If you can already give check to all these books to read before you die, Congratulations! If not, don’t worry, you still have time.
Reading a literary work is always an adventure, you don’t know what you’re going to find, but that they are on a list of those that you must read before you die is a guarantee of quality, you go to the fixed.
These are the books you should read before you die
Although we are sure that you read several of the following books at your school, at the U or during some vacation time, surely you are missing some, right? See what they are about and start reading.
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
It recounts the adultery of a woman in the middle of Russia in the 19th century, when that was worse than being dead. A detailed portrait of a time when being a woman was much more difficult.
Fields of CastileAntonio Machado
A collection of poems in which the author draws with words the true countryside of his country, Spain, in such a universal way that we feel that he speaks to us of our own land.
One hundred years of solitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
A novel by our Nobel Prize winner could not be missing from this list of books. This work tells in detail the rise and fall of the Buendía family through seven generations. As Latin American as we are.
pride and prejudiceJane Austen
It describes a tense love relationship between a young man and a girl belonging to the English rural aristocracy in decline, at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century.
The House of SpiritsIsabel Allende
It recounts the life of the Trueba family for four generations through Chilean political and social movements from the post-colonial period to the dictatorship.
The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera
Set in Prague in 1968, it is about a man and his existential doubts about the couple and sex, evidenced through scenes of everyday life.
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
A World War I veteran, a salesman in New York, is the neighbor of a millionaire who throws extravagant parties, which serve as the backdrop for sordid and forbidden romances.
One of the best books to read before you die is Hopscotchby Julio Cortazar
It tells the story of Horacio Oliveira and his relationship with love, death and art, but exchanging and skipping chapters, so it has several possible endings.
The Burning PlainJuan Rulfo
Written in popular language, this book is a collection of stories about death, misery, the arid countryside, and the loss of hope after the Mexican Revolution.
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
It is a critique of bourgeois society in 19th century France through the experiences of a woman who, bored with her husband, decides to have a succession of lovers.
Big hopesCharles Dickens
In 19th-century England, an orphan goes from being a poor blacksmith’s apprentice to being a noble gentleman, and all his adventures to achieve it are told here, in great detail.
Gypsy romanceFederico Garcia Lorca
A poetic work that explores the segregated world of the gypsies, the chauvinistic treatment of women and the social division of Spain before the civil war.
to kill a mockingbirdHarper Lee
It describes the years of the Great American Depression from the point of view of a girl, the daughter of a lawyer who defends an Afro-descendant, at a time when race was almost a crime.
Miss BarbaraRomulo Gallegos
Realist novel that goes beyond the literary to pursue a social goal, as it represents the despotism, hope and progress of 19th-century Venezuela. We haven’t changed much…
The last of the literary works that you must read before you die is Captain Alatristeby Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlota, his daughter
It is a series of 7 books about a veteran soldier from Flanders who ends up as a swordsman in 17th century Madrid. Portrait of an indulgent and corrupt Spain.
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