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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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A Portrait of Emily Price
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Katherine Reay (Goodreads Author)
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The Violinist of Venice
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Alyssa Palombo (Goodreads Author)
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The Basic Art of Pizza
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Maria Liberati (Goodreads Author)
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The Medici Letters: The Secret Origins of the Renaissance
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Taylor Buck (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 361 ratings
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A Girl Returned
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One Great Lie
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Deb Caletti (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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The Fisherman's Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican's Secret Search
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A Quiet Death in Italy (Daniel Leicester, #1)
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Tom Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Siciliana
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Carlo Treviso (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 243 ratings
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In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy
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Jeff Biggers (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire
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John Keahey (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Master of Verona (Star-Cross'd #1)
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David Blixt (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 704 ratings
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The Painter's Legacy: Lake Iseo Italy Mystery 2
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J.L. Crellin (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Vatican Daughter: A Novel
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Joni Marie Iraci (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Drawing Conclusions (Commissario Brunetti, #20)
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Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded
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3.85 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Een nieuwer testament
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3.52 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Italian Food Rules
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Ann Reavis (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope
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Eleanor Herman (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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Guida dei borghi più belli d'Italia: Il fascino dell'Italia nascosta
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Breaking the Silence My Journey of Discovery as Transformative Surgery
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THE SACRED WOOD (The Goddess Trilogy #1)
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Tweeting Da Vinci
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Ann C. Pizzorusso (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Role of Women in Society in the 20th Century
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After Hannibal
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Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)
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Jenna Evans Welch (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 180,162 ratings
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Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean
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John Keahey (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The Basic Art of Italian Cooking:DaVinci Style
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Maria Liberati (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Prince's Order (Renaissance Origins, #2)
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Taylor Buck (Goodreads Author)
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The Hunting Season (Daniel Leicester, #2)
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Tom Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 364 ratings
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She Left No Note (Lake Iseo Italy Mystery #1)
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J.L. Crellin (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Palladian Days: Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House
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3.56 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Hill Towns
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In a Glass House
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Nino Ricci (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
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Todo in Tuscany: The Dog at the Villa
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4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence
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Elizabeth Loupas (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 646 ratings
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Tour Of Sicily: Touring Around Sicily and History
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Daniel Peter Buckley (Goodreads Author)
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Toscanelli's Ray
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Wallis Wilde-Menozzi (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Bertoluzzi's Heiress Bride
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The Mafia
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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City of Masks (Stravaganza, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 16,651 ratings
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Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged
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John Keahey (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli
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Alyssa Palombo (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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The Basic Art of Italian Cooking
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Maria Liberati (Goodreads Author)
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Gomorrah
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Murder in Tuscany (Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mystery, #1)
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T.A. Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 8,539 ratings
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A Sea of Troubles (Commissario Brunetti, #10)
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3.97 avg rating — 11,283 ratings
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Daughters of the Doge (Richard Stocker #2)
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3.19 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Zeno's Conscience
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3.77 avg rating — 31,518 ratings
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Miles J. Unger (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 964 ratings
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The Lion and the Rose (The Borgias, #2)
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Kate Quinn (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 3,803 ratings
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The Other Side of the Tiber: Reflections on Time in Italy
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Wallis Wilde-Menozzi (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Secrets of the Tower
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Debbie Rix (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 671 ratings
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The Head of the Viper
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Der Zypressengarten
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The Miracles of Santo Fico
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Trieste
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A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea
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John Keahey (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Northern Italy-Recipes & History (The Basic Art of Italian Cooking Book 2)
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Maria Liberati (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples
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L'Ultima Primavera. Il riflesso segreto dei ricordi: Romanzo
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Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano, #5)
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Stone's Fall
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I'm Not Scared
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Etruscan Places
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A British Boy in Fascist Italy
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Count Girolamo Lucchini: The Life, Escapades and Trial of a Legendary 18th-Century Criminal
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Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City: A Cookbook
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Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart
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John Keahey (Goodreads Author)
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Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano, #7)
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Tartufo
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Kira Jane Buxton (Goodreads Author)
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The Lying Tongue
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Beside Still Waters
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Staal
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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
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A Death In Tuscany (Michele Ferrara, #2)
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The Etruscan
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Linda Lappin (Goodreads Author)
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Life of Giuseppe Verdi: A Book for Young People
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Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City
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The Baron in the Trees
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A Kiss from Maddalena
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Christopher Castellani (Goodreads Author)
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Giotto's Hand (Jonathan Argyll, #5)
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The Undrowned Child
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From Fiume to Navelli: A Sixteen-Year-Old's Narrative of the Fleischmann Family and Other Free Internees in Fascist Italy, September 1943 June 1944
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La vita accanto
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Etruria Travel, history and Itineraries in Central Italy
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Cardello
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A Thread of Grace
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Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)
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The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano, #3)
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Doctored Evidence (Commissario Brunetti, #13)
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The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana
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Three Days
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Donna Jo Napoli (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 14,005 ratings
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The Lost Prince
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Madonna of the Seven Hills (Lucrezia Borgia, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 1,988 ratings
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The Thieves of Ostia (Roman Mysteries, #1)
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Caroline Lawrence (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 3,691 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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