Books

From Devicerandom

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
• H.P. Lovecraft , The call of Cthulhu

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

• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
• 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

• Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons , Watchmen
• Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon , Preacher
• Randall Munroe , xkcd
• David Malki, Wondermark
• Tove Jansson , Moomin

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