Books from Spain
187 popular spanish books
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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Ética para um jovem by Fernando Savater PT
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Nada menos supérfluo do que ensinar as opções e os valores da liberdade se queremos educar seres humanos livres. Mas como falar de ética aos adolescentes, sem incorrer na simples crónica das ideias morais ou no doutrinamento casuístico sobre questões práticas? Pensado e escrito para ser lido por adolescentes, Ética para Um Jovem explica, numa linguagem clara, profunda e ao mesmo tempo divertida, do que trata a Ética e de como a podemos aplicar à nossa vida quotidiana para tentarmos viver da melhor maneira possí... continue
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A Gift for a Ghost by Borja Gonzalez EN
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"Originally published in 2018 in Spain by Penguin Random House as The black holes"--Copyright page
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A Heart So White by Javier Marías EN
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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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Agire, gnev božji : ekvinocijalna pustolovina Lopea de Agirea by Ramón José Sender SR
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Agire, gnev božji – veličanstvena freska o osvajanju Novog sveta i potrazi za mitskim Eldoradom u bespućima Amazonije, o tragičnom susretu Zapada s „tužnim tropima“, devičanski nedirnutim svetom južnoameričkih Indijanaca. Kroz ovaj nezaboravni roman-hroniku promiču halucinantni likovi Lopea de Agirea – konkistadora, buntovnika i tiranina – nestvarno lepe donje Ines, tanane devojčice Elvire i niza drugih čiji su životi i sudbine nerazmrsivo utkani u mitsku povest Zelenog kontinenta.
Smeštena u rajski i istovremeno demonski ambijent bujne tropske prirode, ... continue
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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins EN
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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
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An Apartment on Uranus : Chronicles of the Crossing by Paul B. Preciado EN
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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
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Aprender a hablar con las plantas by Marta Orriols ES
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La primera y esperada novela ganadora del premio Òmnium y el premio L'Illa dels Llibres de una gran autora: el retrato de la encrucijada vital de una mujer. «Marta Orriols tiene la capacidad de fijar con palabras la fugacidad y lo imprevisto de las circunstancias cotidianas.» Ponç Puigdevall, El País « El odio y el amor a veces se acoplan en una sola bola, como gotas de mercurio, y de la amalgama surge un sentimiento pesante y tóxico y extrañamente añorado. Eso es lo que irrita. La añoranza, a pesar de todo.» Paula Cid es una neonatóloga de cuarenta y dos años con una vida ordenada. Apasionada... continue