What to Read After Our ancestors
Readers who loved Our ancestors by Italo Calvino keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Our ancestors is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Our ancestors
La storia
Lessico famigliare
54
Fontamara
Baudolino
To Each His Own
Seta
The nonexistent knight & The cloven viscount
Il pendolo di Foucault
The castle of crossed destinies
Marcovaldo, ovvero Le stagioni in città
Mr. Palomar
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Invisible Cities
The complete Cosmicomics
Difficult loves
Adam, one afternoon
Blue of noon
The book of imaginary beings
Il cavaliere inesistente
A universal history of iniquity
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Species of spaces and other pieces
Numbers in the Dark