Adriana Trigiani Books in Order

Jess Capodimonte Baratta, a recent divorcee from New Jersey, moves to Italy to take over a family business. Leaving behind her role as a people-pleaser, she uncovers buried secrets in Carrara and Lake Como that redefine her understanding of home.

Matelda Roffo, the matriarch of a jewelry-making family in Tuscany, races to share a secret from her past before it is lost. The story flashes back to her mother Domenica’s journey as a nurse during World War II, revealing a hidden history.

A children’s picture book about Mia Valentina Amore, who wakes up on Valentine’s Day in her family's old house in Appalachia. Together with her mother, she transforms their home into a celebration of love for her six siblings.

During the Big Band era, Chi Chi Donatelli and Tony Arma meet on the Jersey Shore and form a singing duo. As their fame rises, they must navigate the conflict between their shared ambition and the traditional expectations of family life.

It is 1949 in South Philadelphia, and Nicky Castone drives a cab for his uncle while dreaming of the theater. A long-standing feud between his uncle and a relative, combined with Nicky's secret ambition, sets the stage for a family showdown.

In Golden Age Hollywood, young nun Alda Ducci becomes the personal assistant to rising star Loretta Young. The novel follows their lifelong friendship through the scandals, secrets, and glamour of the studio system.

Valentine has married Gianluca, but their happily-ever-after is complicated by the demands of a family business and aging relatives. Juggling her career as a shoemaker and her role as a wife and mother, she strives to keep everyone together.

Drawing on the lives of her grandmothers, Viola and Lucia, this collection shares the practical and spiritual advice that guided them. It serves as a guide to work, family, and style, rooted in the experiences of two working-class matriarchs.

An epic love story spanning the Italian Alps to Little Italy in the early 20th century. Ciro and Enza meet as teenagers but are separated by circumstance, only to have their lives intersect again and again as they build a future in America.

Back in Brooklyn for the summer, Viola is ready to reconnect with her city roots. But when her best friends drift into new interests and relationships, she has to figure out her own path while keeping her camera rolling.

A memoir celebrating the lives of the author's two grandmothers, Lucy and Viola. Through their stories of work, love, and resilience, Trigiani offers a collection of life lessons and wisdom passed down from the matriarchs of her family.

Now running the Angelini Shoe Company, Valentine faces a crisis that threatens the business's survival. Amidst the professional turmoil, she navigates a complicated romance and family drama that stretches from New York to Italy.

Fourteen-year-old Viola is forced to leave her beloved Brooklyn for a boarding school in South Bend, Indiana. Armed with a video camera, she documents her reluctance to fit in, only to find that her new life holds unexpected surprises.

Valentine Roncalli is the apprentice to her grandmother, a master artisan of bespoke shoes in Greenwich Village. Determined to save the family business, she embarks on a journey that takes her to Tuscany and challenges her to balance tradition with modern romance.

With her daughter grown and the town changing around her, Ave Maria faces the next chapter of her life. Old friends and new challenges converge as she tries to find a fresh sense of purpose in the place she has always called home.

Bartolomeo di Crespi is a bachelor interior decorator in Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. When he gets the chance to renovate the local church, he recruits a dream team of artisans, unleashing romantic chaos and comedy across the parish.

Nella Castelluca, a smart and ambitious farm girl in Roseto, Pennsylvania, navigates love and business over several decades. From the 1920s onward, she manages a love triangle between a handsome poet and a dependable neighbor while steering her family’s future.

A collection of family recipes and stories co-authored with her sister. This book blends Italian-American culinary traditions from the mountains of Virginia and Pennsylvania with warm memoirs about the women who preserved them.

In 1950s Greenwich Village, Lucia Sartori is a beauty working at a high-end department store with dreams of becoming a designer. When a handsome stranger enters her life, she is torn between the stable future she planned and a dazzling new world.

Ave Maria is now the mother of a headstrong teenager, Etta, who dreams of life beyond their small mountain town. As Etta grows up and makes her own way, Ave Maria must learn to let go while keeping her own dreams alive.

Eight years into her marriage with coal miner Jack MacChesney, Ave Maria faces a crisis. With their relationship straining under the pressures of work and time, she takes her daughter to Italy, hoping distance will help her decide the future of her family.

In 1978, Ave Maria Mulligan is the thirty-five-year-old pharmacist of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Known as the town spinster, her quiet life is upended when she discovers a family secret that forces her to question everything she knows about her roots.