Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges also wrote as: H. Bustos Domecq.

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on August 24th, 1899 and passed away at the age of 86 on June 14th, 1986.

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Jorge Luis Borges Stats: The highest rated book by Jorge Luis Borges on Book Notification is Ficciones, a Collection.

The most read book by Jorge Luis Borges on Book Notification is Ficciones, a Collection. The second most read book is The Library of Babel, a Novella.

Below is a complete list of Jorge Luis Borges books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Jorge Borges Standalone Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi ( As: H. Bustos Domecq)
1942
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List of Jorge Borges Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top short stories and novellas are The Library of Babel, The Garden of Forking Paths, and The Lottery in Babylon.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Mirror of Ink
1933
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2
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
1940
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3
9
The Library of Babel
1941
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4
8
The Garden of Forking Paths
1941
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5
The Lottery in Babylon
1941
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6
Artificios
1944
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7
The Congress of the World
1981
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8
Shakespeare's Memory
1983
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List of Jorge Borges Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top collections are Ficciones, Labyrinths, and Collected Fictions.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Inquisiciones
1925
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2
Evaristo Carriego
1930
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3
10
A Universal History of Iniquity
1935
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4
A Universal History of Infamy
1935
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5
8.4
Ficciones
1944
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6
8
El Aleph
1945
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7
The Aleph and Other Stories
1945
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8
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
1952
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9
Extraordinary Tales (With: Adolfo Bioy Casares)
1955
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10
The Book of Imaginary Beings
1957
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11
Dreamtigers
1960
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12
A Personal Anthology
1961
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13
Labyrinths
1962
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14
Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (With: Adolfo Bioy Casares)
1967
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15
Brodie's Report
1970
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16
The Aleph
1970
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17
The Book of Sand
1971
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18
Selected Poems
1971
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19
The Gold of the Tigers
1972
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20
Seven Nights
1977
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21
10
Collected Fictions
1998
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22
Everything and Nothing
1999
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23
The Secret Books
1999
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24
The Sonnets
2010
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25
The Widow Ching-Pirate
2011
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List of Jorge Borges Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Borges on Writing, Professor Borges, and The Perpetual Race of Achilles & the Tortoise.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Borges on Writing
1973
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2
On Writing
1973
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3
Borges in/and/on Film
1974
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4
Borges at Eighty
1980
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5
Borges
1981
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6
Atlas
1984
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7
Conversations, Volume 1
1985
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8
Conversations, Volume 2
1986
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9
Conversations, Volume 3
1987
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10
The Total Library
2000
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11
Professor Borges
2000
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12
On Argentina
2010
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13
On Mysticism
2010
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14
The Perpetual Race of Achilles & the Tortoise
2010
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List of Literary Conversations Books in Publication Order

Conversations with famous literary figures, providing insight into their lives and work.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
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2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
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3
Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
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4
Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
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5
Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
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6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
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7
Conversations with William Styron
1985
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8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
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9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
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10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
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11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
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12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
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13
Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
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14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
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15
Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
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16
Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
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17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
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18
Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
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19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
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20
Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
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21
Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
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22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
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23
Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
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24
Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
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25
Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
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26
Conversations with John Gardner
1990
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27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
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28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
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29
Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
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30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
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31
Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
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32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
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33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
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34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
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35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
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36
Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
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37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
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38
More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
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39
Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
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40
Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
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41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
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43
10
Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
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44
Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
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45
Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
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46
Conversations With S.J. Perelman
1995
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47
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
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48
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
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49
Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
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50
Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
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51
Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
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52
Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
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53
More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
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54
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
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55
Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
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56
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
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57
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
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58
Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
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59
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
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60
Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
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61
Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
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62
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
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63
Conversations With John Fowles
1999
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64
Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
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65
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
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66
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
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67
Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
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68
Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
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69
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
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70
Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
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71
Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
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72
Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
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73
Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
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74
Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
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75
Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
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76
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
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77
Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
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78
7.3
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
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79
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
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80
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
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81
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
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82
Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
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83
Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
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84
Conversations With John le Carré
2004
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85
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
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86
Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
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87
Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
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88
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
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89
Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
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90
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
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91
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
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92
Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
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93
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
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94
Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
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95
Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
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96
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
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97
Conversations with Jimmy Carter
2023
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List of ERIS Gems Books in Publication Order

