Who recommends it
- Lindsay AmerInterview
This is a tough question because there are a couple of different ways to do this! What I’m wondering is if we’re teaching them about humanity through these books, or are we just trying to show off the best of our literary works? Also if we’re trying to educate them, are we trying to get them up to date on what the…
- Ayesha Harruna AttahInterview
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi, House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and No Sweetness Here by Ama Ata Aidoo.
- John Sibley Williams: Never, Ever Stop WritingInterview
Although there are hundreds of books I can’t imagine my creative life without, six that immediately spring to mind are One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, All the Names by Jose Saramago, Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, City of Rivers by Zubair Ahmed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by…
- Andrew YangInterview
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
- Dominique ChristinaInterview
- Linda YuehInterview
Too many to name! One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez – indeed, all of his books.
- Nicole GallandInterview
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino, Anguished English by Richard Lederer, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson, The Collected Plays of Samuel Beckett, The Idiot by Fyodor…
- Chigozie ObiomaInterview
I am mostly reading The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I have been enthralled by Bloom’s work as he is a great literary scholar. I fear that he is getting too old to continue producing and recently wrote to him in appreciation, and to comment on some of his…
- Jason Y. NgInterview
It is a difficult question, but I’ll have to say One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I love the multi-generational set-up and the magical realism peppered throughout the book. Márquez also taught me that in order to love one’s country or culture, I must first be its harshest critic.
- Naomi DuguidInterview
I can’t say. When I read The Diviners by Margaret Laurence I was twenty, and realised it was that the novels I’d read until then were all male and mostly foreign (not Canadian) and that reading her rich story, set in Canada, with a woman’s point of view, was entirely new and thrilling. It made me aware, ever after, of…
- Mario BataliInterview
The book that had the biggest impact is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
- Vilma GonzalezInterview
That’s a really tough one. I’m a big fan of literary fiction, so books like Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yeah…
- Andrew KnollInterview
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (the best writing about music I know), The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey,
- Adam MartinakisInterview
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I read it just after the death of my father.
- Andrew HuangInterview
The Red Book by C.G. Jung, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neuromancer by William Gibson, Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler.
- Daniel CohenInterview
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein; Gödel, Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot; The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan; The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut; The Human Stain by Philip Roth; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers K by David James…
- Paul Anthony SmithInterview
- Brandon DailyInterview
My favorite book, and what I argue is the greatest novel ever written, is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and it is this book that I think everyone with a pulse should read and experience. So, why not give it as a gift to anyone on their 21st birthday as a rite of passage.
Often recommended alongside
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
The Odyssey
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giving Tree
Lolita
All the Light We Cannot See
The Brothers KaramazovMore books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez our guests recommend
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