Books’ Wishlist

As a geek, I love books about tech and sci-fi. As a person who received a classical education, I’m open to all kinds of books. As a man who lives in the 21th century, I think we must know the past to make a better future, and this makes me interested in italian and european history and politics, those of the 20th century above all.

The following is a list of books I’d like to read/recieve. If you think I did something for you and you want to thank me, feel free to send me one of them :).

Science Books

  • Richard P. Feynman, QED: The strange theory of light and matter
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach. Un’eterna ghirlanda brillante (Eng: Godel, Escher, Bach an Eternal Golden Braid)

Tech Books

  • Ross Anderson, Security Engineering, Wiley, 2001, ISBN 0-471-38922-6
  • Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1996, ISBN 0-471-11709-9
  • Bruce Schneier, Secrets & Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World, First Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2000, ISBN 0-471-25311-1
  • W. Richard Stevens et Al., Unix Network Programming Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-131-41155-1
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002, ISBN 0-130-38488-7
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2001, ISBN 0-130-92641-8
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull, Operating Systems Design And Implementation, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN 0-131-42938-8

Philosophy Books

  • Ludwig Feuerbach, L’essenza del Cristianesimo (Eng: The essence of Christianity)
  • Ludwig Feuerbach, L’essenza della religione (Eng: The essence of religion)
  • Sigmund Freud, Totem e tabu (Eng: Totem and Taboo)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, L’anticristo (Eng: The Antichrist)
  • Karl Popper, Logica della scoperta scientifica (Eng: The logic of scientific discovery)

History and Politics Books

  • Ernst H. Gombrich, La storia dell’arte (Eng: The Story of art)
  • Eric J. Hobsbawm, Il secolo breve 1914-1991 (Eng: The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991)
  • Eric J. Hobsbawm, Il trionfo della borghesia 1848-1875 (Eng: The age of capital 1848-1875)
  • Eric J. Hobsbawm, L’età della rivoluzione (Eng: The age of revolution: Europe 1789-1848)
  • John Rawls, Una teoria della giustizia (Eng: A theory of justice)

Poetry

  • Charles Baudelaire, I fiori del male (Eng: Flowers of Evil)
  • Kostantinos Kavafis
  • William Shakespeare, Sonnets
  • Virgilio, Bucoliche (Eng: Bucolics)

Photography Books

Misc Books

  • Giacomo Casanova, Storia della mia vita (Eng: History of my life)
  • Stendhal, La certosa di Parma (Eng: The charterhouse of Parma)
  • Stendhal, Il Rosso e il Nero (Eng: The Red and the Black)

Not read books

These are books I have, but have not read yet.

  • Johan Huizinga, L’autunno del Medioevo (Eng: The autumn of the Middle Ages)
  • Seneca, Lettere a Lucilio (Eng: Letters to Lucilius)

Never finished books

These are books I started to read many times, but never found the strength, or will to finish.

  • Herman Hesse, Narciso e Boccadoro (Eng: Narcissus and Goldmouth)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, La nausea (Eng: Nausea)

Already read books

An absolutely partial and incomplete list of book I read. Updated when I remember to update it.

  • Umberto Eco, Il pendolo di Focault (Eng: Focault’s Pendulum)
  • Bertolt Brecht, Gli affari del signor Giulio Cesare
  • John Fante, La confraternita dell’uva (Eng: Brotherhood of the Grape)
  • John Fante, Chiedi alla polvere (Eng: Ask the dust)
  • Raymond Queneau, I fiori blu (trad. da Italo Calvino) (Eng: The blue flowers)
  • Federico Rampini, L’impero di Cindia (Eng: Not Available)
  • Marcus du Sautoy, L’enigma dei numeri primi

The following is another list of books I read or movies I saw, taken from Scrive.it.