Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino | 
Mr. Palomar
by Italo Calvino | 
The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino | 
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
by Italo Calvino | 
The Island of the Day Before
by Umberto Eco | 
Zeno's Conscience
by Italo Svevo | 
Bread and Wine
by Ignazio Silone | 
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino | 
The Days of Abandonment
by Elena Ferrante |
Marcovaldo or The Seasons in the City
by Italo Calvino | 
The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati | 
Without Blood
by Alessandro Baricco | 
Conjugal Love
by Alberto Moravia | 
Pereira Maintains
by Antonio Tabucchi | 
The Conformist
by Alberto Moravia | 
The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 
Christ in Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato | 
As a Man Grows Older
by Italo Svevo | 
Reeds in the Wind
by Grazia Deledda |
Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.