The best books by Gabriel García Márquez
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor · Strange Pilgrims · Leaf Storm. (Updated Jul 25, 2026.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 15
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
1970. The true story of a sailor adrift for ten days, first serialised in El Espectador.
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Strange Pilgrims
1992. Latin Americans in Europe, written over eighteen years.
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Leaf Storm
1955. His first novel and Macondo's first appearance.
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In Evil Hour
1962. Anonymous lampoons reveal a town's secrets during La Violencia.
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blue dog eyes
Compilation of his first stories, written between 1947 and 1955 and published as a book in 1974.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
1985. Florentino Ariza waits for Fermina Daza for 51 years, 9 months and 4 days.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1981. The whole town knew the Vicario twins were going to kill Santiago Nasar.
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No One Writes to the Colonel
1961. A retired colonel waits every Friday for his pension letter; Gabo's own favourite among his short novels.
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
1975. The loneliness of an eternal dictator, in sentences that run for pages.
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The General in His Labyrinth
1989. Simón Bolívar's last journey down the Magdalena River.
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12
News of a Kidnapping
1996. The kidnappings of journalists ordered by Pablo Escobar in 1990.
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Of Love and Other Demons
1994. Sierva María, a twelve-year-old girl bitten by a dog in colonial Cartagena.
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14
Living to Tell the Tale
2002. His memoirs up to 1955, opening with the trip to Aracataca to sell the family house.
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Big Mama's Funeral
1962. Stories including 'Tuesday Siesta', which he considered his best story.
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Until August
2024. A posthumous novel: Ana Magdalena Bach visits her mother's grave on a Caribbean island every August.
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
2004. A journalist in his nineties and his last love; his last novel published during his lifetime.
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Comments (5)
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba es perfecta, cortita y demoledora.
En agosto nos vemos en la lista... publicada en 2024 contra su voluntad, no sé si debería estar.
Relato de un náufrago lo leí en el colegio y me encantó.
Cien años de soledad primero, imposible otro.
Falta Ojos de perro azul, sus primeros cuentos.