Had read it back in highschool, but wanted to re-read this year. A great sur-real tale about 7 generations of the Buendia family, the adventures they all had and the fate of all their members. A small recommendation, make yourself a family tree as and fill in the blanks as characters pop up. There is a lot of name repetition (as is traditional in many families) but it's easy to get lost if you don't know who they are talking about.