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
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
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)
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