Of all the people who read books on this planet, probably no one has exactly the same bookshelf. So, I thought it might be interesting for you to browse through the books I own. This is not supposed to be a showcase, but its intent is to share with you what books mean to me: a tool to nourish my curiosity as well as a source of new ideas and knowledge. This list contains the most interesting ones. I've used most of them and some had a profound impact on my life, thinking and outlooks. I've marked those with a star.
- Human Universals ⭐️
- Civilisation
- Guns, Sails and Empires: Technological Innovations and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700
- Allegro ma non troppo. Con Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
- The Ascent of Man
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Uomini, tecniche, economie
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ⭐️
- The Order of Time ⭐️
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
- Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- What Is a Masterpiece?
- Steve Jobs
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- Da cosa nasce cosa: Appunti per una metodologia progettuale
- Siddharta ⭐️
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- The Conquest of Happiness
- In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
- A History of Western Philosophy
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future ⭐️
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
- The Timeless Way of Building
- The Design of Everyday Things ⭐️
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction ⭐️
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World ⭐️⭐️
- Il pendolo di Foucault
- Come viaggiare con un salmone
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- History of Beauty
- Visual Thinking
- The Old Way: A Story of the First People
- Ogilvy on Advertising
- Science & Human Values
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
- Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- The Act of Creation
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
- LSD: My Problem Child
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- Creativity, Inc.
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
- Man's Search for Meaning
- The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance ⭐️
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- The Power of Now
- The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
- Why We Sleep
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
- The Wright Brothers
- The Lives of the Artists
- Shōgun
- Zorba the Greek ⭐️
- On the Shortness of Life
- How to Change Your Mind
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form
- Brave New World
- Scale
- Cosmos
- Development as Freedom
- Freedom from the Known
- Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto ⭐️
- The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
- Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic
- My Family and Other Animals