11 Best italian literature books like La via del male by Grazia Deledda

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La via del male

By: Grazia Deledda

3.88

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

"La via del male", caso unico nella lunga carriera di Grazia Deledda, conobbe ben quattro redazioni…

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Cover of L'Avversario by Emmanuel Carrère, Eliana Vicari Fabris

1. L'Avversario

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris

3.99

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more

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"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

Cover of Death with Interruptions by Margaret Jull Costa, José Saramago

2. Death with Interruptions

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • fiction
"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

Cover of Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

3. Address Unknown

By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it fi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

4. Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant thin… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Baudolino by Umberto Eco, William Weaver, R.C.S. Libri

5. Baudolino

By: Umberto Eco , William Weaver , R.C.S. Libri

3.79

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
"Tüm aşıklar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuştu."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the g…"

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

Cover of The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

6. The Island of the Day Before

By: Umberto Eco

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself ship… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
Cover of La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver by Björn Larsson, Roberto Mussapi, Katia De Marco

7. La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver

By: Björn Larsson , Roberto Mussapi , Katia De Marco

4.10

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Ci sono libri che danno pura gioia, facendo vibrare dentro di noi tutte le corde del nostro amore p… read more

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  • fiction
"Ho visto il sole tramontare in un mare di fuoco liquido e sorgere come una sfera di rame incandescente. Ho visto la luna far risplendere i veli del cielo notturno come fuochi fatui e rispecchiarsi ne…"

-Björn Larsson, La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver

"Per uno come me, che viene chiamato nemico dell'umanità dal re e dal parlamento, o terrorista dai papisti, non è possibile invertire la rotta. Ci sono solo due vie, per chi vuole vivere da essere uma…"

-Björn Larsson, La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver

"Eppure ho avuto le mie pietre preziose e tutte quelle ore che ho passato appoggiato alla murata a non far altro che guardare il mare. Ho visto il sole tramontare in un mare di fuoco liquido e sorgere…"

-Björn Larsson, La vera storia del pirata Long John Silver

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8. Trilogia della città di K.

By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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  • fiction
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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10. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

11. Qualcuno con cui correre

By: David Grossman , Alessandra Shomroni

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Assaf e un sedicenne timido e impacciato cui viene affidato un compito singolare: ritrovare il prop… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Dolores Claiborne

By: Stephen King

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story o… read more

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  • fiction
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13. History

By: Elsa Morante , Lily Tuck

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Historywas written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hidin… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
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14. Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more

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  • fiction
"Doctors is all swabs."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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15. 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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  • fiction
  • italian literature
"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

16. Il mare non bagna Napoli

By: Anna Maria Ortese

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Al suo primo apparire, nel 1953, Il mare non bagna Napolisembro a molti inserirsi in quel filone ch… read more

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Cover of Il cavaliere inesistente by Italo Calvino

17. Il cavaliere inesistente

By: Italo Calvino

3.83

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Suor Teodora narra la storia di Agilulfo, cavaliere senza corpo, di cui vive solo l'armatura. Mentr… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
"I ja także chcę tylko jednego: być kimś, kto wie, czego chce!"

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"[...] a życie to tylko tarzanie się między łóżkiem a trumną [...]"

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"Wojna to trochę rzeźnia, a trochę rutyna i nie ma co czepiać się zanadto szczegółów."

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

"Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzić tę wojnę, która w danej chwili się toczy, i co najwyżej pomyśleć jeszcze o następnej."

-Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente

18. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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19. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

20. Ti prendo e ti porto via

By: Niccolò Ammaniti

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A Ischiano Scalo il mare c'e ma non si vede. E' un paesino di quattro case accanto a una laguna pie… read more

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21. The Bird's Nest

By: Shirley Jackson

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with … read more

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22. Elective Affinities

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , David Constantine , None

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Elective Affinitieswas written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary gia… read more

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23. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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24. The Florios of Sicily

By: Stefania Auci

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious f… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
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25. A Frozen Woman

By: Annie Ernaux

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, a… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • fiction
"Old equals plain equals lonely."

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"So, what are you up to, where are you going on your vacation, that's a cute dress--no one knows what to talk about with an unmarried girl. Whereas a husband, children, an apartment, a washing machine…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"Menstruation, making love, that had to come, but getting married? Everything that I've just experienced seems like all those things that are neither deliberately willed nor firmly rejected, and are t…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

Cover of Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

26. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
Cover of La strega by Shirley Jackson

27. La strega

By: Shirley Jackson

3.34

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmati… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of L'isola delle anime by Piergiorgio Pulixi

28. L'isola delle anime

By: Piergiorgio Pulixi

3.96

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

Non temere i morti, temi i vivi.Li chiamano cold case. Sono le inchieste senza soluzione, il veleno… read more

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  • italian literature
Cover of L'università di Rebibbia by Goliarda Sapienza

29. L'università di Rebibbia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.12

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

"Ho rubato a una di queste pseudo-signore per punirla. O per punirmi?" Così, per una manciata di gi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of La via del male by Grazia Deledda

30. La via del male

By: Grazia Deledda

3.88

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

"La via del male", caso unico nella lunga carriera di Grazia Deledda, conobbe ben quattro redazioni… read more

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  • nobel prize
  • fiction
  • italian literature
Cover of There's No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes

31. There's No Turning Back

By: Alba de Céspedes

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the astonishingly powerful debut novel by the beloved feminist author of the “brilliant” (… read more

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  • fiction
  • italian literature
"A casa, ormai, non si può più tornare. I genitori non dovrebbero mandarci in città. Dopo, anche se torniamo, siamo cattive figlie, cattive mogli. Chi può dimenticare di essere stata padrona di se ste…"

-Alba de Céspedes, There's No Turning Back

"Eppure era così; nulla può distruggere, annientare un passato: tu accuratamente lo nascondi, lo occulti, nessuno ha visto, nessuno ha saputo, fuorché te stessa, e tu non parlerai mai. E invece seguit…"

-Alba de Céspedes, There's No Turning Back

22 best-selling fiction books like La via del male by Grazia Deledda

Transform Your Habits

Death with Interruptions

Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Address Unknown

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Baudolino

Umberto Eco , William Weaver , R.C.S. Libri

3.79

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14 best-selling fiction books like Il cavaliere inesistente by Italo Calvino

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Tim Parks , William Weaver , Giorgio Bassani

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Transform Your Habits

Sostiene Pereira

Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Zeno's Conscience

Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Galileo

Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton

4.43

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