Gabriel García Márquez’s Formative Reading List

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About this list

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it,” Gabriel García Márquez wrote. Here's a list of books that moulded and impressed him as a writer.

This list was originally from Living to Tell the Tale, an autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez.

This list was originally published in 2003 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
25	The Magic Mountain	Thomas Mann	1924	German	German
7030	The Man In The Iron Mask	Alexandre Dumas	1847	French	French
1	Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	Irish	English
9	The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	1929	American	English
79	As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	1930	American	English
753	If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem	William Faulkner	1939	American	English
105	Oedipus the King	Sophocles	-429	Greek	Ancient greek
601	The House of the Seven Gables	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1851	American	English
184	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	1852	American	English
7	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	1851	American	English
144	Sons and Lovers	D. H. Lawrence	1913	British	English
46	One Thousand and One Nights	Unknown	800	Multiple	Arabic
66	The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	1915	Czech	German
434	El Aleph	Jorge Luis Borges	1949	Argentinian	Spanish
650	Stories of Ernest Hemingway	Ernest Hemingway	1987	American	English
1627	Point Counter Point	Aldous Huxley	1928	British	English
170	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	1937	American	English
26	The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	1939	American	English
926	Tobacco Road	Erskine Caldwell	1932	American	English
1489	The Garden Party And Other Stories	Katherine Mansfield	1922	New Zealand	English
646	Manhattan Transfer	John Dos Passos	1925	American	English
2183	Portrait Of Jennie	Robert Nathan	1940	American	English
95	Orlando	Virginia Woolf	1928	British	English
32	Mrs. Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	1925	British	English