Today, April 23, is International Book Day. It is the perfect excuse to go to the bookstore and ask for reading suggestions. Here are some recommendations for new editorials in different genres to enjoy reading.
(1) Gabrielle Wittkop mastered the disturbing mysteries as seen in Very serene murder (Voltaire Cabaret).
(2) Sonia is a woman alone in the masculinized world of rodeo. Kathryn Scanlan makes her voice heard in To all bridle (natural errata).
(3) Box 19 (Bad Lands), which talks about life and literature, is the first novel by the British Claire-Louise Bennett.
(4) Two pairs of sisters star The imaginary wound (Áncora y Delfín), by Berta Dávila from Compostela.
(5) Catherine Meurisse humorously illustrates the history of philosophy in Humana, Too Human (Impedimenta).
(6) The poet and veterinarian from Córdoba María Sánchez returns with Fire the thirst (The Beautiful Warsaw).
(7) Icelandic Audur Ava Ólafsdóttir talks about midwives and nature in The truth about light (Alfaguara).
(8) Secrets, escapes and reunions fill The distance that separates us (Asteroid Books), by Maggie O’Farrell.
(9) Isobel English was part of the circle of Olivia Manning and Muriel Spark. In all eyes (Infinite Doll) its characters travel to a still wild Ibiza.
(10) Natalia Ginzburg wrote in 1957 Valentino (Cliff), which explores themes such as class and marriage.
(1) Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist with The optimists, returns with a novel about true crimes, I have some questions for you (Sixth floor).
(2) Navona is reviving the works of Elizabeth Hardwick, who co-founded and directed The New York Review of Books. One of them is sleepless nights, praised by Joan Didion and Susan Sontag.
(3) War notebooks and other texts (Tusquets) compiles the writings of Marguerite Duras between 1943 and 1949, with sketches of her novels, fragments of her memoirs and thoughts on writing.
(4) Prawn soup with certosine, baked truffles or carnation jam are some of the recipes to seduce that Norman Douglas compiled in 1936 and brings together Venus in the kitchen (Siruela).
(5) Twelve disturbing stories, in which terror is in everyday life, is the latest from Argentina’s Mariana Enriquez, A sunny place for gloomy people (Anagram).
(6) A Greek town is the place where the protagonist of Swim (Peripheral), nouvelle by Marianne Apostolides, must decide her future.
(7) Simone Weil lived through the war and wrote reflections against it such as Let’s not start the Trojan War again either Meditations before a corpse, collected now by Carpe Noctem on The power of words.
(8) Andrea Toribio reviews her diaries from 2016 to 2023 to reflect on everyday life in Children of the future (The knife).
(9) Everyone knows that your mother is a witch (Transit), by Canadian Rivka Galchen, delves into history to travel to Germany in 1618, when the witch hunt broke out.
(10) Gloria Naylor studied African American studies at Yale and was a university professor. in the novel Linden Hills (Nordic) talks about race, identity and social classes.
