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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico

The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana) by Carlo Emilio Gadda

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Odyssey by Homer

La disubbidienza (Disobedience) by Alberto Moravia

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Uno, nessuno e centomila (One, None and a Hundred Thousand) by Luigi Pirandello

The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Feb 4 The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind

Feb 3 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Jan 27 Le piccole virtù (The Little Virtues) by Natalia Ginzburg

Jan 22 Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

Jan 19 Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

Jan 14 The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin

Jan 13 Three Stories and a Reflection by Patrick Süskind

Jan 11 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Jan 6 Memoirs of a Madman by Gustave Flaubert

Jan 2 World Memory and Other Cosmicomic Stories (from The Complete Cosmicomics) by Italo Calvino

Dec 30 Emilio’s Carnival/As a Man Grows Older (Senilità) by Italo Svevo

Dec 24 The Cave of the Cyclops by Homer

Dec 23 Ask the Dust by John Fante

Dec 22 One Hundred Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know: Math Explains Your World by John D. Barrow

Dec 16 Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Dec 14 1914: Why the World Went to War by Niall Ferguson

Dec 14 The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave

Dec 11 Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller

Dec 7 The Country of the Blind by H. G. Wells

Dec 5 What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable edited by John Brockman

Dec 3 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J. D. Salinger

Nov 30 Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen by Gabriel García Márquez

Nov 27 Il castello bianco (The White Castle) by Orhan Pamuk

Nov 23 The Great Wall of China (Penguin 70) by Franz Kafka

Nov 21 The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

Nov 19 Cloud, Castle, Lake by Vladimir Nabokov

Nov 18 Eleven Stories by Anton Chekhov

Nov 11 Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

Nov 7 Jeeves and the Impending Doom by P. G. Wodehouse

Nov 6 Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories by Italo Calvino

Oct 31 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oct 25 Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

Oct 15 Why I Write by George Orwell

Oct 13 Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Peter George

Oct 9 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Oct 8 Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Oct 2 The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker

Sep 22 La serenità by Seneca

Sep 18 Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Sep 16 Seven Stories by Anton Chekhov

Sep 10 Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

Sep 3 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Aug 27 Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Spiders’ Nests) by Italo Calvino

Aug 20 Amerika by Franz Kafka

Aug 13 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Aug 9 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

Aug 5 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Jul 24 Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick

Jul 20 The Science of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon

Jul 14 A Taste of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

Jul 11 The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges

Jul 10 Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Jun 18 Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr

Jun 13 The Dilbert Principle: A cubicle’s-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads and other workplace afflictions by Scott Adams

Jun 4 The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton

May 28 A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin

May 21 Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli) by Carlo Levi

May 14 Get a Grip on New Physics by John Gribbin

May 11 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

May 8 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Apr 18 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Apr 17 Irrational Exuberance, 2nd Ed. by Robert J. Shiller

Apr 12 A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder by Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman

Apr 7 The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

Apr 6 A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi

Mar 30 The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

Mar 21 Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart

Mar 21 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Mar 16 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland

Mar 6 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

Feb 27 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Feb 20 Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan

Feb 19 A Humument: A treated Victorian novel by Tom Phillips

Feb 10 Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston

Feb 2 How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets by Felix Dennis

Jan 28 Introducing Philosophy by Dave Robinson and Judy Groves

Jan 28 Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Jan 23 The Razor’s Edge by William Somerset Maugham

Jan 20 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

Jan 9 Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Jan 9 The Long Tail: How endless choice is creating unlimited demand by Chris Anderson

Dec 30 Vita nuova (New Life) by Dante Alighieri

Dec 28 Further Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo

Dec 10 La tregua (The Truce) by Primo Levi

Dec 1 Introducing Kafka by David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb

Nov 29 Flatland: A romance of many dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

Nov 26 Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Nov 25 Se questo è un uomo (If This is a Man) by Primo Levi

Nov 11 Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oct 30 Out of My Mind by Richard Bach

Oct 29 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Oct 16 Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) by Giorgio Bassani

Oct 15 Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus (a new translation by S.A. Handford)

Sep 29 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sep 17 I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree) by Giovanni Verga

Sep 7 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Aug 31 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Aug 31 The Literature Machine by Italo Calvino

Aug 25 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Aug 20 Fontamara by Ignazio Silone

Aug 15 Gli indifferenti (The Time of Indifference) by Alberto Moravia

Aug 6 Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi

Aug 4 The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jul 31 Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino

Jul 31 Candide: Or, Optimism by Voltaire

Jul 25 No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez

Jul 10 The Stranger/The Outsider by Albert Camus

Jul 6 I promessi sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni

Jun 27 An Iliad: A story of war by Alessandro Baricco

Jun 16 La speculazione edilizia (A Plunge Into Real Estate) by Italo Calvino

Jun 12 Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Jun 9 La giornata d’uno scrutatore (The Watcher) by Italo Calvino

Jun 9 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

May 31 Novecento: Un monologo (Novecento: A monologue) by Alessandro Baricco

May 29 branchie! (gills!) by Niccolò Ammaniti

May 29 Il libraio di Selinunte (The Bookseller of Selinunte) by Roberto Vecchioni

May 22 City by Alessandro Baricco

May 17 Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

May 9 Racconti romani (Roman Tales) by Alberto Moravia

May 8 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Apr 25 Il castello dei destini incrociati (The Castle of Crossed Destinies) by Italo Calvino

Apr 17 La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro (The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro) by Antonio Tabucchi

Apr 10 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Apr 6 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mar 23 Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino

Mar 23 Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Mar 13 Il deserto dei Tartari (The Tartar Steppe) by Dino Buzzati

Mar 9 La luna e i falò (The Moon and the Bonfires) by Cesare Pavese

Mar 1 t zero by Italo Calvino

Feb 29 Senza sangue (Without Blood) by Alessandro Baricco

Feb 28 Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Feb 8 The Castle by Franz Kafka

Feb 3 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jan 31 La noia (Boredom) by Alberto Moravia

Jan 25 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Jan 25 Il fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mattia Pascal) by Luigi Pirandello

Jan 25 Il gattopardo (The Leopard) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Jan 25 Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

Dec 20 Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco

Dec 14 Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller) by Italo Calvino

Dec 4 Zeno’s Conscience/Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo

Nov 16 The Trial by Franz Kafka

Nov 7 Sostiene Pereira: una testimonianza (Pereira Declares: A Testimony) by Antonio Tabucchi

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