Lately I have been reading mostly narrative non-fiction, i.e. nicely written accounts of true facts. 
    I also enjoyed reading some long essays. 
    Up to a couple of years ago, I was exclusively reading fiction, but I am a bit fatigued by that now.
    I wonder why.
    
    
    
    Some favourite books
    
        - "Norvegian wood" by Haruki Murakami 
 
        - "Le grand cahier, La preuve, Le troisieme mensonge" by Agota Kristof 
 
        - "Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
 
        - "Of mice and men" and "The Grapes of Wrath" (but check this) by John Steinbeck
 
    
    
    Reading log
    
    
    
    2024
    
        
        - "The Unfolding Of Language" by Guy Deutscher
 
        - "Listening in" by Susan Landau
 
        - "In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius" by Arika Okrent
 
        - "The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" by Simon Singh
 
        - "Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll
 
        - "Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet" by Andrew Blum (not finished)
 
        - "Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker" by Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniak & William L. Simon
 
        - "Breaking and entering" by Jeremy N. Smith
 
        - "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe
 
        - "Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F." by F, Christiane & Cartwright, Christina
 
        - "The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession" by Michael Finkel
 
        - "Island of the blue foxes" by Stephen Bown
 
        - "The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen" by Stephen Bown
 
        - "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann
 
        - "The Lost City of Z" by David Grann
 
        - "The last season" by Eric Blehm
 
        - "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman
 
    
    2023
    
        - "L'étranger" by Albert Camus 
 
        - "Le comte de Monte-Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas 
 
        - "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber 
 
        - "No Logo" by Naomi Klein (not finished) 
 
        - "Postwar" by Tony Judt (part 1)  
 
        - "Economics: The User’s Guide" by Ha-Joon Chang
 
        - "Money" by Jacob Goldstein
 
        - "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World" by Niall Ferguson 
 
        - "L'analphabète" by Agota Kristof 
 
        - "Hier" by Agota Kristof 
 
        - "Le grand cahier, La preuve, Le troisieme mensonge" by Agota Kristof 
 
        - "L'avversario" by Emmanuel Carrere 
 
        - "Killers of the flower moon" by David Grann
  
    
    2022
    
        - "Shadow divers" by Robert Kurson 
 
        - "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem 
 
        - "L'orda del vento" by Alain Damasio 
 
        - "The stranger in the woods" by Michael Finkel 
 
        - "Under the banner of heaven" by Jon Krakauer 
 
        - "Missoula" by Jon Krakauer 
 
        - "Into the wild" by Jon Krakauer 
 
        - "No shortcuts to the top" by Ed Viesturs 
 
        - "Il silenzio del vento" by Jon Krakauer 
 
        - "Left for Dead" by Beck Weathers 
 
        - "Le mie montagne" by Walter Bonatti 
 
        - "Tabu" by Piers Paul Read 
 
        - "La morte sospesa" by Joe Simpson 
 
        - "Seppelliti nel cielo" by Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan 
 
        - "Into thin air" by Jon Krakauer 
 
        - "Neuromancer" by William Gibson (not finished) 
 
    
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    2020
    
        - "Il ciclo delle Fondazioni" by Isaac Asimov
 
        - "Fondazione anno zero" by Isaac Asimov
 
        - "Preludio alla Fondazione" by Isaac Asimov
 
        - "I robot e l'Impero" by Isaac Asimov
 
        - "I robot dell'alba" by Isaac Asimov
 
        - "Il sole nudo" by Isaac Asimov
 
        - "Abissi d'acciaio" by Isaac Asimov
 
        - "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis
 
        - "Sabato" by Ian McEwan
 
        - "A volte ritorno" by John Niven
 
        - "Le regole dell'attrazione" by Bret Easton Ellis
 
        - "Suite francese" by Irene Nemirovsky
 
        - "Dance dance dance" by Haruki Murakami
 
        - "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott
 
        - "Pioggia sul viso" by Natsuo Kirino
 
        - "Colpo di luna" by Georges Simenon
 
    
    2019
    
        - "Dieci donne" by Marcela Serrano
        
 - "Fontamara" by Ignazio Silone
        
 - "La versione di Barney" by Mordecai Richler
        
 - "Lettera da Pechino" by Pearl S. Buck
        
 - "Gli aquiloni" by Romain Gary
        
 - "Espiazione" by Ian McEwan
        
 - "Trilogia di New York. Città di vetro, Fantasmi, La stanza chiusa" by Paul Auster
        
 - "Zanna Bianca" by Jack London
        
 - "Trilogia della città di K" by Ágota Kristóf
        
 - "L'amore ai tempi del colera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
        
 - "Dio di illusioni" by Donna Tartt
        
 - "Blu quasi trasparente" by Ryu Murakami
        
 - "La piccola ombra" by Banana Yoshimoto
        
 - "Cecità" by José Saramago
        
 - "Bellezza e tristezza" by Yasunari Kawabata
    
 
    2018
    
        - "Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più" by David Foster Wallace
 
        - "Stoner" by John  Williams
 
        - "La terra dei figli" by Gipi
 
        - "Norwegian Wood. Tokyo Blues" by Haruki Murakami
 
        - "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
 
        - "Pantaleon e le visitatrici" by Mario Vargas Llosa
 
        - "Una storia crudele" by Natsuo Kirino
 
        - "L'elefante scomparso e altri racconti" by Haruki Murakami
 
        - "La vendetta" by Ágota Kristóf
 
        - "Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno" by Italo Calvino
 
        - "Kafka sulla spiaggia" by Haruki Murakami
 
        - "Teresa Batista stanca di guerra" by Jorge Amado
 
        - "Gli insetti preferiscono le ortiche" by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
 
        - "La chiave" by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
 
        - "Qualcuno con cui correre" by David Grossman
 
        - "Ogni cosa è illuminata" by Jonathan Safran Foer
 
        - "Notturni. Cinque storie di musica e crepuscolo" by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
        - "Il Vangelo secondo Gesù Cristo" by José Saramago
 
    
    2017
    
        - "L'incolore Tazaki Tsukuru e i suoi anni di pellegrinaggio" by Haruki Murakami
 
        - "Gli inconsolabili" by Kazuo Ishiguro
 
        - "Amrita" by Banana Yoshimoto
 
        - "Gli ultimi giorni dei nostri padri" by Joël Dicker
 
        - "La foresta in fiore" by Yukio Mishima
 
    
    
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