Sicilian Reading List

The following is a partial list of Sicily-oriented books that I have read.

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TITLE SUBTITLE Author Publisher Date
Little Novels of Sicily
Novelle rusticane
(English translation)
Steerforth

1883
(2000)
Costumi ed Usanze Dei
Contadini di Sicilia
In Italian:
Customs and Traditions of
Peasants of Sicily
Kessinger

1897
(2010)
The Leopard
A Novel (Il Gattopardo)
Pantheon

1958
(2007)
Il giorno della civetta
(The Day of the Owl)
In Italian: a murder mystery
Corriere
della Sera

1961
Milocca
A Sicilian Village
Allen and Unwin

1973
Serradifalco
In Italian: history of the town
Comune
di Serradifalco (out of print)

1990
On Persephone's Island
A Sicilian Journal
Vintage

1995
Le Famiglie di Vallelunga
(The Families of Vallelunga)
In Italian: a genealogy
Comune
di Vallelunga Pratameno

1995
Beginner's Sicilian
 
Hippocrene Books

1998
Mattanza
The Ancient Sicilian Ritual of Bluefish Tuna Fishing
Penguin Books

2000
La gita a Tindari
In Italian and Sicilian:
a detective story
(See 2005 for English version)
Sellerio editore

2000
The Stone Boudoir
Travels through the Hidden Villages of Sicily
Perseus Books Group

2002
Sicily
An Illustrated History
Hippocrene Books

2002
Sicilian
Dictionary and Phrasebook
Hippocrene Books

2003
Sicilian
The Oldest Romance Language
Legas

2004
Excursion to Tindari
In English: a detective story
(See 2000 for version in Italian and Sicilian)
Andrea Camilleri
translation by Stephen Sartarelli
Penguin Books

2005
Sicily
Three Thousand Years
of Human History
Steerforth

2007
A House in Sicily
A Novel
Da Capo Press

2007
Introduction to Sicilian Grammar
Edited by Gaetano Cipolla
Legas

2008
That Summer in Sicily
A Love Story
Ballantine Books

2009
Il sonaglio
In Italian and Sicilian languages.  A Sicilian boy's
coming of age
Ballantine Books

2009
Terroni
All That has Been Done To Ensure That The Italians Of The South Became "Southerners"
Bordighera Press

2010
Seeking Sicily
A Cultural Journey
Thomas Dunne Books

2011
The Lady of the Wheel
La Ruotaia: abandoned
in Sicily
Legas

2012
Trinàcria
A Tale of Bourbon Sicily
Guernica

2013
Learn Sicilian
Mparamu lu sicilianu
Legas

2013
La volata di Calò
 (Calogero's bicycle tour flight)
In Italian, with a foreword by Andrea Camilleri
Sellerio

2013
Proverbi Siciliani
Sicilian Proverbs
Legas

2014
La pazienza del ragno
(The Patience of the Spider)
In Italian and Sicilian: a murder mystery
Sellerio editore

2015
Blue Guide Sicily
Ninth Edition
Blue Guides of London Limited

2017
The Hunger Saint
A tale of escape and redemption
Bordighera Press

2017
Carusi
The Shame of Sicily
Vecchia Publishing

2019
Sicilian Wisdom
Proverbs, Poems and History
Independently

2019
Sicilian Stories
Novelle Siciliani
In English and Italian
Dover

2019


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