The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Italy

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
6490 The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1922 British English
6502 Cosima Grazia Deledda 1937 Italian Italian
6580 Venice Jan Morris 1960 British English
6595 Centuria Giorgio Manganelli 1979 Italian Italian
6622 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
6633 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
6638 The Ruin Of Kasch Roberto Calasso 1983 Italian Italian
6749 Infanta Bodo Kirchhoff 1990 German German
6762 Difficult Loves Italo Calvino 1958 Italian Italian
6871 The Mother Grazia Deledda 1920 Italian Italian
6874 Povedal Mi Veštec Tiziano Terzani 2002 Italian Italian
6963 The Stress of Her Regard Tim Powers 1989 American English
6975 The Good Life Elsewhere Vladimir Lorchenkov 2008 Russian Russian
6975 Death At La Fenice Donna Leon 1992 American English
6997 Panegyric Guy Debord 1989 French French
7016 Trieste Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
7030 Il Resto Di Niente Enzo Striano 1986 Italian Italian
7073 Palimpsest Gore Vidal 1995 American English
7074 Augustus John Williams 1972 American English
7086 Nothing Like the Sun Anthony Burgess 1964 British English
7087 La Verità Sul Caso D. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 1993 Italian Italian
7087 The Virtuoso Margriet de Moor 1993 Dutch Dutch
7123 Why We Love Helen Fisher 2004 American English
7147 Dead Lagoon Michael Dibdin 1994 British English
7170 Julio Jurenito Ilya Ehrenburg 1921 Russian Russian
7177 Out Of Sheer Rage Geoff Dyer 1997 British English
7207 The Shape Of Water Andrea Camilleri 1994 Italian Italian
7218 Sonnets And Madrigals Michelangelo Buonarroti 1545 Italian Italian
7218 The Mandrake Niccolo Machiavelli 1518 Italian Italian
7218 Rime Gaspara Stampa 1554 Italian Italian
7218 The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast Giordano Bruno 1584 Italian Italian
7218 Poems Of Tommaso Campanella Tommaso Campanella 1601 Italian Italian
7218 Saul Vittorio Alfieri 1782 Italian Italian
7218 'Tis Pity She's A Whore John Ford 1633 British English
7218 Mark Antony Robert Garnier 1578 French French
7218 Cinna Pierre Corneille 1641 French French
7218 Britannicus Jean Racine 1669 French French
7218 Venetian Epigrams Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790 German German
7218 On Sepulchres Ugo Foscolo 1809 Italian Italian
7218 Last Letters Of Jacopo Ortis Ugo Foscolo 1802 Italian Italian
7218 Odes And The Graces Ugo Foscolo 1822 Italian Italian
7218 On The Historical Novel Alessandro Manzoni 1800 Italian Italian
7218 Roman Sonnets Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli 1830 Italian Italian
7218 Hymn To Satan Giosué Carducci 1865 Italian Italian
7218 Barbarian Odes Giosué Carducci 1877 Italian Italian
7218 Rhymes And Rhythms Giosué Carducci 1899 Italian Italian
7218 Little Novels Of Sicily Giovanni Verga 1883 Italian Italian
7218 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7218 Emperor And Galilean Henrik Ibsen 1873 Norwegian Norwegian
7218 Naked Masks Luigi Pirandello 1922 Italian Italian
7218 Maia Gabriele D'Annunzio 1925 Italian Italian
7218 Orphic Songs Dino Campana 1914 Italian Italian
7218 Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti 1942 Italian Italian
7218 The Buried Harbour Giuseppe Ungaretti 1916 Italian Italian
7218 The Road To The City Natalia Ginzburg 1942 Italian Italian
7573 The Conformist Alberto Moravia 1951 Italian Italian
7587 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
7590 Memoirs Of A Gnostic Dwarf David Madsen 1995 British English
7684 Sophie Calle Sophie Calle 1994 French French
7773 Stories And Recollections Umberto Saba 1948 Italian Italian
7782 The Pairing Casey McQuiston 2024 Unknown English
7783 The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence 1984 American English
7791 The Mind and Society Vilfredo Pareto 1916 Italian Italian
7821 Women Of Messina Elio Vittorini 1949 Italian Italian
7938 Acqua Alta Donna Leon 1996 Italian English
7956 A Sicilian Romance Ann Radcliffe 1790 British English
8033 Sea And Sardinia D. H. Lawrence 1921 British English
8033 Siren Land Norman Douglas 1911 British English
8094 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8189 Questions Of Travel Michelle de Kretser 2012 Australian English
8194 The Order Of Time Carlo Rovelli 2017 Italian Italian
8349 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian
8447 Trilogie Des Mittelalters Dieter Kühn 2000 German German
8475 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
8494 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
8529 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
8545 Life Studies Robert Lowell 1967 American English
8589 The Accidental Indies Robert Finley 2000 Canadian English
8596 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
8621 Sidewalks Valeria Luiselli 2013 Mexican Spanish
8627 The Storm And Other Things Eugenio Montale 1978 Italian Italian
8647 Catiline Orations Marcus Tullius Cicero -63 Roman Latin
8648 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8651 Treatises On Friendship And Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero -44 Latin Latin
8712 Journey To The Land Of Flies And Other Travels Aldo Buzzi 1996 Italian Italian
8730 In Praise Of Older Women Stephen Vizinczey 1965 Canadian English
8760 The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought Quentin Skinner 1978 British English
8804 Time Regained Marcel Proust 1927 French French
8892 Heat Bill Buford 2006 American English
8992 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9009 August Heat Andrea Camilleri 2006 Italian Italian
9024 The Fall Of A Sparrow Robert Hellenga 1998 American English
9046 A Simple Path Mother Teresa 1995 Unknown English
9076 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9094 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
9108 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
9118 The Wine Dark Sea Leonardo Sciascia 1968 Italian Italian
9118 The Heron Giorgio Bassani 1968 Italian Italian
9118 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9194 How We Got To Now Steven Johnson 2014 American English
9194 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9194 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
9223 The Danger Dick Francis 1983 British English
9230 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9277 Naples 44 Norman Lewis 1978 British English
9305 The Bellini Card Jason Goodwin 2008 British English
9344 Born Twice Giuseppe Pontiggia 2000 Italian Italian
9360 Equal Danger Leonardo Sciascia 1971 Italian Italian
9379 The Italian Ann Radcliffe 1797 British English
9379 The Libertine Charlotte Dacre 1807 British English
9379 Saint Leon William Godwin 1799 British English
9379 Manfrone Mary-Anne Radcliff 1809 British English
9603 Perfection Vincenzo Latronico 2022 Italian Italian
9638 The Future Of Democracy Norberto Bobbio 1984 Italian Italian
9657 The Dinner Herman Koch 2009 Dutch Dutch
9662 De Architectura Vitruvius 2016 Roman Latin
9712 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9724 The Sunday Woman Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 1972 Italian Italian
9795 Cry To Heaven Anne Rice 1982 American English
9830 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch