Books
The list of books i’ve read, grouped by cathegory 📚📖☕️
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Thriller
Mice
Gordon Reece · 2011
Self help
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson · 2016
<p>#1 New York Times Bestseller • More than 10 million Copies Sold</p><p>In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.</p><p>For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.</p><p>Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.</p><p>There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.</p>
Fiction
Accabadora
Michela Murgia · 2012
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2020
If Cats Disappeared from the World
Genki Kawamura · 2019
Embers
Christopher Hampton · 2014
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2006
Romance
Fresh Water for Flowers
Valérie Perrin · 2020
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2010
<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Kafka on the Shore: </i>A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.<br><br><b>Now with a new introduction by the author.</b> <br></b><br> Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. <br><br> Stunning and elegiac, <i>Norwegian Wood</i> first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney · 2021
<p><b>AN INSTANT #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b><i><br>Beautiful World, Where Are You</i> is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of <i>Normal People </i>and <i>Conversations with Friends</i>.</b><br><br>Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.<br><br>Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?</p>
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2012
<b>WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012</b> <br> <br>Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018
Fantasy
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2021
<p><b>Winner of the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction</b><br> <b>A <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> &</b> <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br> <br> <b>The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, 'one of our greatest living authors'</b> <i>NEW YORK MAGAZINE</i><br> <b>__________________________________</b><br> <b>Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.</b><br> <br> In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.<br> <br> Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?<br> <br> Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.<br> <br> <i>The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.</i><br> <b>__________________________________</b><br> 'What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being ... <i>Piranesi</i> is an exquisite puzzle-box' <b>DAVID MITCHELL</b><br> 'It subverts expectations throughout ... Utterly otherworldly' <b><i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br> 'Piranesi astonished me. It is a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling' <b>MADELINE MILLER</b><br> 'Brilliantly singular' <i><b>SUNDAY TIMES</b></i><br> 'A gorgeous, spellbinding mystery ... This book is a treasure, washed up upon a forgotten shore, waiting to be discovered' <b>ERIN MORGENSTERN</b><br> 'Head-spinning ... Fully imagined and richly evoked' <i><b>TELEGRAPH</b></i><br> <br> <b>**Pre-order now**</b><br> <b>**The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic <i>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</i> - with an exquisite new package and an exclusive introduction by V E Schwab**</b><br> <b>**Buy <i>The Wood at Midwinter</i> - a beautifully illustrated Christmas story from the queen of fantasy**</b></p>
