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Books like The Italians

Across European Studies, Regional Studies, Italy, and Customs & Traditions — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Italians by John Hooper.

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Top related books to The Italians

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to The Italians.

We’ll Always Have Paris Trying and Failing to Be French

Emma Beddington

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Gypsy Girl

Rosie Mckinley

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Postcards from France

Megan McNeill Libby

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans

Thomas Lynch

Themes: Customs & Traditions • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

Onigamiising Seasons of an Ojibwe Year

Linda LeGarde Grover

Themes: Regional Studies • Customs & Traditions • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Birth of Korean Cool How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

Euny Hong

Themes: Regional Studies • Customs & Traditions • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Russians The People Behind the Power

Gregory Feifer

Themes: European Studies • Regional Studies • Customs & Traditions

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi The Ideal Guide to Sounding, Acting and Shrugging Like the French

Charles Timoney

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

Brilliant Britain

Jane Peyton

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

#10

The Essential Guide to Being Polish

Anna Spysz

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

#11

From Scratch A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Tembi Locke

Themes: Italy • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#12

I Never Knew that about the English

Christopher Winn

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

#13

The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Germans

Stefan Zeidenitz

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

#14

A Guide to Italy Cultural Insights and Tips to Maximize Your Trip

Patrick Tunno

Themes: European Studies • Italy • Ethnic Studies

#15

The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Poles

Ewa Lipniacka

Themes: European Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

#16

South to America A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

Themes: Regional Studies • Customs & Traditions • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#17

Don’t Fill Up on the Antipasto Tony Danza’s Father-Son Cookbook

Tony Danza

Themes: European Studies • Italy • Ethnic Studies

#18

Casa Nostra A Home in Sicily

Caroline Seller Manzo

Themes: European Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#19

Dispatches from Pluto Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

Richard Grant

Themes: Regional Studies • Customs & Traditions • Ethnic Studies

#20

From the Ganges to the Snake River

Debu Majumdar

Themes: Regional Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#21

The Dog Who Could Fly The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side

Damien Lewis

Themes: European Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#22

Mission Accomplished The Engaging Memoir of a Czech Fighter Pilot Flying for Britain in World War Two

Frank Mares

Themes: European Studies • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#23

The Tailor and Ansty

Eric Cross

Themes: Customs & Traditions • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Ethnic Studies

#24

Within Tuscany

Matthew Spender

Themes: Italy • Customs & Traditions • Travel

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Italians by John Hooper. Connected by European Studies, Regional Studies, Italy. Authors featured include Emma Beddington, Rosie Mckinley, Megan McNeill Libby, Thomas Lynch, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.