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📕 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.
📕 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.
📕 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.
📕 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.
📕 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.
📕 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.
📕 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.
📕 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.
📕 Fiction Cover of A Little Life
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Fiction · 2015 · 1008 pp.
Four friends in New York and the unspeakable trauma of one of them. Yanagihara and a novel as brutal as it is hypnotic.
📕 Fiction Cover of Americanah
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fiction · 2013 · 608 pp.
A Nigerian woman emigrates to the US and discovers what it means to be Black in another country. Adichie on identity, race and love.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Fiction · 2013 · 1144 pp.
A boy survives a museum bombing, steals a painting in the chaos and carries that secret through his entire adult life. A monumental coming-of-age novel about art and loss.
📕 Fiction Cover of Out in the Open
Out in the Open
Jesús Carrasco
Fiction · 2013 · 224 pp.
A boy flees across a parched plain pursued by a brutal power, helped by an old goatherd. A dazzling, arid debut.
📕 Fiction Cover of My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Fiction · 2011 · 432 pp.
Two friends grow up in a poor Naples neighborhood bound by fierce rivalry. The start of the Neapolitan tetralogy that won the world.
📕 Fiction Cover of Freedom
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
Fiction · 2010 · 672 pp.
A progressive, apparently exemplary marriage unravels over three decades, dragging along all the contradictions of liberal America. Franzen returns to the great family novel.
📕 Fiction Cover of Signs Preceding the End of the World
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera
Fiction · 2009 · 128 pp.
A young woman crosses the Mexico-US border to find her brother. Herrera turns the migrant journey into myth. Brief and dazzling.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Fiction · 2007 · 208 pp.
A woman stops eating meat and her decision unleashes the violence of those around her. Han Kang, 2024 Nobel, disturbing and precise.
📕 Fiction Cover of A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Fiction · 2007 · 416 pp.
Two Afghan women bound by suffering under the same husband and war. Even harder and more beautiful than The Kite Runner.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
Fiction · 2006 · 368 pp.
A cultured concierge who pretends to be ordinary and a gifted girl recognize each other in a Parisian building. Tender and subtle.
📕 Fiction Cover of The History of Love
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
Fiction · 2005 · 304 pp.
A lonely old man, a searching girl and a lost book that links their lives. Krauss and a novel about memory and loss.
📕 Fiction Cover of 2666
2666
Roberto Bolaño
Fiction · 2004 · 1126 pp.
Five stories orbiting the femicides of a Mexican border city. Bolaño's total, posthumous work.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Fiction · 2003 · 368 pp.
A childhood betrayal in Afghanistan that haunts a man for life. Hosseini on guilt, friendship and redemption.
📕 Fiction Cover of Middlesex
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction · 2002 · 688 pp.
The story of three generations of a Greek family in Detroit and a gene that culminates in Cal, an intersex person searching for themselves. An ambitious, tender saga.
📕 Fiction Cover of Atonement
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Fiction · 2001 · 464 pp.
A child's lie destroys two lives and the writer spends the rest of hers trying to make amends. McEwan at his peak.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Corrections
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Fiction · 2001 · 752 pp.
A Midwestern mother wants to gather her three scattered children for one last Christmas while her husband sinks into Parkinson's. The great novel of the American family at the turn of the century.
📕 Fiction Cover of Soldiers of Salamis
Soldiers of Salamis
Javier Cercas
Fiction · 2001 · 224 pp.
A journalist investigates why a militiaman spared the life of a Falange founder. Cercas and the memory of the war.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Fiction · 1998 · 624 pp.
Two poets search for a vanished writer across half the world over twenty years. Bolaño's unforgettable generational portrait.
📕 Fiction Cover of Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Fiction · 1996 · 1216 pp.
A film so entertaining it kills whoever watches it, a tennis academy and a halfway house intertwine in a dizzying portrait of entertainment and addiction. The most ambitious novel of its generation.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Reader
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
Fiction · 1995 · 208 pp.
A teenager has an affair with an older woman hiding a Nazi-era secret. Schlink and the guilt of an entire generation.
📕 Fiction Cover of Pereira Maintains
Pereira Maintains
Antonio Tabucchi
Fiction · 1994 · 192 pp.
An apolitical journalist awakens his conscience in Salazar's Portugal. Tabucchi's small great novel about courage.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction · 1989 · 272 pp.
An English butler reviews a life of service and a love he never dared to live. Ishiguro and restraint made art.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Fiction · 1988 · 192 pp.
An Andalusian shepherd crosses the desert chasing a dream and finds himself. The most-read fable about one's "personal legend".
📕 Fiction Cover of Beloved
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Fiction · 1987 · 384 pp.
A freed slave is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed to save from slavery. Morrison, Nobel-winning and devastating.
📕 Fiction Cover of Perfume
Perfume
Patrick Süskind
Fiction · 1985 · 256 pp.
A man with superhuman smell kills to capture the perfect scent. A novel as beautiful as it is disturbing.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Lover
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
Fiction · 1984 · 144 pp.
A French teenager and a wealthy man in colonial Indochina. Duras and a memory of desire told in hypnotic prose.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Fiction · 1984 · 336 pp.
Love, infidelity and philosophy in Soviet-invaded Prague. Kundera blends the intimate and political with elegance.
📕 Fiction Cover of Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
Fiction · 1981 · 128 pp.
The whole town knows Santiago Nasar will be killed except him. García Márquez dissects a crime no one prevented.
📕 Fiction Cover of The Holy Innocents
The Holy Innocents
Miguel Delibes
Fiction · 1981 · 176 pp.
A family of farmhands subjected to the gentry of an Extremaduran estate. Delibes' cry against rural injustice.
📕 Fiction Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Fiction · 1980 · 416 pp.
Ignatius J. Reilly, a fat, lazy, delirious genius, against the modern world in New Orleans. A cult comedy and posthumous Pulitzer.
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