Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mirror of Ink | 1933 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
| 2 | Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | 1940 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
| 3 | The Library of Babel | 1941 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
| 4 | The Garden of Forking Paths | 1941 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
| 5 | The Lottery in Babylon | 1941 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
| 6 | Artificios | 1944 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
| 7 | The Congress of the World | 1981 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
| 8 | Shakespeare’s Memory | 1983 | Jorge Borges | Buy |
Borges’s short stories are among the most widely read works of 20th-century literature. This list includes individual publications of stories like “The Library of Babel,” “The Garden of Forking Paths,” and “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” all of which were also collected in larger volumes.
These stories are known for their philosophical depth, intellectual playfulness, and compact form. Many of them run to only a few pages but manage to contain entire imagined worlds and complex ideas about reality, time, and knowledge.