published 1945 avg rating 4.00 — 23,019 ratings — 8,609 ratings — I decided to include only Italian books translated into English and this made things quite difficult – or pretty easy, depending on how you look at it – because there aren’t many contemporary novels who have an English version as well. 707 ratings — published published 1960 The choice is quite limited, but the selection is worthy nonetheless. avg rating 3.83 — 895 ratings — avg rating 3.73 —
published 1973 118 ratings — published 1980 28,176 ratings — published 1999 avg rating 4.04 — published 1979 914 ratings — 2,038 ratings — 253,401 ratings — 10,221 ratings — avg rating 4.21 — avg rating 3.88 — Starting with Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga, published in 1883, which draws on Verga’s childhood in Sicily – then one of the poorest places in Europe.. Verga is simply one of the great narrators of all time and his novellas are probably among the best pieces of fiction written in Italy, ever. 178 ratings — 15,530 ratings — avg rating 3.85 — avg rating 3.90 —
published You must have a goodreads account to vote. 139,493 ratings — Welcome back. avg rating 4.14 — published 1963 avg rating 4.57 — 104,040 ratings — avg rating 4.00 — avg rating 3.46 — published 2011 16,228 ratings — avg rating 3.88 — avg rating 3.93 —
59,087 ratings — The Best Italian Novels and literature works from early XIII century to XXI ... or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow Goodreads member or author.
published 2013 Reading in Italian is one of the best ways to learn the language.. It’s a marvellous way to familiarize yourself with common grammatical structures as well as build up a good vocabulary. avg rating 4.51 — The series has been characterized as a bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story. 6,967 ratings — 1,735 ratings — Supposedly written between 1306 and 1321 by Dante Alighieri, the book tells the story of the journey the writer is able to take in the afterlife. 38 ratings — 5,422 ratings — Filed Under: Advanced Italian, Culture, Intermediate Italian, Italian Tagged With: book recommendations, books in italian, novels in italian, reading in italian About Cher Cher is the founder of The Iceberg Project and a passionate learner of the Italian, Mandarin and Spanish languages.
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