Literary Canon
Best Books from Colombia
Colombia's literary reputation rests on a single colossal achievement: Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, which invented the term "magical realism" for a whole generation of readers and won the Nobel Prize in 1982. But the tradition runs wider and deeper. Tomás González writes with quiet intensity about family and loss; Fernando Vallejo's autobiographical novels are some of the most viscerally honest in Latin American literature; Juan Gabriel Vásquez has mapped Colombia's violent political history with the precision and compassion of a great novelist. Bogotá's Hay Festival has made the city a hub of the Spanish-language literary world.
#1
literary-fiction
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel García Márquez· 1975
★Nobel Prize in Literature
Editorial Score70/100
#2
literary-fiction
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez· 1985
★Nobel Prize in Literature
Editorial Score70/100
#3
literary-fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez· 1982
★Nobel Prize in Literature
Editorial Score69/100
#4
literary-fiction
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Gabriel García Márquez· 1985
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score45/100
#5
classic-literature
Collected Novellas
Gabriel García Márquez· 1990
Notable Work
Editorial Score43/100
#6
literary-fiction
Of Love and Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez· 1994
ALA Notable Books
Editorial Score41/100
#7
literary-fiction
Relato de un náufrago
Gabriel García Márquez· 1970
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#8
romance
Memoria de mis putas tristes
Gabriel García Márquez· 2004
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#9
historical-fiction
The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel García Márquez· 1989
ALA Notable Books
Editorial Score37/100
#10
literary-fiction
Cien años de soledad
Gabriel García Márquez· 1967
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#11
literary-fiction
Otoño Del Patriarca
Gabriel García Márquez· 1973
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#12
literary-fiction
Doce cuentos peregrinos
Gabriel García Márquez· 1992
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#13
literary-fiction
La hojarasca
Gabriel García Márquez· 1954
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#14
literary-fiction
Los funerales de la Mamá Grande
Gabriel García Márquez· 1962
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#15
biography-memoir
La aventura de Miguel Littín, clandestino en Chile
Gabriel García Márquez· 1986
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#16
literary-fiction
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Gabriel García Márquez· 1980
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#17
literary-fiction
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Gabriel García Márquez· 1961
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#18
literary-fiction
La mala hora
Gabriel García Márquez· 1962
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#19
literary-fiction
El general en su laberinto
Gabriel García Márquez· 1989
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#20
literary-fiction
La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada
Gabriel García Márquez· 1972
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#21
biography-memoir
Vivir para contarla
Gabriel García Márquez· 2002
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#22
adventure
Flight to The Mountain Top, 2001, ISBN 9780759685260
Pablo Marquez-Garcia· 2001
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#23
short-stories
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Short Stories
Gabriel García Márquez· 1962
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100