COUNTRY · ITALYBooks set in Italy
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46 books · 37 authors · 1827–2025
46 books here
Most-set authors
Elena Ferrante (8) · Umberto Eco (2) · Dan Brown (2) · Jules Verne (1) · Carlo Levi (1) · Goliarda Sapienza (1)
Genres
literary fiction (10) · romance (2) · fantasy (2) · mystery & crime (2) · thriller & suspense (1)
Books set here
Set in Italy (39)
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi
Levi's exile village
The Art of Joy
Goliarda Sapienza
Modesta's Sicilian home
Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter
Fictional village, 1962 Italian coast
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Tuscan village setting
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani
Jewish community, tennis garden
The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell
Este court, Lucrezia as duchess
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
WWII villa hospital
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
WWI front setting
The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante
Ionian coast summer holiday
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
Renzo and Lucia's village
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Garamond Press, the Plan
The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
Naples Vomero and Posillipo
The Skin
Curzio Malaparte
Allied-occupied Naples 1944
The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante
working-class Naples neighborhood
The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
Naples return, final chapter
Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante
Naples streets, mother search
The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Salina palace, Risorgimento backdrop
The Amalfi Curse
Sarah Penner
coastal village setting
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Mongibello, Dickie's village
Beach Music
Pat Conroy
expatriate refuge city
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
imperial Roman court setting
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Hadrian's imperial Rome
Quo Vadis
Henryk Sienkiewicz
ancient imperial Rome
Rome Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri
Rome as home and exile
Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon
ancient Greek city, primary setting
The Mask of Apollo
Mary Renault
Sicilian political stage
Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood
the destination wedding
Zeno's Conscience
Italo Svevo
Zeno's bourgeois Trieste
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
Turin apartment, summer isolation
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
All 55 cities are reimagined Venice
The Aspern Papers
Henry James
Palazzo and canals setting
The Comfort of Strangers
Ian McEwan
Unnamed city modelled on Venice
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
Pension Bertolini, Piazza della Signoria
Still Life
Sarah Winman
Oltrarno, post-WWII to 1966 flood
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
working-class rione where Lila and Elena grow up
Everything Is Poison
Joy McCullough
17th-c. Rome; Tofana apothecary setting
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
abbey murder mystery setting
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
Grand Hotel des Bains setting
Also featuring Italy (7)
People Like Us
Jason Mott
narrator meets billionaire benefactor
London Calling
James Ponti
the Rome rescue mission
The Teeth of the Tiger
Tom Clancy
Mossad station chief assassination
Inferno
Dan Brown
Clue-trail through canals
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie
the crime-lord detour
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante
Elena and Pietro home
Angels & Demons
Dan Brown
Illuminati meeting place
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