Primo Levi

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1986
  • Latest Book:
    October 2015
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • If Not Now, When?

    “In Levi’s writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential.” —Saul Bellow

    A Penguin Classic

    In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy,...

  • The Monkey's Wrench

    A chemist-turned-writer and a construction rigger in a remote factory pass the time swapping tales of their lives and voyages. Primo Levi s most light-hearted novel, The Monkey s Wrench is a tribute to storytelling, human ingenuity, and the importanc...

  • The Sixth Day and Other Tales

  • The Mirror Maker

    With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America’s most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are scien...

  • Wrench

    This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us...

  • The Periodic Table

    A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas arg...

  • Moments of Reprieve

    A finely-crafted collection of 15 short stories which reflect life and death in Auschwitz during the second World War. Each featuring a different protagonist, all survivors of the horrors of life in a concentration camp. The stories explore the costs...

  • The Search for Roots

    It is not my job to explain why...the reader who wishes can enter the passage and cast an eye on the ecosystem that lodges unsuspected in my depths, saprophytes, birds of day and night, creepers, butterflies, crickets, and fungi. Primo Levi emerged n...

  • A Tranquil Star

    A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers.

    These seventeen stories, first published in It...



  • Survival in Auschwitz

    In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German ...

  • The Complete Works of Primo Levi

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Library Journal A Holiday Gift Guide Selection in the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Sele...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Primo Levi has published 11 books.

Primo Levi does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Complete Works of Primo Levi, was published in October 2015.

The first book by Primo Levi, If Not Now, When?, was published in May 1986.

No. Primo Levi does not write books in series.
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