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- architecture
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- boats
- book about books
- classic
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- fiction
- food
- ghosts
- graphic novel
- Henry James
- historical fiction
- history
- in translation
- italiano
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- non-fiction
- novella
- passing through
- personal favorite
- poetry
- psychological
- romance
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- satire
- short story
- supernatural
- thriller
- travel
- Venezia (book in Italian)
- Vivaldi
- written by a woman
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Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization, by Meredith F. Small
VENICE-O-METER 10Enlightening and engaging history of Venice focusing on innovations such as the semi colon, intellectual property law, the newspaper, etc.
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The Only Daughter / La fliglia unica, by Abraham B. Yehoshua
VENICE-O-METER 3Novel set in several Italian cities, including Venice English version translated by Stuart Schoffman, Italian version translated by Alessandra Shomroni This book was originally published in Hebrew, but it’s set in Venice and…
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“Don’t Look Now,” by Daphne du Maurier
VENICE-O-METER 8Brilliant supernatural and psychological short story / novella set in Venice(The other stories in the collection are not set in Venice) I was able to retrace the exact walk that the main characters,…
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“Death in Venice” in New Selected Stories, by Thomas Mann, translated by Damion Searls
VENICE-O-METER 6Short story set in Venice
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Anonimo veneziano, di Giuseppe Berto
VENICE-O-METER 8Novella set in Venice, over the course of a single day when two former lovers meet again
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Stabat Mater, di Tiziano Scarpa
VENICE-O-METER 7Historical novel set in Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà orphanage for girls (see the Reading Venice Map), and focusing on the interactions between the institution’ most famous composer, Vivaldi, and the young women who played his music.…
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Vivaldi’s Virgins, by Barbara Quick
VENICE-O-METER 7Historical novel set in Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà orphanage for girls, and focusing on the interactions between the institution’ most famous composer, Vivaldi, and the young women who played his music.
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The Aspern Papers, by Henry James
VENICE-O-METER 8Psychological novella set in Venice Henry James is an author I always wanted to love but really struggled with — until I read The Aspern Papers. It opened up James to me. It’s also…
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La lunga attesa dell’angelo, di Melania G. Mazzucco
VENICE-O-METER 9Powerful historical novel narrated by the painter Il Tintoretto on his deathbed The title of the novel is a line from the Italian translation of “Black Rook in Rainy Weather,” by Sylvia Plath.…
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Lavinia fuggita, di Anna Banti
VENICE-O-METER 8Historical short story set in Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà orphanage for girls, and focusing on the interactions between the institution’ most famous composer, Vivaldi, and the young women who played his music. If this…
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Il segreto nello sguardo, di Valentina Casarotto
VENICE-O-METER 8Historical novel inspired by the biography of Venetian rococo artist Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757). This may be a novel but it refers to many real-life locations, pinpointed on the Reading Venice Map.
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Territorial Rights, by Muriel Spark
VENICE-O-METER 8Novel set (mostly) in 1970’s Venice The actual locations mentioned in the novel can be found on the Reading Venice map, and are discussed in a scholarly fashion in Tomás Monterrey’s paper “Scenic and…
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“Ganymede” in The Breaking Point, by Daphne du Maurier
VENICE-O-METER 9Tragicomic short story set in Venice Unlike in du Maurier’s “Don’t Look Now,” whose exquisitely detailed Venetian topography was what led me to start this website, “Ganymede” sticks to well-trodden locations in Venice (the…
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L’amante senza fissa dimore, di Carlo Fruttero e Franco Lucentini
VENICE-O-METER 9Zany novel set in Venice, and weaving elements of mystery and romance in a truly fun and engaging way. Similarly, its geography of Venice blurs the line between imagination and reality, with locations…
