This is a partial list of the books I have read. I have it both to jog my memory and because I have read a lot of stuff I have loved, and want other people to find it.

2024

  • Altri libertini, Pier Vittorio Tondelli ★★★★☆
  • New York Trilogy, Paul Auster ★★★★☆
  • Class trip, Emmanuel Carrère ★★★☆☆
  • White noise, Don DeLillo ★★★★☆
  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Damien Lewis ★★★☆☆
  • The tree-body problem, Cixin Liu ★★★★☆
  • Blame! Vol. 2, Tsutomu Nihei ★★★★☆
  • Walking, Erling Kagge ★★★☆☆
  • Lacci, Domenico Starnone ★★★★☆
  • The bastard brigade, Sam Kean ★★★★☆
  • Storia di mia vita, Janek Gorczyca ★★☆☆☆
  • Pao Pao, Pier Vittorio Tondelli ★★★☆☆
  • Slow Horses, Mick Herron ★★★☆☆
  • Trappole alimentari, Stefano Vendrame ★★★☆☆
  • Taccuino 1870-1884, Giuseppe De Nittis ★★★☆☆
  • Blame! Vol. 1, Tsutomu Nihei ★★★★☆
  • I love Russia, Elena Kostyuchenko ★★★☆☆
  • My Ingeborg, Tore Renberg ★★★★☆
  • Kind of Blue: the making of the Miles Davis masterpiece, Ashley Kahn ★★★☆☆
  • Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home, Malachy Tallack ★★★☆☆
  • Replay, Jordan Mechner ★★★★☆
  • The Horde: how the Mongols changed the world, Marie Favereau ★★★★☆
  • La resistenza delle donne, Benedetta Tobagi ★★★☆☆
  • Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry ★☆☆☆☆
  • Family Lexicon (Lessico Famigliare), Natalia Ginzburg ★★★★☆
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★★
  • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius ★★★★☆
  • The garden of the Finzi-Contini, Giorgio Bassani ★★★★☆
  • The question of Palestine, Edward W. Said ★★★☆☆

2023

Books I read in 2023: wrap-up and reviews

2022

My favorite books of 2022

2021

Three good books I read in 2021

2020

Five good books I read in 2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

In no particular order