L'ardore

9 best books like L'ardore (Roberto Calasso): The Bull from the Sea, Pnin, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Adam's Rib: A Rocco Schiavone Mystery, Black Run, Sindrome da cuore in sospeso, La morte della Pizia, The King Must Die, Mooncop

The Bull from the Sea

Author	Mary Renault
ISBN	0099463539

4.5 stars

Mary Renault’s _The Bull from the Sea_ takes up where The King Must Die left off and continues the legendary story of Theseus and his kingship of Attica. There are some differences between this volume and its predecessor, most notably in the fact that the scope of this tale is much...

Pnin

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	1400041988

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950's. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series...

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Author	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN	1400069971

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black...

Adam's Rib: A Rocco Schiavone Mystery

Author	Antonio Manzini
ISBN	0062354671

Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light. The second novel in the internationally bestselling series from Italian crime maestro Antonio Manzini.In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery:...

Black Run

Author	Antonio Manzini
ISBN	0062310046

Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery—the first in a sensational crime series—set in the Italian Alps, reminiscent of the works of Andrea Camilleri, D. A. Mishani, Donna Leon, and Henning Mankell.

Getting into serious trouble with the wrong people, deputy prefect of...

Sindrome da cuore in sospeso

Author	Alessia Gazzola
ISBN	8830434108

Alice Allevi ha un grosso problema. Si è appena resa conto di non voler più diventare un medico, ma non ha il coraggio di confessarlo a nessuno, e non sa cosa fare del suo futuro. Ma siccome la vita è sorprendente, sarà l'omicidio di una persona vicina alla sua famiglia a far scoprire ad Alice la sua vocazione:...

La morte della Pizia

Author

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

«Stizzita per la scemenza dei suoi stessi oracoli e per l’ingenua credulità dei Greci, la sacerdotessa di Delfi Pannychis XI, lunga e secca come quasi tutte le Pizie che l’avevano preceduta, ascoltò le domande del giovane Edipo, un altro che voleva sapere se i suoi genitori erano davvero i suoi...

The King Must Die

Author

Mary Renault

“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity,...

Mooncop

Author	Tom Gauld
ISBN	1770462546

"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs...