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Sicily Books
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The Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.01 — 49,288 ratings — published 1958
The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.74 — 26,972 ratings — published 1994
Il giorno della civetta (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.72 — 19,084 ratings — published 1961
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,137 ratings — published 2015
Midnight in Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,840 ratings — published 1996
Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.74 — 501 ratings — published 2011
The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,636 ratings — published 1996
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.96 — 49,974 ratings — published 2019
Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,214 ratings — published 2000
On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 20 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.68 — 529 ratings — published 1986
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Tante Poldi #1)
by (shelved 19 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.39 — 7,953 ratings — published 2015
August Heat (Inspector Montalbano, #10)
by (shelved 19 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,285 ratings — published 2006
Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,773 ratings — published 1997
The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano, #9)
by (shelved 17 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,055 ratings — published 2005
The Smell of the Night (Inspector Montalbano, #6)
by (shelved 17 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,001 ratings — published 2001
The Florios of Sicily (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,387 ratings — published 2019
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.40 — 472,707 ratings — published 1969
Conversations in Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,745 ratings — published 1941
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,463 ratings — published 1623
I Malavoglia (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.48 — 16,664 ratings — published 1881
The Ruby in Her Navel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.43 — 879 ratings — published 2006
The Wings of the Sphinx (Inspector Montalbano, #11)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,674 ratings — published 2006
The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,247 ratings — published 1996
The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.04 — 32,108 ratings — published 1984
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.95 — 768 ratings — published 2021
To Each His Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,748 ratings — published 1966
Treasure Hunt (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,670 ratings — published 2010
The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,309 ratings — published 2004
Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,475 ratings — published 2003
The Potter's Field (Inspector Montalbano, #13)
by (shelved 12 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,775 ratings — published 2008
Un covo di vipere (Commissario Montalbano, #21)
by (shelved 12 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,074 ratings — published 2013
Siracusa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.39 — 13,936 ratings — published 2016
The Sicilian Inheritance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.98 — 59,134 ratings — published 2024
The Dance of the Seagull (Commissario Montalbano, #15)
by (shelved 11 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,141 ratings — published 2009
The Age of Doubt (Inspector Montalbano, #14)
by (shelved 11 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,382 ratings — published 2008
The Track of Sand (Inspector Montalbano, #12)
by (shelved 11 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,115 ratings — published 2007
La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,004 ratings — published 1990
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,025 ratings — published 2004
The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.83 — 555 ratings — published 2002
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Canto)
by (shelved 9 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.22 — 527 ratings — published 1958
Loyalty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,320 ratings — published 2023
La prima indagine di Montalbano (Commissario Montalbano, #8.5)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,885 ratings — published 2004
Una lama di luce (Commissario Montalbano, #19)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,255 ratings — published 2012
Il gioco degli specchi (Commissario Montalbano, #18)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,122 ratings — published 2011
Il sorriso di Angelica (Commissario Montalbano, #17)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,120 ratings — published 2010
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.36 — 16,214 ratings — published 2007
A House in Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.48 — 730 ratings — published 1999
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,044 ratings — published 2024
The Peoples of Sicily: A Multicultural Legacy (Sicilian Medieval Studies)
by (shelved 7 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.00 — 51 ratings — published 2014
The Pyramid of Mud (Inspector Montalbano, #22)
by (shelved 7 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,832 ratings — published 2014
“For fifty years our politicians have worked to create the illusion that there is such a thing as a uniform Italy. The regions were supposed to disappear into the nation, dialects into literary languages. Sicily is the region that has most actively resisted the breaking down of history and freedom. On numerous occasions Sicily has shown itself to be more than a region, and to have a national character of its own.”
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“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I think it was, every year...The palm tree line...I call it the coffee line, the strong black coffee line...It's rising like mercury in a thermometer, this palm tree line, this strong coffee line, this scandal line, rising up throughout Italy and already passed Rome...”
― The Day of the Owl
― The Day of the Owl
