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What to read after Birthday by César Aira: 24 titles sharing themes of Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, and Literary, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Caribbean & Latin American Literary Figures Literary Criticism Literary Biography & Autobiography Fiction

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Birthday.

A Small Place — Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Living to Tell the Tale — Gabriel García Márquez

Living to Tell the Tale — Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years — Ilan Stavans

Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Borges A Life — Edwin Williamson

Edwin Williamson

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Gabriel García Márquez A Life — Gerald Martin

Gabriel García Márquez A Life

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha — Rodrigo García

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

Rodrigo García

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes 1897-1991 — Alfred Hubert Mendes

The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes 1897-1991

Alfred Hubert Mendes

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Shame on Me An Anatomy of Race and Belonging — Tessa McWatt

Shame on Me An Anatomy of Race and Belonging

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Borges, Desire, and Sex — Ariel De la Fuente

Borges, Desire, and Sex

Ariel De la Fuente

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

César Vallejo — Stephen M. Hart

Stephen M. Hart

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Selected Non-Fictions — Jorge Luis Borges

Selected Non-Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Lima Barreto New Critical Perspectives — Lamonte Aidoo

Lima Barreto New Critical Perspectives

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Literary Criticism

Necropolis — Vladislav Felit︠s︡ianovich Khodasevich

Vladislav Felit︠s︡ianovich Khodasevich

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

Virginia Woolf in Richmond — Peter Fullagar

Virginia Woolf in Richmond

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories — Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

The Book of Margery Kempe — Margery Kempe

The Book of Margery Kempe

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

A Little Learning The First Volume of an Autobiography — Evelyn Waugh

A Little Learning The First Volume of an Autobiography

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

The Collected Dorothy Parker — Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

Neruda The Poet’s Calling — Mark Eisner

Neruda The Poet’s Calling

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Biography & Autobiography

Anthony Trollope — Victoria Glendinning

Anthony Trollope

Victoria Glendinning

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

Neruda The Biography of a Poet — Mark Eisner

Neruda The Biography of a Poet

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Biography & Autobiography

Stephen King’s “The Body” Bookmarked — Aaron Burch

Stephen King’s “The Body” Bookmarked

Themes: Literary Figures • Literary Criticism • Literary

My Broken Language A Memoir — Quiara Alegría Hudes

My Broken Language A Memoir

Quiara Alegría Hudes

Themes: Caribbean & Latin American • Literary Figures • Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Caribbean & Latin American, Literary Figures, Literary Criticism — the same threads that run through Birthday by César Aira. Among the authors featured: Jamaica Kincaid, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ilan Stavans, Edwin Williamson, and others.

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