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Reading Italy
From the romantic to the everyday, from travel literature to genre books set there, these are my favorite books with Italy as a centerpiece in some way.
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The Name of the Rose
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One Hot Italian Summer
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The Birth of Venus
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3.81 avg rating — 99,646 ratings
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A Room with a View
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,575 ratings
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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Frances Mayes (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 329,515 ratings
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Invisible Cities
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4.10 avg rating — 94,613 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,781,941 ratings
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Racing the Sun
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3.92 avg rating — 4,187 ratings
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The Enchanted April
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3.89 avg rating — 39,546 ratings
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The Decameron
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3.88 avg rating — 42,944 ratings
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The Leopard
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4.01 avg rating — 45,295 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,000,259 ratings
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The English Patient
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3.86 avg rating — 137,950 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 94,471 ratings
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Sacred Hearts
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3.79 avg rating — 13,388 ratings
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The Merchant of Venice
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3.78 avg rating — 200,114 ratings
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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4.02 avg rating — 109,165 ratings
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Much Ado About Nothing
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4.06 avg rating — 255,773 ratings
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Living In Italy: Hilarious Expat Adventures - How To Survive The Good Life
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Stef Smulders (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 591 ratings
score: 900,
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The City of Falling Angels
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3.55 avg rating — 17,199 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 374,591 ratings
score: 878,
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 72,099 ratings
score: 834,
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,487,607 ratings
score: 827,
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Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 41,701 ratings
score: 789,
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An Italian Education
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Tim Parks (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
score: 774,
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Eat, Pray, Love
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 1,826,159 ratings
score: 759,
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Death in Venice
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3.69 avg rating — 66,054 ratings
score: 743,
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Othello
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3.89 avg rating — 430,175 ratings
score: 733,
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.75 avg rating — 30,179 ratings
score: 710,
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The Sweet Life (A Sweet Life Novel #1)
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Sharon Struth (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 700,
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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3.59 avg rating — 17,521 ratings
score: 698,
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A Thousand Days in Venice
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3.50 avg rating — 7,074 ratings
score: 677,
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Venice
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4.03 avg rating — 1,858 ratings
score: 661,
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Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,356,726 ratings
score: 661,
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I, Claudius/Claudius the God
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4.45 avg rating — 2,879 ratings
score: 610,
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 27,954 ratings
score: 607,
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Paul & Kiki's Guide to Vacationing in Italy: Making Your Tuscany Holiday a Treasured Memory
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Paul Stuart (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 600,
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6 people voted
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Italian Folktales
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4.18 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
score: 588,
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 583,862 ratings
score: 567,
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Blood & Beauty (The Borgias #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 11,565 ratings
score: 561,
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In the Company of the Courtesan
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3.80 avg rating — 25,852 ratings
score: 556,
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D.H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy/Sea and Sardinia/Etruscan Places
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3.72 avg rating — 296 ratings
score: 526,
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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4.03 avg rating — 37,461 ratings
score: 512,
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Quo Vadis
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4.01 avg rating — 41,316 ratings
score: 506,
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Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4)
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4.06 avg rating — 10,335 ratings
score: 492,
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Pompeii
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Robert Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 52,184 ratings
score: 474,
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The Midwife of Venice (Midwife #1)
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Roberta Rich (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 13,455 ratings
score: 471,
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The Scarlet Contessa
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Jeanne Kalogridis (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
score: 458,
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The Wings of the Dove
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3.78 avg rating — 17,431 ratings
score: 454,
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The Historian
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3.80 avg rating — 274,315 ratings
score: 441,
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The Enchantress of Florence
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3.61 avg rating — 19,345 ratings
score: 421,
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The Light in the Ruins
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Chris Bohjalian (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 29,988 ratings
score: 420,
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The Passion of Artemisia
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3.91 avg rating — 19,846 ratings
score: 408,
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
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3.87 avg rating — 8,455 ratings
score: 402,
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Under a Sardinian Sky
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Sara Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
score: 400,
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Memoirs of Hadrian
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4.22 avg rating — 34,762 ratings
score: 395,
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The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi's Venice
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Laurel Corona (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
score: 392,
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Juliet
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Anne Fortier (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 28,315 ratings
score: 391,
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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples
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3.97 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
score: 390,
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Italian Neighbors
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Tim Parks (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 3,133 ratings
score: 389,
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A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character . . . and Goals!
