# What is the best Jorge Luis Borges book?

> Infinite libraries and knife fights in the suburbs, late lectures and early poems: Borges wrote short, but every book here has readers who swear it is the one.

*By YPB Team · Published October 31, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-jorge-luis-borges-book*

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1. **Ficciones** — score 1000/1000
   Borges' 1944 story collection with 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius', 'The Library of Babel' and 'The Garden of Forking Paths'.
2. **Shakespeare's Memory** — score 703/1000
   La memoria de Shakespeare (1983), Borges' final collection of stories.
3. **In Praise of Darkness** — score 568/1000
   Elogio de la sombra (1969), a collection of poems and prose on old age, blindness and ethics.
4. **The Book of Imaginary Beings** — score 481/1000
   A bestiary of mythical creatures from world literature, compiled by Borges with Margarita Guerrero.
5. **Dreamtigers** — score 481/1000
   El hacedor (1960), a mix of short prose pieces and poems that Borges called his most personal book.
6. **A Universal History of Infamy** — score 481/1000
   Borges' 1935 first book of fiction, retelling the lives of real and invented outlaws, impostors and pirates.
7. **The Book of Sand** — score 481/1000
   Borges' 1975 collection, including the title story of an infinite book with no first or last page.
8. **The Aleph** — score 374/1000
   The 1949 collection whose title story describes a point in a Buenos Aires cellar that contains every other point in the universe.
9. **Fervor de Buenos Aires** — score 374/1000
   Borges' 1923 debut poetry collection, a portrait of the streets and patios of his native city.
10. **Seven Nights** — score 374/1000
   Siete noches (1980), seven lectures on topics from The Divine Comedy and nightmares to blindness.
11. **Brodie's Report** — score 0/1000
   El informe de Brodie (1970), a late collection of plain, mostly realist stories of Buenos Aires knife fighters and gauchos.
12. **Labyrinths** — score 0/1000
   The 1962 English-language selection of stories, essays and parables that introduced Borges to a wide Anglophone readership.
13. **Other Inquisitions** — score 0/1000
   The 1952 essay collection that ranges from Kafka's precursors to the analytical language of John Wilkins.
14. **A History of Eternity** — score 0/1000
   Historia de la eternidad (1936), essays on time, eternity and the art of translation, including 'The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim'.

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