# The best books by Gabriel García Márquez

The novels, stories and non-fiction by Gabo most recommended by the cultural press and readers, from One Hundred Years of Solitude to the posthumous Until August.

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- Jul 25, 2026 · medalloversionoriginal
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## Top 15

1. **The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1970. The true story of a sailor adrift for ten days, first serialised in El Espectador.
2. **Strange Pilgrims** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1992. Latin Americans in Europe, written over eighteen years.
3. **Leaf Storm** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1955. His first novel and Macondo's first appearance.
4. **In Evil Hour** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1962. Anonymous lampoons reveal a town's secrets during La Violencia.
5. **blue dog eyes** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Compilation of his first stories, written between 1947 and 1955 and published as a book in 1974.
6. **One Hundred Years of Solitude** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1967. Seven generations of the Buendías in Macondo; the novel that made him universal and, with the rest of his work, earned him the 1982 Nobel.
7. **Love in the Time of Cholera** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1985. Florentino Ariza waits for Fermina Daza for 51 years, 9 months and 4 days.
8. **Chronicle of a Death Foretold** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1981. The whole town knew the Vicario twins were going to kill Santiago Nasar.
9. **No One Writes to the Colonel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1961. A retired colonel waits every Friday for his pension letter; Gabo's own favourite among his short novels.
10. **The Autumn of the Patriarch** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1975. The loneliness of an eternal dictator, in sentences that run for pages.
11. **The General in His Labyrinth** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1989. Simón Bolívar's last journey down the Magdalena River.
12. **News of a Kidnapping** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1996. The kidnappings of journalists ordered by Pablo Escobar in 1990.
13. **Of Love and Other Demons** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1994. Sierva María, a twelve-year-old girl bitten by a dog in colonial Cartagena.
14. **Living to Tell the Tale** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002. His memoirs up to 1955, opening with the trip to Aracataca to sell the family house.
15. **Big Mama's Funeral** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1962. Stories including 'Tuesday Siesta', which he considered his best story.
16. **Until August** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2024. A posthumous novel: Ana Magdalena Bach visits her mother's grave on a Caribbean island every August.
17. **Memories of My Melancholy Whores** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2004. A journalist in his nineties and his last love; his last novel published during his lifetime.

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