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 (if you’re stuck for ideas); using the list provided on this website, I decided I want to put some work in reading the works of Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Hemingway, Faulkner, Woolf, Dickens, Sheakespere, Henry James, Beckett, Updike, Coetzee and Alice Munro. This will take me many years, but you got to start somewhere.
Lately I’ve been using a lot the platform Audible, which allows you to listen to unabridged readings.
I interrupted my readings in February 2024 to improve my Spanish (was A2-B1, currently B2-C1), and my Portuguese (learning it now, currently A1-A2). 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 |
|---|---|
| Ensaio sobre a cegueira | José Saramago |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes |
| Howards End | E.M. Forster |
| War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells |
| The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst |
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).