Italian novelist and short story writer whose genre surfing inspired the following from THE NEW YORKER:  "Calvino's era and his experiments with genre make it natural for readers to think of him as a postmodernist, a master of pastiche, an ironist, and a mimic—to class him with Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, or the members of the OuLiPo, the French avant-garde literary society to which he belonged." This list is in order of publication and this reading challenge has no beginning or end other that what you provide.