Over the past two weeks we have chronicled the reading habits of Roberto Bolaño. We discussed Bolaño’s tastes for French, Spanish, Argentine, and American literature. And we looked at his favorite literary forms: the novel, poetry, the short story, and, even, the fake encyclopedia. Yet we have yet to scratch the surface. There’s of course much more.

But to recap: Here is your homework, assigned by Bolaño himself and in no particular order:

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

The complete works of Jorge Luis Borges

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

The Invention of Morel – Adolfo Bioy Casares

Nadja – André Breton

Philosophical Dictionary – Voltaire

The Waste Books – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The Temple of Iconoclasts – Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

Imaginary Lives – Marcel Schwob

The Burning Plain – Juan Rulfo

Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo

Bartleby & Co. – Enrique Vila-Matas

Montaños Malady – Enrique Vila-Matas

Your Face Tomorrow (Series) – Javier Maras

The Speed of Light – Javier Cercas

The Soldiers of Salamis – Javier Cercas

Complete Works & Other Stories – Augusto Monterroso

Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great – Nicanor Parra

Hopscotch – Julio Cortázar

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Ubu Roi – Alfred Jarry

Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec

The Castle and The Trial – Franz Kafka

The Tractatus – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Satyricon – Petronius

Pensées – Blaise Pascal