Satirical critiques of cultural norms, each exposing hidden harms in work, reading, and human desire.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Frederic and Elfrida (By: Jane Austen)
1793
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2
The Right to Be Lazy (By: Paul Lafargue)
1880
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3
The Vice of Reading (By: Edith Wharton)
1903
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4
The Theme of the Three Caskets (By: Sigmund Freud)
1913
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5
The Invisible Collection (By: Stefan Zweig)
1929
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6
Unpacking My Library (By: Walter Benjamin)
1931
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7
The Lottery in Babylon
1941
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8
The Glory of the Rails (By: Tony Judt)
2011
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9
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (By: David Graeber)
2018
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10
Essay on the Art of Crawling (By: Paul-Henri Thiry)
2022
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11
A Modest Proposal ( By: Jonathan Swift)
2023
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12
Apocolocyntosis (By: Seneca The Younger)
2024
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13
The American Dream Is at the Expense of the American Negro (By: James Baldwin)
2024
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14
Justice in Palestine (By: Mahatma Gandhi)
2024
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15
The 1854 Oration (By: Chief Seattle)
2024
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16
A Load of Shit (By: John Berger)
2024
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17
Contempt is a Dangerous Way to Lead a Country (By: Mariann Edgar Budde)
2025
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18
On Talkativeness (By: Plutarch , W. C. Helmbold)
2025
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19
The Spirit of Monarchy (By: William Hazlitt)
2025
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20
Whose Body? (By: Judith Jarvis Thomson)
2025
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21
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (By: Étienne de La Boétie)
2025
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22
Tyranny of Style (By: Arnold Schoenberg)
2025
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23
In Praise of Cosmetics (By: Charles Baudelaire)
2025
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24
Death of a Prince (By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
2025
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25
The Communist of Montmartre (By: Michael Kleeberg)
2025
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26
The Glow of the Dim (By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)
2025
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27
What Is Fear? (By: Giorgio Agamben)
2025
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28
Face to Face (By: C.G. Jung)
2026
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29
The Case Against Travel (By: Agnes Callard)
2026
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30
Individualism and Conformism in the United States (By: Jean-Paul Sartre)
2026
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31
From Protest to Politics (By: Bayard Rustin)
2026
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32
On the Fragility of Life (By: Nick Cave)
2026
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33
What's in a Name (By: Claude Lévi-Strauss)
2026
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34
Decadent, Stricken, Dying (By: Aimé Césaire)
2026
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35
What We Owe One Another (By: Simone Weil)
2026
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List of The Last Interview Books in Publication Order

