Italo Calvino

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    June 2021
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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Invisible cities

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    Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels -- a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, thei...

  • The Watcher and Other Stories

    This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times).Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fict...

  • t zero

    A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. “Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary preci...

  • The Baron in the Trees

    A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the tr...

  • The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount

    Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. “Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and brio”(Chicago Tribune). Translated by Archibald...

  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

    "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." -- from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endles...

  • Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City

    A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).   In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, ...

  • Difficult Loves

    The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review).   In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest stor...

  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium

    Italo Calvino, one of the world's best storytellers, died on the eve of his departure for Harvard, where he was to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1985-86. Reticent by nature, he was always reluctant to talk about himself, but he wel...



  • Under the Jaguar Sun

    “The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavors’ highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances that would assert themselves as an incomparabl...

  • Italian Folk Tales

    Chosen as one of the New York Times’s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by th...

  • Adam, One Afternoon

    This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century pro...

  • The Path to the Nest of Spiders

    Italo Calvino's debut novel, first published in 1947, tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at the lowlife bar whe...

  • Cosmicomics

    This is an account of the universe as a cosmic joke, surreal random fiction. Ofwfq is like matter - he can be neither created nor destroyed. In 1000 diverse shapes and peculiar forms he has fitted, spiralled and plodded through every strange change o...

  • Mr. Palomar

    A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities.   In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imaginati...

  • The Road to San Giovanni

    In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the soc...

  • Numbers In The Dark: And Other Stories

    From the acclaimed, genre-bending Italian fabulist author, a posthumous collection of career-spanning stories previously unavailable in English. “Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . ....

  • The Castle of Crossed Destinies

    A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reproductions of tarot cards. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book...

  • The Path to the Spiders' Nests

    Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler''s apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends...



  • Fantastic Tales

    The acclaimed author presents “a rich and wide-ranging anthology” of 19th century fantasy and horror stories -- with an original introduction for each (Library Journal).   Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nine...

  • Our Ancestors

    Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are t...

  • The Cloven Viscount

    A fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves....

  • The Nonexistent Knight

    A parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun....

  • The Complete Cosmicomics

    Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the o...

  • Into the War

    These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino’s memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini’s army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth b...

  • Visionary And Everyday

  • The Distance of the Moon

  • Difficult Loves and Other Stories

  • Last Comes the Raven

    Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fable-like qualities. A trio of gluttonous burglars invades a pastry shop; two ...



  • Ten Italian Folktales

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Italo Calvino has published 30 books.

Italo Calvino does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Last Comes the Raven, was published in June 2021.

The first book by Italo Calvino, Invisible cities, was published in January 1974.

No. Italo Calvino does not write books in series.
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