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The Booker Prize Shortlist 2024
New Releases in Fiction
New Releases in Nonfiction
Novels set in Florence
Classics, mysteries and more books with a Florentine setting!
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“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Classic Literature
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Modern Literature
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx
General Fiction
“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
Crime & Mystery
“You always know when it’s your first time, don’t you? But you rarely know when it’s your final time.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
Children
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Young Reader
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
Young Adult
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare,
Italian Interest
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy”
― Giuseppe Verdi
Italian Authors
“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Food & Wine
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Art & Design
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso
History
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius
Philosophy
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates
Pyschology and Self Help
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
― Eckhart Tolle
