A turning point in Manguel's life came when he was still an adolescent working during his school holidays at a bookshop in Buenos Aires: The author Jorge Luis Borges invited the boy to come after his job to Borges' flat to read for him, something Manguel did for many years, 3 or 4 times a week.
Later, Manguel became famous thanks to his ''History of Reading''. He has also written novels and some non-fiction works, but is well-known as an editor of literary Anthologies .
- ''The Dictionary of Imaginary Places'' (1980), ISBN 0025464000
- ''Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature'' (1983, anthology), ISBN 0517552698
- ---''Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic'' (1990, anthology), ISBN 0886191246
- ''Dark Arrows: Chronicles of Revenge'' (1985, anthology), ISBN 014007712X
- ''Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women'' (1986, anthology), ISBN 0886190657
- ''Evening Games: Chronicles of Parents and Children'' (1986, anthology), ISBN 0140077138
- ''Chronicles of Marriage'' (1988, anthology), ISBN 014009928X
- ''The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories'' (1990, anthology), ISBN 019540761X
- ''Soho Square III'' (1990, anthology), ISBN 0747507163
- ''News From a Foreign Country Came'' (1991, novel), ISBN 0517583437
- ''Canadian Mystery Stories'' (1991, anthology), ISBN 0195408209
- ''The Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature'' (1993, anthology), ISBN 0921912471
- ---''The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature'' (1994, anthology), ISBN 0921912773
- ''Meanwhile, In Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima'' (1994, anthology), ISBN 0394280121
- ''A History of Reading'' (1996, non-fiction), ISBN 0394280326
- ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1997, film criticism), ISBN 0851706088
- ''Into the Looking Glass Wood'' (1998, essays), ISBN 0676971350
- ''By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature'' (1998, anthology), ISBN 0306459914
- ''Mothers & Daughters'' (1998, anthology), ISBN 1551921278
- ''Fathers & Sons'' (1998, anthology), ISBN 1551921294
- ''The Ark in the Garden: Fables for Our Times'' (1998, anthology), ISBN 155199030X
- ''God's Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression'' (1999, anthology), ISBN 1551990407
- ''Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate'' (2000, art criticism), ISBN 0676971326
- ''Kipling: A Brief Biography for Young Adults'' (2000), ISBN 1896209483
- ''Stevenson under the Palm Trees'' (2003, novel), ISBN 0887621384
- ''A Reading Diary'' (2004), ISBN 0676975909
- ''With Borges'' (2004, biography), ISBN 0887621465
- ''The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories'' (2005, anthology), ISBN 0670064491
- ''The Library at Night'' (2005), ISBN 0676975887
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