Memoir
Under the Tuscan Sun
An American writer buys and restores a crumbling villa in Tuscany, and finds a new life in its gardens, markets and long lunches.
Europe · 4 books
Books for Italy
From a medieval abbey to the Riviera in summer, four books that taste of Italy.
Read the Tuscan memoir by the pool, and save the Ferrante for the train between cities.
Romance
Call Me by Your Name
One long summer on the Italian Riviera, a precocious seventeen-year-old and a visiting scholar fall into an intense, unforgettable love.
Literary Fiction
My Brilliant Friend
Two girls grow up in a rough Naples neighbourhood in the 1950s, bound by a fierce friendship and rivalry that will shape both their lives.
Historical Fiction
The Name of the Rose
In 1327, a Franciscan friar and his young novice investigate a string of deaths in a secretive Italian abbey with a labyrinthine library.