Books Set in Italy

1
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
7,660 members
172 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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2
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
14,290 members
284 reviews
4
8 Members
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3
A Room with a View
by E. M. Forster
12,601 members
246 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: Florence
4
Christ Stopped at Eboli
by Carlo Levi
2,259 members
54 reviews
4
7 Members
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5
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,381 members
578 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: Pianosa and Rome
6
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
by Giorgio Bassani
2,344 members
59 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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7
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
32,919 members
308 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: Verona
8
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
10,128 members
181 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: Rome
9
The Betrothed
by Alessandro Manzoni
3,808 members
61 reviews
4
5 Members
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10
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal
4,971 members
82 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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11
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,246 members
223 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: Venice, Rome, Sicily
12
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,762 members
335 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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13
History
by Elsa Morante
1,583 members
32 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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14
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,682 members
229 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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15
Othello
by William Shakespeare
19,479 members
151 reviews
4
6 Members
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16
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,918 members
303 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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17
Fontamara
by Ignazio Silone
828 members
12 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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18
The Day of the Owl
by Leonardo Sciascia
1,646 members
38 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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19
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
6,012 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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20
The Viceroys
by Federico De Roberto
487 members
13 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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21
The House by the Medlar Tree
by Giovanni Verga
1,399 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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22
Reeds in the Wind
by Grazia Deledda
483 members
15 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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23
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo
4,094 members
57 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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24
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
13,187 members
125 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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25
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
1,399 members
33 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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26
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
11,462 members
132 reviews
4
3 Members
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27
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
9,502 members
390 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Opinionated, Dilara86, mmseiple
28
Conversations in Sicily
by Elio Vittorini
775 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mmseiple
29
The Moon and the Bonfires
by Cesare Pavese
1,646 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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30
The Woman of Rome
by Alberto Moravia
843 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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31
The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi Pirandello
2,304 members
36 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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32
Family Lexicon
by Natalia Ginzburg
1,612 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mmseiple
33
Arturo's Island
by Elsa Morante
953 members
21 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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34
The Conformist
by Alberto Moravia
776 members
12 reviews
3.9
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mmseiple
35
The Little World of Don Camillo
by Giovannino Guareschi
1,487 members
42 reviews
4.2
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mmseiple
36
The Story of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
4,480 members
173 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
Opinionated, Dilara86, mmseiple
37
Bread and Wine
by Ignazio Silone
1,084 members
12 reviews
3.8
3 Members
pitjrw, alex68, mmseiple
38
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
by Elena Ferrante
3,734 members
119 reviews
4.2
3 Members
Opinionated, Dilara86, mmseiple
39
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
4,002 members
91 reviews
½ 3.4
4 Members
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40
The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena Ferrante
3,418 members
133 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
Opinionated, Dilara86, mmseiple
41
Where Angels Fear to Tread
by E. M. Forster
3,494 members
65 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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42
The Days of Abandonment
by Elena Ferrante
1,779 members
63 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thorold, thecoroner, mmseiple
43
The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
4,341 members
143 reviews
3.1
4 Members
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44
Claudius the God
by Robert Graves
4,658 members
49 reviews
4.1
3 Members
aulsmith, Opinionated, ahef1963
Explanations
aulsmith: Rome
45
The Ragazzi
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
796 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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46
To Each His Own
by Leonardo Sciascia
1,184 members
33 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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47
Beautiful Antonio
by Vitaliano Brancati
239 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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48
The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
12,166 members
139 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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49
Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
10,015 members
156 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, mmseiple
50
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
by Luigi Pirandello
1,631 members
30 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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51
The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
4,478 members
100 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith: Venice
52
The Enchanted April
by Elizabeth von Arnim
3,495 members
141 reviews
4
3 Members
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53
Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City
by Italo Calvino
2,329 members
30 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Dilara86, mmseiple
54
Il Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales
by Giambattista Basile
509 members
5 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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55
Italian Journey: 1786-1788
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1,261 members
13 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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56
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
10,007 members
99 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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57
The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe
3,307 members
66 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
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58
The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino
5,272 members
75 reviews
4
2 Members
EMS_24, Dilara86
59
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
4,502 members
74 reviews
4.2
3 Members
thorold, roby72, alex68
60
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,812 members
229 reviews
3.9
2 Members
roby72, chwiggy
61
I'm Not Scared
by Niccolò Ammaniti
2,515 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
Opinionated, EMS_24, alex68
62
Private Renaissance
by Maria Bellonci
229 members
5 reviews
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
63
Accabadora
by Michela Murgia
593 members
38 reviews
4
2 Members
Dilara86, alex68
64
Mastro don Gesualdo
by Giovanni Verga
587 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
65
The Silent Duchess
by Dacia Mariani
618 members
12 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
roby72, mmseiple
66
Artemisia
by Anna Banti
262 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
thecoroner, mmseiple
67
Microcosms
by Claudio Magris
434 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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68
Romola
by George Eliot
1,660 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
69
Orlando Furioso
by Ludovico Ariosto
1,569 members
24 reviews
4.2
2 Members
roby72, thecoroner
70
Italian Hours
by Henry James
390 members
1 review
½ 3.7
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
71
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
8,534 members
105 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, Opinionated, alex68
72
Johnny the Partisan
by Beppe Fenoglio
404 members
5 reviews
4
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
73
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
by Frances Mayes
7,107 members
143 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
74
The Story of My Life
by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
1,256 members
14 reviews
3.8
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
75
Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
3,985 members
73 reviews
4
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
76
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
by Laurence Sterne
1,964 members
27 reviews
3.2
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
77
As a Man Grows Older
by Italo Svevo
1,351 members
15 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
78
The Time of Indifference
by Alberto Moravia
1,139 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
79
Boredom
by Alberto Moravia
893 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68
80
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
29,836 members
838 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Explanations
aulsmith : The Venice sections are interesting, but such a small part of the book.
81
The History of Italy
by Francesco Guicciardini
189 members
1 review
½ 4.4
2 Members
roby72, alex68
82
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
14,118 members
286 reviews
4
2 Members
sturlington, alex68
83
The Thief Lord
by Cornelia Funke
10,196 members
197 reviews
3.8
Member
cej1027
84
The Broker
by John Grisham
10,084 members
121 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
dara85
85
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
by Paolo Giordano
4,295 members
199 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
EMS_24
86
A Soldier of the Great War
by Mark Helprin
1,925 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
87
The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,603 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
88
Living in Italy: the Real Deal - Hilarious Expat Adventures
by Stef Smulders
56 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
stef7sa
89
Kurz nach 4
by Ulrich Becher
6 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
chwiggy
90
Fratelli d'Italia
by Alberto Arbasino
69 members
½ 3.3
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
92
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
19,184 members
274 reviews
3.9
2 Members
roby72, Opinionated
93
Three Italian Chronicles (Revived Modern Classic)
by Stendhal
41 members
2.8
2 Members
pitjrw, alex68
94
Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir
by Amanda Knox
489 members
38 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
96
The Comfort of Strangers
by Ian McEwan
2,495 members
59 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
Opinionated, alex68
97
Pompeii
by Robert Harris
5,805 members
165 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
98
La stanza del vescovo
by Piero Chiara
155 members
9 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
99
Metello
by Vasco Pratolini
212 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
thecoroner, alex68
100
Red Sails to Capri
by Ann Weil
1,362 members
10 reviews
3.9
Member
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