5 must-read nonfiction books like La grande storia di Roma by Antonio Spinosa

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La grande storia di Roma

By: Antonio Spinosa

3.75

Format: 540 pages, Paperback

Con questa Storia di Roma, Antonio Spinosa, il noto biografo, ricostruisce in un racconto appassion…

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Cover of Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2) by Christopher Paolini

1. Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

By: Christopher Paolini

4.04

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebe… read more

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"Barzûl!"

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

"Understanding breeds empathy."

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

"fate has a cruel sense of humor"

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think."

-Christopher Paolini, Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)

Cover of Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3) by Christopher Paolini

2. Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

By: Christopher Paolini

4.10

Format: 748 pages, Hardcover

Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide. It's been only months since Eragon first utte… read more

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"Die puny human!"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"A true warrior,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"I already have one Sheepbiter here,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"Pain is pain. It needs no description."

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

Cover of L'Homme aux cercles bleus (Commissaire Adamsberg, #1) by Fred Vargas

3. L'Homme aux cercles bleus (Commissaire Adamsberg, #1)

By: Fred Vargas

4.31

Format: None pages,

Depuis quatre mois, des cercles bleus surgissent la nuit, traces a la craie sur les trottoirs de Pa… read more

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4. La scomparsa di Majorana

By: Leonardo Sciascia , Lea Ritter Santini

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Dal 26 marzo 1938 si perdono le tracce, fra la partenza e l'arrivo in un viaggio per mare da Palerm… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

Cover of Rain (Blackwater, #6) by Michael McDowell

6. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

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7. Accabadora

By: Michela Murgia

4.07

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more

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"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"

-Michela Murgia, Accabadora

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8. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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9. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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11. Le otto montagne

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more

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12. L'isola di Arturo

By: Elsa Morante

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Il romanzo e un'esplorazione attenta della prima realta verso le sorgenti non inquinate della vita.… read more

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13. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

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"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"¿Me ha parecido una suerte que me tuvieran por muerto? Pues bien: estoy muerto de verdad. ¿Muerto? Peor que muerto me lo ha recordado don Anselmo: los muertos ya no tienen que morirse, y yo sí, yo es…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

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14. The Black Arrow

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure… read more

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"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

"Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

15. La camera azzurra

By: Georges Simenon , Marina di Leo

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . "Sei cosi bello" gli aveva dett… read more

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Cover of Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, Tom Quirk, Andrew Delbanco

16. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

17. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

By: Desmond Morris

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris c… read more

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18. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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19. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

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Cover of Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca by Maria Grazia Calandrone

20. Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca

By: Maria Grazia Calandrone

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

1965. Un uomo e una donna, dopo aver abbandonato nel parco di Villa Borghese la figlia di otto mesi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of La guerra (Blackwater, #4) by Michael McDowell

21. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

By: Michael McDowell

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more

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"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"

-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

Cover of La casa (Blackwater, #3) by Michael McDowell

22. La casa (Blackwater, #3)

By: Michael McDowell

4.19

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more

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Cover of California. La fine del sogno by Francesco Costa

23. California. La fine del sogno

By: Francesco Costa

4.13

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Quando noi italiani pensiamo alla nazione che vorremmo diventare, cosa ci viene in mente? Probab… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Elektra

By: Jennifer Saint

3.68

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeanc… read more

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"I had not dreamed I would bring my children into a world that could drain their blood in the light of dawn before they’d had a chance to live at all."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Nothing brought them more joy than the fall of a lovely woman. They picked over her reputation like vultures, scavenging for every scrap of flesh they could devour."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"The wine tasted like dirt to me. I could shriek out my warnings, claw at my flesh, hurl my goblet right into Paris' face, but they would still carry on as though I did not exist."

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

"Let him come back so that I can see his eyes as the light drains from them. Let him come back and die at the hands of his bitterest enemy. Let him come back so that I can watch him suffer. And let me…"

-Jennifer Saint, Elektra

Cover of La casa delle luci (Pietro Gerber, #3) by Donato Carrisi

25. La casa delle luci (Pietro Gerber, #3)

By: Donato Carrisi

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Nella grande casa spenta in cima alla collina, vive sempre sola una bambina... Si chiama Eva, ha di… read more

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Cover of Rien ne va plus by Antonio Manzini

26. Rien ne va plus

By: Antonio Manzini

4.07

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Scompare, letteralmente nel nulla, un furgone portavalori. Era carico di quasi tre milioni, le entr… read more

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Cover of M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa by Antonio Scurati

27. M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa

By: Antonio Scurati

4.28

Format: 848 pages, Kindle Edition

Il 3 maggio 1938, nella nuova stazione Ostiense, Mussolini insieme a Vittorio Emanuele III e al min… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. La grande storia di Roma

By: Antonio Spinosa

3.75

Format: 540 pages, Paperback

Con questa Storia di Roma, Antonio Spinosa, il noto biografo, ricostruisce in un racconto appassion… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of El dique (Blackwater, #2) by Michael McDowell

29. El dique (Blackwater, #2)

By: Michael McDowell

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more

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"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

Cover of La fortuna (Blackwater, #5) by Michael McDowell

30. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)

By: Michael McDowell

4.04

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more

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Cover of La riada (Blackwater, #1) by Michael McDowell

31. La riada (Blackwater, #1)

By: Michael McDowell

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more

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10 Top fiction books like The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Transform Your Habits

The Dragon and the Raven, or, The Days of King Alfred

G.A. Henty

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

Transform Your Habits

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Rudyard Kipling

3.73

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