One Hundred Years of Solitude
Colombian novelist, 1927–2014.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from Spanish.
In magical realism, family saga
On 10 of the 11 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Gabriel García Márquez
- First published
- 1967
- Length
- 448 pages (UK paperback)
- Original language
- Translated from Spanish
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Magical realism, Family saga
Is One Hundred Years of Solitude worth reading?
10 of the 11 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian) and 100 books of the century (Le Monde).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 books of the century (Le Monde, 1999) | No. 33 | See the list |
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 60 | See the list |
| Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian Book Clubs, 2002) | Listed | See the list |
| Oprah's Book Club picks (Oprah's Book Club, 1996-) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 8 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 17 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 32 | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
The edition we link to is the Harper Perennial Modern Classics paperback (2006), 448 pages.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics (paperback, 2006)
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780060883287
How critics and readers rate One Hundred Years of Solitude
Readers rate it most highly: it earned 88% of the points available on readers' and booksellers' lists, against 82% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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