Many of you probably own the collection Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (multiple translators; edited by Donald Yates and James Irby and published by New Directions in 1988). I prefer these translations to those in Collected Fictions, but the collection's not comprehensive. To fill in the gaps, you'll have to secure the Hurley/Penguin collection or gather the smaller volumes in which the stories originally appeared (The Aleph, Shakespeare's Memory, The Book of Sands).
The best translations were done through a 20-year collaboration between Borges and Harvard poetry professor Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Borges was so pleased with di Giovanni's translations that he agreed to split the royalties with him, but that apparently didn't sit well with Borges' widow Maria Kodama, who after Borges' death commissioned the Hurley translations and let di Giovanni's go out of print. Unfortunately, it's difficult to get your hands on the di Giovanni translations, but if you can, by all means.
In summary...
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Work
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Week
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Suggested
Source
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Avatars
of the
Tortoise
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1
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Labyrinths
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The
Garden of
Forking Paths
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1
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Labyrinths
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The
Lottery in
Babylon
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1
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Labyrinths
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The
Library of
Babel
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2
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Labyrinths
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The
Book of Sand
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2
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Collected
Fictions, The
Book of Sand
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The
Aleph
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3
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Collected
Fictions, The
Aleph
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Funes,
the Memorious
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3
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Labyrinths
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Shakespeare’s
Memory
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3
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Collected
Fictions
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Tlön,
Uqbar, Orbis
Tertius
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4
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Labyrinths
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The
Other Death
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4
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Collected
Fictions, The
Aleph
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The
Circular Ruins
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5
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Labyrinths
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Ibn-Hakkan
al-Bokhari,
Dead in His
Labyrinth
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5
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Collected
Fictions, The
Aleph
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Borges
and Myself
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6
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Labyrinths
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The
Other
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6
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Collected
Fictions, The
Book of Sand
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August
25, 1983
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6
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Collected
Fictions
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