Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Inspirational Reads

25 influential books

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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

The Arabian Nights

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

Collected Stories by Ernest Hemingway

Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

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