Other Stuff

Here is something related to my life but unrelated to Computer Science...

Warning! There will never be a final version of this page ;-)

Last Update: 7th September 2022

Must-Read books

  • Q by Luther Blisset (1999)

  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)

  • Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley (1958)

  • Liquid Life by Zygmunt Bauman (2005)

  • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957)

  • Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (2011)

  • American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)

  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (1923)

  • The Grand Inquisitor (must-read chapter taken from "The brothers Karamazov") by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)

  • Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1958)

  • Il partigiano Johnny by Beppe Fenoglio (1968)

  • Così è (se vi pare) by Luigi Pirandello (1917)

  • 1984 by George Orwell (1948)

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)

  • The man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (1900)

  • Fahrenheith 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

  • ...

Good books

  • The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (1980)

  • The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan (1988)

  • The pillars of the earth by Ken Follett (1989)

  • Sillabario Veneto. Viaggio sentimentale tra le parole venete by Paolo Malaguti (2012)

  • The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)

  • Nothing to envy: ordinary lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (2009)

  • The catcher in the rye by JD Salinger (1951)

  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1861)

  • Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck (1935)

  • Intervista con la storia by Oriana Fallaci (1974)

  • One, No one and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello (1936)

  • Vita by Melania G. Mazzucco (2003)

  • Venuto al mondo by Margaret Mazzantini (2008)

  • The Kolyma tales by Varlam Shalamov (1973)

  • Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

  • Ninety-three by Victor Hugo (1874)

  • Barney's version by Mordecai Richler (1997)

  • The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks (1985)

  • A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini (2007)

  • ...

More other stuff...

  • Storia di emigrazione della famiglia Stecca (Italian Only) [Read]