Në vitin 1985, shkrimtari i njohur Jorge Luis Borges nisi të radhiste librat të cilët atij i kishin ndihmuar në jetë, ia kishin ndryshuar jetën dhe librat të cilët ai do ti rekomandonte për lexim.
Detyra iu dha nga Hyspamerica – një botues nga Argjentina, ndërsa kësisoj shkrimtari i njohur nisi të krijonte listën e tij. Libraria personale e tij përmban tituj nga më të ndryshmit, disa të përkthyer në anglisht e disa vetëm në gjuhën spanjolle.
Një pjesë e librave janë edhe në gjuhën shqipe, sikurse Dino Buzzati, Dostojevski, Søren Kierkegaard, Daniel Defoe e autorë tjerë.
Po e paraqesim këtu listën e 74 librave të cilët duhet ti lexoni dhe për efekt gjetje i kemi lënë në anglisht:
- Stories by Julio Cortázar
- & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
- Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
- The Blue Cross: A Father Broën Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
- & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Intelligence of Floëers by Maurice Maeterlinck
- The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
- Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
- The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
- The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
- The Counterfeiters by André Gide
- The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
- The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
- &17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
- The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
- Tales of Ise by Ariëara no Narihara
- Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
- The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
- The Three Impostors
- Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
- An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
- The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edëard Gibbon
- Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
- Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
- The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
- Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
- On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
- The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
- The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
- Travels by Marco Polo
- Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
- Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
- Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
- The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
- Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
- The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
- The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
- & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
- Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
- Tales by Rudyard Kipling
- Vathek by William Beckford
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
- The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
- Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Neë Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Salvation of the Jeës, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
- The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
- Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
- The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
- The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
- Complete Poetry by William Blake
- Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
- Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
- Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Stories by Voltaire
- An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
- An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
- & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
- Egil’s Saga by Snorri Sturluson
- The Book of the Dead
- & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn.
Një masë e madhe librash që duhen lexuar. (b.an)
