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
- David LaChapelle, Heaven to Hell
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.
