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Argentina, 41 Books

38 Argentinean Authors were polled by the Argentinean government for their favorite books. This is a tally of all books with more than 1 vote.

This list was originally published in 2008 and was added to this site almost 12 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
45 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
7 Moby-Dick Herman Melville 1851 American English
295 Franz Kafka Franz Kafka 1971 Czech Unknown
8 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 1605 Spanish Spanish
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
135 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 German German
930 The Seven Madmen Roberto Arlt 1929 Argentinian Spanish
2279 Poems of Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale 1925 Italian Italian
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
98 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
754 If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem William Faulkner 1939 American English
129 First Folio William Shakespeare 1623 British English
3432 Betrayed by Rita Hayworth Manuel Puig 1968 Argentinian Spanish
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
614 Facundo Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 1845 Argentinian Spanish
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
111 The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922 British English
81 The Castle Franz Kafka 1926 Czech German
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
75 Essays Michel de Montaigne 1580 French French
600 Nine Stories J. D. Salinger 1953 American English
1780 Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda 1970 Chilean Spanish
18 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 Russian Russian
12 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869 Russian Russian
30 The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri 1308 Italian Italian
54 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 1952 American English
31 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899 British English
42 The Red and the Black Stendhal 1830 French French
268 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
46 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
8703 The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley Hector Viel Temperley
 2011 Argentinian Spanish
518 The Odes Horace 23 Roman Latin
3079 Los lanzallamas Roberto Arlt 1931 Argentinian Spanish
56 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
384 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz 1937 Polish Polish
591 Stories of Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1880 French French
973 The Burning Plain and Other Stories Juan Rulfo 1953 Mexican Spanish
147 Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo 1923 Italian Italian
1182 Poems of Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca 1921 Spanish Spanish
482 Jakob Von Gunten Robert Walser 1909 Swiss German