Umberto Eco - The Authors List

Umberto Eco. On The Authors List with 7 books that I've read. I discovered him in 1984 when I read The Name of the Rose which is one of my favorite novels and a fascinating historical murder mystery set in a medieval monastery. I read it a second time years later and would love to read it again. The 1986 movie staring Sean Connery was great too. 

Then I went on to read more of his novels over the years as they were published. There are only a couple of his novels I didn't read.

I recently read a couple of his art history books examining beauty and ugliness that Becky has in her art book collection. I was interested in this other aspect of one of my favorite novelist so I had those two books next to my reading chair for awhile and read the articles over a rather long period of time. Some interesting pandemic reading.

Umberto Eco books that I've read:

• The Name of the Rose, 1980 - Jul 1984
• Foucault's Pendulum, 1989 - Aug 1989
• The Island of the Day Before, 1995 - Apr 1996
• Baudolino, 2001 - Dec 2002
• The Prague Cemetary, 2011 - Nov 2012
• History of Beauty / On Beauty, 2004 - Mar 2021
• On Ugliness, 2007 - Jan 2022