Matteo's Wasps' Nest

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/receive. If you think I did something for you and you want to thank me, feel free to send me one of them .

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)

Photography Books

• David LaChapelle, Heaven to Hell
• Ansel Adams, The Camera
• Ansel Adams, The Negative
• Ansel Adams, The Print
• Henri Cartier-Bresson, Scrapbook (I got The Modern Century and I am more than satisfied with it)
• Gianni Berengo Gardin
• Giovanni Umicini (I got everything by Giovanni thanks to a great and unexpected present)
• Robert Capa
• Tazio Secchiaroli
• Édouard Boubat
• Robert Doisneau

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)

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

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)
• Jacques Le Goff, La nuova storia
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan — The impact of the highly improbable

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)
• Seneca, Lettere a Lucilio (Eng: Letters to Lucilius)

Already read books

An absolutely partial and incomplete list of books I read. Updated whenever I remember to update it. It is mostly stuff that was in one of the above lists and I moved it here.

• 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.