 | Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.97 One of the best places to start remembering.
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 | Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Continues with the story of Brett and Flavia. Very empathetically told. Leon writes openly and honestly about their relationship.
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 | A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Marlena de Blasi
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Enjoyable from the first to the last word. Insightful observations of daily life in Vevice.
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 | The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Great for an understanding of Venetian politics and the oh so slow and painful process on renovations, restorations, and constuction.
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 | Paradise of Cities: Venice and Its Nineteenth-Century Visitors by John Julius Norwich
Buy used from: $11.43 |
 | Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery by Michael Dibdin
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Thief Lord by Cornelia Caroline Funke
Buy used from: $279.37 I read this after my first trip, it's written for younger folk, for but it's rich with vivid images of the city.
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 | A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $9.99 If you really like history, and you really like Venice, this is the book to read.
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 | Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Set in the cities of Venice, Naples, and Rome, Rice take the reader deeply into the lives and the emotions of the Castrati at the time of their greatest popularity.
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 | The World of Venice: Revised Edition by Jan Morris
Buy used from: $2.26 |
 | Arts and Crafts in Venice (Solid, Malleable, Fragile & Soft Arts) by Doretta Davanzo Poli
Buy used from: $6.95 Beautifully illustrated!
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 | No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $2.69 If youd like to share a house with "Miss Manners," and have her as history teacher and tour guide of Venice, youll love this book. Highly amusing, sometimes smarmy, always educational (if you like Venice). Not a story of life there like "1000 Days in Venice" by De Blasi or "Venetian Dreaming" by Paula Wiediger, but more like a "Venice Observed" by Mary McCarthy, only wryer!
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