Numerous interviews with renowned intellectuals and writers.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida)
2005
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2
Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño)
2009
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3
7.7
Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
2011
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4
Jorge Luis Borges
2012
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5
Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt)
2013
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6
David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace)
2014
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7
James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe)
2014
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8
Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller)
2014
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9
Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez)
2015
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10
Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed)
2015
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11
Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway)
2015
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12
Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron)
2015
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13
Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick)
2015
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14
J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger)
2016
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15
Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks)
2016
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16
Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs)
2016
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17
David Bowie (By: David Bowie)
2016
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18
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.)
2017
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19
Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens)
2017
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20
Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson)
2018
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21
Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker)
2018
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22
Julia Child (By: Julia Child)
2018
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23
9
Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin)
2019
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24
9
Prince (By: Prince )
2019
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25
Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday)
2019
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26
9
Anthony Bourdain (By: Anthony Bourdain, Helen Rosner)
2019
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27
Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene)
2019
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28
Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison)
2020
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29
Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo)
2020
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30
Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House, Sady Doyle)
2020
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31
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House)
2020
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32
Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm)
2021
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33
The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
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34
Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
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35
Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash)
2021
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36
John Lewis (By: Melville House)
2021
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37
Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House)
2022
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38
Diego Maradona ( By: Melville House)
2022
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39
Kurt Cobain ( By: Melville House)
2022
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40
Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks)
2023
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41
Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House)
2023
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List of Jorge Luis Borges Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Book of Fantasy
1940
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2
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction
1971
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3
Eye of the Heart
1973
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4
Art After Modernism
1984
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5
Magical Realist Fiction
1984
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6
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
1992
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7
The Penguin Book of Latin American Short Stories
1992
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8
The New Mystery
1993
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9
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
1997
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10
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories
2000
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11
The Vintage Book of Amnesia
2000
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12
PEN America Issue 1: Classics
2000
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13
First Winter
2008
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14
Stories That Make You...
2012
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15
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
2012
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16
The Realm of the Impossible
2017
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17
8
Writers: Their Lives and Works
2018
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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24th, 1899. Jorge passed away June 14th, 1986 at 86 years old. Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires.

Jorge Luis Borges is known for writing in the Non-Fiction genre.

Jorge Luis Borges was the author of the Jorge Borges Collections series which consists of 25 novels. The Jorge Borges Collections series started in 1925 with the novel Inquisiciones. The most recently released novel in the Jorge Borges Collections series was The Widow Ching-Pirate which was released in 2011. There are no upcoming novels for the Jorge Borges Collections series.

Jorge Luis Borges also wrote 14 Non-Fiction Books, including Borges on Writing and On Writing.

Jorge Luis Borges has appeared on the Honkaku Mystery Best 10 guide book list one time. It was in 2001 for his book Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi (listed at #1), which he wrote alongside Adolfo Bioy Casares as H. Bustos Domecq.

Jorge Luis Borges: Awards & Accolades

Jorge Luis Borges won the World Fantasy Award, Life Achievement, in 1979.

Jorge Luis Borges: Lists & Other Mentions

  • Ficciones: Ex Libris: 100 Books to Read and Reread Selection in 2020.
  • Labyrinths:
    1. The Telegraph: 50 Best Cult Books Selection in 2016.
    2. Esquire: The 80 Books Every Man Should Read Selection in 2015.

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Jorge Luis Borges: F.A.Q

When was Jorge Luis Borges Born?

Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24th, 1899.

When did Jorge Luis Borges die?

Jorge Luis Borges died on June 14th, 1986 at 86 years old.

Where was Jorge Luis Borges Born?

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires.

What awards has Jorge Luis Borges won?

Jorge Luis Borges has won the following awards: Life Achievement at the World Fantasy Award (1979).

What was the first book Jorge Luis Borges wrote?

The first book written by Jorge Luis Borges was Inquisiciones, published in 1925.

What was the most recent book Jorge Luis Borges wrote?

His most recently released work was Jorge Luis Borges on December 4th, 2012.

What is the most popular book by Jorge Luis Borges?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Jorge Luis Borges book is Ficciones. Here are his most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. Ficciones (8.40)
  2. The Library of Babel (9.00)
  3. Collected Fictions (10.00)
  4. A Universal History of Iniquity (10.00)
  5. The Garden of Forking Paths (8.00)

What genres does Jorge Luis Borges Write?

Jorge Luis Borges primarily writes in the Non-Fiction genre. His work includes sub-genres such as Essays and Literary Essays.

How many books has Jorge Luis Borges written?

Jorge Luis Borges has written 50 books across 16 series and categories, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 1 Jorge Borges Standalone Novel
  • 8 Jorge Borges Short Stories/Novellas
  • 25 Jorge Borges Collections
  • 14 Jorge Borges Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Literary Conversations Series
  • 1 book in the ERIS Gems Series
  • 1 book in The Last Interview Series

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