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French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
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Alexia rated American Psycho: 5 stars
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the …
Alexia rated Il deserto dei Tartari: 4 stars
Il deserto dei Tartari by Dino Buzzati (Oscar classici moderni ;)
Alexia rated Chess Story: 5 stars
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile …
Alexia rated The Master and Margarita: 5 stars
The Master and Margarita by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and …
Alexia rated An introduction to game theory: 2 stars
Alexia rated The defense: 2 stars
The defense by Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage international)
Originally published in Russian in 1930. Nabokov released an English translation in 1964. The novel is a fictionalized account of …
Alexia rated Handmaid's Tale: 4 stars
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and …
Alexia rated Women who run with the wolves: 3 stars
Women who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and …
Alexia rated The Second Sex: 4 stars
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of …
Alexia rated The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: 3 stars
Alexia rated The human condition: 4 stars
The human condition by Hannah Arendt
The Human Condition, first published in 1958, is Hannah Arendt's account of how "human activities" should be and have been …
Alexia rated Tales of the City: 3 stars
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (duplicate)
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat …
Alexia rated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 3 stars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy …