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Jorge Luis Borges's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 69 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Jorge Luis Borges, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/jorge-luis-borges-favorite-books/.

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Julio Cortázar · Buy on Amazon

Franz Kafka · Buy on Amazon

The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

G.K. Chesterton · Buy on Amazon

Wilkie Collins · Buy on Amazon

The Intelligence of Flowers

Maurice Maeterlinck · Buy on Amazon

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati · Buy on Amazon

Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen · Buy on Amazon

The Mandarin And Other Stories

Eça de Queirós · Buy on Amazon

The Jesuit Empire

Leopoldo Lugones · Buy on Amazon

The Counterfeiters

André Gide · Buy on Amazon

The Time Machine and The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · Buy on Amazon

The Greek Myths

Robert Graves (also rec’d by Christopher Hitchens ) · Buy on Amazon

Cover of Demons

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon

Mathematics and the Imagination

Edward Kasner · Buy on Amazon

The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra

Eugene O’Neill · Buy on Amazon

Ariwara no Narihara · Buy on Amazon

Herman Melville · Buy on Amazon

The Tragic Everyday

Giovanni Papini · Buy on Amazon

The Three Impostors

Arthur Manchen · Buy on Amazon

Fray Luis de León · Buy on Amazon

An Explanation of the Book of Job

Fray Luis de León · Buy on Amazon

The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · Buy on Amazon

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon · Buy on Amazon

Essays & Dialogues

Oscar Wilde · Buy on Amazon

A Barbarian in Asia

Henri Michaux · Buy on Amazon

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse (also rec’d by Leonard Cohen & Patti Smith ) · Buy on Amazon

Arnold Bennett · Buy on Amazon

On the Nature of Animals

Claudius Elianus · Buy on Amazon

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen · Buy on Amazon

The Temptation of St. Antony

Gustave Flaubert · Buy on Amazon

Marco Polo · Buy on Amazon

Imaginary Lives

Marcel Schwob · Buy on Amazon

Caesar and Cleopatra

George Bernard Shaw · Buy on Amazon

Francisco de Quevedo · Buy on Amazon

The Red Redmaynes

Eden Phillpotts · Buy on Amazon

Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard · Buy on Amazon

Gustav Meyrink · Buy on Amazon

The Lesson of the Master

Henry James · Buy on Amazon

The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus

Herdotus · Buy on Amazon

Juan Rulfo · Buy on Amazon

Rudyard Kipling · Buy on Amazon

William Beckford · Buy on Amazon

Cover of Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe · Buy on Amazon

Professional Secrets

Jean Cocteau · Buy on Amazon

The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories

Thomas de Quincey · Buy on Amazon

Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza

Ramon Gomez de la Serna · Buy on Amazon

Arabian Nights: Tales From The Thousand and One Nights

Gabriel García Márquez ) · Buy on Amazon

The New Arabian Nights

Robert Louis Stevenson · Buy on Amazon

Salvation Through the Jews

Léon Bloy · Buy on Amazon

Juan José Arreola · Buy on Amazon

Cover of Lady Into Fox

David Garnett · Buy on Amazon

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift · Buy on Amazon

Literary Criticism

Paul Groussac · Buy on Amazon

Manuel Mujica Láinez · Buy on Amazon

Book of Good Love

Juan Ruiz · Buy on Amazon

Complete Poetry

William Blake (also rec’d by Jim Morrison ) · Buy on Amazon

Above the Dark Circus

Hugh Walpole · Buy on Amazon

Ezequiel Martinez Estrada · Buy on Amazon

The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Stevie Nicks ) · Buy on Amazon

Virgil · Buy on Amazon

Voltaire · Buy on Amazon

An Experiment with Time

J.W. Dunne · Buy on Amazon

An Essay on Orlando Furioso

Atilio Momigliano · Buy on Amazon

The Varieties of Religious Experience: The Study of Human Nature

William James · Buy on Amazon

Snorri Sturluson · Buy on Amazon

The Problem of Time

J. Alexander Gunn · Buy on Amazon

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