Favorite Books

Here are some of our favorite books we have come across over the years.  Please feel free to use the form to the right to let us know of other titles which should be added to this list! 

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Non Fiction:

That Fine Italian Hand – Paul Hofmann
Italian Days – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Under The Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
Bella Tuscany – Frances Mayes
Desiring Italy - Susan Cahill
The Italians - Luigi Barzini
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
The House of Medici – Christopher Hibbert
Italian Neighbors – Tim Parks
Vanilla Beans and Brodo – Isabella Dusi
Bel Vino – Isabella Dusi
Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
1000 Days in Venice – Marlena De Blasi
1000 Days in Tuscany – Marlena De Blasi
A Traveller in Italy – H.V. Morton
Dances with Luigi: A Grandson’s Search for his Italian Roots - Paul Paolicelli
Extra Virgin: Amongst the olive groves of Liguria - Annie Hawes
Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy – Wallis Widle-Menozzi
The Reluctant Tuscan – Phil Doran
War in Val d’Orcia – Iris Origo
Living in a Foreign Language – Michael Tucker
Unto the Sons - Gay Telese

Newest Additions:

La Bella Lingua – Dianne Hales

100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go - Susan Van Allen

Fiction:

Vivaldi’s Virgins - Barbara Quick
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
Room With a View – E. M. Forster
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
The Light in the Piazza - Elizabeth Spencer
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
Pompeii: A Novel – Robert Harris
La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture – Lily Prior

 

Giude Books:

Italy for the Gourmet Traveler – Fred Plotkin
The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany – James Bently
Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria - James Lasdun
Eyewitness Guides
Frommers
Fodors
Lonely Planet
Rough Guides
Karen Brown
Michelin Guides
Authentic Italy Series – Touring Club of Italy

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