Books Set in Italy

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

26,516 members

259 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: aulsmith: Verona

4

Christ Stopped at Eboli

by Carlo Levi

1,840 members

38 reviews

4

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5

The Betrothed

by Alessandro Manzoni

2,823 members

48 reviews

4

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6

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

10,530 members

208 reviews

3.9

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7

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

37,940 members

500 reviews

4.1

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8

by Giorgio Bassani

1,933 members

53 reviews

3.8

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9

History

by Elsa Morante

1,299 members

27 reviews

4.2

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10

The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

4,143 members

73 reviews

3.8

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11

Othello

The House by the Medlar Tree

15,774 members

124 reviews

4

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12

I, Claudius

by Robert Graves

8,707 members

161 reviews

4.2

5 Members: aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: Rome

13

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,767 members

184 reviews

3.9

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14

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

18,658 members

295 reviews

4.2

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15

Fontamara

by Ignazio Silone

661 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

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16

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

5,046 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

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17

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

22,269 members

203 reviews

4.1

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18

The Viceroys

by Federico De Roberto

396 members

12 reviews

3.8

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19

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

21,975 members

239 reviews

½ 3.7

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20

by Giovanni Verga

1,136 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

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21

Reeds in the Wind

by Grazia Deledda

351 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

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22

Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo

3,353 members

44 reviews

3.8

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23

The Merchant of Venice

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

10,609 members

107 reviews

3.8

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24

by Carlo Emilio Gadda

1,107 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

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25

The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio

9,387 members

114 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

26

Conversations in Sicily

by Elio Vittorini

612 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

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27

The Moon and the Bonfires

by Cesare Pavese

1,305 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

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28

The Late Mattia Pascal

by Luigi Pirandello

1,813 members

23 reviews

3.9

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29

Family Lexicon

by Natalia Ginzburg

1,095 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

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30

The Day of the Owl

by Leonardo Sciascia

1,320 members

33 reviews

3.9

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31

Arturo's Island

by Elsa Morante

730 members

18 reviews

3.8

4 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68, mmseiple

32

The Conformist

The Little World of Don Camillo

667 members

8 reviews

3.9

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33

by Giovannino Guareschi

1,215 members

33 reviews

4.2

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34

Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)

by Ignazio Silone

926 members

9 reviews

3.8

3 Members: pitjrw, alex68, mmseiple

35

The Days of Abandonment

1,188 members

47 reviews

3.8

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36

The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

3,417 members

116 reviews

3.1

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37

The Ragazzi

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

577 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

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38

To Each His Own

by Leonardo Sciascia

952 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

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39

Beautiful Antonio

by Vitaliano Brancati

205 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, mmseiple

40

My Brilliant Friend

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

6,369 members

294 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

41

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

10,562 members

125 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

42

Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

7,539 members

130 reviews

½ 3.7

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43

by Luigi Pirandello

1,147 members

22 reviews

3.9

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, mmseiple

44

The Woman of Rome

The City of Falling Angels

682 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: roby72, alex68, mmseiple

45

by John Berendt

3,896 members

96 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aulsmith, cej1027
Explanations: aulsmith: Venice

46

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth Von Arnim

2,553 members

112 reviews

4.1

3 Members: pitjrw, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

47

Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City

by Italo Calvino

1,900 members

23 reviews

3.8

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

48

Il Pentamerone: The Tale of Tales

by Giambattista Basile

381 members

7 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thecoroner, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Story of a New Name

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

3,098 members

131 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

50

The Story of the Lost Child

2,585 members

86 reviews

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

51

Italian Journey: 1786-1788

2,318 members

98 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Dilara86, mmseiple

52

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1,048 members

14 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

53

The Taming of the Shrew

Where Angels Fear to Tread

8,162 members

80 reviews

½ 3.7

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54

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Radcliffe

2,736 members

59 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: roby72, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

55

The Periodic Table

by Primo Levi

3,775 members

66 reviews

4.2

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56

The Aeneid

by Virgil

21,235 members

187 reviews

3.9

2 Members: roby72, chwiggy

57

Claudius the God

by Robert Graves

4,030 members

42 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: Rome

58

Private Renaissance

by Maria Bellonci

186 members

4 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

59

Accabadora

by Michela Murgia

430 members

32 reviews

4

2 Members: Dilara86, alex68

60

Mastro don Gesualdo

by Giovanni Verga

463 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

61

The Silent Duchess

by Dacia Mariani

519 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, mmseiple

62

Artemisia

by Anna Banti

206 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, mmseiple

63

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

3,454 members

79 reviews

½ 3.4

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64

Romola

by George Eliot

1,367 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

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65

Orlando Furioso

by Ludovico Ariosto

1,366 members

20 reviews

4.1

2 Members: roby72, thecoroner

66

Italian Hours

by Henry James

325 members

1 review

½ 3.7

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

67

by E. M. Forster

2,969 members

49 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thorold, Dilara86

68

Johnny the Partisan

by Beppe Fenoglio

326 members

4 reviews

4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

69

Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy

by Frances Mayes

6,182 members

138 reviews

½ 3.5

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70

The Story of My Life

by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova

974 members

12 reviews

3.8

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

71

Quo Vadis

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

3,259 members

59 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

72

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

by Laurence Sterne

1,642 members

23 reviews

3.2

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

73

As a Man Grows Older

by Italo Svevo

1,110 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

74

The Time of Indifference

940 members

13 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

75

Boredom

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

702 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: roby72, thecoroner, alex68

76

by Susanna Clarke

25,807 members

739 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

159 members

1 review

½ 4.3

2 Members: roby72, alex68

78

The Broker

by John Grisham

8,774 members

108 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

79

The Thief Lord

by Cornelia Funke

8,571 members

182 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

80

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

1,715 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

81

The Marble Faun

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1,360 members

16 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

Kurz nach 4

by Ulrich Becher

5 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: chwiggy

83

Fratelli d'Italia

by Alberto Arbasino

55 members

½ 3.3

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

84

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

by D. H. Lawrence

272 members

2 reviews

3.9

2 Members: pitjrw, alex68

85

Three Italian Chronicles (Revived Modern Classic)

by Stendhal

37 members

2.8

2 Members: pitjrw, alex68

86

Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

by Amanda Knox

364 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

87

Microcosms

by Claudio Magris

373 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: roby72, alex68

88

Baudolino

by Umberto Eco

7,500 members

101 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: roby72, alex68

89

Pompeii

by Robert Harris

5,023 members

149 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

90

La stanza del vescovo

by Piero Chiara

101 members

4 reviews

3.1

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

91

Metello

by Vasco Pratolini

170 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, alex68

92

Red Sails to Capri

by Ann Weil

1,002 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

93

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