Umberto Eco bibliography

This is a list of works published by Umberto Eco.

Books by Eco

Novels

• Il nome della rosa (1980; English translation: The Name of the Rose, 1983)
• Il pendolo di Foucault (1988; English translation: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989)
• L'isola del giorno prima (1994; English translation: The Island of the Day Before, 1995)
• Baudolino (2000; English translation: Baudolino, 2001)
• La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (2004; English translation: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, 2005)
• Il cimitero di Praga (2010; English translation: The Prague Cemetery, 2011)
• Numero Zero (2015; English translation: Numero Zero, 2015)

Non-fiction books

• Il problema estetico in San Tommaso (1956 - English translation: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas, 1988, Revised)
• "Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale", in Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica (1959 - Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages, 1985)
• Storia figurata delle invenzioni (1961 - English translation: The Picture History of Inventions, 1963)
• Opera aperta (1962, rev. 1976 - English translation: The Open Work, 1989)
• Diario Minimo (1963 - English translation: Misreadings, 1993)
• Apocalittici e integrati (1964 - Partial English translation: Apocalypse Postponed, 1994)
• Le poetiche di Joyce (1965 - English translations: The Middle Ages of James Joyce, The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, 1989)
• La Struttura Assente (1968 - "The Absent Structure")
• Il costume di casa (1973 - English translation: Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality, 1986)
• Trattato di semiotica generale (1975 - English translation: A Theory of Semiotics, 1976)
• Il Superuomo di massa (1976)
• Dalla periferia dell'impero (1977)
• Lector in fabula (1979)
• The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts (1979 - English edition containing essays from Opera aperta, Apocalittici e integrati, Forme del contenuto (1971), Il Superuomo di massa, Lector in Fabula).
• Sette anni di desiderio (1983)
• Postille al nome della rosa (1983 - English translation: Postscript to The Name of the Rose, 1984)
• Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio (1984 - English translation: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, 1984)
• De Bibliotheca (1986 - in Italian and French)
• I limiti dell'interpretazione (1990 - The Limits of Interpretation, 1990)
• Interpretation and Overinterpretation (1992 - with R. Rorty, J. Culler, C. Brooke-Rose; edited by S. Collini)
• La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea (1993 - English translation: The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe), 1995)
• Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994)
• Incontro - Encounter - Rencontre (1996 - in Italian, English, French)
• In cosa crede chi non crede? (with Carlo Maria Martini), 1996 - English translation: Belief or Nonbelief?: A Dialogue, 2000)
• Cinque scritti morali (1997 - English translation: Five Moral Pieces, 2001)
• Kant e l'ornitorinco (1997 - English translation: Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition, 1999)
• Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998)
• How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays (1998 - Partial English translation of Il secondo diario minimo, 1994)
• Experiences in Translation, University of Toronto Press (2000)
• Sulla letteratura, (2002 - English translation by Martin McLaughlin: On Literature, 2004)
• Mouse or Rat?: Translation as negotiation (2003)
• Storia della bellezza (2004, co-edited with Girolamo de Michele - English translation: History of Beauty/On Beauty, 2004)
• A passo di gambero. Guerre calde e populismo mediatico (Bompiani, 2006 - English translation: Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism, 2007, Alastair McEwen)
• Storia della bruttezza (Bompiani, 2007 - English translation: On Ugliness, 2007)
• Dall'albero al labirinto: studi storici sul segno e l'interpretazione (Bompiani, 2007 - English translation: From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation, 2014, Anthony Oldcorn)
• The Infinity of Lists (Rizzoli, 2009)
• Costruire il nemico e altri scritti occasionali (Bompiani, 2011) – English translation by Richard Dixon: Inventing the Enemy (2012)
• Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari (Bompiani, 2013) - English translation by Alastair McEwen: The Book of Legendary Lands (2013)

Anthologies

• Eco, Umberto; Sebeok, Thomas A., eds. (1984), The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Bloomington, IN: History Workshop, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-35235-4 , 236 pages. Ten essays on methods of abductive inference in Poe's Dupin, Doyle's Holmes, Peirce and many others.
• Eco, Umberto; Marmo, Constantino, eds. (1989), On the Medieval Theory of Signs, Amsterdam: Benjamins, ISBN 978-9027232939 , 236 pages. Two essay by U. Eco, medieval texts and commentaries.

Manual

• Come si fa una tesi di laurea (1977) – English translation How to Write a Thesis (2015)

Books for children

(Art by Eugenio Carmi)

• La bomba e il generale (1966, Rev. 1988 - English translation: The Bomb and the General)
• I tre cosmonauti (1966 - English translation: The Three Astronauts)
• Gli gnomi di Gnu (1992 - English translation: The Gnomes of Gnu)

Essays & articles

• Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt (from The New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995)
  • See also Definitions of fascism
• A paso de cangrejo: artículos, reflexiones y decepciones, 2000-2006 ('At a Crab's Pace: Articles, Reflections and Disappointments, 2000-2006') (2007)