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Recommended adult books (11)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into adult here are some adult books from Italy for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.


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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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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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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Italo Calvino's classic, multifaceted novel about writing and readers.


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Numero Zero by Umberto Eco EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder

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The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
When her husband Mario leaves her, Olga, left to care for two young children, enters a long period of self-doubt and pity, until she acknowledges the truth about her marriage.

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The Girl with the Leica by Helena Janeczek EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
1st August 1937. A parade of red flags marches through Paris. It is the funeral procession for Gerda Taro, the first female photographer to be killed on a battlefield. Robert Capa, who leads the procession, is devastated. They have been happy together: he taught her how to use the Leica before they left together to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Other figures from Gerda's past are in the crowd: Ruth Cerf, her friend from Leipzig, who shared the hardships of their first years in Paris after feeling from Germany; Willy Chardack, who resigned himself to the role of loyal companion after Gerda sn... continue

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The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood EN

Rating: 4 (8 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! As seen on THE VIEW! A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists re... continue