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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2005
  • Latest Book:
    September 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Neopolitan

1 - My Brilliant Friend (Aug-2012)
2 - The Story of a New Name (Aug-2013)
3 - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Aug-2014)
4 - The Story of the Lost Child (Aug-2015)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife’s descent into despair -- and rage -- is “a masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21s...



  • A woman goes home to Naples after her mother’s mysterious death in a “tour de force” by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times).   Following her mother’s untimely and unexplained drowning, which was...



  • Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter SarsgaardAnother penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend&#...





  • From the author of My Brilliant FriendThis book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installment...



  • Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The “enduring classic” about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples (The Atlantic).   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples...



  • Now an HBO series.

    Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrant...



  • A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe).   The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name ...



  • Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times).   In the third book in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO...







  • The “stunning conclusion” to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One of the New York Times​’s 100 Best Books of the 21st ...



  • A “beautifully written” dark fable from a doll’s point of view -- by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels (The Washington Post).  One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year.   Readers of El...



  • Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupat...



  • A NEW YORK TIMES & NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Post・O, The Oprah Magazine・TIME Magazine・NPR・People Magazine・The New York Times Critics・The Guardian・Electric Literature・Financial Times・Times UKă...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elena Ferrante has published 14 books.

Elena Ferrante does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lying Life of Adults, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment, was published in September 2005.

Yes. Elena Ferrante has 1 series.