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Ozymandias by Percy Shelley | A sonnet of power and decay

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You thought I was that type | Akhmatova’s love anathema

If life becomes waiting for life | Giudici’s The Best Hours

Giovanni Giudici

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | A new beginning

Joanne K. Rowling

Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio

The Song of Achilles | A love worth dying for

Madeline Miller

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism

History Project | The Legacy of Nuclear Testing

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

Fahrenheit 451 transcends the boundaries of science fiction

Portnoy’s Complaint | Judaism, sex and morality

Sessanta racconti | Dino Buzzati’s fantastic reality

The Tale of the Unknown Island | Dreaming the impossible

Twenty-One Love Poems | No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone

Siddhartha | Buddha’s path to enlightenment

Via Gemito | Looking back in anger at family shadows

Domenico Starnone

Dangling Man is the portrait of a whole generation

The Night Circus | A duel between form and substance

Erin Morgenstern

The Topeka School describes a polarized society

Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life

The Baron in the Trees | The exercise of disobedience

A Myth of Devotion | Louise Glück on love and oppression

The Handmaid’s Tale | Nolite te bastardes carborundorum is a cry of power

Margaret Atwood

The Stranger | Life without a purpose

Address by Sohrab Sepehri | A quest to mirror life between poetry and cinema

Kavafis’ Oedipus | Life is full of unsolvable riddles

Konstantinos Kavafis

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

David Foster Wallace

Americanah | From Nigeria to America and back

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Road explores climate crisis and alienation

Cormac McCarthy

The Raven | Poe’s study on paranoia

Edgar Allan Poe

Oxygen in my tents | Amelia Rosselli’s side of the story

Amelia Rosselli

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

A Heart so White | Deconstructing purity

Poem of the Mountain | Marina Tsvetaeva on the end of love

Marina Tsvetaeva

It Is Not Seemly To Be Famous | Boris Pasternak on fame

Boris Pasternak

My Bohemia | Rimbaud’s longing for freedom

Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Dickinson’s unusual carriage

Emily Dickinson

The Keeper by Patrizia Cavalli | Pleasure has no doors

Patrizia Cavalli

Costretti a Sanguinare | A stream of consciousness in a punk world

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | The boy who lived

Joanne K. Rowling

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

Exciting Times | A millennial novel about identity and idleness 

American Psycho | The darkest side of society

Bret Easton Ellis

Here is the Beehive | Shattered lines for a shattered love

The Broom of the System is like the pendulum of a clock

David Foster Wallace

Think not I am faithful to a vow! | Love according to Edna Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Finding a light in the darkness

Joanne K. Rowling

Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary teaches how to be a bovarist

Gustave Flaubert

Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix | Finding a safe place from which to fight

Joanne K. Rowling

Beautiful World, Where Are You | The evolution of a writer

The Eight Mountains | Peaks to climb in life

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a symphony of voices

Soldiers of Salamis | A writer’s version

Camere Separate | The search for a balanced existence

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

The Great Gatsby | Loving to excess in the Jazz Age

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Song of My Nakedness by Antonia Pozzi | Tales from people’s body

Interpreter of Maladies | On being an outsider

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Sonnets of Dark Love | Federico Garcìa Lorca’s letters to an absent lover

Federico Garcìa Lorca

Wanting to Die | Anne Sexton’s lust for precipice

Underworld | A dual conception of history

Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance

Jorge Luis Borges

Teller’s Nothing | A brutal quest for the meaning of life

A recipe for empathy | Meeting others with Laura Casielles

Laura Casielles

Life of Pi | A story that makes you suspend your disbelief

Batter my heart | John Donne’s sacred poetry

Could Have | Szymborska’s philosophy of wonder

Wisława Szymborska

Jane Eyre | An inner journey towards emancipation

Charlotte Bronte

C’era due volte il Barone Lamberto | One life is not enough

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano | The roots of racism

Olaudah Equiano

Musée des Beaux Arts | When Auden met Bruegel

Wystan Hugh Auden

How Beautiful We Were | Battling for environmental justice

Dear Matafele Peinem | We won’t let you down

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments | The words of love

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

Invisible Cities | A love poem to the city

No One Writes Back | A journey of letters

The Song of Songs | The erotic way to God

The Sick Fountain | A joke on traditional poetry

Aldo Palazzeschi

Torquato Tasso’s Amyntas | A tale of the woods

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

Journey to the End of the Night | Wandering in an unsettled life

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The Bad Girl | A modern Madame Bovary

Mario Vargas Llosa

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory | Is love worth it?

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Blindness | Homo homini lupus in Saramago’s novel

Flatland | A world limited to two dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Foe | The problem with speaking on behalf of another

John M. Coetzee

Normal People | Relations rarely concern the two lovers only

Gogol’s Petersburg Tales belong to the collective imagination

Inkheart | The importance of reading aloud

The Unbearable Lightness of Being exposes love’s dynamics

Ode to Psyche | John Keats’ tribute to the soul goddess

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Suffering and learning

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Getting some good American sleep

Otessa Moshfegh

One Hundred Years of Solitude | History in a family saga

Gabriel García Márquez

The power of language in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Atmosphere Is Incandescent | De Castro’s Journey Inward

Rosalía de Castro

I’m Not Scared | Transitioning from childhood to adulthood

Niccolò Ammaniti

Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything

Tiffany McDaniel

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

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To a passer-by | Charles Baudelaire’s lost opportunity

Charles Baudelaire

Triumph of Bacchus | Lorenzo de’ Medici’s ballade

Lorenzo de' Medici

Society Within | The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Essere giovani | A philosophical journey about youth

Ode to Invisibility | Ellen Bass and the torment of beauty

The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov’s troubled novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Girls | Not a report but a coming-of-age novel

I Write to Vent the Inward Pain in My Heart

Vittoria Colonna

“A success unexpected in common hours” | Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

Samuel Beckett’s Cascando | The agony of love

Love in the Time of Cholera marks the peak of the author’s ascendancy

Gabriel García Márquez

High Fidelity | The redemptive power of music and love

Little Women | An independence story against society’s expectations

Louisa May Alcott

A Feast of Ice and Fire | How an epic saga tastes

Chelsea Monroe-Cassel

Natural Histories | Animals as a mirror of human nature

Guadalupe Nettel

High-Rise | Ballard’s dark, inner space

James Graham Ballard

My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power

Anne Sexton and the hunger for creativity | The Red Shoes

Cambiar de idea | A woman and her scars

Aixa de la Cruz

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

Stoner | The story of an ordinary life

The Burnout Society | Han against freedom

Girl, Woman, Other | Intersectional feminism in modern Britain

Bernardine Evaristo

Inside the Renaissance court | Ariosto’s third Satire

Ludovico Ariosto

A Farewell to Arms | A faithful testimony of wartime

Ernest Hemingway

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Beauty unfold

Not Waving, But Drowning | Smith about (not) seeing the pain

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Elizabeth Bishop

I’ll Steal You Away | Big dreams and sad realities in Ammaniti’s Ischiano Scalo

Niccolò Ammaniti

On the Road | A delusional journey over America

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Choose who you want to be

Joanne K. Rowling

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

The Hours | A novel overcoming time and space

Michael Cunningham

Norwegian Wood | The charm in simplicity

Haruki Murakami

Give Way to the Trees | Arminio’s Contemporary Flâneur

Milk and Honey | The revolution of Instapoets

Niviâna and Jetñil-Kijiner’s Rise | A Call to Action

Like Water for Chocolate | A Novel of food and magical realism

Mrs. Dalloway | Time, death, and longevity

Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession

Larkin’s Annus Mirabilis sings of the 1960s sexual revolution

As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style

William Faulkner

Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia by Giacomo Leopardi | Pain is universal

Giacomo Leopardi

The Catcher in the Rye | Finding one’s place in the world

A Horse Walks into a Bar | A dark comedy night

The Adversary | A True Story of Monstrous Deception

Emmanuel Carrère

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Memories of My Melancholy Whores | In the space dividing lovers

Gabriel García Márquez

Flights | Olga Tokarczuck’s theory of knowledge

Olga Tokarczuck

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

Ernest Hemingway

The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history

Colson Whitehead

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity

Altri Libertini feels like a punch in the stomach

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

The Art of Praise | Fox by Mary Oliver

The Ultimate Infidelity | Gozzano’s farewell to sadness

Urbania | Boeri’s cities of the future

The New York Trilogy is a brilliant philosophical adventure

Randagi | A clown’s red nose to hope

Paola Mordiglia

A.E. Stallings | Penelope, the Woman of Many Faces

A. E. Stallings

Francisca Aguirre’s Loom | The importance of others in an absurd life

Francisca Aguirre

D’amore si muore ma io no | How to survive in real love

The Adventures of Pinocchio, the mischievous marionette

Carlo Lorenzini, Collodi

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