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).
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Clarke, Arthur C.
2001 - A Space Odyssey Read in 4 days
(97 pages per day)
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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)
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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).
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David Safier
L’orribile karma della formica Read in 10 days
(43 pages per day)
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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)
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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