5 best-selling italy books like Venice by Jan Morris

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Venice

By: Jan Morris

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city. …

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1. Venice: Pure City

By: Peter Ackroyd

3.60

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place fro… read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • cities
"Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade."

-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City

"Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere."

-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City

"To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone."

-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City

"Is there not something more glorious about making music than making war?"

-Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City

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2. The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, #9)

By: Armistead Maupin

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Suspenseful, comic, and touching, the ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales… read more

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3. Michael Tolliver Lives (Tales of the City, #7)

By: Armistead Maupin

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the Cityseri… read more

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4. Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile

By: Françoise Sagan

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Published when she was only nineteen, Francoise Sagan's astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse b… read more

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  • 20th century
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5. Venice

By: Jan Morris

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city. … read more

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  • italy
  • cultural
  • art
  • history
  • british literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
  • cities

6. Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)

By: Donna Leon

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Death in a Strange CountryCommissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a… read more

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7. Pigeon English

By: Stephen Kelman

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his … read more

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8. The Blunderer

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She… read more

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9. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more

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10. The City of Falling Angels

By: John Berendt

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us a… read more

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11. The Mating Season (Jeeves, #9)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, imposto… read more

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12. Watermark

By: Joseph Brodsky , None

4.08

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, … read more

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  • italy
  • nonfiction
  • travel
"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is... In any case, I always thought that if the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water, the water was bound to refle…"

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

Cover of The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6) by Anthony Powell

13. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

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  • 20th century
  • british literature

14. Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

By: Jan Morris

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. "Morris has wri… read more

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15. A History of Venice

By: John Julius Norwich

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 17… read more

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16. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

By: Ross King

3.26

Format: None pages,

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17. Venetië: de stad, de leeuw en het water

By: Cees Nooteboom

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Je leert een stad pas echt kennen als je in de straten en stegen ervan verdwaalt. Venetië, met al h… read more

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  • italy
  • art
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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18. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

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  • italy
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19. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle

20. My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now

By: Peter Mayle

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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21. Minu Pariis. Oh là là (Minu..., #140)

By: Triin Lellep

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

„Nii, siin peame tegema ühe akti, midagi näha ei jää, ainult käed, jalad, natuke pead, aga riideid … read more

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  • travel

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3.60

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4.04

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4.08

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Cees Nooteboom

3.90

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Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

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4.13

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Kai-Fu Lee

3.86

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Mo Gawdat

3.82

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