Finally summer has arrived, the moment of the desired and deserved vacations, relax, ice cream and time for yourself. Why not, a good trip to Florence to study for the first time or to improve the wonderful language of Dante.
Reading is one of the hobbies in which Italians spend more time. Despite reading just a few books per year, summer is the season in which libraries and bookstores are busier.
Here you will find 5 books that we think may help an Italian language student in this difficult but beautiful study trip:

Le ragazze di San Frediano of Vasco Pratolini. The protagonist is the district of San Frediano in Florence. Here all the girls want to conquer the same womanizer, “Bob”. When one of the girls discover the double game of the guy, decides to give him a lesson once and for all.

Novecento of Alessandro Baricco. Tells the story of an extraordinary pianist, with an amazing technique. He presents himself in the Virginian, a steamboat that connects Europe and America in the period between the two wars. His is an incredible story, born on the boat and has never wanted to get off, but no one knows why.

Io non ho paura of Nicolás Amman. In the silence of the countryside in Puglia, in a very hot summer, a group of children play in the middle of a cornfield. One of them, Michael, discovers that evil exists, that is terribly real and that is the worst side of a nightmare that a child can imagine.

Morte a Firenze of Marco Vichi. Florence, October 1966. It rains a lot. A child disappears and the worst is feared. Commissar Bordelli investigates desperately, and during the investigation the flood arrives. While the city is fighting against this unexpected tragedy, the tenacity of Bordelli does not fail.

L’amica geniale of Elena Ferrante. The story begins following the two protagonists girls on their way to adolescence in an unfortunate neighborhood of the Neapolitan suburbs. Among them a true friendship is born, an important one. Recounts the effects of the changes that undergone Naples and Italy, transforming her friendship and union. It left us on the threshold of new and important changes that disrupt the lives of girls and their intense relationship.