Sicily


The Leopard
The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
Il giorno della civetta
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
Midnight in Sicily
Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean
The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano, #5)
On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal (Vintage Departures)
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Tante Poldi #1)
August Heat (Inspector Montalbano, #10)
Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4)
The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano, #9)
The Smell of the Night (Inspector Montalbano, #6)
Made in Sicily by Giorgio LocatelliSicilian Kitchen by Wanda TornabeneThe Sicily Cookbook by Cettina VicenzinoSicily by Katie CaldesiSicily by Pamela Sheldon Johns
Best Sicilian Cookbooks
17 books — 2 voters
Pinocchio by Carlo CollodiStrega Nona by Tomie dePaolaThe Thief Lord by Cornelia FunkeThe Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne JonesTake Me With You by Carolyn Marsden
Italy in Juvenile Fiction
278 books — 20 voters

La Cucina by The Italian Academy of CuisineEssentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella HazanBeyond the Pasta; Recipes, Language and Life with an Italian ... by Mark    LeslieWhy Italians Love to Talk About Food by Yelena KostyukovichPasta, Pane, Vino by Matt Goulding
Top Books About Italian Food
115 books — 17 voters
The Magus by John FowlesA Room with a View by E.M. ForsterMy Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteOver the Sicilian Moon by Barbara Lynn  PalermoMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Mediterranean Vacation
24 books — 4 voters

The Godfather Lover's Guide to Sicily by Karen M SpenceGlam Italia! How to Travel Italy by Corinna CookeThe Potter's Field by Andrea CamilleriThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaAugust Heat by Andrea Camilleri
Sicily
137 books — 30 voters
Much Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareThe Godfather by Mario PuzoThe Aeneid by VirgilHornblower and the Atropos by C.S. ForesterIn Sardinia by Jeff   Biggers
Italia by Region: Sardinia & Sicily
115 books — 15 voters

Borders, though, are rarely as definite as they appear on maps. The longer you spend living around them, the less sense these kinds of simplistic divisions make. Frontiers are places where identities take on absurdly definite forms, in barbed wire fences and vigilante patrols. At the same time, they're places where boundaries between different cultures break down. Sicilian history is white, Christian and Western, certainly, but it has also been, and still is, black, Arab, Muslim among other thin ...more
Jamie Mackay, The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

Lizzy Dent
Our holidays began here in Catania, this loud, bustling city pulsing with memories. I know these scenes, like a movie once adored and now almost forgotten. I know the large square lava-stone pavers that line the footpaths. I can smell salty, fishy air coming from the fish market I think is just down the far end of the square. I remember this intense heat, the sea breeze flowing like water between the buildings, down the alleyways, never quite cooling enough.
Lizzy Dent, Just One Taste

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