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🏰 Historical Cover of The Maid's Daughters
The Maid's Daughters
Sonsoles Ónega
Historical · 2023 · 504 pp.
Two babies swapped at birth and two crossed destinies in early 20th-century Galicia. Winner of the 2023 Planeta Prize.
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Everything Burns
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Thriller · 2023 · 576 pp.
A new heroine, a revenge plot and Gómez-Jurado's signature adrenaline. The Spanish thriller that dominates every year.
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The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
Thriller · 2022 · 352 pp.
A housemaid with secrets starts working in a home where nothing is as it seems. An addictive thriller with chained twists.
🚀 Science Fiction Cover of Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Science Fiction · 2021 · 352 pp.
An artificial friend observes the human world with moving innocence. Ishiguro, Nobel-winner, and the tenderness of machines.
🔍 Thriller Cover of The Beast
The Beast
Carmen Mola
Thriller · 2021 · 544 pp.
In cholera-stricken 1834 Madrid, a girl vanishes and turns up dismembered. The Planeta Prize from the trio behind Carmen Mola.
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Feria
Ana Iris Simón
Biography · 2020 · 224 pp.
A young woman recalls her childhood among fairground workers and communists in emptied Spain. Simón's generational portrait phenomenon.
🔍 Thriller Cover of The Snow Girl
The Snow Girl
Javier Castillo
Thriller · 2020 · 432 pp.
A girl vanishes during New York's Three Kings parade and a journalist investigates for years. Castillo and the impossible twist.
📕 Fiction Cover of Dogs of Summer
Dogs of Summer
Andrea Abreu
Fiction · 2020 · 176 pp.
Two girls in a Canary Islands neighborhood, a summer and an intense friendship told in pure Canarian speech. A fresh, acclaimed debut.
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White King
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Thriller · 2020 · 608 pp.
The finale of the Red Queen trilogy: all of Antonia Scott's secrets come to light. The triumphant end of a phenomenon.
❤️ Romance Cover of A Perfect Story
A Perfect Story
Elísabet Benavent
Romance · 2020 · 592 pp.
Margot flees her own wedding and David waits tables dreaming of more. Benavent and the hit Spanish romantic comedy.
📕 Fiction Cover of Cometierra
Cometierra
Dolores Reyes
Fiction · 2019 · 176 pp.
A young woman who eats earth sees what happened to the disappeared. Reyes blends the fantastic with the violence of Argentina's outskirts.
📊 Essay Cover of Papyrus
Papyrus
Irene Vallejo
Essay · 2019 · 452 pp.
The history of books from papyrus to today, told as a thrilling adventure. The Spanish essay that conquered the world.
🔍 Thriller Cover of The Silent Patient
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
Thriller · 2019 · 336 pp.
A painter kills her husband and never speaks again; a therapist becomes obsessed with making her talk. A twist that took over.
🏰 Historical Cover of A Long Petal of the Sea
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Historical · 2019 · 384 pp.
Exiles from the Spanish Civil War whom Neruda's Winnipeg ship carries to Chile. Allende links two exiles and two countries.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Gratitudes
The Gratitudes
Delphine de Vigan
Fiction · 2019 · 176 pp.
An old woman losing her words and the two people who accompany her. De Vigan on debt, gratitude and old age.
📕 Fiction Cover of Bad Girls
Bad Girls
Camila Sosa Villada
Fiction · 2019 · 224 pp.
The lives of a group of travestis in a Córdoba park, Argentina, told with rawness and tenderness. Sosa Villada's unforgettable voice.
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Black Wolf
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Thriller · 2019 · 608 pp.
Antonia Scott faces a relentless killer again. The second part of the Red Queen trilogy, even more tense.
🚀 Science Fiction Cover of The Testaments
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Science Fiction · 2019 · 512 pp.
The awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale: three voices reveal the cracks in Gilead. Atwood returns and wins the Booker.
🚓 Crime Cover of Even the Darkest Night
Even the Darkest Night
Javier Cercas
Crime · 2019 · 400 pp.
A Catalan officer with a violent past investigates an atrocious crime in rural Catalonia. Cercas turns to crime fiction. Planeta winner.
📊 Essay Cover of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Essay · 2018 · 432 pp.
