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Books like The Periodic Table

Explore 24 books like The Periodic Table by Primo Levi — a handpicked selection united by Italian, Literary Figures, Short Stories (single author), and Essays.

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Top related books to The Periodic Table

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of The Periodic Table.

The Road to San Giovanni

Italo Calvino

Themes: Italian • Literary Figures • Essays

Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante

Lily Tuck

Themes: Italian • Literary Figures • Essays

Natalia Ginzburg A Voice of the Twentieth Century

Angela M. Jeannet

Themes: Italian • Literary Figures • Essays

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

John Irving

Themes: Literary Figures • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

My Life, My Body

Marge Piercy

Themes: Literary Figures • Short Stories (single author) • Essays

Lives of the Wives Five Literary Marriages

Carmela Ciuraru

Themes: Italian • Literary Figures • Essays

The Snows of Yesteryear Portraits for an Autobiography

Gregor Rezzori

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

A Place in the Country

Winfried Georg Sebald

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#10

Time Come Selected Prose

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#11

Extreme Metaphors

J. G. Ballard

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#12

Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author

Edward John Trelawny

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#13

Box 18 The Unpublished Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#14

Kafka’s Other Trial

Elias Canetti

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#15

A Writer’s Diary Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • Literary Criticism

#16

A Literate Passion Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Anaïs Nin

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • Literary Criticism

#17

Monty His Part in My Victory

Spike Milligan

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#18

The Confessions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#19

Tolkien And The Great War The Threshold Of Middle-earth

John Garth

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#20

Malory The Knight Who Became King Arthur’s Chronicler

Christina Hardyment

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#21

She’s Nice Though Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

Mia Mercado

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • Literary Criticism

#22

The Age of Disenchantments The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War

Aaron Shulman

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#23

George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943

George Orwell

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • European

#24

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Melanie Rehak

Themes: Literary Figures • Essays • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Italian, Literary Figures, Short Stories (single author) — the same threads that run through The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. Among the authors featured: Italo Calvino, Lily Tuck, Angela M. Jeannet, John Irving, and others.