Ten books not to stop reading this holiday
64.8% of Spaniards enjoy their free time reading books while 35.2% acknowledge never or almost never doing so. This is reflected in the Barometer of Reading Habits and Book Purchase in Spain 2022, prepared by the Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE). Anywhere is fine: in a deckchair with your feet buried in the sand and the swaying of the waves in the background; on a sofa, rushing the long sunny afternoons or in a hammock in the garden, under the cool shade of a tree. We present 10 books that can become the great companions of the summer, with which to travel without leaving the site.
I Don't Like My Neck by Nora Ephron. A collection of short texts from one of the brightest voices in the New American Journalism. In this collection of essays, the author talks about almost everything that matters to her and even her time in the White House.
Piscinosophy, by Anabel Vázquez. The author loves swimming pools so much that she has written a book about her sentimental relationship with this “hole in the ground full of water”, whose subtitle already warns: 'Aquatic and messy treatise on real and imaginary swimming pools'. A short, deep and joyful work.
First Blood, by Amélie Nothomb. With a fast writing, the French author signs an eccentric and funny novel in which she pays tribute to her father, who recently passed away.. In its pages, the writer reconstructs the origin of her family before she was born.
The Married Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell. The Irish writer has repeated the successful formula of Hamnet. Take a historical figure, Lucrezia de Medici, and imagine the world from her perspective.. A novel that reinterprets from fiction a chapter of Renaissance Italy and narrates the fight against the destiny of an amazing young woman.
Intimacies, by Katie Kitamura. The American writer's fondness for thrillers is evident when reading this novel starring a middle-aged woman who moves to The Hague to work as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court.
Children of the fable, by Fernando Aramburu. The author returns to the space of the terrorist fight from a different perspective: covered in black humor and marked by picaresque and satire.
The Wide World, by Pierre Lemaitre. Set in the years after World War II, in this fast-paced family saga in which there is no shortage of love stories, secrets, adventures, corruption and crimes.
Any summer is an end, by Ray Loriga. The Madrid author, who three years ago underwent an operation for a brain tumor, returns to the novel with the friendship stories of men in their fifties and deepens the opportunity to live one last summer before winter arrives.
Limpia, by Alia Trabucco Zerán. The Chilean author has written an intelligent and overwhelming novel that addresses the duality between the bourgeoisie and those who clean their houses and take care of their families. It's a powerful story about class differences.
The astronauts, by Laura Ferrero