Starting 01.01.2021, I decided to read (at least) 1 book per week (updated list below). Why?
There are several reasons why everyone should read more (I’ll write soon an article about it) and you can easily find different ways to read more (I’ll write soon an article about it).
# | Title | Author | Subject(s) |
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92 | Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence | Jacob Lund Fisker | Financial, self-dev. |
91 | Buy back your time | Dan Martell | Time management |
90 | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business | Neil Postman | Sociology |
89 | The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | Sociology |
88 | Irriducibile | Federico Faggin | Science, Meaning of Life |
87 | Walden | David Thoreau | Self-dev., minimalism, FIRE, intentional |
86 | On writing | Stephen King | Writing |
85 | Writing tools | Roy Peter Clark | Writing |
84 | Reading like a writer | Francine Prose | Writing, reading |
83 | On writing well | William Zinsser | Writing |
82 | The elements of style | William Strunk Jr. | Writing |
81 | Profondo come il mare, leggero come il cielo: Un viaggio dentro se stessi per trovare la serenità | Gianluca Gotto | Mindfulness |
80 | Fa bene o fa male? | Dario Bressanini | Nutrition, chemistry |
79 | Atomic Habits | James Clear | Self-dev., psychology |
78 | Se pianto un albero posso mangiare una bistecca? | Giacomo Moro Mauretto | Biology, environment |
77 | Studiare non è una cazzata | Alessandro de Concini | Self-dev. |
76 | Glucose Revolution | Jessie Inchauspé | Nutrition |
75 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Novel |
74 | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers | Robert Sapolsky | Stress, psychology, self-dev. |
73 | Foto mosse di famiglie immobili | Valerio Lundini | Humor, nonsense |
72 | Psicosoluzioni | Giorgio Nardone | Psychology, Self-dev. |
71 | Ricco solo risparmiando | Francesco Narmenni | Personal finance, self-dev. |
70 | Il segreto della comunicazione | Paolo Borzacchiello | Marketing, Comm. |
69 | The rational man | Rollo Tomassi | Self-dev. |
68 | Il fenomeno degli incel e la Teoria Redpill | Marco Crepaldi | Psychology, sociology |
67 | Influence, the psychology of persuasion | Robert Cialdini | Psychology |
66 | So good they can't ignore you | Cal Newport | Self-dev. |
65 | The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson | Self-dev. |
64 | How To Win Friends And Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Self-dev. |
63 | How to take smart notes | Sönke Ahrens | Self-dev. |
62 | The Happiness Trap | Russ Harris | Psychology, Self-dev. |
61 | The Law of attraction | E. & J. Hicks | Spiritual, Self-dev. |
60 | Memory | Baddeley | Psychology, neuroscience |
59 | Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence | Anna Lembke | Psychology, Self-dev. |
58 | The plague | Albert Camus | Novel |
57 | Loneliness | Cacioppo & Patrick | Psychology, Self-dev. |
56 | Vince chi impara | Alessandro de Concini | Self-dev. |
55 | Faust | Goethe | Novel |
54 | The master and Margarita | Bulgakov | Novel |
53 | Of mice and men | John Steinbeck | Novel |
52 | Heart of a dog | Bulgakov | Novel |
51 | The Great Mental Models 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology | Shane Parrish | Psychology, Self-dev. |
50 | The fatal eggs | Bulgakov | Novel |
49 | Diary of a Madman | Nikolai Gogol | Novel |
48 | Nevskij Prospèkt | Nikolai Gogol | Novel |
47 | The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts | Shane Parrish | Self-dev. |
46 | Un amore | Dino Buzzati | Novel |
45 | Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals | Oliver Burkeman | Self-dev., Time mgmt |
44 | The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy | Viktor Frankl | Psychology |
43 | Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | Psychology, Self-dev. |
42 | Digital Minimalism | Cal Newport | Time mgmt, Psychology, Self-dev. |
41 | Courage to be Disliked | Fumitake Kogam, Ichiro Kishimi | Psychology, Self-dev. |
40 | Era meglio il libro | Valerio Lundini | Nonsense, humor |
39 | The miracle of mindfulness | Thich Nhat Hanh | Mindfulness |
38 | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein | Self-dev. |
37 | Antifragile | Nassim N. Taleb | Pyschology, Meaning of Life, Self-dev. |
36 | Luna 2069 | Leo Ortolani | Graphic novel |
35 | La virtù di Checchina | Matilde Serao | Novel |
34 | The Queen of Spades | A. Puškin | Novel |
33 | Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family | H.P. Lovecraft | Novel |
32 | Tools of Titans | Tim Ferriss | Bio(s), self-dev. |
31 | Designing your life | Bill Burnett, Dave Evans | Self-dev. |
30 | The Kreutzer Sonata | Leo Tolstoy | Novel |
29 | Bartleby, the Scrivener | Herman Melville | Novel |
28 | The elephant in the brain | Robin Hanson | Sociology, psychology |
27 | Flow | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Psychology, Self-dev. |
