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A Room with a View
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Beautiful Ruins
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The Princess Guide to Rome
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Belinda Darcey (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes
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Christopher Lascelles (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings
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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 — 391 ratings
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Eating Rome: Living the Good Life in the Eternal City
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Elizabeth Minchilli (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Italians
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The Birth of Venus
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3.81 avg rating — 99,662 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 — 592 ratings
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In the Company of the Courtesan
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My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 447,441 ratings
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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
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The Imperfectionists
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Tom Rachman (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 50,231 ratings
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Twilight in Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy
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3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
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The Creator's Map
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2.94 avg rating — 371 ratings
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A Thousand Days in Venice
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The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
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Amalfi Coast Travel Essentials: From Positano to Minori and the Many Hidden Coves In Between
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Gillian Longworth McGuire (Goodreads Author)
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A House of Cards
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A Song for Bellafortuna
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Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Rome: A Photographic Tour
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Alexandru Ciobanu (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
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Tim Parks (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,380 ratings
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Tifare contro: Una storia degli ultras italiani
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4.32 avg rating — 19 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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Toscanelli's Ray
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Wallis Wilde-Menozzi (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Tempesta's Dream
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Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 193 ratings
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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 — 2,089 ratings
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De Scharlaken Stad
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Friends in High Places (Commissario Brunetti, #9)
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3.90 avg rating — 12,173 ratings
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The Poison Keeper (Tofana, #1)
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Deborah Swift (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 2,324 ratings
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Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
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Wallis Wilde-Menozzi (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Een nieuwer testament
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3.52 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Sacred Hearts
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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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The Sidewalk Artist
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Gina Buonaguro (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Etruscan Places
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3.76 avg rating — 297 ratings
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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3.78 avg rating — 14,635 ratings
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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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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 17,286 ratings
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The Way Back to Florence
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Glenn Haybittle (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
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Sea and Sardinia
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Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
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3.71 avg rating — 159 ratings
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A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
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3.85 avg rating — 7,275 ratings
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My Cousin the Saint: A Search for Faith, Family, and Miracles
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Justin Catanoso (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
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4.12 avg rating — 10,022 ratings
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Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa
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3.59 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Gomorrah
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 34,710 ratings
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The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
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3.84 avg rating — 1,607 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 — 25,143 ratings
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Pleasures and Landscapes
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That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story
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3.84 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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The City of Falling Angels
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The Dark Heart of Italy: An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country
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3.72 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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Signatures in Stone
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Linda Lappin (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice
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3.32 avg rating — 357 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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The Stones of Florence
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As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey
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The Etruscan
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Linda Lappin (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
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Vogliamo Tutto: The Novel of Italy's Hot Autumn
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A Tuscan Childhood
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The Light in the Ruins
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Chris Bohjalian (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 30,007 ratings
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At Least You're in Tuscany: A Somewhat Disastrous Quest for the Sweet Life
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Jennifer Criswell (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Iconic: The Masters of Italian Fashion
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Italian Neighbors
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Tim Parks (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 3,134 ratings
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The Days of Abandonment
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