Books

List of books that I have read or I’m currently reading. The books are listed with their original name and if necessary followed by english translation. This list is sorted in alphabetical order by authors.

Still work in progress

What I’m currently reading

  • Hamming, Richard, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Learning to Learn

  • Hofstader, Douglas R., Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

  • Kissinger, Henry, World Order

  • Rumiz, Paolo, È Oriente (It is East)

  • Smith, Denis Mack, Modern Italy. A Political History

  • Vonnegut, Kurt, Breakfast of Champions

What I have read

Novels and Travel

  • Abbott, Edwin A., Flatland

  • Alverà, Diego, Il romanzo del Fuji - Lauda, Hunt, F1 1976 (Fuji’s Tale - Landa, Hunt, F1 1976)

  • Asimov, Isaac, I, Robot

  • Baricco, Alessandro, Omero, Iliade (An Iliad)

  • Brecht, Bertolt, Leben des Galilei (Life of Galileo)

  • Buck, Pearl S., Dragon Seed

  • Bulgakov, Mikhail, Sobach’ye serdtse (Heart of a Dog)

  • Buzzati, Dino, Il Deserto dei Tartari (The Tartar Steppe)

  • Calvino, Italo, Il Cavaliere Inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight)

  • Cammilleri Andrea, Racconti di Montalbano (Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories)

  • Christie, Agata, Murder on the Orient Express

  • De Carlo, Andrea, Yucatan

  • Dick, Philip K.

    • The Man in the High Castle

    • Ubik

  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Belye nochi (White Nights)

  • Faletti, Giorgio, La Piuma (The Feather)

  • Fenoglio, Giuseppe, La Malora (Ruin)

  • Fitzgerald, Francis Scott

    • The Great Gatsby

    • Tender is the Night

  • Golding, William, Lord of the Flies

  • Guevara, Ernesto Che, Notas de viaje (The Motorcycle Diaries)

  • Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea

  • Kafka, Franz, Die Verwandlung (The Methamorphosis)

  • Kerouac, Jack, On the Road

  • King, Stephen, The Shining

  • Kundera, Milan, Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

  • Lussu, Emilio, Un anno sull’Altipiano (One Year on the High Plateau)

  • Mastrocola, Paola, Una barca nel bosco (A Boat in the Woods)

  • Maurensig, Paolo, La variante di Lüneburg (The Lüneburg Variation)

  • Meyer, Stephany, The Host

  • Nabokov, Vladimir, Zashchita Luzhina (The Defense)

  • Orwell, George

    • Animal Farm

    • Nineteen Eighty-Four

  • Pennacchi, Antonio, Storia di Karel (Story of Karel)

  • Poe, Edgar Allan, Tales

  • Remarque, Erich Maria, Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)

  • Rumiz, Paolo, Trans Europa Express (The Fault Line: Traveling the Other Europe, from Finland to Ukraine)

  • Saint-Exupery, Antoine de, Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)

  • Salgari, Emilio, Il Corsaro Nero (The Black Corsair)

  • Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye

  • Saviano, Roberto

    • La Paranza dei Bambini (The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples)

    • Bacio Feroce (Savage Kiss)

  • Shakespeare, William

    • Hamlet

    • Romeo and Juliet

  • Stevenson, Robert Louis, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

  • Tabucchi, Antonio, Sostiene Pereira (Pereira Maintains)

  • Tevis, Walter

    • The Queen’s Gambit

    • Mockingbird

  • Tolkien, J.R.R.

    • The Hobbit

    • The Lord of the Rings

  • Twain, Mark, Roughing It

  • Verne, Jules

    • Cinq Semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon)

    • Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth)

    • De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon)

    • Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousands Leagues under the Seas)

    • Autour de la Lune (Around the Moon)

    • Une Ville flottante (A Floating City)

    • Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days)

    • L’île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island)

    • Michel Strogoff (Michael Strogoff)

    • Paris au XXe siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century)

    • Un hivernage dans les glaces (A Winter Amid the Ice)

    • Les révoltés de la Bounty (The Mutineers of the Bounty)

  • Vonnegut, Kurt, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine

  • Wells, H.G., The Time Machine

  • Yagisawa, Satoshi, Morisaki Shoten No Hibi (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop)

  • Zweig, Stefan, Schachnovelle (The Royal Game)

Essay and Non-Fiction

  • Aurelius, Marcus, Ta eis heauton (Meditations)

  • Carofiglio, Gianrico, Della Gentilezza e del Coraggio. Breviario di politica e altre cose (On Kindness and Courage)

  • Davis, Martin, The Universal Computer, the Road from Leibniz to Turing

  • Faggin, Federico, Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness

  • Fallaci, Oriana, Quel giorno sulla luna (That day on the Moon)

  • Feynman, Richard, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

  • Filippi, Francesco, Noi però gli abbiamo fatto le strade: Le colonie italiane tra bugie, razzismi e amnesie (But we built roads for them: Italian colonies between lies, racism, and amnesia)

  • Harari, Yuval Noah

    • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

    • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

  • Hobsbawm, Eric J., Age of Extremes. The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991

  • Isaacson, Walter, Steve Jobs

  • Kasparov, Garry, How Life Imitates Chess

  • Martinez, Antonio Garcia, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

  • Mitnick, Kevin D.

    • The Art of Deception

    • The Art of Intrusion

  • Morris, Desmond, The Naked Ape

  • Rampini, Federico, Le Linee Rosse. Uomini, Confini, Imperi: le carte geografiche che raccontano il mondo in cui viviamo (The Red Lines. Men, Borders, Empires: The Maps That Tell the Story of the World We Live In.)

  • Rovelli, Carlo

    • Sette Brevi Lezioni di Fisica (Seven Brief Lessons on Physics)

    • L’Ordine del Tempo (The Order of Time)

    • Helgoland

    • Buchi bianchi. Dentro l’Orizzonte (White Holes)

  • Sims, Peter, Little Bets

  • Snowden, Edward, Permanent Record

  • Sun Tzu, The Art of War (The Art of War)

  • Turing, Alan M., Collected works of A.M. Turing. Mechanical Intelligence

  • Vonnegut, Kurt

    • A Man Without a Country

    • If This Isn’t Nice, What is?: Advice to the Young

  • Von Neumann, John, The Computer and the Brain

  • Wu, Tim, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires