Best Novels by Milan Kundera

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) *****
2. Ignorance (2000) *****
3. Life Is Elsewhere (1969) ****
4. La Fête De L'Insignifiance (2014) ****
5. Let The Old Dead Make Room For The Young Dead (Faber, 2019) ****
6. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting(1979) ****
7. The Joke (1967)  ***½
8. The Farewell Waltz (1972) ***½
9. Immortality (1988) ****
10. Slowness (1995) ***½
11. Identity (1998) ***½

Best of Roberto Bolaño

Chilean author Roberto Bolaño is one of my favourite novelists. His style is direct, personal, seemingly not too interested in detailed descriptions, which gives his writing a wonderful dynamic and energy. His two masterpieces are "The Savage Detectives" and "2666", two very different novels. The first describes the lives of students/travellers in Europe and the second describes an endless list of rapes and murders of young women in Mexico. Many of his stories could well be used for comic books. Anything is possible, and plots can take sudden and unexpected twists. A creative mind at work, whose love for writing is tangible in every sentence. His first novel was published only late in this life, and that was not his main goal. Many of his titles and stories have been published after his death in 2003. 

1. 2666 (2004) *****
2. The Savage Detectives (1998) *****
3. The Unknown University (2013) ****
4. The Skating Rink (1993) ****
5. Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996) ****
6. The Secret Of Evil (2012) ****
7. Distant Star (1996) ****
8. The Insufferable Gaucho (2010) ****
9. Amulet (1999) ****
10. A Little Lumpen Novelita (2014) ****
11. The Third Reich (2010) ****
12. The Return (2010) ****
13. Woes of the True Policeman (2011) ****
14. Antwerp (2002) ****
15. The Spirit of Science Fiction (2016 ) ***½
16. Monsieur Pain (1999) ***
17. By Night in Chile (2000) ***
18. Cowboy Graves (2021) ***
19. Last Evening On Earth (2008) ***

Best Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa

I will write a "Best of ... " for each author of which I read all his or her books. This is my ranking for Mario Vargas Llosa's novels. A personal and subjective list. I started with blog only in 2007, so not all his books are reviewed here. But I'm sure you can find information on each title elsewhere. 

1. The War of the End of the World, 1985 - *****
2. Conversation in The Cathedral, 1975 - *****
3. The Time of the Hero, 1966 - ****
4. Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, 1978 - ****
5. Death In The Andes, 1996 - ****
6. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, 1982  - ****
7. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, 1986 - ****
8. Who Killed Palomino Molero?, 1987 - ****
9. The Bad Girl, 2007 - ****
10. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, 1998 - ****
11. The Storyteller, 1989 ***½
12. The Discreet Hero, 2015 - ***½
13. The Cubs And Other Stories (Faber & Faber, 1975) - ***½
14. Harsh Times, 2021 - ***½
15. The Green House, 1968 - ***
16. In Praise of the Stepmother, 1990 - ***
17. The Way to Paradise, 2003 - ***
18. The Dream of the Celt, 2012 - ***
19. The Neighborhood, 2018 - **
20. I Give You My Silence, 2026