books

“De tudo, ficaram três coisas: a certeza de que ele estava sempre começando, a certeza de que era preciso continuar e a certeza de que seria interrompido antes de terminar. Fazer da interrupção um caminho novo. Fazer da queda um passo de dança, do medo uma escada, do sono uma ponte, da procura um encontro.”

– Fernando Sabino, O Encontro Marcado

I enjoy reading and talking about books I’ve read. If you happen to be interested in any of the books below (even if you haven’t read it yet), this is a great way to start a conversation with me .

My top recommendations

• O Encontro Marcado (A Time to Meet), by Fernando Sabino
• The Stranger, by Albert Camus
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
• Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy

Somewhat related reads I would also recommend

• The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus
• The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
• Quincas Borba (Philosopher or Dog), by Machado de Assis
• Sagarana, by João Guimarães Rosa

Other stuff I’ve enjoyed reading in the past

Brazilian Literature

• Os melhores contos, by Fernando Sabino
• O menino no espelho, by Fernando Sabino
• No fim dá certo, by Fernando Sabino
• O galo músico, by Fernando Sabino
• Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos

Other

• White Nights, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Family Happiness, by Leo Tolstoy
• The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
• The Steppe, by Anton Chekhov
• Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
• I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
• The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Animal Farm, by George Orwell
• The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
• The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
• Deep Work, by Cal Newport
• Dopamine Nation, by Anna Lembke MD
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
• Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman
• What Is This Thing Called Science?, by A. F. Chalmers
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
• On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca
• If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi