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 
- 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 
- Open Door by Iosi Havilio 
- 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
— October 9, 2025