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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 Apr ’25
Perfection Vincenzo Latronico Apr ’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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
Prophet Song Paul Lynch
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).