# The best Roberto Bolaño books

Where to start with Bolaño and what to read next, from The Savage Detectives to 2666, according to readers and critics.

- 43 votes · 12 items
- Jun 8, 2024 · caliratondebiblioteca
- https://even.best/en/l/3057/the-best-roberto-bolano-books

## Top 12

1. **2666** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 2004. His posthumous masterpiece, with Santa Teresa at its centre.
2. **By Night in Chile** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 2000. The monologue of a priest and literary critic in a single night.
3. **Nazi Literature in the Americas** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1996. An encyclopedia of invented writers; the book that made his name.
4. **Antwerp** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 2002. His most experimental novel, written in the 1980s.
5. **Monsieur Pain** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1999. A mesmerist in 1930s Paris.
6. **The Savage Detectives** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1998. Two poets search for a vanished poet; Herralde and Rómulo Gallegos prizes.
7. **Amulet** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1999. Auxilio Lacouture locked in a UNAM bathroom in 1968.
8. **Last Evenings on Earth** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1997. His first story collection, with "Sensini".
9. **Distant Star** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1996. A poet and pilot tied to the Chilean dictatorship.
10. **Woes of the True Policeman** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 2011. Posthumous, linked to the world of 2666.
11. **The Third Reich** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 2010. Posthumous: a war-game champion on holiday on the Costa Brava.
12. **The Insufferable Gaucho** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2003. Stories and essays, the last book he prepared.

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