Gabriel García Márquez Books in Order
27 books are credited to Gabriel García Márquez, published between 1955 and 2024; 3 of them appeared after Gabriel García Márquez's death in 2014. The first book is Leaf Storm and Other Stories (1955) and the newest is Until August (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 27
- Published
- 1955–2024
- Confirmed
- 1 of 27 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,698 in 16 of 27 books
- Reading time
- 62–92 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,698 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 27 titles with a page count on record.
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known across Latin America as Gabo. García Márquez left law school for a career in journalism, took the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature ten years later. The catalogue lists 27 titles in English translation, from Leaf Storm and Other Stories (1955) through One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) to Until August, dated 2024. Macondo, corruption and Latin American fiction sit among the subject headings.
How many Gabriel García Márquez books are there?
Gabriel García Márquez has 27 books, released between 1955 and 2024. 3 of them were published after Gabriel García Márquez's death in 2014.
Gabriel García Márquez Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 27 Gabriel García Márquez books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Leaf Storm and Other Stories1955 · 146 pages · confirmed 2/419551462/4
- 2No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories1961 · 170 pages · confirmed 2/419611702/4
- 3Big Mama’s Funeral1962 · confirmed 2/41962–2/4
- 4One Hundred Years of Solitude1967 · confirmed 2/41967–2/4
- 5A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings1968 · confirmed 2/41968–2/4
- 6In Evil Hour1968 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/419681922/4
- 7Death Constant Beyond Love1970 · confirmed 2/41970–2/4
- 8Innocent Erendira and Other Stories1972 · 183 pages · confirmed 2/419721832/4
- 9The Autumn of the Patriarch1976 · confirmed 2/41976–2/4
- 10Chronicle of a Death Foretold1981 · 143 pages · confirmed 2/419811432/4
- 11The Fragrance of the Guava1982 · 126 pages · confirmed 2/419821262/4
- 12Collected Stories1984 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/419843522/4
- 13Love in the Time of Cholera1985 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/419854482/4
- 14Clandestine in Chile1986 · confirmed 2/41986–2/4
- 15The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor1986 · 106 pages · confirmed 2/419861062/4
- 16The General in His Labyrinth1989 · 285 pages · confirmed 2/419892852/4
- 17Strange Pilgrims1992 · confirmed 2/41992–2/4
- 18Of Love and Other Demons1994 · confirmed 2/41994–2/4
- 19A Country for Children1996 · 147 pages · confirmed 2/419961472/4
- 20News of a Kidnapping1996 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/419963042/4
- 21Living to Tell the Tale2002 · 533 pages · confirmed 2/420025332/4
- 22Memories of My Melancholy Whores2004 · 115 pages · confirmed 2/420041152/4
- 23Torrijos2007 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/420071122/4
- 24I'm Not Here to Give a Speech2010 · confirmed 2/42010–2/4
- 252015–3/4
- 26The Scandal of the Century2019 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420193362/4
- 27Until August2024 · confirmed 2/42024–2/4
Gabriel García Márquez books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Last Interview in order
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26 books26 Gabriel García Márquez titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Gabriel García Márquez books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 27 Gabriel García Márquez books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Gabriel García Márquez
Start with Leaf Storm and Other Stories (1955), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Gabriel García Márquez book?
Until August (2024) is the newest Gabriel García Márquez book released so far.
Is there a new Gabriel García Márquez book coming?
No next Gabriel García Márquez book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Gabriel García Márquez has won
Wikidata records 3 awards for Gabriel García Márquez. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Nobel Prize in Literature1982Won
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize1972Wonfor One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature1971Won
Gabriel García Márquez at a glance
- Died
- Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014, according to Wikidata.
- After death
- Books credited to Gabriel García Márquez are still being published after Gabriel García Márquez's death in 2014; the newest appeared in 2024.
- Release pace
- Gabriel García Márquez books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 3,698 pages across the 16 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 176 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Gabriel García Márquez books, 7 of 27, were published in the 1980s.
What the Gabriel García Márquez books are about
19 of the 27 Gabriel García Márquez books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fiction (fictional works by one author) is tagged on 3 of 19. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Fiction (fictional works by one author) 3 of 19 books
- Garcia marquez, gabriel, 1928-2014 3 of 19 books
- Novela 3 of 19 books
- Spanish fiction 3 of 19 books
- Spanish language books 3 of 19 books
- Autobiographie 2 of 19 books
- Biography 2 of 19 books
- Colombian Authors 2 of 19 books
- Corruption 2 of 19 books
- García márquez, gabriel , 1927-2014 2 of 19 books
- Latin American fiction 2 of 19 books
- Romance literature 2 of 19 books