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64 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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A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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"Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of... continue

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Accabadora by Michela Murgia EN

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The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English–language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950's. A time where family ties and obligations still decide much of life's ebb and flow. A must read for those who love a touch of the unusual. Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has a long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora. When... continue

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Artemisia by Anna Banti EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio.


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Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi EN

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Temple Rome has variant printings.

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Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi EN

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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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De acht bergen by Paolo Cognetti NL

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Pietro is een stadsjongen uit Milaan. Zijn vader is scheikundige, en gefrustreerd door zijn werk in een fabriek. Zijn ouders delen een liefde voor de bergen, dat is waar ze elkaar ontmoetten, waar ze verliefd werden en waar ze trouwden in een kerkje aan de voet van de berg. Door deze gedeelde passie kan hun relatie voortbestaan, zelfs wanneer tragische gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden. Het stadsleven vervult hen vaak met gevoelens van spijt dat ze niet voor een ander leven hebben gekozen. Dan ontdekken ze een dorpje in het Noord-Italiaanse Val d’Aosta, waar het gezin vanaf dat moment iedere z... continue


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Der Name der Rose by Umberto Eco DE

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
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Daß er in den Mauern der prächtigen Benediktinerabtei an den Hängen des Apennin das Echo eines verschollenen Lachens hören würde, das hell und klassisch herüberklingt aus der Antike, damit hat der englische Franziskanermönch William von Baskerville nicht gerechnet. Zusammen mit Adson von Melk, seinem etwas tumben, jugendlichen Adlatus, ist er in einer höchst delikaten politischen Mission unterwegs. Doch in den sieben Tagen ihres Aufenthalts werden die beiden mit kriminellen Ereignissen und drastischen Versuchungen konfrontiert: Ein Mönch ist im Schweineblutbottich ertrunken, ein anderer aus de... continue

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El difunto Matías Pascal by Luigi Pirandello ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Mattia Pascal lleva una vida monótona en una ciudad de provincias. Luego, providencialmente, descubre que ha sido declarado muerto. Al darse cuenta de que tiene la oportunidad de empezar de nuevo, de hacerlo bien esta vez, se muda a una nueva ciudad, adopta un nuevo nombre y un nuevo curso de vida, sólo para descubrir que esta nueva existencia es tan insoportable como la anterior. Pero cuando regresa al mundo que dejó atrás, ya es demasiado tarde: su trabajo ha desaparecido y su esposa se ha vuelto a casar. El destino de Mattia Pascal es seguir viviendo como el fant... continue


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