22.07.21)
La biblioteca scomparsa - L. Canfora (non-fiction) link, LN (10.04.23)
The Book of Heaven and Hell - J.L. Borges and A.B. Casares (non-fiction) link, LN (18.12.22)
Fondamenta degli incurabili - I. Brodskij (non-fiction) link, LN (10.08.22)
La giornata d’uno scrutatore - I. Calvino (fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
Lezioni americane - I. Calvino (non-fiction) link, LN (06.02.21)
La peste - A. Camus (fiction), link, LN(16.06.22)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - S. Clarke (fiction) link, LN (01.12.22)
Piranesi - S. Clarke (fiction) link, LN (01.11.22)
The ladies of Grace Adieu - S. Clarke (fiction) link, LN (03.01.23)
It was snowing butterflies - C. Darwin (non-fiction) link, LN (01.08.21)
All men are mortal - S. de Beauvoir (fiction) link, LN (05.04.21)
Il diritto dei lupi - S. de Bellis, E. Fiorillo (fiction) link, LN (25.06.21)
Voyage dans la lune - C. de Bergerac (fiction) link, LN (11.02.21)
David Copperfield - C. Dickens (fiction) link, LN (26.05.21)
The Gambler - F. Dostoevsky (fiction) link, LN (16.07.22)
The year of the rabid dragon - L.H. Draken (thriller) link, LN (10.02.21)
A short philosophy of birds - P. J. Dubois, E. Rousseau link, LN (16.08.22)
The black tulip - A. Dumas (fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
Die Physiker - F. Dürrenmatt (theatre) link, LN (16.05.21)
La morte della Pizia - F. Dürrenmatt (fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
Birds and frogs - F. Dyson (non-fiction) link, LN (03.01.21)
This is how you lose the time war - A. El-Mothar, M. Gladstone (sci-fi) link, LN (04.10.20)
The strangest man - G. Farmelo (biography), link, LN (30.04.22)
L’amica geniale - E. Ferrante (fiction) link, LN (01.08.21)
The art thief - M. Finkel (biography), link, LN (04.11.23)
The evening and the morning - K. Follett (fiction) link, LN (10.10.20)
Howards End - E. M. Forster (fiction) link, LN (18.03.22)
Feline philosophy - J. Gray (non-fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Y. N. Harari (non-fiction) link, LN (23.10.20)
The shortest history of Germany - J. Hawes (history) link, LN (23.02.21)
Histories - Herodotus (history) link, LN (20.05.23)
Dune - F. Herbert (sci-fi) link, LN (22.05.22)
Gödel, Escher, Bach - D. Hofstadter (non-fiction) link, LN (27.10.21)
Le formiche tagliafoglie - B. Holldöbler, E.O. Wilson (biology) link, LN (01.01.2024)
The Superorganism - B. Holldöbler, E.O. Wilson (biology) link
The Odissey - Homer (fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
The map and the territory - M. Houellebecq (fiction) link, LN (21.02.21)
The possibility of an island - M. Houellebecq (fiction) link, LN (15.10.22)
The fourth turning is here - N. Howe (non-fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
The hotel New Hampshire - J. Irving (fiction) link, LN (20.12.22)
The world according to Garp - J. Irving (fiction) link, LN (30.06.21)
Thinking, fast and slow - D. Kahneman (non-fiction) link, LN (18.09.21)
Shakespeare’s royal self - J. Kirsch (psychology) link, LN (29.12.20)
The turn of the screw - H. James (fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
Man and his symbols - C.G. Jung et al. (psychology) link, LN (26.08.20)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections - C. G. Jung link, LN (22.06.21)
On the psychology of the unconscious - C. G. Jung (psychology) contained in link, LN (25.11.20)
Psychological types - C. G. Jung (psychology) link, LN (16.08.21)
The relations between the ego and the unconscious - C. G. Jung (psychology) contained in link, LN (28.11.20)
One hundred shadows - H. Jungeun (sci-fi) link, LN (04.09.20)
Concerning the spiritual in art - W. Kandinsky (non-fiction) link, LN (29.09.20)
The unbearable lightness of being - M. Kundera (fiction) link, LN (06.03.21)
A wrinkle in time - M. L’Engle (sci-fi) link, LN (01.01.2024)
The investigation - S. Lem (fiction) link, LN (15.03.23)
The star diaries - S. Lem (sci-fi) link, LN (20.05.22)
Blackwater - M. McDowell (non-fiction), link, LN (04.11.23)
Maschinen wie ich - I. Mc.Ewan (fiction) link LN (17.08.21)
Die Erweiterung - R. Menasse (fiction) link, LN (29.12.22)
Die Hauptstadt - R. Menasse (fiction) link, LN (03.01.21)
Alce Nero parla - J.G. Neihardt (biography), link, LN (28.06.22)
The committed - V. T. Nguyen (fiction) link, LN (14.03.21)
The sympathizer - V. T. Nguyen (fiction) link, LN (19.09.20)
Spitzweg - E. Nickel (fiction) link, LN (30.10.22)
Also sprach Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche (philosophy) link, LN (19.04.21)
How to be a man - G. O’Brien (non-fiction) link, LN (27.10.20)
The botany of desire - M. Pollan (non-fiction) link, LN (01.06.23)
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls - M. Polo (history) link, LN (14.03.21)
A book of dreams - P. Reich (biography), link, LN (04.11.23)
Barney’s version - M. Richter (fiction) link, LN (03.06.21)
The elements of drawing - J. Ruskin (non-fiction) link, LN (04.09.22)
Vite immaginarie - M. Schwob (fiction) link, LN (14.07.21)
Sette brevi lezioni sullo stoicismo - J. Sellars, link, LN (15.06.22)
On the shortness of life - Seneca (philosophy) link, LN (14.07.21)
Vita Martini - S. Severus (fiction) link, LN (20.11.20)
The signal and the noise - N. Silver (non-fiction), link, LN (04.11.23)
The Code Book - S. Singh (non-fiction) link, LN (15.09.22)
Herkunft - S. Stanišić (fiction) link, LN (19.11.20)
Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert - S. Stanišić (fiction), link, LN (22.06.22)
Antifragile - N. N. Taleb (non-fiction) link, LN (20.01.21)
The goldfinch - D. Tartt (fiction) link, LN (01.01.2024)
The secret history - D. Tartt (fiction) link, LN (05.02.23)
1788 - W. Tench (non-fiction) link, LN (20.07.23)
Do not say we have nothing - M. Thien (fiction) link, LN (13.12.20)
The fifth sun - C. Townsend (history) link, LN (01.01.2024)
L’educazione - T. Westover (bio) link, LN (05.12.21)
Schachnovelle - S. Zweig (fiction) link, LN (01.04.21)

If there’s significant overlap with your own interests, get in touch! I’m always happy to exchange recommendations (and sometimes books).