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Recommended books (38)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Spain. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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A Heart So White

A Heart So White by Javier Marías EN

Rating: 4     16 Votes
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
A breathtaking novel about family secrets, winner of the 1997 Dublin IMPAC Prize for the best novel published worldwide in English, and arguably Javier Marías's masterpiece.
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Recommended: 11 May 2023

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LUMINOUS REPUBLIC.

A LUMINOUS REPUBLIC by ANDRES. BARBA EN

Rating: 5     3 Votes
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
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Recommended: 21 Jul 2023

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American Dirt

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Extraordinary." --Stephen King "This book is not simply the great American novel; it's the great novel oflas Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful." --Sandra Cisneros También de este lado hay sueños.On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fa... continue
Recommended: 16 Apr 2023

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An Apartment on Uranus

An Apartment on Uranus : Chronicles of the Crossing by Paul B. Preciado EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich, Paul B. Preciado dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My tr... continue
Recommended: 16 Jan 2023

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Confessions by Jaume Cabré EN

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Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable literary symphony. I confess. At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer s, Adri� Ard�vol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father s study become the centre of his world; where a treasured Storioni vi... continue
Recommended: 11 Oct 2022

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Cuando no queden más estrellas que contar

Cuando no queden más estrellas que contar by María Martínez ES

Rating: 4     2 Votes
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Recommended: 20 Nov 2022

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De nevelprins / druk 1

De nevelprins / druk 1 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón NL

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Max verhuist met zijn familie naar een kustdorpje waar vreemde dingen gebeuren. Wat doet dat griezelige beeldenpark achter het huis? En wat betekent de zespuntige ster die overal opduikt? Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Recommended: 25 Apr 2023

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De vrouwen van Héctor

De vrouwen van Héctor by Adelaida García Morales NL

Rating: 2     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Genre Adult
Recommended: 27 Dec 2022

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Dogs of Summer

Dogs of Summer : A Novel by Andrea Abreu EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
"[A] firecracker of a debut . . . Abreu's novel, in Julia Sanches's sparkling translation, is a revelation, perfectly capturing a festering summer of meltdowns and shrinking horizons." —The New York Times My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer. High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject,... continue
Genre Adult
Recommended: 09 Aug 2023

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Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra EN

Rating: 4     6 Votes
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together-and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years. With its experimen... continue
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Recommended: 19 Aug 2022


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