Books that encouraged Marquez to be a raconteur

1. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann2. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas3. Ulysses by James Joyce4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner5. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner6. The Wild Palms by William Faulkner7. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles8. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe10. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville11. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence12. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights13. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka14. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges15. The Collected Stories by Ernest Hemingway16. Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley17. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck18. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck19. Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell20. Stories by Katherine Mansfield21. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos22. Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan23. Orlando by Virginia Woolf24. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf