Ciprian Manolescu





Reading log:


2025

Christoph Ransmayr - The dog king

Rachel Carson - The sea around us

David Hare - Slag

John Irving - A widow for one year

Elizabeth Kolbert - Under a white sky

T. S. Eliot - Murder in the cathedral

Sándor Márai - Embers

Martin Mcdonagh - The pillowman

Richard Ford - Rock springs

Mario Vargas Llosa - Conversation in the cathedral

George Rădulescu - Un secol cu Neagu Djuvara

Federico Kusko - Frutologías

Gheorghe Craciun - Pupa russa

Ion Mihai Pacepa - Red horizons

Amin Maalouf - Le rocher de Tanios

André Gide - Corydon

Norman Manea - Plicul negru

Victoria Finley - Color

Cormac McCarthy - Blood meridian

Henry Miller - Tropic of cancer

Agatha Christie - Towards zero

Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland

David Hare - Plenty

H. P. Lovecraft - The call of Cthulhu and other frightening tales

Jenny Offil - Weather

Athol Fugard - Master Harold and the boys

Michael Sandel - The tyranny of merit

Ray Bradbury - The day it rained forever

Christopher Bishop - Deep learning

Dan Ariely - The upside of irrationality

Jane Jacobs - The death and life of great American cities


2024

Frank Norris - The pit

D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's lover

Max Blecher - Scarred Hearts

Naoki Higashida - The reason I jump

John Steinbeck - The winter of our discontent

Alain Fournier - Le Grand Meaulnes

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - A stranger in your own city

Philip Slater - The chrysalis effect

Gunnhild Oyehaug - Knots

Jules Romains - Knock

Gary Shteyngart - Russian debutante's handbook

Annalee Newitz - Four lost cities

Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler

Joaquim Machado de Assis - The rod of justice

Rabindranath Tagore - Kabuliwala

Rabindranath Tagore - Punishment

Victor Anestin - În anul 4000 sau o călătorie la Venus

Mihail Sebastian - Jurnal

Ioana Pârvulescu - Viața începe vineri

Sofia Nădejde - Robia banului

Matei Călinescu - Viața şi opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter

Lucian Dan Teodorovici - Matei Brunul

Ed Yong - An immense world

Sun Tzu - The art of war

Philip Roth - An American pastoral

August Strindberg - Getting married

David Rabe - The basic training of Pavlo Hummel

David Rabe - Sticks and bones

Carl Sagan - Contact

Bruce Greenwald - Globalization

Nassim Taleb - The black swan


2023

Ann Radcliffe - The mysteries of Udolpho

E. M. Forster - Howards End

Gertrude Stein - Three lives

Siddhartha Mukherjee - The emperor of all maladies

Sherman Alexie - The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven

Lone Frank - Mindfield

Thomas Hardy - Far from the madding crowd

Jonathan Franzen - Crossroads

Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian

Annie Ernaux - A man's life

Annie Ernaux - A woman's story

Annie Ernaux - L'événement

Larry Kramer - Normal heart

Natia Abramia - Culture smart! Georgia

Vladimir Lorchenkov - The good life elsewhere

Thomas Cathcart - Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates

Loredana Radu - Ţara fără proiect

Sofia Nădejde - Patimi

Jonas Jonasson - The 100-year old man

Ann Patchett - State of wonder

Naomi Klein - Doppelganger

Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a mask

Anton Chekhov - Lady with a lapdog

Nathanael West - The day of the locust

Bill Gates - How to avoid a climate disaster


2022

Jenny Offil - Department of speculation

Erich Auerbach - Mimesis

Simon Kuper - Soccernomics

Gaston Dorren - Babel

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, fast and slow

Bound Alberti - This mortal coil

Hector Tobar - The barbarian nurseries

Alberto Manguel - A history of reading

Cristian Presură - Fizica povestită

Erica Jong - Fear of flying

Ismail Kadare - The general of the dead army

Érico Veríssimo - O retrato

Vaclav Havel - Protest

Vaclav Havel - Unveiling

Vaclav Havel - The memorandum

Vaclav Havel - The garden party

Stanislaw Lem - Return from the stars

Michael Pollan - Omnivore's dilemma

Michele Gelfand - Rule makers, rule breakers

Sara Gruen - Water for elephants

Vaclav Havel - Audience

Han Kang - The Vegetarian

Vaclav Havel - Mistake

Răzvan Petrescu - Mandarina

Mateiu Caragiale - Craii de curtea veche

Gabriela Adameşteanu - O dimineaţă pierdută

Maria Olaru - Preţul aurului

Jenny Erpenbeck - Go, went, gone

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Stephanie Faul - Xenophobe's guide to the Americans

Naomi Oreskes - The collapse of Western civilization

Sadegh Hedayat - The blind owl

Vladimir Solonari - A satellite empire

Angus Deaton - The great escape


2021

Mark Stiegler - The gentle seduction

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile

Robert Massie - Catherine the great

Elena Ferrante - The story of the lost child

Elena Ferrante - The days of abandonment

Lucas Bridges - The uttermost part of the earth

Kim Stanley Robinson - Ministry for the future

Octavia Butler - Parable of the sower

Homer - Odyssey

James Weldon Johnson - The autobiography of an ex-colored man

Tennessee Williams - The rose tattoo

Tennessee Williams - Sweet bird of youth

Tennessee Williams - Camino Real

Tim Marshall - Worth dying for

Mohammed Hanif - A case of exploding mangos

Penelope Fitzgerald - The blue flower

Raymond Carver - What we talk about when we talk about love

Elif Batuman - The possessed

Leila Slimani - Chanson Douce

Bernard Malamud - The fixer

María Irene Fornés - Plays

Peter Handke - Voyage to the sonorous land

Peter Handke - The hour we knew nothing of each other

Conor Dougherty - Golden gates

Noam Chomsky - Climate crisis and the global green new deal

Anton Chekhov - Three sisters

Roxane Gay - Hunger

John Freeman - Tales of two planets

Rudolfo Anaya - Bless me, Ultima

Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie

George Bernard Shaw - Man and superman

James Baldwin - Another country

Ted Chiang - Stories of your life and others

Gaston Dorren - Lingo

Isaac Asimov - Neutrino


2020

Athol Fugard - Boesman and Kena and other plays

Mihail Sebastian - De două mii de ani

Mihail Sebastian - Cum am devenit huligan

Edward Albee - Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf

Connie Willis - Fire watch

Miguel Angel Asturias - Hombres de maiz

David Reich - Who we are and how we got here

Rose George - The big necessity

Arthur Adamov - Theatre

Edith Pargeter - One corpse too many

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar - A mind at peace

Marina Tsvetaeva - Milestones

Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim

H. G. Wells - The island of Doctor Moreau

Philip Dick - Do androids dream of electric sheep?

James Suzman - Affluence without abundance

Gerald Edelman - Second nature

Mikhail Lermontov - A hero of our time

William Congreve - The way of the world

Adrienne Kennedy - Funnyhouse of a negro

Sherwood Anderson - Poor white

Abbé Prévost - Manon Lescault