Please find below a list of some of the many books (titles in Italian and in English) that I read over the years that I found inspiring and highly recommend.
Music Related
Ascoltare Beethoven – Giovanni Bietti
Breve Storia della Musica – Massimo Mila
Come Ascoltare la Musica – Aaron Copland
Elements of Music – Jason Martineau
Finalmente Ho Perso Tutto – Giulio Tampalini
Indirect Procedures – Pedro de Alcantara
Mozart all’Opera – Giovanni Bietti
Music in the Castle of Heaven – John Eliot Gardiner
On Music – Alfred Brendel
Performing Baroque Music on the Classical Guitar
Poetica della Musica – Igor Stravinsky
Stile e Idea – Arnold Schoenberg
The Musician’s Way – Gerald Klickstein
The Art of Mindful Singing – Jeremy Dion
The Art of Piano Playing – Heinrich Neuhaus
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto – Mitch Albom
The Mindful Musician – Vanessa Cornett
The Musician’s Handbook – Trevor Ford
Un Fiorentino a Beverly Hills – Angelo Gilardino
The Mastery of Music – Barry Green
Non-Music Related
Falling Awake – John Kabat Zinn
Getting Things Done – David Allen
Hyperfocus – Chris Bailey
Il Bisogno di Pensare – Vito Mancuso
Il Lavoro dell’Attore su se stesso – Konstantin S. Stanislavskij
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
Kaizen – Sarah Harvey
L’Ordine del Tempo – Carlo Rovelli
Lo Zen e il tiro con l’arco – Herrigel
Mindset – Dr. Carol S. Dweck
Pathways to Possibility – Rosamund Stone Zander
Peak – Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
Play Winning Chess – Jeremy Silman and Yasser Seirawan
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
Sette Brevi Lezioni di Fisica – Carlo Rovelli
Siddharta – Hermann Hesse
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Bullet Journal Method – Ryder Carrol
The Inner Game of Tennis – Timothy Gallwey
The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
The Way of Qigong – Kenneth S. Cohen
There Are No Secrets – Lowenthal
101 Storie Zen – …
12 Rules of Life – Jordan B. Peterson
The Wim Hof Method – Wim Hof
Jacopo Lazzaretti 