10 must-read nonfiction books like Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli

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Senior Service

By: Carlo Feltrinelli

3.90

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

In questo libro c'è la storia di Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, la sua infanzia, il legame di famiglia, i…

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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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3. The Pale Criminal (Bernie Gunther, #2)

By: Philip Kerr

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator … read more

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4. How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

By: Anthony Cartwright

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A novel that captures the intensity of early 1980s politics and family life through the eyes of an … read more

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5. Il taglio del bosco

By: Giorgio Bassani , Carlo Cassola , CASSOLA

3.34

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Torino, Einaudi, 1965, 16mo brossura con copertina illustrata, pp. 110 (Letture per la scuola media… read more

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6. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more

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7. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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8. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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9. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

10. A German Requiem (Bernard Gunther, #3)

By: Philip Kerr

3.89

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him a… read more

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11. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow.… read more

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12. Le Royaume

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Le Royaume raconte l'histoire des debuts de la chretiente, vers la fin du Ier siecle apres Jesus Ch… read more

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13. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

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"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"¿Me ha parecido una suerte que me tuvieran por muerto? Pues bien: estoy muerto de verdad. ¿Muerto? Peor que muerto me lo ha recordado don Anselmo: los muertos ya no tienen que morirse, y yo sí, yo es…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

14. The Rings of Saturn

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more

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15. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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16. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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17. Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

By: Valentina Mira

4.01

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Questa storia comincia una sera d’inverno, il 7 gennaio 1978. Davanti a una sede del Movimento soci… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Cose che non si raccontano

By: Antonella Lattanzi

4.22

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Ci sono cose che non si raccontano perché le parole sono scogli nel mare. Ci sono cose che non si r… read more

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19. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

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20. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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21. In Memory of Memory

By: Maria Stepanova

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photogr… read more

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"You know, my love, I never imagined that the suffering and grief of another could give me so much happiness. Now I understand your desire to see my tears, and I forgive you for all the suffering you …"

-Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory

"My china boy seemed to embody the way no story reaches us without having its heels chipped off or its face scratched away. And how lacunae and gaps are the constant companions of survival, its hidden…"

-Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory

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22. Tutto chiede salvezza

By: Daniele Mencarelli

4.17

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Ha vent'anni Daniele quando, in seguito a una violenta esplosione di rabbia, viene sottoposto a un … read more

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"I think I might be a bit mentally disabled."

-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza

"Le mie sono le farneticazioni di un maestro di scuola elementare messo a riposo. Una cosa però tienila sempre a mente. Curati. Chiedi aiuto quando serve. Ma lascia il tuo sguardo libero, non farti ra…"

-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza

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23. Trudy

By: Massimo Carlotto

3.36

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Un ex commissario ai vertici di un'agenzia di security, una giovane di provincia il cui marito è sc… read more

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24. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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25. Avere tutto

By: Marco Missiroli

3.34

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

I gabbiani a Rimini non urlano mai. In nessuna stagione dell’anno, neanche quando Sandro torna a ca… read more

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26. Dante

By: Alessandro Barbero

3.61

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Alessandro Barbero ricostruisce in quest'opera la vita di Dante, il poeta creatore di un capolavoro… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen by Erika Fatland

27. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen

By: Erika Fatland

4.40

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of La salita dei giganti. La saga dei Menabrea by Francesco Casolo

28. La salita dei giganti. La saga dei Menabrea

By: Francesco Casolo

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

La Belle Époque è alle porte e il cinema sta per essere inventato quando, il 29 agosto 1882, Carlo … read more

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29. Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.66

Format: 539 pages, Kindle Edition

Ce livre de plus de 500 pages réunit la plupart des articles écrits par Emmanuel Carrère depuis 25 … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio"

-Emmanuel Carrère, Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller

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30. L'ombra del vulcano

By: Marco Rossari

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

È un'estate torrida e alcolica, dopo la fine di un grande amore. Mentre intorno a lui la città si s… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli

31. Senior Service

By: Carlo Feltrinelli

3.90

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

In questo libro c'è la storia di Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, la sua infanzia, il legame di famiglia, i… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

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Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

Valentina Mira

4.01

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When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

4.14

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Kent Haruf

4.23

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Michel Houellebecq

3.95

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Annie Ernaux

3.94

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Neige Sinno

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