CITY · ITALYBooks set in Venice
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33 books · 28 authors · 1686–2025
33 books here
Most-set authors
Donna Leon (3) · Anne Rice (2) · Henry James (2) · Patricia Highsmith (2) · Anita Brookner (1) · Ernest Hemingway (1)
Genres
literary fiction (11) · historical fiction (3) · fantasy (2) · thriller & suspense (2) · mystery & crime (2) · romance (2)
Books set here
Set in Venice (27)
Across the River and into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway
WWII-era Venice setting
Cry to Heaven
Anne Rice
noble family and opera world
Death at La Fenice
Donna Leon
La Fenice murder scene
Don't Look Now
Daphne du Maurier
Venice canals and labyrinth
Drawing Conclusions
Donna Leon
Venice — the atmospheric city where every Commissario Brunetti mystery is set
Dressed for Death
Donna Leon
Commissario Brunetti mystery — summer Venice
In the Company of the Courtesan
Sarah Dunant
courtesan rebuilds career
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
All 55 cities are reimagined Venice
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer
art biennale backdrop
Miss Garnet's Angel
Salley Vickers
Miss Garnet transforms in Venice
Profane Friendship
Harold Brodkey
Venice boyhood and return
Stone Virgin
Barry Unsworth
Madonna statue across five centuries
Territorial Rights
Muriel Spark
Cold War intrigue and romance
The Aspern Papers
Henry James
Palazzo and canals setting
The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt
La Fenice fire and aftermath
The Comfort of Strangers
Ian McEwan
Unnamed city modelled on Venice
The Dark Mirror
Samantha Shannon
key plot setting
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole
Frederick Rolfe
Edwardian Venice, destitute exile
The Glassblower of Murano
Marina Fiorato
historical glassblowing setting
The Passion
Jeanette Winterson
Villanelle's labyrinthine city
The Thief Lord
Cornelia Funke
street children in misty canals
The Wings of the Dove
Henry James
Milly at Palazzo Leporelli
Those Who Walk Away
Patricia Highsmith
cat and mouse in canals
Venetian Red
Pier Maria Pasinetti
two families in Fascist-era Venice
Vertigo
W.G. Sebald
Venice; key stop on the narrator's European journey through Stendhal, Kafka and personal memory
Vivaldi's Virgins
Barbara Quick
Vivaldis Pieta foundling home
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
Grand Hotel des Bains setting
Also featuring Venice (6)
A Friend from England
Anita Brookner
climactic Venice scenes
Blood and Gold
Anne Rice
Renaissance Venice refuge
Inferno
Dan Brown
Clue-trail through canals
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
17th-century vignette, haggadah's journey through history
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie
the crime-lord detour
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Ripley's cat-and-mouse escape
Notable locations in Venice
Lido di Venezia1Murano1Palazzo Barbaro1Teatro La Fenice1