Category
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.
Around the World in Eighty Days
novel by Jules Verne
A Farewell to Arms
1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway
Foucault's Pendulum
1988 Italian novel by Umberto Eco

The Big Four
1927 novel by Agatha Christie

The English Patient
1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje

Call Me By Your Name
2007 novel by André Aciman

The Day of the Jackal
1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth

The Gadfly
novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich

Across the River and into the Trees
1950 novel by Ernest Hemingway

The Mysteries of Udolpho
1794 novel by Ann Radcliffe

The House of Hades
2013 novel by Rick Riordan

Mario and the Magician
novella by Thomas Mann

The Elephant's Journey
2008 novel by José Saramago

Die schwarzen Brüder
novel by Lisa Tetzner

The Constant Gardener
2001 novel by John le Carré

Find Me
2019 novel written by André Aciman
The Blood of Olympus
2014 novel by Rick Riordan

The Immoralist
1902 novel by André Gide
Assassin's Creed
book series

The Moon and the Bonfires
novel by Cesare Pavese

Contempt
1954 novel by Alberto Moravia

Corinne ou l'Italie
1807 novel by Germaine de Staël
The Improvisatore
novel by H.C. Andersen

Assandira
Assandira is a novel by Giulio Angioni, published in 2004 by Sellerio.
Fräulein Else
1924 novel by Arthur Schnitzler

The Twelve Abbots of Challant
1981 novel by Laura Mancinelli

The Etruscan
1955 novel by Mika Waltari

Fontamara
Fontamara () is a 1933 novel by the Italian author Ignazio Silone, written when he was a refugee from Fascist Italy in Switzerland. It is Silone's first novel and it is regarded as his most famous work. It received worldwide acclaim and sold more than a million and a half copies in twenty-seven languages. It was first published in German translation in Switzerland in 1933; English translation was published by Penguin Books in September 1934. In 1980, it was adapted by Carlo Lizzani into an eponymous film.
All Men Are Mortal
1946 novel by Simone de Beauvoir

Cry to Heaven
novel by Anne Rice

The Italian
1797 novel by Ann Radcliffe

Playing for Pizza
2007 novel by John Grisham
Inkheart series
novel series by Cornelia Funke

Canne al vento
novel by Grazia Deledda

A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010 novel by Jennifer Egan

The Marble Faun
novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Matarese Circle
novel by Robert Ludlum

Win, Lose or Die
novel by John Gardner (British writer)
In Italia Sono Tutti Maschi

The Saint
novel written by Antonio Fogazzaro

The Enchanted April
novel by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Negotiator
novel by Frederick Forsyth

Those Barren Leaves
1925 novel by Aldous Huxley

The Little World of the Past
1895 novel by Antonio Fogazzaro

Journey by Moonlight
novel by Antal Szerb