That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

Carlo Emilio Gadda

History

Elsa Morante

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

Confessions of Zeno

Italo Svevo

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante

Una questione privata

Beppe Fenoglio

The Plague Sower

Gesualdo Bufalino

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

Petrolio

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

Contempt

Alberto Moravia

Ties

Domenico Starnone

Silk

Alessandro Baricco

The Moon and the Bonfires (Penguin Modern Classics)

Cesare Pavese

54

Wu Ming

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Strangers I Know

Claudia Durastanti

A Girl Returned

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Accabadora: A Novel

Michela Murgia

Forbidden Notebook

Alba de Céspedes

Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

Lies and Sorcery

Elsa Morante

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Family Lexicon

Natalia Ginzburg

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

Luigi Pirandello

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante