Miscellanea
- 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 |
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Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | ![]() |
Mar ’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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver |
A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry |
Circe | Madeline Miller |
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).