Books
- Lavorare stanca (Hard labor), poems 1936; expanded edition 1943
- Paesi Tuoi (Your Villages), novel 1941
- La Spiaggia (The Beach), novel 1941
- Feria d'agosto (August Holiday) 1946
- Il Compagno (The comrade), novel 1947
- Dialoghi con Leucò (Dialogues with Leucò), Philosophical dialogues between classical Greek characters 1947
- Il diavolo sulle colline (The Devil in the Hills), novel 1948
- Prima che il gallo canti (Before the Cock Crows), two novellas La casa in collina (The house on the hill) and Il carcere (The Prison), 1949
- La bella estate (The Fine Summer), Three novellas including Tra donne sole (Women on their own), 1949
- La luna e i falò (The Moon and the Bonfires), novel 1950
- Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi (Death will come and will have your eyes), poems, 1951
- Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935–1950, The business of living: Diaries 1935-1950 (published in English as The Burning Brand), 1952
- Saggi Letterari Literary Essays
- Racconti – two volumes of short stories
- Lettere 1926-1950 – two volumes of letters
- Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) (translated by Geoffrey Brock)
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