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The Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.01 — 50,924 ratings — published 1958
The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.74 — 27,498 ratings — published 1994
Il giorno della civetta (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.72 — 19,600 ratings — published 1961
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,194 ratings — published 2015
The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.95 — 14,878 ratings — published 1996
Midnight in Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,874 ratings — published 1996
Seeking Sicily: A Cultural Journey Through Myth and Reality in the Heart of the Mediterranean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.74 — 508 ratings — published 2011
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.96 — 50,550 ratings — published 2019
Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,346 ratings — published 2000
On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 20 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.68 — 536 ratings — published 1986
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (Tante Poldi #1)
by (shelved 19 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.39 — 8,052 ratings — published 2015
August Heat (Inspector Montalbano, #10)
by (shelved 19 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,389 ratings — published 2006
Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,920 ratings — published 1997
The Florios of Sicily (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.97 — 19,921 ratings — published 2019
The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano, #9)
by (shelved 17 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,165 ratings — published 2005
The Smell of the Night (Inspector Montalbano, #6)
by (shelved 17 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,173 ratings — published 2001
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.40 — 477,183 ratings — published 1969
Conversations in Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,808 ratings — published 1941
The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano, #3)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,485 ratings — published 1996
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,714 ratings — published 1623
The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.04 — 32,586 ratings — published 1984
I Malavoglia (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.48 — 16,918 ratings — published 1881
The Ruby in Her Navel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.43 — 884 ratings — published 2006
The Wings of the Sphinx (Inspector Montalbano, #11)
by (shelved 15 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,810 ratings — published 2006
The Sicilian Inheritance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.97 — 61,951 ratings — published 2024
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.94 — 801 ratings — published 2021
To Each His Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,974 ratings — published 1966
Treasure Hunt (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,745 ratings — published 2010
The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano, #8)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,455 ratings — published 2004
Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,645 ratings — published 2003
The Potter's Field (Inspector Montalbano, #13)
by (shelved 12 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,867 ratings — published 2008
Un covo di vipere (Commissario Montalbano, #21)
by (shelved 12 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,199 ratings — published 2013
Siracusa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.39 — 14,026 ratings — published 2016
The Dance of the Seagull (Commissario Montalbano, #15)
by (shelved 11 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,260 ratings — published 2009
The Age of Doubt (Inspector Montalbano, #14)
by (shelved 11 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,518 ratings — published 2008
The Track of Sand (Inspector Montalbano, #12)
by (shelved 11 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,251 ratings — published 2007
La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,061 ratings — published 1990
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,075 ratings — published 2004
The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.82 — 560 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 — 530 ratings — published 1958
Glorious Exploits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,976 ratings — published 2024
Loyalty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.76 — 16,703 ratings — published 2023
La prima indagine di Montalbano (Commissario Montalbano, #8.5)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,926 ratings — published 2004
Una lama di luce (Commissario Montalbano, #19)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,380 ratings — published 2012
Il gioco degli specchi (Commissario Montalbano, #18)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,194 ratings — published 2011
Il sorriso di Angelica (Commissario Montalbano, #17)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,191 ratings — published 2010
A House in Sicily (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sicily)
avg rating 3.49 — 744 ratings — published 1999
The House by the Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as sicily)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,630 ratings — published 2020
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 — 3,895 ratings — published 2014
“Costanza non capiva sino in fondo, ma non poneva domande, tanto le piacevano quelle passeggiate in carrozza, seduta orgogliosa accanto al fratello maggiore, su e giù per il lungomare. Da un lato c'erano i grandi palazzi nobiliari con le loro terrazze lussureggianti. Sul marciapiede gremito di gente benvestita per la passeggiata si aprivano i caffè della Marina, davanti ai quali si fermavano le carrozze per il gelato. La strada costeggiava il mare limpido, tranquillo, su cui si rifletteva a occidente, magnifico, il lare protettore: Monte Pellegrino. I camerieri li servivano in carrozza. Si facevano strada in mezzo ai clienti seduti ai tavolini e alla gente che passeggiava davanti a loro tenendo in bilico sul braccio teso in alto, sulle teste dei passanti, grandi vassoi rotondi con sopra bicchieri d'acqua e coppette di metallo argentato piene di gelato rasato al bordo. Su ognuna era infilzato un biscotto tubolare, croccante. Costanza era golosa: assaporava con voluttà persino l'acqua dolce e rinfrescante, che sorbiva a piccoli sorsi dopo il gelato.”
― La zia marchesa
― La zia marchesa
“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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