Read the World: Italy

Books by authors from Italy or set in/about Italy.

Updated January 10, 2024
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Call me by your name
Aciman, André
Paper Book
Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(tm) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A...
The inferno
Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
Paper Book
Dante's epic narrative poem of a man's journey through hell, purgatory and heaven.
Foucault's pendulum
Eco, Umberto.
Paper Book
International bestselling and award-winning author Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is "an intellectual adventure story, as sensational, thrilling, and packed with arcana as Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Count of Monte Cristo" (The Washington Post Book World).Bored with their work, three...
The name of the rose
Eco, Umberto.
Paper Book
Now available from HarperVia in a deluxe paperback edition featuring never-before-seen illustrations by the author, the beloved internationally bestselling historical mystery about a brilliant monk called upon to solve a series of baffling murders in a fourteenth-century Italian abbey ...
Saving Italy the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
Edsel, Robert M.
Paper Book
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of...
My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the...
Pompeii : a novel
Harris, Robert 1957-
Paper Book
BESTSELLER - "Terrific... gripping... A literally shattering climax." -- The New York Times Book Review  All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy...
Alibi a novel
Kanon, Joseph.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice. Winner of the Hammett Prize It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed...
Mirror mirror
Maguire, Gregory.
Paper Book
"A brilliant achievement." --Boston Herald   "Entertaining...profound....A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain." --Christian Science Monitor   Gregory Maguire, the...
The leopard
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, 1896-1957.
Paper Book
A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.

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