Fifty Favorite Works of Argentine Literature

(in alphabetical order, with no more than six books per author, because otherwise . . . *)

 

  1. The Absent City by Ricardo Piglia

  2. All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimópulos

  3. Animals by Hebe Uhart

  4. Bestiary: Selected Stories by Julio Cortázar

  5. Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar

  6. Bodies of Summer by Martin Felipe Castagnet

  7. The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

  8. The Book of Memories by Ana María Shua

  9. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

  10. Conversations with Osvaldo Ferrari, Vol. I, II, and III by Jorge Luis Borges

  11. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

  12. Death as a Side Effect by Ana María Shua

  13. The Desert and Its Seed by Jorge Barón Biza

  14. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira

  15. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

  16. Fireflies by Luis Sagasti

  17. Ghosts by César Aira

  18. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

  19. The Islands by Carlos Gamerro

  20. Jaguars’ Tomb by Angélica Gorodischer

  21. Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer

  22. Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresán

  23. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

  24. The Linden Tree by César Aira

  25. The Literary Conference by César Aira

  26. Literature Class by Julio Cortázar

  27. The Longest Day of the Future by Lucas Varela

  28. Microfictions by Ana María Shua

  29. The Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernández

  30. The Musical Brain: And Other Stories by César Aira

  31. A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti

  32. Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird by Agustina Bazterrica

  33. The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini

  34. On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato

  35. Open Door by Iosi Havilio

  36. Paradises by Iosi Havilio

  37. Patient by Ana María Shua

  38. Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer

  39. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges

  40. Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

  41. Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges

  42. Shantytown by César Aira

  43. The Temple of Iconoclasts by J. Rodolfo Wilcock

  44. Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

  45. Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer

  46. The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica

  47. What to Do by Pablo Katchadjian

  48. The Weight of Temptation by Ana María Shua

  49. Without a Net by Ana María Shua

  50. Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto

* otherwise = Aira

— October 9, 2025


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