Carlo Fruttero

Works with Franco Lucentini

• Il secondo libro della fantascienza (1961; the first of several successful anthologies of science fiction short stories edited by F&L; lit. 'The second science fiction book')
• L'idraulico non verrà (1971; poetry collection; lit. 'The plumber will not come')
• La donna della domenica (1972, translated into English by William Weaver as The Sunday Woman in 1973; the first and most famous novel by F&L, and one of the first examples of Italian crime novels)
• L'Italia sotto il tallone di F&L (1974; a humorous political fantasy in which Fruttero & Lucentini become dictators of Italy with the help of Muammar al-Gaddafi; the novel was inspired by the actual harsh reaction of the embassy of Libya to a satirical article by F&L in La Stampa, very critical of Gaddafi; lit. 'Italy under F[ruttero] & L[ucentini]'s heel')
• Il significato dell'esistenza (1974; lit. 'The meaning of existence')
• A che punto è la notte (1979; crime novel; lit. 'What of the night', as in the Bible, Isaiah 21:11).
• La cosa in sé (1982; play "in two acts and a licence" about a man who realises that solipsism is real and all the universe is created by his mind; lit. 'The thing in itself', as in the philosophical term)
• Il Palio delle contrade morte (1983, lit. 'The Palio of the dead quarters')
• Ti trovo un po' pallida (1983; a ghost story set in sunny Tuscany, originally appeared in the L'Espresso magazine in 1979; it was actually written by Fruttero alone, as explained in the afterword to the 2007 edition; lit. 'You look quite pale')
• La prevalenza del cretino (1985; a collection of "L'Agenda di F. & L." columns form the newspaper La Stampa, about all forms of stupidity; lit. 'The supremacy of the cretin')
• Il colore del destino (1987; collection of three novellas: Notizie dagli scavi (by Lucentini) and Ti trovo un po' pallida (by Fruttero), already published, and Il colore del destino (written jointly); it is the only book by the two authors having the byline "Lucentini & Fruttero" rather than "Fruttero & Lucentini"; lit. 'The colour of destiny')
• La verità sul caso D (1989, translated into English by Gregory Dowling as The D. Case: or The Truth about the Mystery of Edwin Drood; a completion and elaboration on Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood; lit. 'The truth on the D case')
• L'amante senza fissa dimora (1986; a novel about a successful Italian woman meeting a mysterious man in romantic Venice: an apparently standard love story with a twist; published in English by Chatto & Windus in 1999 as "No fixed abode")
• Storie americane di guerra (1991, editor; anthology of "American war stories")
• Enigma in luogo di mare (1991; crime novel set in a seaside community in Tuscany; lit. 'Riddle in a sea town')
• Il ritorno del cretino (1992; more columns from "La Stampa"; lit. 'The comeback of the cretin')
• Breve storia delle vacanze (1994; lit. 'Short history of vacations')
• La morte di Cicerone (1995; lit. 'Cicero's death')
• Il nuovo libro dei nomi di battesimo (1998; a non-fiction handbook about how to choose a name for a son, with amusing information and trivia on names' meaning and use)
• Il cretino in sintesi (2002; still more columns from "La Stampa"; lit. 'The cretin in synthesis')
• Viaggio di nozze al Louvre (2002; lit. 'Honeymoon at the Louvre')
• I nottambuli (2002; lit. 'The nightwalkers')
• I ferri del mestiere (2003; a collection of articles and short stories edited by Domenico Scarpa; lit. 'The tools of the trade')