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Primo Levi Books in Order

Primo Levi has written 24 books, published between 1947 and 2016. The first book is If This Is a Man & The Truce (1947) and the newest is The Last Interview (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Primo Levi also publishes as Damiano Malabaila.

Books
24
Published
1947–2016
Total pages
4,384 across 24 books
Reading time
73–110 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,384 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

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Photo of Primo Levi, author of the Auschwitz Trilogy

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. If This Is a Man, published in 1947 and also titled Survival in Auschwitz, opens the catalogue and the Auschwitz Trilogy; The Reawakening (1963) follows. Levi wrote short story collections, essays and poems as well as memoir, including The Periodic Table (1975), The Monkey's Wrench (1978), Moments of Reprieve (1981) and The Search for Roots (1981). Auschwitz, the Second World War, imprisonment and survival are the subjects. Twenty-four titles are catalogued through 2016, at a median 182 pages.

How many Primo Levi books are there?

Primo Levi has 24 books, released between 1947 and 2016. 3 of them belong to the Auschwitz Trilogy series.

Primo Levi Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 24 Primo Levi 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 Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, book 1 of the Auschwitz Trilogy (1947)
  2. Cover of The Reawakening by Primo Levi, book 2 of the Auschwitz Trilogy (1963)
  3. Cover of The Sixth Day And Other Tales by Primo Levi (1966)
  4. Cover of The Periodic Table by Primo Levi (1975)
  5. Cover of The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi (1978)
  6. Cover of Shema by Primo Levi (1981)
  7. Cover of Collected Poems by Primo Levi (1981)
  8. Cover of The Search for Roots by Primo Levi (1981)
  9. Cover of Conversations by Primo Levi (1984)
  10. Cover of Dialogo by Primo Levi (1984)
  11. Cover of Other People's Trades by Primo Levi (1985)
  12. Cover of The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi, book 3 of the Auschwitz Trilogy (1986)
  13. Cover of The Mirror Maker by Primo Levi (1986)
  14. Cover of The Survivor by Primo Levi (1988)
  15. Cover of The Voice of Memory by Primo Levi (1997)
  16. Cover of The Magic Paint by Primo Levi (2011)
  17. Cover of The Last Interview by Primo Levi (2016)
  1. 1
    If This Is a Man & The Truce1947 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1947480
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  2. 2
    Survival in AuschwitzAuschwitz Trilogy #11947 · 187 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1947187
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  3. 3
    The ReawakeningAuschwitz Trilogy #21963 · 230 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1963230
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  4. 4
    The Sixth Day And Other Tales1966 · 222 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966222
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  5. 5
    The Periodic Table1975 · 233 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975233
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  6. 6
    The Monkey's Wrench1978 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978176
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  7. 7
    Shema1981 · 56 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198156
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  8. 8
    Collected Poems1981 · 78 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198178
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  9. 9
    Moments of Reprieve1981 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981160
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  10. 10
    The Search for Roots1981 · 233 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981233
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  11. 11
    If Not Now, When?1982 · 331 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982331
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  12. 12
    Conversations1984 · 68 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198468
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  13. 14
    Other People's Trades1985 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985224
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  14. 15
    The Drowned and the SavedAuschwitz Trilogy #31986 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986208
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  15. 16
    The Mirror Maker1986 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986176
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  16. 17
    The Survivor1988 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198864
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  17. 18
    A Tranquil Star1988 · 164 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988164
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  18. 19
    Auschwitz Report1989 · 97 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198997
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  19. 20
    The Voice of Memory1997 · 306 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997306
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  20. 21
    The Black Hole of Auschwitz2004 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004189
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  21. 22
    The Magic Paint2011 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201180
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  22. 23
    Auschwitz Testimonies2015 · 194 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015194
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  23. 24
    The Last Interview2016 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016160
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Primo Levi 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.

Auschwitz Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. Survival in Auschwitz
  2. 2. The Reawakening
  3. 3. The Drowned and the Saved

Standalone books

21 books

21 Primo Levi titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Primo Levi books in order?

You only need to read Primo Levi books in order within the Auschwitz Trilogy series, which holds 3 of the 24 Primo Levi books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Primo Levi

Start with If This Is a Man & The Truce (1947), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Primo Levi book?

The Last Interview (2016) is the newest Primo Levi book released so far.

Is there a new Primo Levi book coming?

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

Awards Primo Levi has won

Wikidata records 5 awards for Primo Levi. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Viareggio Prize1982Won
  • Premio Campiello1982Won
  • Strega Prize1979Won
  • Bagutta Prize1967Won
  • Premio Campiello1963Won

Primo Levi at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Primo Levi title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Primo Levi books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
4,384 pages across all 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 182 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Primo Levi books, 13 of 24, were published in the 1980s.

What the Primo Levi books are about

All 24 Primo Levi books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: levi, primo, 1919-1987 is tagged on 7 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Levi, primo, 1919-1987 7 of 24 books
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 6 of 24 books
  • Biography 6 of 24 books
  • World War, 1939-1945 6 of 24 books
  • Italian Authors 5 of 24 books
  • German Prisoners and prisons 4 of 24 books
  • Holocaust survivors 4 of 24 books
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 4 of 24 books
  • Interviews 4 of 24 books
  • Italian Personal narratives 4 of 24 books
  • History 3 of 24 books
  • Prisoners of war 3 of 24 books