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Top 100 Novels in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest novels in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 387 novels tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. The Count of Monte Cristo, The Prince and Old Testament lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 5.6M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 210k, and the largest, The Count of Monte Cristo, reaches around 3.3M people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each novel, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
51 Metamorphoses 102k 44.2 74.9% Novel
52 The Brothers Karamazov 96k Novel
53 Book of Exodus 92k 43.5 53.8% Novel
54 Antrax 90k 46.4 58.5% Novel
55 Flowers for Algernon 85k Novel
56 Catechism of the Catholic Church 84k 41.4 58.4% Novel
57 Nosso Lar 75k Novel
58 Nostromo 71k 28.5 20.8% Novel
59 For Whom the Bell Tolls 70k 42.5 0.0% Novel
60 Thus Spoke Zarathustra 67k Novel
61 Aesop's Fables 65k 49.4 100.0% Novel
62 The Decameron 64k 43.3 64.6% Novel
63 Bluebeard 64k 41.7 72.4% Novel
64 The Princess and the Pea 63k 48.1 100.0% Novel
65 The Time Machine 62k 40.2 52.8% Novel
66 The Trial 58k 34.0 46.1% Novel
67 One Hundred Years of Solitude 57k 45.9 60.5% Novel
68 1Q84 56k Novel
69 The Silmarillion 55k 32.7 34.3% Novel
70 Antifragile 55k 43.7 0.0% Novel
71 Another (novel) 52k 27.4 77.4% Novel
72 Percy Jackson e gli Dei dell'Olimpo 52k 20.0 63.3% Novel
73 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 51k Novel
74 Prince Caspian 51k 37.0 70.9% Novel
75 Salome (opera) 51k Novel

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each novel by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest novel in Italy?

The Count of Monte Cristo currently leads with an estimated audience of 3.3M people in Italy.

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