Books Set in Italy

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

28,481 members

279 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: aulsmith: Verona

4

Christ Stopped at Eboli

by Carlo Levi

1,983 members

42 reviews

4

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5

The Betrothed

by Alessandro Manzoni

3,125 members

51 reviews

4

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6

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

11,164 members

222 reviews

3.9

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7

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

39,971 members

524 reviews

4.1

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8

by Giorgio Bassani

2,061 members

55 reviews

3.8

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9

History

by Elsa Morante

1,378 members

28 reviews

4.2

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10

The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

4,399 members

79 reviews

3.8

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11

Othello

The House by the Medlar Tree

16,896 members

131 reviews

4

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12

I, Claudius

by Robert Graves

9,170 members

168 reviews

4.2

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Explanations: aulsmith: Rome

13

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,163 members

194 reviews

3.9

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14

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

19,504 members

310 reviews

4.2

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15

Fontamara

by Ignazio Silone

702 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

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16

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

5,333 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

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17

The Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

23,847 members

212 reviews

4.1

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18

The Viceroys

by Federico De Roberto

417 members

12 reviews

3.8

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19

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

23,584 members

253 reviews

½ 3.7

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20

by Giovanni Verga

1,203 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

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21

Reeds in the Wind

by Grazia Deledda

382 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

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22

Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo

3,568 members

49 reviews

3.8

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23

The Merchant of Venice

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

11,385 members

112 reviews

3.8

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24

by Carlo Emilio Gadda

1,193 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

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25

The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,976 members

120 reviews

4

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26

Conversations in Sicily

by Elio Vittorini

674 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

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27

La lune et les feux

by Cesare Pavese

1,404 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

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28

O Finado Mattia Pacal

by Luigi Pirandello

1,959 members

24 reviews

3.9

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29

Family Lexicon

by Natalia Ginzburg

1,252 members

31 reviews

3.8

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30

The Day of the Owl

by Leonardo Sciascia

1,400 members

34 reviews

3.9

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31

Arturo's Island

by Elsa Morante

784 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

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32

The Conformist

The Little World of Don Camillo

700 members

9 reviews

3.9

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33

by Giovannino Guareschi

1,295 members

36 reviews

4.2

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34

Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)

by Ignazio Silone

968 members

11 reviews

3.8

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35

The Days of Abandonment

1,329 members

51 reviews

3.8

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36

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

3,679 members

125 reviews

3.1

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37

The Ragazzi

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

624 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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38

To Each His Own

by Leonardo Sciascia

1,028 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

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39

Beautiful Antonio

by Vitaliano Brancati

216 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

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40

My Brilliant Friend

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

7,134 members

315 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

41

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

10,801 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

8,281 members

144 reviews

½ 3.7

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43

by Luigi Pirandello

1,289 members

25 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, mmseiple

44

The Woman of Rome

The City of Falling Angels

734 members

20 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, alex68, mmseiple

45

by John Berendt

4,093 members

98 reviews

½ 3.6

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Explanations: aulsmith: Venice

46

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth von Arnim

2,806 members

123 reviews

4.1

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47

Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City

by Italo Calvino

2,043 members

25 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

48

Il Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales

by Giambattista Basile

430 members

5 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Story of a New Name

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

3,438 members

139 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

50

The Story of the Lost Child

2,891 members

91 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

51

Italian Journey: 1786-1788

2,630 members

104 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

52

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1,119 members

13 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

53

The Taming of the Shrew

Where Angels Fear to Tread

8,703 members

89 reviews

½ 3.7

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54

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

2,916 members

62 reviews

½ 3.4

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55

The Periodic Table

by Primo Levi

4,022 members

70 reviews

4.2

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56

The Aeneid

by Virgil

22,868 members

197 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, chwiggy

57

Claudius the God

by Robert Graves

4,213 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: Rome

58

Private Renaissance

by Maria Bellonci

197 members

4 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

59

Accabadora

by Michela Murgia

476 members

31 reviews

4

2 Members: Dilara86, alex68

60

Mastro don Gesualdo

by Giovanni Verga

494 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

61

The Silent Duchess

by Dacia Mariani

558 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, mmseiple

62

Artemisia

by Anna Banti

219 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, mmseiple

63

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

3,605 members

84 reviews

½ 3.4

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64

Romola

by George Eliot

1,449 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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65

Orlando Furioso

by Ludovico Ariosto

1,373 members

19 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

66

Italian Hours

by Henry James

337 members

1 review

½ 3.7

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67

by E. M. Forster

3,114 members

51 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thorold, Dilara86

68

Johnny the Partisan

by Beppe Fenoglio

348 members

5 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

69

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

by Frances Mayes

6,502 members

140 reviews

½ 3.5

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70

The Story of My Life

by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova

1,050 members

11 reviews

3.8

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71

Quo Vadis

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

3,443 members

64 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

72

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

by Laurence Sterne

1,729 members

24 reviews

3.2

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73

As a Man Grows Older

by Italo Svevo

1,161 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

74

The Time of Indifference

1,009 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

75

Boredom

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

751 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

76

by Susanna Clarke

26,948 members

772 reviews

3.9

3 Members: alex68, cej1027, ahef1963,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : The Venice sections are interesting, but such a small part of the book.

77

The History of Italy

by Francesco Guicciardini

168 members

1 review

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, alex68

78

The Broker

by John Grisham

9,148 members

111 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

79

The Thief Lord

by Cornelia Funke

9,055 members

190 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

80

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

1,783 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

81

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,416 members

15 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

Living in Italy: the Real Deal - Hilarious Expat Adventures

by Stef Smulders

50 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: stef7sa

83

Kurz nach 4

by Ulrich Becher

5 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: chwiggy

84

Fratelli d'Italia

by Alberto Arbasino

61 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

85

D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin Classics)

by D. H. Lawrence

284 members

2 reviews

3.9

2 Members: pitjrw, alex68

86

Three Italian Chronicles (Revived Modern Classic)

by Stendhal

38 members

2.8

2 Members: pitjrw, alex68

87

Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

by Amanda Knox

399 members

34 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

88

Microcosms

by Claudio Magris

387 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, alex68

89

Baudolino

by Umberto Eco

7,815 members

101 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, alex68

90

Pompeii

by Robert Harris

5,280 members

154 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

91

La stanza del vescovo

by Piero Chiara

109 members

4 reviews

3.2

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

92

Metello

by Vasco Pratolini

185 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

93

Red Sails to Capri

by Ann Weil

1,143 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

94

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