The Passion for Reading Top 100
This list is a recommendation guide compiled by experts at Tecnológico de Monterrey. It includes literary works that are essential, given their great historical and cultural value, but, above all, because anyone who starts to read them won’t want to stop.
1. 1984, George Orwell
2. Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
3. Antología de la literatura fantástica (Anthology of Fantastic Literature), Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo
4. Candide, Voltaire
5. Cantar del Mío Cid (The Poem of the Cid), Anonymous
6. Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Gabriel García Márquez
7. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. Cuentos (Stories), Horacio Quiroga
9. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
10. Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
11. Don Quijote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
12. Dracula, Bram Stoker
13. Dubliners, James Joyce
14. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
15. The Count of Montecristo, Alejandro Dumas
16. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
17. The Stranger, Albert Camus
18. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
19. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
20. El juguete rabioso (Mad Toy), Roberto Artl
21. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
22. The Wall, Jean Paul Sartre
23. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
24. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
25. El pozo (The Pit), Juan Carlos Onetti
26. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
27. The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
28. The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
29. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
30. El túnel (The Tunnel), Ernesto Sabato
31. Embers, Sándor Márai
32. Ensayo sobre la ceguera (Blindness), José Saramago
33. This Side of Paradise, F. S. Fitzgerald
34. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
35. Ficciones (Fictions), Jorge Luis Borges
36. Frankenstein, Mary W. Shelley
37. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
38. La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba), Federico García Lorca
39. The House of the Sleeping Beauties, Yasunari Kawabata
40. La Celestina, Fernando de Rojas
41. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
42. La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat), Mario Vargas Llosa
43. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
44. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
45. The Death of Iván Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
46. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
47. La piel de zapa (The Magic Skin), Honoré de Balzac
48. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
49. La tregua (The Truce), Mario Benedetti
50. La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream), Pedro Calderón de la Barca
51. The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
52. Dangerous Liaisons, Choderlos de Laclos
53. Las tribulaciones del estudiante Törless (The Confusions of Young Törless), Robert Musil
54. Lazarillo de Tormes, Anonymous
55. The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
56. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
57. Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), Roberto Bolaño
58. Les Misérables, Víctor Hugo
59. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
60. Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
61. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
62. Nada, Carmen Laforet
63. Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe
64. The Odyssey, Homer
65. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
66. Rayuela, Julio Cortázar
67. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
68. Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello
69. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
70. Sostiene Pereira (Pereira Maintains), Antonio Tabucchi
71. Sylvie, Gérard de Nerval
72. Tokio blues (Norwegian Wood), Haruki Murakami
73. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
74. Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), Pablo Neruda
75. Werther, J. W. Goethe
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76. Al filo del agua (The Water’s Edge), Agustín Yáñez
77. Amor perdido (Lost Love), Carlos Monsiváis
78. Aura, Carlos Fuentes
79. Balún Canán, Rosario Castellanos
80. Biografía del poder (Biography of Power), Enrique Krauze
81. Confabulario (Confabulation), Juan José Arreola
82. El laberinto de la soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude), Octavio Paz
83. El Zarco, Ignacio M. Altamirano
84. La noche de Tlatelolco (Massacre in Mexico), Elena Poniatowska
85. La sombra del caudillo (The Shadow of the Strongman), Martín Luis Guzmán
86. La visión de los vencidos (Vision of the Vanquished), Miguel León-Portilla
87. Las batallas en el desierto (Battles in the Desert), José Emilio Pacheco
88. Lírica personal, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
89. Los de abajo (The Underdogs), Mariano Azuela
90. Los recuerdos del porvenir (Recollections of Things to Come), Elena Garro
91. Los relámpagos de Agosto (The Lightening of August), Jorge Ibargüengoitia
92. Memorias (Memoirs), Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
93. México, Alfonso Reyes
94. Muerte sin fin (Death Without End), José Gorostiza
95. Noticias del imperio (News from the Empire), Fernando del Paso
96. Nueva historia mínima de México (New Minimal History of Mexico), Diverse authors (COLMEX)
97. Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo
98. Poesía en movimiento, Octavio Paz et al.
99. Suave patria, Ramón López Velarde
100. Ulises criollo (Creole Ulysses), José Vasconcelos