The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,757 books — 1,039 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaQ by Luther BlissettThe Betrothed by Alessandro ManzoniRinascimento privato by Maria Bellonci
Italian Historical Fiction
114 books — 41 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy
981 books — 499 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThe Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Notable Novels by Italian Authors
347 books — 233 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
873 books — 1,573 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
1930s England
166 books — 114 voters