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Gabriel García Márquez

Born

in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

March 06, 1927

Died

April 17, 2014

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Magical Realism

Influences

William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, Juan Rulfo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest ...more

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr ...more

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Gabriel García Márquez’s books

Average rating: 3.99 · 2,579,963 ratings · 162,715 reviews · 991 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating — 1,137,638 ratings — published 1967 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 558,580 ratings — published 1985 — 184 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronicle of a Death Foretold 3.97 avg rating — 247,541 ratings — published 1981 — 540 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 100,192 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Love and Other Demons 3.95 avg rating — 89,594 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El coronel no tiene quien le escriba 3.80 avg rating — 70,752 ratings — published 1961 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	En agosto nos vemos 3.54 avg rating — 61,482 ratings — published 2024 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 30,174 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autumn of the Patriarch 3.86 avg rating — 27,403 ratings — published 1975 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relato de un náufrago 3.88 avg rating — 26,716 ratings — published 1970 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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January 2017 Revisit the Shelf Poll

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967, 457 pages

42 votes, 16.9%

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1862, 1463 pages

33 votes, 13.3%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1962, 192 pages

27 votes, 10.9%

East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 1952, 601 pages

23 votes, 9.3%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 1957, 592 pages

23 votes, 9.3%

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850, 228 pages

23 votes, 9.3%

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922, 422 pages

18 votes, 7.3%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883, 311 pages

17 votes, 6.9%

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, 1994, 460 pages

15 votes, 6.0%

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1845, 1276 pages

14 votes, 5.6%

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 1864, 240 pages

11 votes, 4.4%

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 1844, 786 pages

2 votes, 0.8%

248 total votes

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