<p>Yes 100 Years of Solitude is incredible. One of my all-time favorites for sure.</p>
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<p>One of my favorites.</p>
<p>Another book that I didn’t read for school but still loved, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (if I remember correctly?). It won the Pullitzer Prize in 2008. Great book; it was funny, sad, interesting, topical, etc. etc. I liked it especially because I had just been in the Dominican Republic and the book is more or less about that. Still, I think it’s worth a read for everyone.</p>
<p>It does “Latin American Literature,” or I guess I should say Spanish literature, really well without all of the stereotypical, flowery stuff that you find in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel (like literally eating roses…ugh I can’t stand it). I’ve yet to read Borges but I’m interested in him. What books would you recommend by him?</p>
<p>I read No Matter How Loud I Shout by Edward Humes about the juvenile court system… it’s an amazing read. I recommend it to everyone :)</p>
<p>A Song of Ice and Fire, the TV series for which is coming out this month!</p>
<p>Borges’ “Ficciones” is probably the best place to start, although really you may as well pick up the “Collected Fictions” published by Penguin a couple of years ago.</p>
<p>Not a book, but Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion is the most insightful collection of essays–expertly written–I’ve ever read.</p>
<p>what about the perks of being a wallflower…?</p>