Fifty Favorite Works of Argentine Literature
(in alphabetical order, with no more than six books per author, because otherwise . . . *)
The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia
All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimópulos
Animals by Hebe Uhart
Bestiary: Selected Stories by Julio Cortázar
Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
Bodies of Summer by Martin Felipe Castagnet
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
The Book of Memories by Ana María Shua
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari, Vol. I, II, and III by Jorge Luis Borges
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
Death as a Side Effect by Ana María Shua
The Desert and Its Seed by Jorge Barón Biza
Diving Board by Tomás Downey
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Fireflies by Luis Sagasti
Ghosts by César Aira
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Islands by Carlos Gamerro
Jaguars’ Tomb by Angélica Gorodischer
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer
Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresán
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
The Linden Tree by César Aira
The Literary Conference by César Aira
Literature Class by Julio Cortázar
The Longest Day of the Future by Lucas Varela
Microfictions by Ana María Shua
The Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernández
The Musical Brain: And Other Stories by César Aira
A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti
Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird by Agustina Bazterrica
The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini
On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
Paradises by Iosi Havilio
Patient by Ana María Shua
Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges
Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges
Shantytown by César Aira
The Temple of Iconoclasts by J. Rodolfo Wilcock
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer
The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
What to Do by Pablo Katchadjian
The Weight of Temptation by Ana María Shua
Without a Net by Ana María Shua
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
* otherwise = Aira
— December 22, 2025