Miscellanea
Contact
- Name: Domenico Mergoni
- Email: d.mergoni -at- lse.ac.uk
- Work: London School of Economics
Amongst the things I like: Books, Movies, Cooking.
Books
I like reading books. This is a great website to find your next read (I also like my own analysis of this list). I have used a lot the platform Audible.
| Title | Author | Status | Compl. on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staring at the Sun | Irvin D. Yalom |  |
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| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |  |
Jul ’25 |
| The Chimes | Charles Dickens | |
Jul ’25 |
| The Cricket on the Hearth | Charles Dickens | |
Jul ’25 |
| The 39 Steps | John Buchan | |
Jul ’25 |
| Essays in Love | Alain de Botton | |
Jun ’25 |
| Canne al vento | Grazia Deledda | |
Jun ’25 |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | |
Jun ’25 |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | |
Jun ’25 |
| Babel | R. F. Kuang | |
Jun ’25 |
| A Shining | Jon Fosse | |
May ’25 |
| It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over | Anne de Marcken | |
May ’25 |
| Charlotte’s Web | Elwyn B. White | |
May ’25 |
| Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico | |
May ’25 |
| This Is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone | |
Apr ’25 |
| Circe | Madeline Miller | |
Apr ’25 |
| Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | |
Apr ’25 |
| The Golden Enclaves | Naomi Novik | |
Apr ’25 |
| The Last Graduate | Naomi Novik | |
Apr ’25 |
| A Deadly Education | Naomi Novik | |
Apr ’25 |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | |
Mar ’25 |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
Mar ’25 |
| Il Barone Rampante | Italo Calvino | |
Mar ’25 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | |
Mar ’25 |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
Mar ’25 |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | |
Feb ’25 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | |
Feb ’25 |
| O Natal de Poirot | Agatha Christie | |
Jan ’25 |
| A noite das bruxas | Agatha Christie | |
Jan ’25 |
I interrupted my readings between Feb and Dec 2024 to improve my Spanish (was A2-B1, currently C1), and my Portuguese (currently B1). I am planning to write a page on how I learn languages, as it’s something I’m passionate about and have some experience doing.
| Title | Author | Status | Compl. on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flights | Olga Tokarczuk | |
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | |
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| Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
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| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | |
Feb ’24 |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
Jan ’24 |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | |
Jan ’24 |
| Bartleby, the Scrivaner | Herman Melville | |
Jan ’24 |
| White Nights | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
Jan ’24 |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
Jan ’24 |
| Title | Author | Status | Compl. on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Il fu Mattia Pascal | Luigi Pirandello | |
Dec ’23 |
| First Love | Ivan Turgenev | |
Dec ’23 |
| The Kreutzer Sonata | Leo Tolstoy | |
Dec ’23 |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert L. Stevenson | |
Dec ’23 |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | |
Dec ’23 |
| Murtagh | Cristopher Paolini | |
Nov ’23 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | |
Nov ’23 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | |
Nov ’23 |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | |
Oct ’23 |
| Uno, nessuno e centomila | Luigi Pirandello | |
Oct ’23 |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | |
Oct ’23 |
| Sphere | Michael Crichton | |
Sep ’23 |
| The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
Sep ’23 |
| La Storia | Elsa Morante | |
Sep ’23 |
| Oedipus at Colonus | Sophocles | |
Aug ’23 |
| Baol | Stefano Benni | |
Aug ’23 |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | |
Aug ’23 |
| Pantera | Stefano Benni | |
Aug ’23 |
| Blues in Sedici | Stefano Benni | |
Aug ’23 |
| The Pastures of Heaven | John Steinbeck | |
Aug ’23 |
| The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
Jul ’23 |
| The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
Jul ’23 |
| Swimming in the Dark | Tomasz Jedrowski | |
Jul ’23 |
| The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
Jun ’23 |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
Jun ’23 |
| Il Bar sotto il Mare | Stefano Benni | |
May ’23 |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | |
May ’23 |
| Never let Me go | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
May ’23 |
| Nocturnes | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
May ’23 |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | |
May ’23 |
| A little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | |
May ’23 |
| A Room with a View | E.M. Forster | |
Apr ’23 |
| Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | |
Mar ’23 |
Next up (Suggestions appreciated)
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver |
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| The Once and Future King | T. H. White |
| The Found and the Lost | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Il sistema periodico | Primo Levi |
| Canne al vento | Grazia Deledda |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison |
| La luna e i falò | Cesare Pavese |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| I Am a Cat | Soseki Natsume |
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome |
Movies
I love watching movies. I am a proud owner of an Odeon membership, (which I stronly suggest to any UK-resident movie lover). I am also happy to pass along a list of good movies which was indicated to me from a dear cinephilic friend.
If you want to follow my film-watching, you can add me on Letterboxd (it’s like a Facebook for movies, super nice website).