By Alessia Sciannamblo

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

Underworld | A dual conception of history

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Between the World and Me | Opening a third way to fight

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a tonic for low spirits

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Post Office is like life itself: a mean, dirty, boring spot

Charles Bukowski

Olive Kitteridge’s beauty resides in the periphery of things

Elizabeth Strout

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

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