Books
This is a list of my favourite books, in constant progress, in no particular order. (See also book suggestions of stuff I haven't read but my friends say I should)
Contents
Novels
- Dante Alighieri . Divine Comedy
- Jorge Luis Borges , Ficciones / The Aleph / A Universal History of Infamy
- Robert Musil , The Man Without Qualities
- Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary
- Jonathan Littell , The Kindly Ones
- Franz Kafka , The Trial / all short novels
- Hermann Melville , Moby Dick
- Jose Saramago , Baltasar and Blimunda
- Vladimir Nabokov , Lolita
- Giovanni Verga , I Malavoglia
- Predrag Matvejević , Breviario Mediterraneo
- Umberto Eco , Foucault's Pendulum
- Curzio Malaparte , La pelle
Science fiction
- Arthur C. Clarke , Rendezvous with Rama / Childhood's End / The city and the stars
- Ray Bradbury , Martian Chronicles
- Clifford D. Simak , City
- Isaac Asimov , The Gods Themselves
- George Orwell , 1984
- Olaf Stapledon , Last and First Men
- H.P. Lovecraft , The call of Cthulhu
- Poul Anderson , Tau Zero
Poetry
- Eugenio Montale , Le Occasioni / Ossi di seppia
- Milo de Angelis
- Emily Dickinson
- Charles Bukowski
- Fernando Pessoa
Non fiction
Science
- Richard Dawkins , pretty much everything
- Stephen Jay Gould , Wonderful Life
- Oliver Sacks , The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
- John D. Barrow , The World within the World / Theories of Everything / Pi in the Sky
- Douglas Hofstadter , Goedel, Escher, Bach
- Peter Woit , Not even wrong
- Brian Greene , The elegant universe
Philosophy
- Friederich Nietzsche , pretty much everything
- Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Emile Cioran , pretty much everything
- Peter Singer , Practical Ethics
Politics/History
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- Duccio Balestracci, Terre ignote strana gente. Storie di viaggiatori medioevali
Radical right
While being pretty much a left-leaning liberal, I have a long standing fascination with the history, mythology and complexity of the ideologies of the radical right. I see it as an exceptional window on the irrational, identitarist and primeval components of human culture, and as a cultural phenomenon which hasn't been studied with the due attention so far.
- Domenico Di Tullio, Centri sociali di Destra
- Nicola Rao, La fiamma e la celtica
- Ugo Maria Tassinari, Fascisterie / Naufraghi
Comics
- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons , Watchmen
- Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon , Preacher
- Sydney Jordan , Jeff Hawke
- Randall Munroe , xkcd
- David Malki, Wondermark
- Tove Jansson , Moomin
- Dr.Pira , Gatto Mondadory e il Telefonino Fatato
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