# The best books by Jorge Luis Borges

Borges's story, essay and poetry collections most recommended by critics and readers, with Ficciones and The Aleph well ahead.

- 4 votes · 14 items
- Nov 2, 2024 · caliratondebiblioteca
- https://even.best/en/l/2528/the-best-books-by-jorge-luis-borges

## Top 14

1. **The Book of Sand** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1975. An infinite book and other late stories.
2. **Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1942. With Bioy Casares, as "Bustos Domecq".
3. **Seven Nights** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1980. Seven lectures, from Dante to blindness.
4. **Ficciones** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1944. Tlön, the Babylon lottery, the garden of forking paths.
5. **The Aleph** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1949. The point that contains every point in the universe.
6. **Dreamtigers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1960. Short prose and poems; a good way in.
7. **Brodie's Report** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1970. More straightforward stories, another recommended entry point.
8. **Other Inquisitions** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1952. His most important essays.
9. **A Universal History of Infamy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1935. Lives of villains retold his way.
10. **Discusión** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1932. Essays on literature and philosophy.
11. **Fervor de Buenos Aires** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1923. His first book of poems.
12. **A History of Eternity** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1936. Essays on time and eternity.
13. **In Praise of Darkness** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1969. Poems of old age and blindness.
14. **The Book of Imaginary Beings** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1957. With Margarita Guerrero; an imaginary bestiary.

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