The Latin American Boom of the 1960s-70s produced some of the most celebrated fiction in world literary history. But where do you start? Begin with the most accessible works and build toward the more challenging.
The Recommended Reading Order
Start here: Love in the Time of Cholera by García Márquez — more plot-driven than One Hundred Years of Solitude, perfect first book. Then The Aleph by Borges — his short stories are the best introduction. Then One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez — the masterwork, best enjoyed after you know the world. Then Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar — a genre-breaking experimental novel. Then The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes — a panoramic vision of Mexican history.
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