I even have a copy of the Lord of the Rings in Italian, so if you buy both the English and the Italian language versions of the book, then you can read the same chapter in the Italian book to figure out what is going on in English roughly. You can pretty much get the English language versions anywhere. :)

If you have access to a BBC channel in Italy, listen to it for awhile to see if they give you some desirable information.

Try Every Day by David Levithan.

I suggest for you this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2u-DkGcmZg

Hope you enjoy.

Books like : one thousand years of solitude , i don't know it if is in italian, i know that it is in Spanish (the original vesion) and also in english, the author is Gabriel García Márquez.
Tell me what kind of music do you like? and then i'll tell you which songs would be good for you.