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*{{en|Jorge Luis Borges}} , ''{{en|Ficciones}}'' / ''{{en|The Aleph}}'' / ''{{en|A Universal History of Infamy}}'' | *{{en|Jorge Luis Borges}} , ''{{en|Ficciones}}'' / ''{{en|The Aleph}}'' / ''{{en|A Universal History of Infamy}}'' | ||
*{{en|Robert Musil}}, ''{{en|The Man Without Qualities}}'' | *{{en|Robert Musil}}, ''{{en|The Man Without Qualities}}'' | ||
Revision as of 15:34, 8 September 2010
This is a list of my favourite books, in constant progress, in no particular order.
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
- 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
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
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
- 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
Philosophy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Emile Cioran , pretty much everything