Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador presents list of books that in his opinion young people should read.
"For the youth. With all due respect to TikTok and social networks, nothing beats reading a good book,” the president wrote on X, accompanying the post with a link to a list of literary works he recommends. These include "Taras Bulba" of Gogol, "Crime and Punishment" of Dostoevsky“, “War and Peace“, “Church and State“, “What is my faith?“ and "The kingdom of God is within you" of Leo Tolstoy.
Many books are devoted to the history of Latin American countries. This is the cult work of the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano “The Open Veins of Latin America” and the book of the leader of the Cuban independence struggle Jose Marti “Our America”. The main part of the works covers the history of Mexico before the Spanish colonization, the era of the struggle for independence and the formation of the state.
The President did not ignore the work of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin “State and Revolution” and the Florentine statesman Niccolò Machiavelli's treatise “The Prince”. The list includes South African statesman and political activist Nelson Mandela's autobiography “The Long Road to Freedom”.
A special place in the list is occupied by the classics of Latin American literature. These are the novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and "Fish in Water" and "Feast of the Goat" of the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as the novel of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo “Pedro Páramo“, which laid the foundations of magical realism.
Among the books recommended by López Obrador were works of world literature such as “For Whom the Bell Tolls“ of Ernest Hemingway, "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo, “Mankind's Finest Hours”, “The World of Yesterday” and "Memoirs of a European" by Stefan Zweig, “The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha“ of Miguel de Cervantes.