# What is the best Jorge Luis Borges short story collection?

> Early labyrinths or late, plainer tales? Readers of Borges split along that line more than any other.

*By YPB Team · Published October 29, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-jorge-luis-borges-short-story-collection*

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1. **Ficciones** — score 1000/1000
   The 1944 collection containing Tlon, The Library of Babel and The Garden of Forking Paths, his most celebrated book.
2. **The Aleph** — score 733/1000
   The 1949 collection of labyrinths, immortals and the point that contains all points in the universe.
3. **The Book of Sand** — score 599/1000
   El libro de arena (1975), late fantastic tales including the infinite book of its title.
4. **Shakespeare's Memory** — score 599/1000
   La memoria de Shakespeare (1983), his final short collection of four stories.
5. **A Universal History of Infamy** — score 0/1000
   Borges's 1935 debut story collection of embellished lives of pirates, gangsters and impostors.
6. **Dreamtigers** — score 0/1000
   El hacedor (1960), the short prose pieces and poems Borges considered his most personal book.
7. **Labyrinths** — score 0/1000
   The 1962 English selection of stories and essays that introduced Borges to Anglophone readers.
8. **Doctor Brodie's Report** — score 0/1000
   El informe de Brodie (1970), plainer late stories of knife fighters and Buenos Aires outskirts.

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