A Ranking of All Italo Calvino’s Books
After years of steady work, I have finally finished reading the oeuvre of Italian genius Italo Calvino! He is unmatched in postmodernist literature for intellect and playfulness. Some books tip more toward extreme intellectualism, and some toward unbounded whimsy. The top five or six books here would easily be on my list of favorite reads. Calvino himself definitely enters my list of best authors. Check him out—but maybe let me know what you’re looking for in order to get a personal reference.
Italo Calvino books
If on a winter’s night a traveler
Mr. Palomar
Invisible Cities
The Complete Cosmicomics
Collection of Sand
Italian Folktales
The Cloven Viscount
Marcovaldo
The Watcher
The Non-Existent Knight
The Written World and the Unwritten World
The Road to San Giovanni
The Baron in the Trees
Into the War
Difficult Loves
Why Read the Classics
Under the Jaguar Sun
Fantastic Tales (ed.)
Last Comes the Raven
The Path to the Spiders’ Nests
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Numbers in the Dark
The Uses of Literature
Six Memos for the New Millennium
Hermit in Paris