Bookstream

This page contains the list of books I read, by year. Before 2012 I did not keep track of my reading habits and many books I read are certainly missing from this list.

The list is automatically generated from my Calibre library, where I keep track of start and end dates of the books I read. You can also view some statistics computed from the data.

2023

Read 6 books or 3331 pages (9 pages per day).

• Clarke, Arthur C.
  2001 - A Space Odyssey Read in 4 days
  (97 pages per day)
  
• Brian Greene
  The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory Read in 118 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Jim Al-Khalili
  La fisica del diavolo (Italian Edition) Read in 30 days
  (14 pages per day)
  
• Simon Singh
  Big Bang Read in 52 days
  (17 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Stephen Hawking
  A Brief History Of Time Read in 48 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Alberto Grandi
  Denominazione di origine inventata: Le bugie del marketing sui prodotti tipici italiani (Italian Edition) Read in 14 days
  (23 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.

2022

Read 8 books or 4964 pages (13 pages per day).

• David Safier
  L’orribile karma della formica Read in 10 days
  (43 pages per day)
  
• Max Hastings
  The Korean War Read in 59 days
  (15 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Stephen Budiansky
  Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union Read in 89 days
  (5 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Jonathan Safran Foer
  We Are the Weather Read in 6 days
  (39 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Andy Weir
  Project Hail Mary Read in 31 days
  (27 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Arkady Martine
  A Memory Called Empire Read in 42 days
  (18 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Ian McEwan
  Machines Like Me Read in 10 days
  (52 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Amitav Ghosh
  The Nutmeg’s Curse Read in 69 days
  (10 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.

2021

Read 4 books or 3284 pages (8 pages per day).

• Andrew Williams
  The Battle Of The Atlantic: The Allies' Submarine Fight Against Hitler's Gray Wolves Of The Sea Read in 44 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Max Hastings
  Inferno Read in 203 days
  (9 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Joanna Blythman
  Swallow This Read in 35 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 2/5.
• Benjamin Lorr
  The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket Read in 50 days
  (14 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.

2020

Read 6 books or 3523 pages (9 pages per day).

• Bernstein, William J.
  The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created Read in 145 days
  (3 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• King, Stephen
  The Stand Read in 121 days
  (13 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• William H. Mcraven
  Make Your Bed Read in 1 days
  (61 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
  Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win Read in 36 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Cixin Liu
  The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past) Read in 55 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• David Quammen
  Spillover. L'evoluzione delle epidemie (2014) Read in 16 days
  (38 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.

2019

Read 3 books or 1531 pages (4 pages per day).

• Aldersey-Williams, Hugh
  Periodic Tales Read in 71 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Dan Barber
  The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food Read in 69 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Yuval Noah Harari
  21 Lessons for the 21st Century Read in 52 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.

2018

Read 11 books or 4117 pages (11 pages per day).

• Marr, Andrew
  A History of the World Read in 122 days
  (6 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Ken Liu
  Invisible Planets Read in 681 days
  (0 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Yuval Noah Harari
  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Read in 81 days
  (5 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Liberti Stefano
  Land grabbing. Come il mercato delle terre crea il nuovo colonialismo (Indi) (Italian Edition) Read in 30 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Carlo Rovelli
  Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity Read in 22 days
  (10 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Andy Weir
  Artemis. La prima città sulla luna (Italian Edition) Read in 5 days
  (77 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Eric Schlosser
  Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety Read in 31 days
  (30 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Claudio Ferlan
  Sbornie sacre, sbornie profane: L'ubriachezza dal Vecchio al Nuovo Mondo (Intersezioni) (Italian Edition) Read in 20 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Danny Wallace
  F*** You Very Much: The surprising truth about why people are so rude Read in 28 days
  (11 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Piero Martin & Alessandra Viola
  Trash Read in 19 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Jonathan Tweet & Karen Lewis
  Mia nonna era un pesce My rating: 3/5.

2017

Read 6 books or 2037 pages (5 pages per day).

• Jung Chang
  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Read in 182 days
  (3 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Ian Rankin
  Even Dogs in the Wild Read in 386 days
  (1 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Pollan, Michael
  In Defense of Food Read in 31 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Liberti Stefano
  I signori del cibo. Viaggio nell'industria alimentare che sta distruggendo il pianeta (Italian Edition) Read in 18 days
  (15 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Bourdain, Anthony
  Kitchen Confidential Paperback Read in 16 days
  (20 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Darious Foroux & Maren Katelaan
  25 Things About Life My rating: 3/5.

2016

Read 4 books or 1466 pages (4 pages per day).

• Ellenberg, Jordan
  How Not to Be Wrong : The Power of Mathematical Thinking (9780698163843) Read in 98 days
  (5 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Antonio Manzini
  Pista nera Read in 9 days
  (27 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Roach, Mary
  Packing for Mars Read in 33 days
  (9 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• David Foster Wallace
  Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Read in 70 days
  (4 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.

2015

Read 19 books or 5443 pages (14 pages per day).

• Iain M. Banks
  The Hydrogen Sonata Read in 56 days
  (10 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Bradbury, Ray
  The Illustrated Man Read in 25 days
  (11 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• McCall Smith, Alexander
  Tears of the Giraffe Read in 16 days
  (12 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Stanislaw Lem
  Return From The Stars Read in 28 days
  (10 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Joe Haldeman
  The Forever War Read in 52 days
  (5 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Andy Weir
  The Martian: A Novel Read in 17 days
  (24 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Dave Eggers
  The Circle Read in 4 days
  (119 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Rick Yancey
  The 5th Wave Read in 18 days
  (26 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Henry Marsh
  Do No Harm Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery Read in 39 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Joe Haldeman
  Buying Time Read in 78 days
  (4 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Joe Haldeman
  Worlds Read in 6 days
  (43 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Joe Haldeman
  Worlds Apart: Worlds Read in 6 days
  (40 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Carlo Rovelli
  Sette brevi lezioni di fisica My rating: 4/5.
• Feynman, Richard P. & Leighton, Robert B. & Sands, Matthew
  Six Easy Pieces Read in 12 days
  (13 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• John Gribbin
  In Search Of Schrodinger’s Cat Read in 45 days
  (6 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Voltaire
  Micromégas Read in 6 days
  (4 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Park, Mungo
  Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7 Read in 48 days
  (5 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Paolo Gallina
  L'anima delle macchine: Tecnodestino, dipendenza tecnologica e uomo virtuale Read in 5 days
  (51 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Riccardo Oldani
  Spaghetti robot. Il made in Italy che ci cambierà la vita Read in 2 days
  (111 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.

2014

Read 13 books or 4319 pages (11 pages per day).

• Asimov, Isaac
  The Naked Sun Read in 30 days
  (9 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Kafka, Franz
  The Trial Read in 57 days
  (3 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Robert Leckie
  Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II Read in 13 days
  (15 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J
  Dune: The Butlerian Jihad Read in 59 days
  (11 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J
  Dune: The Machine Crusade Read in 85 days
  (9 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Stanislaw Lem
  Solaris Read in 30 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• McCall Smith, Alexander
  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Read in 3 days
  (76 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Pollan, Michael
  The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Read in 64 days
  (7 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Hawking, Stephen
  A Briefer History of Time Read in 15 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Saints of the Shadow Bible Read in 20 days
  (23 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Spencer Johnson
  Who Moved My Cheese My rating: 3/5.
• Paul Auster
  The New York Trilogy Read in 44 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Stanislaw Lem
  The Futurological Congress Read in 15 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.

2013

Read 7 books or 2948 pages (8 pages per day).

• Moss, Michael
  Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us Read in 15 days
  (30 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Charles Duhigg
  The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Read in 25 days
  (15 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• James S.A. Corey
  Leviathan Wakes Read in 43 days
  (15 pages per day)
  My rating: 2/5.
• Card, Orson Scott
  Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet) Read in 7 days
  (58 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Standage, Tom
  An Edible History of Humanity Read in 41 days
  (6 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Cox, Catherine Bly & Charles Murray
  Apollo Read in 108 days
  (5 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Vonnegut, Kurt
  Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Series) Read in 21 days
  (8 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.

2012

Read 8 books or 2287 pages (6 pages per day).

• Dick, Philip K.
  The Man in the High Castle Read in 17 days
  (17 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Genovesi, Fabio
  Morte dei Marmi (Contromano) (Italian Edition) Read in 2 days
  (44 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Fleming, Alex
  Making a Submarine Officer - A story of the USS San Francisco (SSN 711) Read in 3 days
  (98 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Hemingway, Ernest
  Il vecchio e il mare Read in 9 days
  (9 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
  The Gulag Archipelago Read in 122 days
  (4 pages per day)
  My rating: 4/5.
• McMurray, Kevin F.
  Deep Descent Read in 6 days
  (45 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Standing in Another Man's Grave: A John Rebus Novel Read in 36 days
  (12 pages per day)
  My rating: 3/5.
• Clarke, Arthur C.
  Rendezvous With Rama Read in 26 days
  (9 pages per day)
  My rating: 5/5.

... and earlier (those I remember)

• Crichton, Michael
  Timeline My rating: 3/5.
• Jared Diamond
  Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies My rating: 4/5.
• Adams Douglas
  Guida Galattica per gli Autostoppisti My rating: 3/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  The Caves of Steel My rating: 5/5.
• Adams Douglas
  La Vita, l'Universo e tutto quanto My rating: 3/5.
• Adams Douglas
  Ristorante al termine dell'Universo My rating: 2/5.
• Gibson, William
  Count Zero My rating: 3/5.
• Gibson, William
  Mona Lisa Overdrive My rating: 3/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  Forward the Foundation My rating: 5/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  Foundation My rating: 5/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  Foundation and Earth My rating: 5/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  Foundation and Empire My rating: 5/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  Foundation's Edge My rating: 5/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  I, Robot My rating: 4/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  Prelude to Foundation My rating: 5/5.
• Asimov, Isaac
  Second Foundation My rating: 5/5.
• Gibson, William
  Neuromancer My rating: 3/5.
• Crichton, Michael
  Airframe My rating: 3/5.
• Crichton, Michael
  The Andromeda Strain My rating: 3/5.
• Crichton, Michael
  Next My rating: 3/5.
• Crichton, Michael
  Rising Sun My rating: 3/5.
• Crichton, Michael
  Sphere: a novel My rating: 3/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Black and Blue My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  The Black Book My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Dead Souls My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Exit Music My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  The Falls My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Fleshmarket Close My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  The Hanging Garden My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Hide and Seek My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Knots and Crosses My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Let It Bleed My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Mortal Causes My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  The Naming of the Dead My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Question of Blood My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Resurrection Men My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Set in Darkness My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Strip Jack My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  Tooth & Nail My rating: 4/5.
• Jerome, Jerome K.
  Three Men on the Bummel My rating: 3/5.
• Carlson, Jeff
  The Frozen Sky My rating: 3/5.
• Jerome, Jerome K.
  Three Men in a Boat My rating: 5/5.
• Daisey, Mike
  TATESJ My rating: 4/5.
• Hesse, Hermann
  Siddhartha My rating: 4/5.
• Harrison, Harry
  Navy Day My rating: 2/5.
• Harrison, Harry
  Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison My rating: 5/5.
• Shakespeare, William
  The Tempest My rating: 5/5.
• Shakespeare, William
  Macbeth My rating: 5/5.
• Dick, Philip K.
  Now Wait for Last Year My rating: 2/5.
• Shakespeare, William
  Julius Caesar My rating: 5/5.
• Kafka, Franz
  The Metamorphosis My rating: 4/5.
• Kumar, Manjit
  Quantum My rating: 4/5.
• Charles M. Sevilla
  Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History My rating: 2/5.
• Shakespeare, William
  Hamlet My rating: 5/5.
• Welsh, Irvine
  Trainspotting My rating: 4/5.
• Ellroy, James
  The Black Dahlia My rating: 4/5.
• Steinbeck, John
  Of mice and men My rating: 5/5.
• Shakespeare, William
  The Merchant of Venice My rating: 5/5.
• Steinbeck, John
  The Grapes of Wrath My rating: 4/5.
• Berkun, Scott
  The Myths of Innovation My rating: 3/5.
• Indridason, Arnaldur
  Jar City (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries 1) My rating: 3/5.
• Bauer, Susan Wise
  The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome My rating: 4/5.
• Larsson, Stieg
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo My rating: 2/5.
• Herbert, Frank
  Dune Messiah My rating: 3/5.
• Herbert, Frank
  Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) My rating: 5/5.
• Dick, Philip K.
  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? My rating: 4/5.
• Norman, Don
  Design of Everyday Things My rating: 3/5.
• Beevor, Antony
  D-Day: The Battle for Normandy My rating: 4/5.
• Rankin, Ian
  The Complaints My rating: 4/5.
• Herbert, Frank
  Children of Dune My rating: 4/5.
• Ronnau, Christopher
  Blood Trails: The Combat Diary of a Foot Soldier in Vietnam My rating: 5/5.
• Donahue, James C.
  Blackjack-33 My rating: 5/5.
• Steven D. Price
  1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said My rating: 2/5.
• Sledge, Eugene B.
  With the Old Breed My rating: 3/5.
• Hillenbrand, Laura
  Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption My rating: 4/5.
• Levitt, Steven D. & Dubner, Stephen J.
  Superfreakonomics My rating: 3/5.
• Heinlein, Robert
  Stranger in a Strange Land My rating: 3/5.
• Heinlein, Robert
  Starship Troopers My rating: 5/5.
• Bernstein, William J.
  A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World My rating: 5/5.
• Mceuen, Paul
  Spiral: A Novel My rating: 3/5.
• Vonnegut, Kurt
  The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut series) My rating: 5/5.
• Pirandello, Luigi
  Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Italian Edition) My rating: 2/5.
• Dick, Philip K.
  A Scanner Darkly My rating: 3/5.
• Templar, Richard
  The Rules of Management, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success (Richard Templar's Rules) My rating: 5/5.
• Fried, Jason & Heinemeier Hansson, David
  ReWork My rating: 4/5.
• Carlson, Jeff
  Plague Year My rating: 3/5.
• Covey, Stephen R.
  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People My rating: 3/5.
• Wright, Evan
  Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War My rating: 5/5.
• Bradbury, Ray
  Fahrenheit 451 My rating: 5/5.
• Henning Mankell
  The Dogs of Riga - Wallander 02 My rating: 2/5.
• Mankell Henning
  Firewall My rating: 2/5.
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
  The GULAG Archipelago, Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation My rating: 5/5.
• Ian Rankin
  The Complete Short Stories: A Good Hanging/ Beggars Banquet/ Atonement (Inspector Rebus) My rating: 4/5.
• Nathaniel Fick
  One Bullet Away My rating: 5/5.
• Suketu Mehta
  Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found My rating: 4/5.
• Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  Freakonomics My rating: 4/5.
• Simon Singh
  The Code Book My rating: 5/5.
• Leonardo Sciascia
  La scomparsa di Majorana My rating: 5/5.
• Truman Capote
  In Cold Blood My rating: 5/5.
• Jerome Groopman
  Come pensano i dottori My rating: 2/5.
• James Ellroy
  Scorciatoie Per L'Inferno My rating: 4/5.
• Mario Calabresi
  La fortuna non esiste My rating: 3/5.
• Bill Bryson
  A Short History of Nearly Everything My rating: 5/5.
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  Le Petit Prince My rating: 2/5.
• Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow
  The Last Lecture My rating: 5/5.
• Marguerite Yourcenar
  Memorie di Adriano. Seguite dai Taccuini di appunti My rating: 4/5.
• Herbert A. Werner
  Iron Coffins My rating: 5/5.
• Bill Bryson
  Notes From a Small Island My rating: 3/5.
• Alessandro Boffa
  Sei una bestia, Viskovitz My rating: 2/5.
• Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
  One Hundred Years of Solitude My rating: 5/5.
• Landsburg, Steven E.
  The Armchair Economist (revised and updated May 2012): Economics & Everyday Life My rating: 3/5.
• Robert Kurson
  Shadow Divers My rating: 5/5.
• Daniel Pennac & Y. Mélaouah
  La fata carabina My rating: 4/5.
• Daniel Pennac
  Signor Malaussène My rating: 4/5.
• Daniel Pennac
  Il Paradiso Degli Orchi My rating: 4/5.
• Umberto Matino
  La valle dell'Orco My rating: 4/5.
• Sun Tzu
  The Art of War My rating: 4/5.
• Orwell, George
  Nineteen Eighty-four My rating: 5/5.
• Orwell, George
  Animal Farm My rating: 5/5.
• Voltaire
  Candide My rating: 5/5.
• Ernest Hemingway
  The Old Man and the Sea My rating: 4/5.
• Joseph Heller
  Catch-22 My rating: 4/5.
• Albert Camus
  The Plague My rating: 5/5.
• J. B. S. Haldane
  On Being the Right Size My rating: 3/5.
• Philip K. Dick
  Counter-Clock World My rating: 5/5.
• George Orwell
  1984 My rating: 4/5.
• Aldous Huxley
  Brave New World My rating: 4/5.
• E. E. Smith
  Triplanetary
• Richard P. Feynman & Ralph Leighton & Edward Hutchings & Albert R. Hibbs
  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character