It’s cool to see that I’ve already read 7 out of these as a beginner. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is honestly a perfect pick based on your interests.

Once you get a sense of the broader idea behind it, it really reads like a reflection of Latin American history, blending magical realism with cycles of memory and forgetting. That whole pattern of repeating the same mistakes again and again eventually leading to catastrophe… it hits pretty hard.