THE BEST ITALIAN NOVELS EVER

1. The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati, 1940
2. Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo, 1923
3. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco, 1980
4. The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958
5. The Experience of Pain, Carlo Emilio Gadda, 1963
6. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino, 1979
7. History, Elsa Morante, 1974
8. Christ Stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi, 1945
9. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni, 1827
10. The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese, 1950
11. That Awful Mess on Via Merulana, Carlo Emilio Gadda, 1957
12. Fontamara, Ignazio Silone, 1930
13. I Malavoglia, Giovanni Verga, 1881
14. Conversations in Sicily, Elio Vittorini, 1941
15. The Skin, Curzio Malaparte, 1949