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Mario Vargas Llosa Books in Order

Mario Vargas Llosa has written 37 books, published between 1962 and 2022. The first book is The Time of the Hero (1962) and the newest is Fonchito and The Moon (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
37
Published
1962–2022
Pages on record
10,346 in 35 of 37 books
Reading time
172–259 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 10,346 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 35 of 37 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Mario Vargas Llosa, author

Mario Vargas Llosa, who lived from 1936 to 2025, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician, and one of the leading writers of the Latin American Boom. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature cited his cartography of structures of power and his images of individual resistance, revolt and defeat. Thirty-seven titles are catalogued, opening with The Time of the Hero (1962) and taking in Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) and The War of the End of the World (1981). Peru, its social life and its history recur as subjects.

How many Mario Vargas Llosa books are there?

Mario Vargas Llosa has 37 books, released between 1962 and 2022.

Mario Vargas Llosa Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 37 Mario Vargas Llosa 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.

  1. Cover of The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (1962)
  2. Cover of The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa (1965)
  3. Cover of The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa (1967)
  4. Cover of Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa (1969)
  5. Cover of Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa (1973)
  6. Cover of The Perpetual Orgy by Mario Vargas Llosa (1975)
  7. Cover of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa (1977)
  8. Cover of The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (1981)
  9. Cover of The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa (1984)
  10. Cover of Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa (1986)
  11. Cover of The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa (1987)
  12. Cover of In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa (1988)
  13. Cover of A Writer's Reality by Mario Vargas Llosa (1990)
  14. Cover of Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (1993)
  15. Cover of Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa (1997)
  16. Cover of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa (1997)
  17. Cover of The Language of Passion by Mario Vargas Llosa (2000)
  18. Cover of The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (2000)
  19. Cover of The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa (2003)
  20. Cover of Book Of Latin American Plays by Mario Vargas Llosa (2004)
  21. Cover of The Temptation of the Impossible by Mario Vargas Llosa (2004)
  22. Cover of The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa (2006)
  23. Cover of Sabers and Utopias by Mario Vargas Llosa (2009)
  24. Cover of The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
  1. 1
    The Time of the Hero1962 · 409 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1962409
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  2. 2
    The Green House1965 · 405 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1965405
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  3. 4
    Conversation in the Cathedral1969 · 601 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1969601
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  4. 5
    Captain Pantoja and the Special Service1973 · 243 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973243
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  5. 6
    The Perpetual Orgy1975 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975256
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  6. 7
    Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter1977 · 374 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977374
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  7. 8
    The War of the End of the World1981 · 568 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981568
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  8. 9
    The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta1984 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984320
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  9. 10
    Who Killed Palomino Molero?1986 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986160
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  10. 11
    The Storyteller1987 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987312
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  11. 12
    In Praise of the Stepmother1988 · 149 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988149
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  12. 13
    Three Plays1990 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990217
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  13. 14
    A Writer's Reality1990 · 164 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990164
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  14. 15
    A Fish in the Water1993 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993544
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  15. 16
    Death in the Andes1993 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993255
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  16. 17
    Making Waves1996 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996368
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  17. 18
    Letters to a Young Novelist1997 · 136 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997136
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  18. 19
    The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto1997 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997259
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  19. 20
    The Language of Passion2000 · 292 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000292
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  20. 21
    The Feast of the Goat2000 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000416
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  21. 22
    The Way to Paradise2003 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003464
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  22. 23
    Book Of Latin American Plays2004 · 182 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004182
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  23. 24
    The Temptation of the Impossible2004 · 196 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004196
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  24. 25
    Andes2004 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004159
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  25. 26
    The Bad Girl2006 · 276 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006276
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  26. 27
    Touchstones2007 · 354 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007354
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  27. 28
    Sabers and Utopias2009 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009304
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  28. 29
    In Praise of Reading and Fiction2010 · 39 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201039
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  29. 30
    The Dream of the Celt2010 · 358 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010358
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  30. 31
    Notes on the Death of Culture2012 · 227 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012227
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  31. 32
    The Discreet Hero2013 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013336
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  32. 33
    The Children's Boat2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  33. 34
    The Neighborhood2016 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016256
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  34. 35
    The Call of the Tribe2018 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018288
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  35. 36
    Harsh Times2021 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021320
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  36. 37
    Fonchito and The Moon2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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Mario Vargas Llosa 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.

Standalone books

37 books

37 Mario Vargas Llosa titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Mario Vargas Llosa books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 37 Mario Vargas Llosa books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Mario Vargas Llosa

Start with The Time of the Hero (1962), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Mario Vargas Llosa book?

Fonchito and The Moon (2022) is the newest Mario Vargas Llosa book released so far.

Is there a new Mario Vargas Llosa book coming?

No next Mario Vargas Llosa 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 Mario Vargas Llosa has won

Wikidata records 20 awards for Mario Vargas Llosa. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • prix André-Malraux du roman engagé2021Won
  • Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language2012Won
  • St. Louis Literary Award2011Won
  • Nobel Prize in Literature2010Won
  • Viareggio-Versilia International Prize2010Won
  • Alfonso Reyes International Prize2010Won
  • Premio Ceppo Pistoia2009Won
  • Prix mondial Cino Del Duca2008Won
  • National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism1997Won
  • Jerusalem Prize1995Won
  • Premio Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente de novela española1995Wonfor Death in the Andes
  • Miguel de Cervantes Prize1994Won

Mario Vargas Llosa at a glance

Died
Mario Vargas Llosa died in 2025, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Mario Vargas Llosa on record dates from 2022.
Release pace
Mario Vargas Llosa books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
10,346 pages across the 35 of 37 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Mario Vargas Llosa books, 9 of 37, were published in the 2000s.

What the Mario Vargas Llosa books are about

34 of the 37 Mario Vargas Llosa books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: novela is tagged on 7 of 34. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Novela 7 of 34 books
  • History 6 of 34 books
  • Ficción 5 of 34 books
  • Vargas llosa, mario, 1936- 5 of 34 books
  • Fiction (fictional works by one author) 4 of 34 books
  • Spanish language books 4 of 34 books
  • Authorship 3 of 34 books
  • History and criticism 3 of 34 books
  • Peru 3 of 34 books
  • Peruvian fiction 3 of 34 books
  • Belletristische Darstellung 2 of 34 books
  • Essays 2 of 34 books