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158 popular italian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Italy. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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As God Commands by Niccolo Ammaniti EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
The bestselling author of I’m Not Scared delivers “a black thriller with the momentum of an action-packed Hollywood movie” (The Times Literary Supplement). The winner of the prestigious Strega Prize, As God Commands is a dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend with a hostile world and their own inner demons. The economically depressed village of Varrano, where Cristiano Zena lives with his hard-drinking, out-of-work father, Rino, is a world away from the picturesque towns of travel-brochure Italy. When Rino and his rou... continue

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Baudolino by Umberto Eco EN

Rating: 3.5 (34 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Baudolino, having just rescued a court official caught in the sacking and burning of Constantinople in 1204, proceeds to entertain the man with the fantastical story of his life.

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Below Zero by Ali Hazelwood EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella… It will take the frosty terrain of the Arctic to show these rival scientists that their chemistry burns hot. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn… Hannah’s got a bad feeling about this. Not only has the NASA aerospace engineer found herself injured and stranded at a r... continue

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Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego EN

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Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
"Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--


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Bride by Ali Hazelwood EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
#1 Indie Next Pick! A Hall of Fame LibraryReads pick! One of People’s Best Books to Read in February A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis. Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyre... continue

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Călător prin Europa : epistolar 1925-1930 by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa RO

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
„Între 1925 şi 1930, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa a călătorit mult. A stat în marile capitale europene, descoperind «blânda frumuseţe» a Parisului, «bonomia» odihnitoare a Londrei mult iubite, dar şi «fascinaţia perversă» şi enigmatică a «nemiloasei» şi lividei metropole care era Berlinul. Itinerariile sale l-au purtat prin Austria, Elveţia, Tirol, ba chiar şi în Ţările Baltice. Avea treizeci de ani. Călătorea cufundat în literatura europeană, cu o bibliotecă la purtător cuprinzând citate îndelung ... continue

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Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life’s moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious “Kingkiller” Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and ... continue

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Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Temple Rome has variant printings.

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Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Number 4 in the Don Camillo series, beloved by 23 million readers. When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience he must accept the battling priest's presence among a group of communist activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. Travelling incognito, Don Camillo becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd manipulation. But then fate intervenes and the travellers discover a surprise common denominator more radical than any political ideology... 'Those who read The Little World of Don Camill... continue


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