Jean Giono

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Horseman on the Roof

    Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and whic...

  • Harvest

  • The Straw Man

    From the Translator's Foreward: "Two plagues ravaged Europe in 1848: Asiatic cholera and the fever of revolution. Giono, who in The Horseman on the Roof exposed his hero, Angelo Pardi, to an earlier cholera plague in France, now sets him wandering in...

  • Angelo

    Angelo, a young Hussar colonel and expert swordsman, has had to escape into France from his native Piedmont after killing an Austrian police-spy in a duel. Travelling the roads of Provence disguised as a French workman, he falls in with an eccentric ...

  • Second Harvest

    Panturle lives in the village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. He is a huge man: "When he met a living animal, he looked at it without moving: it was a fox, a hare, or a big snake in the rubble. He did not move; he took his time. He knew that ...

  • Blue Boy

    Blue Boy is the fictionalised autobiography of Giono’s boyhood. Much of the story is seen through the eyes of the young Jean, however the novel is written in the lyrical style and language and with the hedonistic and mystical insight which characte...

  • Song of the World

    Of Sailor's twin sons, the elder is dead and the younger is missing. A simple woodsman, Sailor resolves to find the boy, fearing the worst. Soon after he and his friend Antonio set off, they stumble across a blind girl giving birth. This strange circ...

  • The Solitude of Compassion

    The Solitude of Compassion, a collection of short stories never before available in English, won popular acclaim when it was originally published in France in 1932. It tells of small-town life in Provence, drawing on a whole village of fictional char...

  • Two Riders of the Storm

    Two brothers, Marceau and Ange Jason, are members of a family renowned and respected for its brutality and are therefore bound together with ties stronger than those of ordinary brotherly love. This affection soon turns to hatred after Marceau kills ...



  • To the Slaughterhouse

    Written in chilling detail, this novel describes the effect of World War I on a small community in Provence. In some of the most fiercely realistic and horrifying scenes of war ever recreated in literature, this story evokes the harsh, primitive c...

  • The Serpent of Stars

    The Serpent of Stars (Le serpent d¢étoiles, 1993; reprinted 1999 Grasset) takes place in rural southern France in the early part of the century. The novel’s elusive narrative thread ties landscape to character to an expanse just beyond our g...

  • The Man Who Planted Trees

    ‘A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man’s efforts can change the future for so many. It’s a real message of hope.’ Michael MorpurgoDiscover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn...

  • Joy of Man's Desiring

    "Peasant civilization possesses as a gift human qualities which philosophical civilizations spend centuries first defining, then desiring, and finally losing." -- Jean GionoA true forebear of magical realism, French author Jean Giono created men an...

  • Hill

    An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world -- a miming cat, ...

  • Melville

    Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick, Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism.In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled ...

  • A King Without Diversion

    An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first timeA King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world...

  • Ennemonde

    One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely livedEnnemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other ...

  • The Open Road

    A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.The south of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the...

  • Fragments of a Paradise

    “Giono’s prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility.” -- The Washington PostGiono’s very own Moby-Dick, a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on a spiritual tale of evocative sea-glimpsesAn alleg...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jean Giono has published 19 books.

Jean Giono does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fragments of a Paradise, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Jean Giono, The Horseman on the Roof, was published in January 1982.

No. Jean Giono does not write books in series.
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