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Tim Parks (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 2,250 ratings
score: 385,
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Rome
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3.82 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
score: 378,
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Season of Storms
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Susanna Kearsley (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 9,094 ratings
score: 375,
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Don't Look Now
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3.82 avg rating — 9,469 ratings
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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3.85 avg rating — 78,361 ratings
score: 372,
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On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
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3.68 avg rating — 520 ratings
score: 370,
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Baudolino
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3.80 avg rating — 25,033 ratings
score: 363,
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Daisy Miller
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3.37 avg rating — 37,259 ratings
score: 353,
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The Aspern Papers
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3.70 avg rating — 6,698 ratings
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A Sicilian Romance
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3.39 avg rating — 4,630 ratings
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
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Tim Parks (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
score: 328,
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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3.84 avg rating — 38,617 ratings
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The Normans in Sicily : The Magnificent Story of 'the Other Norman Conquest'
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4.33 avg rating — 346 ratings
score: 321,
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Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes
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Christopher Lascelles (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 132 ratings
score: 300,
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Dreaming Sophia
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Melissa Muldoon (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 299,
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Glam Italia! How to Travel Italy: Secrets To Glamorous Travel (On A Not So Glamorous Budget)
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Corinna Cooke (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 390 ratings
score: 299,
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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Mark T. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 377,687 ratings
score: 297,
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Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti, #3)
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3.95 avg rating — 17,223 ratings
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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3.78 avg rating — 14,604 ratings
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
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4.10 avg rating — 5,196 ratings
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A Question of Belief (Commissario Brunetti, #19)
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3.94 avg rating — 8,361 ratings
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My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 446,331 ratings
score: 291,
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The Way Back to Florence
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Glenn Haybittle (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 402 ratings
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Ratking (Aurelio Zen, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 5,127 ratings
score: 288,
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The Serpent and the Pearl (The Borgias, #1)
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 5,691 ratings
score: 287,
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The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
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4.02 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Princes of the Renaissance
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
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4.12 avg rating — 10,002 ratings
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Vita Nuova
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3.88 avg rating — 8,477 ratings
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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 446,331 ratings
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A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
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3.85 avg rating — 7,273 ratings
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The Man in the Picture
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3.64 avg rating — 6,092 ratings
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The Villa Of Mysteries (Nic Costa, #2)
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David Hewson (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 9,304 ratings
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Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Brunetti, #16)
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3.84 avg rating — 8,383 ratings
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
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4.17 avg rating — 3,420 ratings
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Shadows in Bronze (Marcus Didius Falco, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 6,536 ratings
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The King's Gambit (SPQR, #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 3,107 ratings
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The Charterhouse of Parma
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3.79 avg rating — 19,649 ratings
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Feb 08, 2024 02:51AM
In the first 50 titles there are not even 10 books by Italian authors.
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Marco wrote: "In the first 50 titles there are not even 10 books by Italian authors."When I started the list, it was simply books that I was reading with Italy as the primary location...but I didn't realize I had made it a public list, and it's grown tentacles in all directions as other people have added things. I'm not even sure what order the titles appear in now, because when I look at it the first title is a book I've never read! Anyway, the list reflects an American origin, by a person who didn't read Italian well enough to get through novels, so that's why it looks like it does.
Genevieve wrote: "Marco wrote: "In the first 50 titles there are not even 10 books by Italian authors."When I started the list, it was simply books that I was reading with Italy as the primary location...but I did..."
Thanks for your explanation. I actually thought this list had been created by someone at GoodReads and not by users.
These days I'm preparing a list of Italian books for a friend from Australia, who doesn't speak Italian. I discovered that it is quite hard to do it because incredibly few books get translated. I only know Europe, where basically everything gets translated into Italian, French, German etc. and I was quite surprised - especially because the English-speaking market is huge, so there would probably be a place for more translated books.
Anyway, the jist of what I wanted to say is that in the end you (or the other people who contributed) cannot be blamed for not putting many Italian books in the list, simply because there are very few available to an English-speaking person!
Yes, unfortunately there's very little translated - a handful of classics, of course - but then only the Elena Ferrante books, and the Inspector Montalbano books. Sadly, that's all I can think of at the moment. I'd be interested in seeing the list you make, if you would care to share it. I know there must be more out there, even if it's sadly not a lot more.
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