Reading Italy...

Thank you for such an amazing read around Italy list today, such a wide and varied selection I think something for every reading mood here. Quite a few I've read and loved including Giorgio Bassani and Alessandro Barrico and plenty that I haven't though one or two I have on the shelf including Mr Palomar so thank you for that tip Jonathan B. I wonder has anyone read Pietro Grossi?? I see him on the shelf too.

I have taken so long reading the comments and cutting and pasting the titles all into one comment so they didn't get lost that I was timed out of my own blog!

Too good to miss so here's that list in case anyone else fancies some Italian reading this summer and if you think of any more and add them here in comments I'll edit them into the list drekkly.

After Hannibal ~ Barry Unsworth
Stone Virgin ~ Barry Unsworth
The Jinx ~ Theophile Gautier
Madame Solario ~ Anon
Midnight in Sicily ~ Peter Robb
Foucault's Pendulum ~ Umberto Eco and
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana ~ Umberto Eco
The Legend of Redenta Tiria ~ Salvatore Niffoi
The Agony and the Ecstasy ~ Irving Stone
Sicilian Carousel ~ Lawrence Durrell
The Betrothed ~ Manzoni
The Glassblower of Murano ~ Marina Fiorato
The Madonna of the Almonds ~ Marina Fiorato
Saving Caravaggio ~ Neil Griffiths
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana ~ Carlo Emilio Gadda
Il Bell'Antonio ~ Vitaliano Brancati
The Plague Sower ~ Gesualdo Bufalino
The Tartar Steppe ~ Dino Buzzati
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ~ Giorgio Bassani
Zeno's Conscience ~ Italo Svevo
As A Man Grows Older ~ Italo Svevo
Mr Palomar ~ Italo Calvino
I'm Not Scared ~ Niccolo Ammaniti
Without Blood ~ Alessandro Baricco
Summer's Lease ~ John Mortimer
Lady's Maid ~ Margaret Forster
Love and War in the Apeninnes ~ Eric Newby
A Small Place in Italy ~ Eric Newby
The Colour of Heaven ~ James Runcie
Miss Garnet's Angel ~ Salley Vickers
The Other Side of You ~ Salley Vickers
Pompeii ~  Robert Harris
Pompeii ~  Mary Beard
Under the Tuscan Sun ~ Frances Mayes
Bella Tuscany ~ Frances Mayes
A Year in the World ~ Frances Mayes
The Solitude of Prime Numbers ~ Paolo Giordano
The Moon and the Bonfire ~ Cesare Pavese
History ~ Elsa Morante
Roman Nights ~ Pasolini
Gogol's Wife ~ Tommaso Landolfi
Kaputt ~ Curzio Malaparte
The Day of the Owl ~ Leonardo Sciascia
Eating Up Italy ~ Matthew Fort
Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons ~ Matthew Fort
The Aspern Papers ~ Henry James
The Comfort of Strangers ~ Ian McEwan
City Lit Venice
Enchanted April ~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The Silent Duchess ~ Dacia Maraini
The Leopard ~ Giuseppe de Lampedusa
Images and Shadows, Part of a Life ~ Iris Origo
War in Val D'Orcia ~ Iris Origo

Authors

Carlo Lucarelli
Gianrico Carofiglio.
Donna Leon
Luigi Pirandello
Giacomo Leopardi
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Eugenio Montale
Primo Levi

Films

Tea With Mussolini
My House in Umbria
Only You
The Leopard
Summer's Lease
Cinema Paradiso