During the months of this year great novels have been published and interesting non-fiction works have seen the light but, with the New Year, they will begin to get lost at the bottom of the bookstore shelves, buried by the literary novelties of 2023. However , so you don’t waste time and start January reading, here is a list of books that seem to have been Reader favorites and have taken sales by storm. and that, of course, you cannot miss.
Far from LouisianaLuz Gabas
The Girard family accepts France’s controversial decision to cede part of the Mississippi land to Spain in 1763. However, he will suffer the consequences of the rebellions of his compatriots against the Spanish, the American war against the English for the independence of the United States and the desperate struggle of the native Indians for the survival of their peoples. In such turbulent times, Suzette Girard and Ishcate, an Indian from the Kaskaskia tribe, will fight their own battle: preserve their love from the threats of the world they have lived in. A novel, winner of the Planeta Prize, that goes through the decades in which Spain possessed the lands of Louisiana.
Far from Louisiana: Planet Award 2022
The mothersCarmen Mola
Inspector Elena Blanco crosses the warehouse of the Municipal Crane of Madrid until she reaches the corpse of a man tied to a chair, with a seam that ascends from the pubis to the abdomen. The autopsy clarifies that this drug addict they ripped out some of her organs and placed a fetus of almost seven months in her womb. In addition, it is about her biological son. A few days later, the Case Analysis Brigade traveled to A Coruña, where a 64-year-old tax advisor was murdered in the same way. What relationship exists between the two victims? And where are the mothers of the babies?
The mothers (The gypsy bride 4)
everything burnsJuan Gomez Jurado
This is the story of three women who have lost everything. even fear. That is why they are so dangerous. This is the story of an impossible revenge, with no chance of success. This is the story of three women who dare to do what the rest of us only dare to imagine. Something very powerful is about to happen. And nothing will ever be the same again.
Everything is going to get betterAlmudena Grandes
Coral novel that has the best of kisses in the bread and the intrigue of the resisters of the “Episodes of an Endless War”, the latest novel by Almudena Grandes is above all an unforgettable gallery of characters, who tell their experience of adapting to a country that has suffered severe shocks and in which they do not want to resign. The legacy of a great storyteller who once again manages to excite and awaken consciences.
Everything is going to get better (Softcover with flaps)
Fairy taleStephen King
Stephen King returns to fantasy in style, with a magnificent novel about an unlikely hero who must take part in the epic battle between good and evil. He is Charlie Reade, who looks like a normal high school student, but carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. He has two unexpected friends: a dog named Radar and Howard Bowditch, his old owner. When he dies, he leaves her a cassette that contains the great secret that he has kept throughout his life: inside his shed there is a portal that leads to another world.
tostonazoLawrence
A luminous novel about a A guy with no job or benefit who suddenly finds himself working as an intern at the center of things: a movie in Madrid. A tender and political story about looking for a life and finding the shine, away from the spotlight and the jerks. To read it is to rebel against what it touches and unmasking the bad guys for what they are, even if they don’t suspect it: boring.
The familySara Mesa
“In this family there are no secrets!” says Damián, father of a family and a man of fixed ideas, obsessed with righteousness and pedagogy. But that house is actually full of cracks, and the oppression that is breathed will end up creating escape routes, clandestine codes and lies. A forceful x-ray of a family, of its latent wounds, weaknesses, contradictions and weaknesses. With it, Sara Mesa once again shows that she has a clinical eye to undress human behaviors and portray them in all their complexity.
The Alaska Sanders caseJoël Dicker
“I know what you’ve done” is the message found on the body of Alaska Sanders, which appears on the edge of a lake. The key to the new investigation that brings together writer Marcus Goldman and Sergeant Perry Gahalowood, who will have the help of a young police officer bent on solving the plot of secrets that hides the case.
The Alaska Sanders Case (Hardcover)
All those things I’ll tell you tomorrowElisabet Benavent
Elísabet Benavent, the queen of erotic and romantic literature in Spanish, has returned with a time-jumping story that reconstructs in a random (and hilarious) way the highlights of a relationship.
All those things I’ll tell you tomorrow
The seven husbands of Evelyn HugoTaylor Jenkins Reid
Evelyn Hugo, a Hollywood icon who has withdrawn into her middle age, finally decides tell the truth about her life full of glamor and scandals. He chooses for it Monique Grant, an unknown journalist. Ignoring why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
The danger of being saneRosa Montero
Based on her personal experience and numerous books on psychology, neuroscience, literature, and memoirs by authors from different disciplines, Rosa Montero offers an exciting study on the links between creativity and mental instability.
The danger of being sane – Signed Book
Rome is meSantiago Posteguillo
There are characters that change the history of the world, but there are also moments that change the lives of those characters. Rome is me is the story of the extraordinary events that marked the fate of Caesar. Masterfully combining exhaustive historical rigor and an extraordinary narrative capacity, Santiago Posteguillo manages to immerse the reader in the heat of battles, make him walk through the most dangerous streets while the senators’ hitmen lurk in any corner, live the great love story of Julio César with Cornelia, his first wife, and to understand, in short, how man’s origins were after the myth.
Rome Is Me: The True Story of Julius Caesar (Hardcover)
break the circleColleen Hoover
Lily hasn’t always had it easy. That’s why her idyllic relationship with a superb neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid seems too good to be true. When Atlas, her first love, suddenly reappears and Ryle begins to show his true colors, everything Lily has built with him is threatened. A story inspired by the personal experience of the author with toxic relationships and that mixes the past with the present and with which it is impossible not to cry.
Break the circle (It Ends With Us)
VioletIsabel Allende
The epic and exciting story of a woman whose life spans the most relevant historical moments of the 20th century. From 1920 (with the so-called “Spanish flu”) to the 2020 pandemic, Violeta’s life is much more than the story of a century. Seen through the eyes of a woman possessing an unforgettable passion, determination and sense of humor that sustains her through a turbulent lifeIsabel Allende once again treats her readers to a furiously inspiring and deeply moving epic story.
The Black Book of Hours, Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi
Vitoria, 2022. Former inspector Unai López de Ayala, alias Kraken, receives an anonymous call that will change what he thinks he knows about his family past: he has a week to find the legendary Black Book of Hours, an exclusive bibliographic jewel, if not, his mother, who has rested in the cemetery for decades, will die. But, someone who has been dead for forty years cannot be kidnapped and certainly cannot bleed. How is this possible? A novel that is a race against time between Vitoria and the Madrid of bibliophiles to trace the most important criminal profile of his life, one capable of changing the past, forever.
The Black Book of Hours
Mrs. MarchVirginia Feito
Virginia Feito has achieved with her first novel what an established Spanish author rarely achieves: having an impact in a literary market as competitive as the American one. However, this woman from Madrid is not only that she has harvested good reviews, it has also already sold its rights for a film adaptation. In its pages is developed A mind-blowing, mind-bending journey that may unravel a murder and secrets buried for far too long.
Mrs. March (Softcover)
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