Cien años de soledad

Gabriel García Márquez, 1967

El libro narra la historia de la familia Buendía a lo largo de siete generaciones en el pueblo ficticio de Macondo. José Arcadio Buendía y Úrsula Iguarán son un matrimonio ...

Il pendolo di Foucault

Umberto Eco, 1988

Tra gli anni settanta e la fine del secolo scorso, un gruppo di giovani intellettuali si trova coinvolto in una strana indagine sul mistero dell'ordine dei Templari, ...

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007

Taleb refers to the book variously as an essay or a narrative with one single idea: "our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations."

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954

The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands ...

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach, 1970

The book tells the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a seagull who is bored with daily squabbles over food. Seized by a passion for flight, he pushes himself, learning everything he can about ...

La borra del café

Mario Benedetti, 1992

Claudio desarrolla su infancia en el barrio de Capurro, donde adquiere sus amistades más destacadas. Allí también vive experiencias inolvidables. Entre ellas la muerte de ...

La ciudad y los perros

Mario Vargas Llosa, 1963

La obra está ambientada en el Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, donde adolescentes y jóvenes internos reciben formación escolar secundaria bajo una severa disciplina militar. ...

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola, 1972

Focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone. When the don's youngest son, Michael, reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of ...

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont, 1994

Andy Dufresne is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison ...

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino, 1994

Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster ...

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988

Salvatore Di Vita, da quando ha lasciato il paesino di cui è originario non vi ha mai più voluto rimettere piede e da trent'anni vive a Roma, dove nel frattempo è diventato un affermato ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sergio Leone, 1966

In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Blondie, and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco, form an uneasy partnership - Blondie turns in the bandit for the reward money, then rescues ...

Cidade de Deus

Fernando Meirelles, 2002

Na cena de abertura, galinhas são preparadas para o almoço quando uma escapa e é perseguida por um grupo armado pelas ruas da favela Cidade de Deus ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Stanley Kubrick, 1975

When Randle Patrick McMurphy gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment ...

Game of Thrones

David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, 2011

Several noble houses fight a civil war over who should be king, while an exiled princess tries to find her place in the world, and the kingdom is threatened by some rising supernatural threat ...

Breaking Bad

Vince Gilligan, 2008

To make sure his family is financially secure, he teams up with a former student Jesse Pinkman and turns to a life of crime to make and distribute the purest crystal meth on the streets ...

Lost

Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, 2004

After a somewhat mysterious sequence of events, an oceanic flight from Sydney to LA crashes on what appears to be a deserted island. The chance of being found and rescued is ...

The Sopranos

David Chase, 1999

Tony Soprano is a New Jersey mobster with a complicated life. He's recently passed out as a result of an anxiety attack and begins to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi ...

The Walking Dead

Frank Darabont, 2010

Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes gets shot in combat and awakens to a zombie apocalypse. He meets a group on the outskirts of Atlanta and soon, becomes their leader. The walkers (what they call ...

Billions

Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Andrew Ross Sorkin, 2016

U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades goes after hedge fund king, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod in a battle between two powerful New York figures ...

Narcos

Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, 2015

Season one chronicles the life of Pablo Escobar from the late 1970s, when he first began manufacturing cocaine, to July 1992. The show relates the main events that happened in Colombia ...

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd, 1973

By condensing the sonic explorations of Meddle to actual songs and adding a lush, immaculate production to their trippiest instrumental sections, Pink Floyd inadvertently designed their commercial ...

Eye in the Sky

The Alan Parsons Project, 1982

Eye in the Sky provided the Alan Parsons Project with their first Top Ten hit since 1977's I Robot, and it's hard not to feel that crossover success was one of the driving forces behind this album ...

Metallica

Metallica, 1991

After the muddled production and ultracomplicated song structures of ...And Justice for All, Metallica decided that they had taken the progressive elements of their music as far as they could ...

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye, 1971

What's Going On is not only Marvin Gaye's masterpiece, it's the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices ...

Siembra

Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, 1978

Siembra es el segundo álbum realizado en conjunto por Willie Colón y Rubén Blades que fue lanzado en 1978. Es considerado un clásico de la música salsa, el más vendido del sello Fania Records​ ...

The Joshua Tree

U2, 1987

Using the textured sonics of The Unforgettable Fire as a basis, U2 expanded those innovations by scaling back the songs to a personal setting and adding a grittier attack for its follow-up ...

Nevermind

Nirvana, 1991

Nevermind was never meant to change the world, but you can never predict when the Zeitgeist will hit, and Nirvana's second album turned out to be the place where alternative ...

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin, 1974

Building from a simple fingerpicked acoustic guitar to a storming torrent of guitar riffs and solos, it encapsulates the entire album in one song ...

Is There Anybody Out There?

Pink Floyd, 1979

The first half of the piece has the same concept of "Hey You", being a distress call from Pink. Musically, it's a droning bass synthesizer with various sound effects ...

Hotel California

Eagles, 1977

The song is considered the most famous recording by the band, and its long guitar coda has been voted the best guitar solo of all time by readers of Guitarist in 1998 ...

Pedro Navaja

Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, 1978

La letra de la canción esboza una descripción de Pedro Barrios que deambula en las calles de Bowery Side (bajo Manhattan) que un día se encuentra con Josefina Wilson ...

High and Dry

Radiohead, 1995

"High and Dry" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released as the first single from their second studio album The Bends (1995). It was released as a double ...

Time Stand Still

Rush, 1987

"Time Stand Still" is a single by the progressive band Rush that was featured on their 1987 album Hold Your Fire A music video for the song was directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński ...

Cuando pase el temblor

Soda Stereo, 1985

El tema fue lanzado en el álbum Nada personal, en 1985, como tercera pista. Ha sido considerada la 68 entre las 100 mejores canciones de rock argentino, en el ranking ...