See here for methodology; I am excluding books not actually set in Colombia, but that wasn’t a problem for once.
| Title | Author | GR raters | LT owners |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Marquez | 1,004,185 | 45,365 |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Marquez | 516,392 | 28,432 |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel García Marquez | 204,722 | 9,521 |
| Memories of My Melancholy Whores | Gabriel García Marquez | 90,313 | 5,761 |
| Of Love and Other Demons | Gabriel García Márquez | 79,169 | 5,329 |
| The General in His Labyrinth | Gabriel García Márquez | 24,008 | 4,696 |
| No One Writes to the Colonel | Gabriel García Márquez | 56,938 | 1,853 |
| The Autumn of the Patriarch | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 24,580 | 4,035 |
Er, well, that’s a bit one-sided, isn’t it!!!!! It is the first time that I have seen such complete dominance of the literary portrayal of a country by a single author. At least he’s actually Colombian.
As already mentioned, no books disqualified (one could raise an eyebrow at for instance The Autumn of the Patriarch where it’s not 100% clear that the setting is Colombia, but really we know that it is).
The next five books in my ranking are also by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The next after that is Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel. The top book on the list by a Colombian woman is Fruit of the Drunken Tree, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
But they are all a long way behind. Well done, GGM.
Next up: South Korea.