26 | Meditations: Book of Knowledge and Philosophy Handbook | Marco Aurelio | Biography |
25 | The metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | Novel |
24 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | Novel |
23 | Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad | M. R. James | Ghost story |
22 | Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life | Thich Nhat Hanh | Mindfulness |
21 | Poor folk | Fëdor Dostoevskij | Novel |
20 | Why we sleep | Matthew Walker | Med. |
19 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Süskind | Historical fantasy novel |
18 | Autobiography of a yogi | Paramhansa Yogananda | Mindfulness, "illumination", biography |
17 | No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering | Thich Nhat Hanh | Mindfulness |
16 | Ego is the enemy | Ryan Holiday | Psychology, Self-dev. |
15 | Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise | Thich Nhat Hanh | Mindfulness |
14 | The millionaire fastlane | MJ DeMarco | Financial, self-dev |
13 | Emozioni: istruzioni per l'uso | Giorgio Nardone | Emotions, Psychology |
12 | Eat that frog! | Brian Tracy | Time mgmt, Psychology, Self-dev. |
11 | Vipp | Nino Frassica | Humor, Nonsense |
10 | The time machine | H. G. Wells | Sci-Fi |
9 | Irresistible: the rise of Addictive Technology | Adam Alter | Digital detox |
8 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | Mindfulness, "illumination" |
7 | The power of now | Eckhart Tolle | Mindfulness, "illumination" |
6 | (the great little book of) Mastering your time | Brian Tracy | Time mgmt, Psychology, Self-dev. |
5 | The willpower instinct | Kelly McGonigal | Psychology, Self-dev. |
4 | Riconquista il tuo tempo | Andrea Giuliodori | Time mgmt, Psychology, Self-dev. |
3 | Getting Things Done | David Allen | Time mgmt, Psychology, Self-dev. (...2nd read) |
2 | Deep work | Cal Newport | Psychology, Self-dev. |
1 | Libro | Maccio Capatonda | Humor, Nonsense, Meaning of life |
What are your books for this year? Have you a particular book to suggest?
[…] media challenge comparing yourself with who read more books (by the way: those which I update in my list of read books are whole books, not summarized).And if you are one of those who “but I don’t have time […]
[…] Nevertheless, I suggest a counterintuitive approach for at least a few goals in our life: do not care and exaggerate!I’m not saying “dream big (and fail fast)”, “be foolish” or other nonsense claims so naïf and so 90s: I am a pragmatic and rational person, so I’ll try to explain better.Just as utopia serves to give direction (and can perhaps be reached later by a better civilization and with superior means we now don’t even imagine), so we should (at least once in a while, in some areas we care about) set ourselves ambitious goals to the point of not being achievable. In order to provide a quick example: starting last year, I set out to read 52 books, obviously a quite large number: not only compared to the average number of books a normal person read during a year, but specially considering that almost all the titles are “non-fictional”, often stuff to study or even to put into practice with homeworks (e.g.: meditation or designing your life) – if you’re interested, this is my updated books list. […]
[…] Cionondimeno, suggerisco un approccio controintuitivo per almeno un po’ degli obiettivi della nostra vita: fregatevene ed esagerate!Non sto qui a dire “dream big (and fail fast)”, “be foolish” e tutta quella roba nonsense dal sapore americano così naïf e così anni 90: sono una persona pragmatica e razionale, quindi proverò a spiegarmi meglio.Come l’utopia serve a dare una direzione (e forse raggiungerla in futuro, magri da una civiltà migliore e con mezzi innovativi che ora non immaginiamo nemmeno), così dovremmo (almeno una volta ogni tanto, in alcune aree che teniamo a cuore) darci obiettivi ambiziosi al punto di non essere realizzabili (o esserlo con molta fatica). Per fare un rapido esempio: a partire dallo scorso anno, mi son proposto di leggere 52 libri ogni anno, ovviamente un numero (per molti) abbastanza elevato: non solo rispetto alla media dei libri che una persona normale legge in un anno, ma soprattutto considerando che la quasi totalità dei titoli sono di saggistica, non narrativa, spesso roba da studiare o anche da mettere in pratica con tanto di compiti (es: meditazione o progettare la tua vita) – se sei interessato, questa è lista aggiornata di libri letti dal 2021. […]
[…] da anni, sono appassionato (il che contribuisce forse a spiegare la quantità e varietà di corsi e libri che consumo, anche di psicologia cognitiva e neuroscienze). Con questo libro sono quindi, ancora […]
[…] degli altri leggendo le loro biografie e i loro consigli (potete trovare alcuni libri in merito, nel mio elenco, ad esempio “Tools of Titans” di Tim Ferriss), occorre stare attenti a non incappare […]