Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Romantic Dogs | 1993 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
| 2 | The Unknown University | 1993 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
| 3 | Last Evenings on Earth | 1997 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
| 4 | Tres | 2000 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
| 5 | The Insufferable Gaucho | 2003 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
| 6 | The Secret of Evil | 2007 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
| 7 | The Return | 2010 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
| 8 | Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas | 2017 | Roberto Bolaño | Buy |
Roberto Bolano’s collected works span eight volumes published between 1993 and 2017. The earliest entries, The Romantic Dogs and The Unknown University, both appeared in 1993, while the most recent, Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas, came out in 2017. In between, readers will find Last Evenings on Earth (1997), Tres (2000), The Insufferable Gaucho (2003), The Secret of Evil (2007), and The Return (2010).
These collections can be read in any order, though the list above follows publication sequence. Some are short story collections while others, like Cowboy Graves, gather novellas. The Romantic Dogs and The Unknown University are poetry volumes, giving this grouping a wider range than a typical fiction-only bibliography. Readers new to Bolano’s shorter work have plenty of starting points across nearly 25 years of material.