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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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Massimilla Doni
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3.19 avg rating — 147 ratings
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From the Land of the Moon
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The Glassblower of Murano
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3.61 avg rating — 7,938 ratings
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Consuelo
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4.08 avg rating — 1,831 ratings
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Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales
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3.80 avg rating — 798 ratings
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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3.90 avg rating — 25,134 ratings
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Voyages en Italie
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Rome, Naples et Florence
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3.82 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Homecoming Party
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3.60 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Italian Journey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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The Thief of Venice (Homer Kelly, #14)
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3.46 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Dante Game (Homer Kelly, #8)
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3.54 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Imperfectionists
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Tom Rachman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 50,224 ratings
score: 62,
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The Marble Faun
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3.47 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
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Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit
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Adam Schell (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 906 ratings
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Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
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4.10 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Very Valentine (Valentine, #1)
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Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 19,254 ratings
score: 59,
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The Intimates
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Ralph Sassone (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Brava, Valentine
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Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 14,871 ratings
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La Cucina
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3.45 avg rating — 2,497 ratings
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When in Rome...
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3.36 avg rating — 3,430 ratings
score: 57,
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Lambrusco
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Ellen Cooney (Goodreads Author)
3.11 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Catherine de Medici 1-3: Madame Serpent/The Italian Woman/Queen Jezebel
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4.30 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia 1-2: Madonna of the Seven Hills/Light on Lucrezia
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3.88 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Loving Frank
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3.77 avg rating — 101,078 ratings
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Lucia, Lucia
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Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 20,929 ratings
score: 53,
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Mapping the Edge
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3.24 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
score: 52,
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Mirror Mirror
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3.29 avg rating — 31,941 ratings
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A Murderous Procession (Mistress of the Art of Death, #4)
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4.13 avg rating — 8,103 ratings
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Jenny
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3.88 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
score: 49,
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O, Juliet
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Robin Maxwell (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 812 ratings
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The Volcano Lover
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3.65 avg rating — 3,218 ratings
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One Day
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3.87 avg rating — 402,752 ratings
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The Perfect Lie
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3.80 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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Quattrocento
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James N. McKean (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 669 ratings
score: 44,
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The Reincarnationist (Reincarnationist, #1)
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M.J. Rose (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 4,125 ratings
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When in Rome
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Nicky Pellegrino (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
score: 41,
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When We Were Strangers
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Pamela Schoenewaldt (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 5,973 ratings
score: 40,
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The Worst Intentions
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3.31 avg rating — 955 ratings
score: 39,
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Lucifer's Shadow
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David Hewson (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 936 ratings
score: 37,
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Rococo
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Adriana Trigiani (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 7,398 ratings
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Rome: The Biography of a City
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3.89 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Cry to Heaven
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3.88 avg rating — 21,502 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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