Reading recommendations sought

[latoca]

so many good suggestions. Has anyone read Beppe Fenoglio, il partigiano jhonny? it is an interesting book, the use of the language was groundbreaking when it was published...he uses english and Italian in it. Calvino is also very good...but if you would like to try something contemporary why not read Diego de Silva, Non avevo capito niente, very entertaining!

[katier]

I would second Italo Calvino - but I hated "se una notte...". Try Marcovaldo or I nostri antenati.
Also, much less intellectual, but when I started reading in Italian I just bought trashy books - literary equivalents of rom-coms if you like! They are really easy to read, no dialect terms, and you still learn loads of vocabulary. Just an idea!

[gradese]

This will keep me going for the next year! I had heard of Carofiglio and borrowed one of his from the local library. It turned out to be all about how to cross-examine witnesses. Interesting in its way but not what I was looking for. I'll go back and try to find his novels now. I agree about the Editore Sellerio books: Camilleri publishes with them, and they're handy to carry around.

[Gala Placidia]

Another interesting book by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa is "Racconti", a collection of short stories, many of them autobiographical and some of them are the foundations for scenes of "Il Gattopardo". It is published by "Feltrinelli" and it is not easy to find a copy.