Italy

The Mussolini Canal

Antonio Pennacchi

Translated by Judith Landry

Emmaus

Alessandro Baricco

Translated by Ann Goldstein

The Almond Picker

Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Judge Savage

Tim Parks

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante

Don’t Move

Margaret Mazzantini

Translated by John Cullen

Europa

Tim Parks

Pereira Maintains

Antonio Tabucchi

Translated by Patrick Creagh

Forbidden Notebook

Alba de Céspedes

Translated by Ann Goldstein

The Dry Heart

Natalia Ginzburg

The Brittle Age

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Translated by Ann Goldstein

The Duke

Matteo Melchiorre

Translated by Antonella Lettieri

The House on Via Gemito

Domenico Starnone

Translated by Oonagh Stransky

Lies and Sorcery

Elsa Morante

Translated by Jenny McPhee

Lost on Me

Veronica Raimo

Translated by Leah Janeczko

A Marvelous Solitude

Lina Bolzoni

The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan

Domenico Starnone

Translated by Oonagh Stransky

On the Equality of All Things

Carlo Rovelli

The Sky Is Falling

Lorenza Mazzetti

Strangers I Know

Claudia Durastanti

Translated by Elizabeth Harris

The Temptation to Be Happy

Lorenzo Marone

Translated by Shaun Whiteside

Trick

Domenico Starnone

Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri

You, Bleeding Childhood

Michele Mari

Translated by Brian Robert Moore

The Young Bride

Alessandro Baricco

Translated by Ann Goldstein