Italian bookshops worldwide recommend…: ItalLIBRI’s selection (Munich)

From 2025 onwards, newitalianbooks is asking Italian booksellers all over the world to highlight the titles most in demand among their readers. With this initiative, newitalianbooks wants to strengthen the role of Italian booksellers abroad in promoting Italian books worldwide.

This month our guest bookshop is ItalLIBRI in Munich

The bookshop ItalLIBRI was founded in 1990 in the Schwabing district of Munich.

In the mid-1990s, the website and online shop www.itallibri.de were created to keep customers all over Germany up to date and to make it easier for them to purchase books if they were unable to physically visit the bookshop. This was not as easy as it is today.

Over time, ItalLIBRI became a meeting point for all those who share a passion for Italian literature, who found in the bookshop not only a good choice of titles, but also individual advice and the opportunity to meet other readers and discuss what they had read, both in Italian and in German. In 2016, ItalLIBRI closed its physical shop and now only operates online, https://shop.itallibri.de.

For the last two years a Reading Group has met every two months, and recently the ‘Growing Together’ reading group for parents was created.

ItalLIBRI has always organised regular meetings with authors, translated or not, in collaboration with publishing houses, the Italian Cultural Institute, or the Literaturhaus. Thanks to ItalLibri, authors such as Carlo Lucarelli, Andrea Camilleri, Gianrico Carofiglio, Paolo Giordano, Michela Murgia, Niccolò Ammaniti… and many others.

This activity led to the creation in 2019 of ILfest – Italienisches Literaturfestival München, the only festival in Germany dedicated to Italian literature in the broadest sense, which this year will be held from 9-11 May.

‘Italian bookshops worlwide recommend…’ is an initiative organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

The following titles have been selected for newitalianbooks readers by the bookshop ItalLIBRI in Munich