Books

This is a list of my favourite books, in constant progress, in no particular order.

Novels

Best book of all times, period.

Best sci-fi novel ever, period.

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

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

Poetry

Eugenio Montale , Le Occasioni / Ossi di seppia
Milo de Angelis
Emily Dickinson
Charles Bukowski
Fernando Pessoa

Non fiction

Science

If you disagree with this guy, you are probably wrong.

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
Peter Woit , Not even wrong

Philosophy

Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Emile Cioran , pretty much everything
Peter Singer , Practical Ethics

Politics/History

Duccio Balestracci, Terre ignote strana gente. Storie di viaggiatori medioevali

Radical right

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

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