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254 books across 19 genres — classics, bestsellers and hidden gems
From timeless classics to recent bestsellers, here are 254 books worth your time, sorted by year and grouped into 19 genres. Filter by what you love to read — fiction, thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, history — and jump into the literature chat to share recommendations.
📚 All 254
📕 Fiction 75
🔍 Thriller 22
🚀 Science Fiction 21
🐉 Fantasy 17
🏰 Historical 16
🏛️ Classic 18
🕵️ Mystery 10
📊 Essay 13
❤️ Romance 8
👻 Horror 8
🌿 Magical Realism 5
💪 Self-help 5
🚓 Crime 5
🎒 Young Adult 5
✒️ Poetry 3
🎭 Drama 3
👤 Biography 7
🗺️ Adventure 8
📜 Short Stories 5
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🏰 Historical
The Maid's Daughters
Sonsoles Ónega
Two babies swapped at birth and two crossed destinies in early 20th-century Galicia. Winner of the 2023 Planeta Prize.
🔍 Thriller
Everything Burns
Juan Gómez-Jurado
A new heroine, a revenge plot and Gómez-Jurado's signature adrenaline. The Spanish thriller that dominates every year.
🔍 Thriller
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
A housemaid with secrets starts working in a home where nothing is as it seems. An addictive thriller with chained twists.
🚀 Science Fiction
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
An artificial friend observes the human world with moving innocence. Ishiguro, Nobel-winner, and the tenderness of machines.
🔍 Thriller
The Beast
Carmen Mola
In cholera-stricken 1834 Madrid, a girl vanishes and turns up dismembered. The Planeta Prize from the trio behind Carmen Mola.
👤 Biography
Feria
Ana Iris Simón
A young woman recalls her childhood among fairground workers and communists in emptied Spain. Simón's generational portrait phenomenon.
🔍 Thriller
The Snow Girl
Javier Castillo
A girl vanishes during New York's Three Kings parade and a journalist investigates for years. Castillo and the impossible twist.
📕 Fiction
Dogs of Summer
Andrea Abreu
Two girls in a Canary Islands neighborhood, a summer and an intense friendship told in pure Canarian speech. A fresh, acclaimed debut.
🔍 Thriller
White King
Juan Gómez-Jurado
The finale of the Red Queen trilogy: all of Antonia Scott's secrets come to light. The triumphant end of a phenomenon.
❤️ Romance
A Perfect Story
Elísabet Benavent
Margot flees her own wedding and David waits tables dreaming of more. Benavent and the hit Spanish romantic comedy.
📕 Fiction
Cometierra
Dolores Reyes
A young woman who eats earth sees what happened to the disappeared. Reyes blends the fantastic with the violence of Argentina's outskirts.
📊 Essay
Papyrus
Irene Vallejo
The history of books from papyrus to today, told as a thrilling adventure. The Spanish essay that conquered the world.
🔍 Thriller
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
A painter kills her husband and never speaks again; a therapist becomes obsessed with making her talk. A twist that took over.
🏰 Historical
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Exiles from the Spanish Civil War whom Neruda's Winnipeg ship carries to Chile. Allende links two exiles and two countries.
📕 Fiction
The Gratitudes
Delphine de Vigan
An old woman losing her words and the two people who accompany her. De Vigan on debt, gratitude and old age.
📕 Fiction
Bad Girls
Camila Sosa Villada
The lives of a group of travestis in a Córdoba park, Argentina, told with rawness and tenderness. Sosa Villada's unforgettable voice.
🔍 Thriller
Black Wolf
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Antonia Scott faces a relentless killer again. The second part of the Red Queen trilogy, even more tense.
🚀 Science Fiction
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
The awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale: three voices reveal the cracks in Gilead. Atwood returns and wins the Booker.
🚓 Crime
Even the Darkest Night
Javier Cercas
A Catalan officer with a violent past investigates an atrocious crime in rural Catalonia. Cercas turns to crime fiction. Planeta winner.
📊 Essay
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Harari lands in the present: fake news, work, terrorism and AI. A compass for today's world.
📊 Essay
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
Is there a God? Will we survive? Hawking's final reflections on the universe and the future, in plain language.
🐉 Fantasy
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Odyssey's sorceress tells her own story of gods, exile and power. Miller rewrites the myth through a feminist lens.
💪 Self-help
Atomic Habits
James Clear
How small daily changes build big results. The best-selling habits method, and genuinely practical too.
📕 Fiction
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
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.
🔍 Thriller
The Gypsy Bride
Carmen Mola
Inspector Elena Blanco hunts a killer recreating crimes from the past. The debut of the mysterious Carmen Mola.
📕 Fiction
Easy Reading
Cristina Morales
Four women with intellectual disabilities in a Barcelona group home rebel against everything. Morales, punk and National Prize-winner.
📕 Fiction
The Disgusting Ones
Santiago Lorenzo
A man flees to an abandoned village to escape everyone and finds the happiness of needing nothing. Lorenzo and gentle misanthropy.
👤 Biography
Ordesa
Manuel Vilas
A man mourns his dead parents and reconstructs a family and an entire Spain. Vilas and raw emotion made literature.
🔍 Thriller
Red Queen
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Antonia Scott has the most brilliant mind in Spain and isn't a cop. The Spanish thriller that hooked an entire country.
🔍 Thriller
Verity
Colleen Hoover
A writer finds the secret manuscript of the author she's replacing, and what she reads terrifies her. Hoover in thriller mode.
📕 Fiction
The Braid
Laetitia Colombani
Three women in India, Italy and Canada unknowingly linked by a lock of hair. A choral novel about sisterhood.
🏰 Historical
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
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
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
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.
🔍 Thriller
Lullaby
Leïla Slimani
"The baby is dead." Slimani begins at the end and reconstructs how a perfect nanny ended in tragedy. Goncourt-winning and chilling.
🕵️ Mystery
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The tetralogy's finale: Alicia Gris investigates in Francoist Barcelona. Zafón ties up every loose end of the Cemetery.
🗺️ Adventure
Falcó
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
An unscrupulous spy in the midst of the Civil War, amid luxury, women and murky missions. Pérez-Reverte and a magnetic antihero.
📕 Fiction
Homeland
Fernando Aramburu
Two Basque families broken by ETA, silence and the impossibility of forgiveness. The great Spanish novel on terrorism.
❤️ Romance
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
A flower shop, an intense love and the shadow of repeating violence. Hoover and the TikTok romance blockbuster.
🔍 Thriller
All This I Will Give to You
Dolores Redondo
A writer investigates his husband's death in a Galicia of manors and aristocratic secrets. Redondo's Planeta Prize.
🏰 Historical
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
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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