Harari lands in the present: fake news, work, terrorism and AI. A compass for today's world.
📊 Essay Cover of Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
Essay · 2018 · 256 pp.
Is there a God? Will we survive? Hawking's final reflections on the universe and the future, in plain language.
🐉 Fantasy Cover of Circe
Circe
Madeline Miller
Fantasy · 2018 · 432 pp.
The Odyssey's sorceress tells her own story of gods, exile and power. Miller rewrites the myth through a feminist lens.
💪 Self-help Cover of Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Self-help · 2018 · 336 pp.
How small daily changes build big results. The best-selling habits method, and genuinely practical too.
📕 Fiction Cover of Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Fiction · 2018 · 464 pp.
An abandoned girl grows up alone in the North Carolina marshes and years later is suspected of murder. Mystery, nature and a trial, with the force of a publishing phenomenon.
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The Gypsy Bride
Carmen Mola
Thriller · 2018 · 448 pp.
Inspector Elena Blanco hunts a killer recreating crimes from the past. The debut of the mysterious Carmen Mola.
📕 Fiction Cover of Easy Reading
Easy Reading
Cristina Morales
Fiction · 2018 · 432 pp.
Four women with intellectual disabilities in a Barcelona group home rebel against everything. Morales, punk and National Prize-winner.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Disgusting Ones
The Disgusting Ones
Santiago Lorenzo
Fiction · 2018 · 224 pp.
A man flees to an abandoned village to escape everyone and finds the happiness of needing nothing. Lorenzo and gentle misanthropy.
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Ordesa
Manuel Vilas
Biography · 2018 · 392 pp.
A man mourns his dead parents and reconstructs a family and an entire Spain. Vilas and raw emotion made literature.
🔍 Thriller Cover of Red Queen
Red Queen
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Thriller · 2018 · 592 pp.
Antonia Scott has the most brilliant mind in Spain and isn't a cop. The Spanish thriller that hooked an entire country.
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Verity
Colleen Hoover
Thriller · 2018 · 336 pp.
A writer finds the secret manuscript of the author she's replacing, and what she reads terrifies her. Hoover in thriller mode.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Braid
The Braid
Laetitia Colombani
Fiction · 2017 · 224 pp.
Three women in India, Italy and Canada unknowingly linked by a lock of hair. A choral novel about sisterhood.
🏰 Historical Cover of Pachinko
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Historical · 2017 · 576 pp.
Four generations of a Korean family survive Japanese occupation, war and exile, earning the contempt of a country that never accepts them. A historical saga of epic breath.
📕 Fiction Cover of Hurricane Season
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
Fiction · 2017 · 224 pp.
The murder of a witch in a Mexican village unleashes a torrent of voices and misery. Melchor and prose that won't let you breathe.
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Lullaby
Leïla Slimani
Thriller · 2016 · 224 pp.
"The baby is dead." Slimani begins at the end and reconstructs how a perfect nanny ended in tragedy. Goncourt-winning and chilling.
🕵️ Mystery Cover of The Labyrinth of the Spirits
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Mystery · 2016 · 928 pp.
The tetralogy's finale: Alicia Gris investigates in Francoist Barcelona. Zafón ties up every loose end of the Cemetery.
🗺️ Adventure Cover of Falcó
Falcó
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Adventure · 2016 · 304 pp.
An unscrupulous spy in the midst of the Civil War, amid luxury, women and murky missions. Pérez-Reverte and a magnetic antihero.
📕 Fiction Cover of Homeland
Homeland
Fernando Aramburu
Fiction · 2016 · 648 pp.
Two Basque families broken by ETA, silence and the impossibility of forgiveness. The great Spanish novel on terrorism.
❤️ Romance Cover of It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
Romance · 2016 · 376 pp.
A flower shop, an intense love and the shadow of repeating violence. Hoover and the TikTok romance blockbuster.
🔍 Thriller Cover of All This I Will Give to You
All This I Will Give to You
Dolores Redondo
Thriller · 2016 · 624 pp.
A writer investigates his husband's death in a Galicia of manors and aristocratic secrets. Redondo's Planeta Prize.
🏰 Historical Cover of A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Historical · 2016 · 528 pp.
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to lifelong house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel, and there, in his own way, he lives all of Soviet history. Elegant, witty and moving.
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