Books
Books read
2024
| Author | Title | Pages | Started | Finished | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Byrne | Diari della bicicletta | 382 | 2024-01-10 | 2024-01-20 | N |
| Ian McEwan | The Innocent | 226 | 2024-01-23 | 2024-01-30 | F |
| Alessandro Barbero | Federico il Grande | 172 | 2024-01-25 | 2024-01-30 | N |
| Elizabeth Jane Howard | Gli anni della leggerezza | 600 | 2024-02-02 | 2024-02-13 | F |
| Jacques Le Goff | Il Medioevo | 126 | 2024-02-14 | 2024-02-16 | N |
| Daniel C. Dennett | From Bacteria to Bach and Back | 496 | 2024-01-31 | 2024-07-09 | N |
| S.J. Morden | Gallowglass | 373 | 2024-05-15 | 2024-05-25 | F |
| David Spiegelhalter | The Art of Statistics | 380 | 2024-05-29 | 2024-06-18 | N |
| China Miéville | The City and the City | 372 | 2024-05-29 | 2024-06-04 | F |
| Thomas Pynchon | The crying of lot 49 | 142 | 2024-07-02 | 2024-07-12 | F |
| K.J. Parker | Sixteen ways to defend a walled city | 350 | 2024-07-15 | 2024-07-26 | F |
| Will Ludwigsen | A scout is brave | 158 | 2024-07-24 | 2024-07-24 | F |
| George Polya | How to solve it | 253 | 2024-07-23 | 2024-08-15 | N |
| Joe Ide | IQ | 336 | 2024-08-11 | 2024-08-13 | F |
| Jordan Ellenberg | How not to be wrong | 437 | 2024-08-18 | 2024-10-16 | N |
| Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | Roadside picnic | 193 | 2024-09-16 | 2024-09-24 | F |
| Marco Malvaldi | Briscola in cinque | 163 | 2024-09-25 | 2024-09-23 | F |
| Michael Warren Douglas | git commit murder | 263 | 2024-10-03 | 2024-10-10 | F |
| Stanislaw Lem | Solaris | 256 | 2024-12-15 | 2024-12-20 | F |
ACQUIRED Polostan
2023
| Author | Title | Pages | Started | Finished | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Rankin | Black and blue | 418 | 2023-03-24 | 2023-04-08 | F |
| Ian Rankin | The Hanging Garden | 432 | 2023-04-08 | 2023-04-13 | F |
| Ian Rankin | Dead Souls | 512 | 2023-04-27 | 2023-05-14 | F |
| Ian Rankin | Set in darkness | 450 | 2023-06-03 | 2023-06-08 | F |
| Ian Rankin | The Falls | 496 | 2023-06-09 | 2023-06-18 | F |
| Andrea Camilleri | La forma dell'acqua | 157 | 2023-07-01 | 2023-07-02 | F |
2022
| Author | Title | Pages | Started | Finished | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cristina Rava | Commissario Rebaudengo. Un'indagine al nero di seppia | 242 | 2022-04-10 | 2022-04-11 | F |
| Cristina Rava | Tre trifole per Rebaudengo | 277 | 2022-04-12 | 2022-04-14 | F |
2021
| Author | Title | Pages | Started | Finished | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanfranco Fabriani | Il lastrico del tempo | 240 | 2021-01-26 | 2021-01-27 | F |
| John le Carré | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 404 | 2021-02-11 | 2021-02-16 | F |
| Stephen King | Later | 272 | 2021-03-11 | 2021-03-12 | F |
| Blake Crouch | Recursion | 336 | 2021-03-12 | 2021-03-24 | F |
| Clifford Stoll | The cuckoo's egg | 399 | 2021-05-15 | 2021-05-22 | N |
| Liu Cixin (刘慈欣) | The Three-Body Problem | 400 | 2021-05-08 | 2021-06-05 | F |
| Martha Wells | All systems red | 154 | 2021-06-06 | 2021-06-09 | F |
| Ian Rankin | Knots and crosses | 244 | 2021-06-19 | 2021-06-26 | F |
| Greg Egan | Quarantine | 251 | 2021-06-13 | 2021-06-28 | F |
| Ian Rankin | Hide and Seek | 228 | 2021-07-02 | 2021-07-05 | F |
| Ian Rankin | Tooth and nail | 304 | 2021-07-05 | 2021-07-08 | F |
| Ian Rankin | Strip Jack | 276 | 2021-07-09 | 2021-07-11 | F |
| Ian Rankin | The Black Book | 372 | 2021-07-12 | 2021-07-25 | F |
| Ian Rankin | Mortal Causes | 292 | 2021-07-25 | 2021-08-06 | F |
| Mitchell Waldrop | The Dream Machine | 528 | 2021-08-29 | 2021-10-13 | N |
| Ian Rankin | Let it bleed | 324 | 2021-08-06 | 2021-08-21 | F |
| Susanna Clarke | Piranesi | 245 | 2021-12-13 | 2021-12-15 | F |
| Jeff Vandermeer | Hummingbird Salamander | 349 | 2021-10-14 | 2021-12-23 | F |
2020
| The Institute, Stephen King |
| Permutation City, Greg Egan |
| Storia della bambina perduta (L'Amica Geniale), Elena Ferrante |
| Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta (L'Amica Geniale), Elena Ferrante |
| Storia del nuovo cognome (L'Amica Geniale), Elena Ferrante |
| L'amica geniale (L'Amica Geniale), Elena Ferrante |
| Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, David Kushner |
| The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks |
| The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't, Nate Silver |
| Instantiation, Greg Egan |
| Mr. Mercedes, Stephen King |
| The Outsider, Stephen King |
2019
| Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, Guy Deutscher |
| Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results, Christina R Wodtke |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli |
| The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, Camille Fournier |
| The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise, Nathan L. Ensmenger |
| UNIX: A History and a Memoir, Brian W. Kernighan |
| A Legacy of Spies, John le Carré |
| Tattoo, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |
| One Word Kill, Mark Lawrence (Impossible Times trilogy) |
| Limited Wish, Mark Lawrence (Impossible Times trilogy |
| Dispel Illusion, Mark Lawrence (Impossible Times trilogy) |
| L'amante senza fissa dimora, Fruttero & Lucentini |
| In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker |
| Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, Neal Stephenson |
| Plot It Yourself, Rex Stout |
Notes
Here I collect notes about books I consider important or particularly well-done. This section has to be considered in progress: I add notes as long as I proceed reading, or as I proceed re-organizing previously collected notes.
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