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Carlo Rovelli Books in Order

Carlo Rovelli has written 12 books, published between 2004 and 2023. The first book is What is time? What is space? (2004) and the newest is White Holes (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2004–2023
Pages on record
2,045 in 9 of 12 books
Reading time
34–51 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,045 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Carlo Rovelli, author

Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who works chiefly on quantum gravity and founded the theory of loop quantum gravity. Rovelli holds an emeritus chair at the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille and has worked in Italy, the United States, France and Canada. Twelve books are catalogued between 2004 and 2023, running from technical volumes such as Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity (2014) and General Relativity (2015) to books written for general readers: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2014), Reality is Not What it Seems (2014), The Order of Time (2017), Helgoland (2020) and White Holes (2023). Cosmology, ancient science and Anaximander are among the subjects.

How many Carlo Rovelli books are there?

Carlo Rovelli has 12 books, released between 2004 and 2023.

Carlo Rovelli Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Carlo Rovelli books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The First Scientist by Carlo Rovelli (2005)
  2. Cover of Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli (2014)
  3. Cover of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (2014)
  4. Cover of Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli (2014)
  5. Cover of General Relativity by Carlo Rovelli (2015)
  6. Cover of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (2017)
  7. Cover of Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli (2020)
  8. Cover of Anaximander by Carlo Rovelli (2023)
  9. Cover of White Holes by Carlo Rovelli (2023)
  1. 1
    What is time? What is space?2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004–
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  2. 2
    The First Scientist2005 · 209 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005209
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  3. 3
    Reality is Not What it Seems2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  4. 4
    Quantum Gravity2014 · 348 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014348
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  5. 5
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics2014 · 86 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201486
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  6. 6
    Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity2014 · 266 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014266
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  7. 7
    General Relativity2015 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015208
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  8. 8
    The Order of Time2017 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017240
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  9. 9
    There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  10. 10
    Helgoland2020 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020256
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  11. 11
    Anaximander2023 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2023272
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  12. 12
    White Holes2023 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2023160
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Carlo Rovelli books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

12 books

12 Carlo Rovelli titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Carlo Rovelli books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 12 Carlo Rovelli books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Carlo Rovelli

Start with What is time? What is space? (2004), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Carlo Rovelli book?

White Holes (2023) is the newest Carlo Rovelli book released so far.

Is there a new Carlo Rovelli book coming?

No next Carlo Rovelli book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Carlo Rovelli at a glance

Paused
No new Carlo Rovelli title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Carlo Rovelli books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,045 pages across the 9 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Carlo Rovelli books, 7 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Carlo Rovelli books are about

8 of the 12 Carlo Rovelli books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: cosmology is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Cosmology 3 of 8 books
  • History 3 of 8 books
  • Anaximander 2 of 8 books
  • Ancient Cosmology 2 of 8 books
  • Greece, biography 2 of 8 books
  • Methodology 2 of 8 books
  • Philosophers, greece 2 of 8 books
  • Physics 2 of 8 books
  • Quantum gravity 2 of 8 books
  • Quantum theory 2 of 8 books
  • Science 2 of 8 books
  • Science, ancient 2 of 8 books