... excluding those started in 2012 that I still have to finish - these will be in brackets. In
italics those that I am currently reading, in
grey those that I am planning to read as I already have them. The rating follows the "Goodreads scale" (★= did not like it, ★★= it was ok, ★★★= I liked it, ★★★★= I really liked it, ★★★★★= exceptionally good - this I give very sparingly). Finally,
LBC stands for MR Literary Book Club
Fiction:
F.00 - (
The Complete memoirs of George Sherston, by
Siegfried Sassoon) ★★★★
F.01 -
La Paura, by
Federico de Roberto (in Italian) ★★★★
F.02 -
I misteri di Alleghe, by
Sergio Saviane (in Italian) ★★
F.03 -
Restless, by
William Boyd ★★★
F.04 -
We need to talk about Kevin, by
Lionel Shriver ★★★
F.05 -
Chess, by
Stefan Zweig ★★
LBC
F.06 -
The American Senator, by
Anthony Trollope ★★★
LBC
F.07 -
after the quake, by
Haruki Murakami ★★★
LBC
F.08 -
Chronicle in Stone, by
Ismail Kadaré ★★★★
F.09 -
The Grapes of Wrath, by
John Steinbeck ★★★★
F.10 -
Things fall apart, by
Chinua Achebe ★★★★
LBC
F.11 -
The Good Earth, by
Pearl S. Buck ★★★
F.12 -
Runaway horses, by
Yukio Mishima ★★★★
F.13 -
The Secret River, by
Kate Grenville ★★★
LBC
F.14 -
My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories, by
Frank O'Connor ★★★★
LBC
Non-Fiction
N.00 - (
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by
Michael S. Gazzaniga) ★★★
N.01 -
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, by
Cordelia Fine ★★★★
N.02 -
The Conquest of the Incas, by
John Hemming LBC
N.03 -
Travels with Epicurus - Meditatins from a Greek island on the pleasures of Old Age, by
Daniel Klein ★★
N.04 -
Antifragile, by
Nassim Taleb ★★★
N.05 -
The Bankers' new clothes: : What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, by
Anat Admati and
Martin Hellwig ★★★★
N.06 -
Queen Victoria, by
Lytton Strachey ★★★★
LBC
N.07 -
Un anno sull'altipiano/Sardinian Brigade, by
Emilio Lussu ★★★★★
N.08 -
A Tale of Love and Darkness, by
Amos Oz ★★★★★
LBC
N.09 -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, by
Jared Diamond ★★★★
N.10 -
The Conquest of the Incas (2012 Edition), by
John Hemming ★★★
LBC
Poetry
P.01 -
War Poems, by
Siegfried Sassoon ★★★★
LBC
Re-reads
R.01
Lolita, by
Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★★
LBC
R.02 -
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, by
Thomas Mann, ★★★
LBC