Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

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1. The Best Action Adventure BooksReading list

   Don Quixote is considered one of the most important works of Spanish literature. The action-adventure novel tells the story of an ageing man who, after reading too many chivalric romances, decides to become a knight-errant. Accompanied by his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, he sets out on a series of quests and…

2. Brandon CliffordInterview

   Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson because he plays with the English language and establishes an entirely alternative set of terms to be introduced to. I found this method to immediately bring you into the club while also distancing you from a culture he is illuminating. This meta-level of being…

3. Stathis PsillosInterview

   Milkman by Anna Burns has been sitting on my desk for quite some time. But most of next year will be preoccupied with books about the seventeenth-century science and philosophy; about mechanisms and causation in the sciences; and about the metaphysics of science. At some point, I want to read Ulysses by James Joyce…

4. Mariela GrifforInterview

   There are many books that have made a big impression on me, so to pick one book, in particular, can be very difficult. But I would recommend Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It is very interesting to see how the characters, that are so distant in time and can appear dissonant, are so relevant today.

5. Tamler SommersInterview

   Too many to list, but off the top of my head – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel, Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams, On the Road by Jack Kerouac (everyone should go through a Kerouac phase…

6. Luciano FloridiInterview

   Too may… but I would like to mention some books that everybody talks about but few actually read: Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes, both totally fascinating and in some pages also terribly boring. War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, to be read in a single year, without…

7. Mario BataliInterview

   Any of Jim Harrison’s books. Not only was he a dear friend of mine, but I get so much pleasure in reading his books for a second and third time. The depth Jim gives his characters and storylines is unparalleled to any fiction book I’ve ever read. I also reread Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes every 3 or 4 years.

8. Tim AtkinInterview

   I have very catholic tastes, so lots of things lined up. Starting with Keeping on Keeping On by Alan Bennett and a book about the famous Czech runner, Today We Die a Little by Richard Askwith. One of these days, it’s also time I got around to reading three of greatest novels ever written (or so I’m told): Ulysses by…

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