Elena Ferrante

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2005
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Neopolitan

1 - My Brilliant Friend (Aug-2012)
2 - The Story of a New Name (Aug-2013)
3 - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Aug-2014)
4 - The Story of the Lost Child (Aug-2015)

Books in Order: 15 titles

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  • My Last White Boyfriend and Other Epiphanies

    Here is a prose collection from the independent literary journal Epiphany, collecting highlights from the last 20 years of print issues. With delightfully intense reading from all sorts of wonderful writers (such as National Book Award nominee Doming...

  • The Lying Life of Adults

    A NEW YORK TIMES & NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Post・O, The Oprah Magazine・TIME Magazine・NPR・People Magazine・The New York Times Critics・The Guardian・Electric Literature・Financial Times・Times UK...

  • Incidental Inventions

    Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupat...

  • The Beach at Night

    A "beautifully written" dark fable from a doll's point of view -- by the New York Times"bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels (The Washington Post).   One of NPR's Best Books of the Year.   R...

  • The Story of the Lost Child

    Neopolitan - 4

    The "stunning conclusion" to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One of the New York Times​'s 100 Best Books of the 21st C...

  • Storia della bambina perduta

  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    Neopolitan - 3

    Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" (The New York Times).   In the third book in the New York Times"bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired...

  • The Story of a New Name

    Neopolitan - 2

    A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe).   The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name ...

  • My Brilliant Friend, Book One: Childhood, Adolescence

    Now an HBO series.

    Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrant...



  • Fragments

    From the author of My Brilliant FriendThis book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installment...

  • My Brilliant Friend

    Neopolitan - 1

    Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The “enduring classic” about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples (The Atlantic).   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples...

  • L'amica geniale

  • The Lost Daughter

    Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter SarsgaardAnother penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend&#...

  • Troubling Love

    A woman goes home to Naples after her mother's mysterious death in a "tour de force" by the New York Times"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend (Seattle Times).   Following her mother's untimely and unexplained drowning, which...

  • The Days of Abandonment

    From the New York Times"bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife's descent into despair -- and rage -- is "a masterpiece" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Centur...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elena Ferrante has published 15 books.

Elena Ferrante does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, My Last White Boyfriend and Other Epiphanies, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment, was published in September 2005.

Yes. Elena Ferrante has 1 series.
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