Elena Ferrante Books in Order
Elena Ferrante has written 13 books, published between 2002 and 2023. The first book is The Days of Abandonment (2002) and the newest is My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 2002–2023
- Confirmed
- 13 of 13 titles
- Pages on record
- 2,570 in 10 of 13 books
- Reading time
- 43–64 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,570 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 13 titles with a page count on record.
Elena Ferrante writes in Italian about women's lives, mothers and daughters, female friendship and family, and the books are catalogued here in English translation. The Neapolitan novels are the central sequence, from My Brilliant Friend (2011) through The Story of a New Name (2012) and Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2013) to The Story of the Lost Child (2014). The Days of Abandonment (2002), Troubling Love and The Lost Daughter (2006) stand on their own. Thirteen titles are catalogued, the last a graphic novel dated 2023.
How many Elena Ferrante books are there?
Elena Ferrante has 13 books, released between 2002 and 2023. They include 3 separate series.
Elena Ferrante Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Elena Ferrante 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.
- 120021883/4
- 220034003/4
- 320061393/4
- 420062043/4
- 52007403/4
- 62011–4/4
- 720124844/4
- 820134184/4
- 92014–3/4
- 1020191173/4
- 1120193243/4
- 122021–3/4
- 13My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic NovelElena Ferrante Graphic Novels #12023 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/420232563/4
Elena Ferrante 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.
Elena Ferrante Standalone Novels
4 books4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Neapolitan in order
4 booksElena Ferrante Non-Fiction
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Elena Ferrante Picture in order
1 bookElena Ferrante Graphic Novels in order
1 bookElena Ferrante Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Elena Ferrante books run from The Days of Abandonment (2002) to My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Elena Ferrante in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Elena Ferrante books in order?
You only need to read Elena Ferrante books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
What order should you read Elena Ferrante books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with The Days of Abandonment (2002), the earliest published title. After it come Frantumaglia (2003), Troubling Love (2006), The Lost Daughter (2006) and The Beach at Night (2007); the numbered table above continues from there.
What is the newest Elena Ferrante book?
My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel (2023) is the newest Elena Ferrante book released so far.
Is there a new Elena Ferrante book coming?
No next Elena Ferrante book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Award nominations for Elena Ferrante
Wikidata records 1 nomination for Elena Ferrante. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- International Booker Prize2016Shortlistedfor The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante at a glance
- Paused
- No new Elena Ferrante title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Elena Ferrante books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,570 pages across the 10 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 230 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Elena Ferrante books, 6 of 13, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 3 of the 13 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Elena Ferrante books are about
11 of the 13 Elena Ferrante books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 3 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Family life 3 of 11 books
- Female friendship 3 of 11 books
- Italy 3 of 11 books
- Friendship 2 of 11 books
- Italian fiction 2 of 11 books
- Mothers and daughters 2 of 11 books