100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez · first published 2016
53% recommend41% neutral6% critical
Why HN recommends it
Absorbing, beautifully written novel readers couldn't put down and kept thinking about for decades; its imagery stays with them, and it rewards rereading. Suits readers of literary fiction and Latin American writing.
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I read Marquez's master piece '100 Years of Solitude' in my native language Malayalam 25 years ago and it got etched into my mind forever. In the next 2-3 years I read almost all the works of Marquez available in English. Later a lot more Latin American…
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
on “Ask HN: Best books you've read in 2015” ↗…Bed of Procrustes) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Iron John by Robert Bly - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman - Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges - 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Pharmakon by Dale Pendell - The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss - Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton - The Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manual…
on “Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?” ↗…Malcolm X” was maybe the most important book I read as a teenager, and I still go back and reread it every so often. It should be required reading. For fiction, “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy, “100 Years of Solitude” by Marquez, and “Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison (or really anything by Toni Morrison, it’s all amazing). Also, Thich Nhat Hanh’s translation of the Heart Sutra, “The Other Shore”, gave me a much…
on “Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?” ↗…Borges 2) The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka 3) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 5) 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger 6) 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme 7) 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
on “Ask HN: What are some must read books?” ↗At one point in my younger years I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez, and Invisible Cities by Calvino all back to back. These books changed me for the better at the time and I think about scenes from each in my daily life all in about the same sort of way.…
on “Milan Kundera, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ Novelist, Dies at 94” ↗100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
on “Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?” ↗His Dark Materials series by Pullman 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez The Culture series by Banks
on “Ask HN: Which books would you recommend to me that had a big impact on you” ↗The two books that really stayed with me the most this year are Father and Sons by Turgenev and 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Both are classics and fairly well known. The former is a dive into niihilism and how destructive some of the ideas might be. It has some really impactful imagery. The latter…
on “Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?” ↗100 Years of Solitude is my favorite. I majored in Spanish literature in college, that was my first exposure to Gabriel García Márquez (I read it in the original Spanish, but I'm told the English translation is faithful and…
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗…the former being a side effect of the Colombian Civil War and the latter being a side effect of the 1990s Peso Crisis and the mass layoffs in the Mexican Army and Petrochemicals industry Read or watch "100 Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez. The fissures of the 1899-1903 Colombian Civil War (4-10% of Colombians died) were never resolved and it morphed into "La Violencia" which then morphed into the ongoing Colombian…
on “Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados” ↗100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
on “Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2013?” ↗1. The Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa - fast paced, fictionalized account of the last days of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic 2. 100 years of solitude - currently 70% through but the writing and story is superb. 3. Death in the Andes — another Vargas Llosa book. Not as good as Feast of the Goat in my opinion, but gives a good idea of the situation…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗In his autobiography he tells a story I love. While writing 100 Years of Solitude he listened to The Beatles' A Hard Day Night album on repeat. After the book was published he received a letter from a group of Mexican college students who asked him if he was listening to A Hard Day's…
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗What a nice story, thanks for sharing. Which autobiography is this one you are talking about? I loved 100 Years of Solitude...
on “Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87” ↗