I don’t know if it happens to you, but in my case it’s something constant: I usually go to Amazon to see what their list of best-selling books is, to browse, get inspired, sometimes buy and see what kind of works they are calling. more customer attention. Of course, I don’t always end up finding books that are worth it, because I find many textbooks, recommendations for schoolchildren, third-rate self-help books or genres that I don’t identify with.
But if we scratch a little more in the ‘top’ of Amazon’s best-selling books, we can find some very interesting ones, which are worth it (be it a novel, an essay or even a comic, as we bring you on this occasion). From Joël Dicker’s police thriller to the book about the Supersubmarina group that is rampaging, this is our selection.
Blackwater Saga (Michael McDowell)
Blackie Books BLACKWATER I. The flood
Blackie Books BLACKWATER I. The flood
This dark saga, ‘Blackwater’, halfway between Faulkner and Lovecraft, it is a true editorial discovery that has become an unexpected? success. The books are very well written and exciting; It consists of six parts that have been released every 15 days – they are all already published. The best seller on Amazon of this saga from the 80s published by Blackie Books is the first volume, ‘The Flood’, in which McDowell introduces us to the Caskeys, a family of landowners who are the protagonists of this half-century story that lives in a lost town in Alabama. His life will be altered by the arrival of the mysterious Elinor Dammert.
‘A wild animal’ (Joël Dicker)
Alfaguara A wild animal
Alfaguara A wild animal
‘A wild animal’, The new ‘thriller’ by Joël Dicker, published by Alfaguara, establishes the author’s fame as a leader in European detective fiction and has one of his characteristic cover illustrations, made by the plastic artist David de las Heras. So there are no surprises if we tell you that it is the best-selling suspense thriller on Amazon. On July 2, 2022, two criminals are preparing to rob a major jewelry store in Geneva. An incident that is far from being a common robbery. Twenty days earlier, in a luxurious development on the shores of Lake Geneva, Sophie Braun is preparing to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Her life smiles at her: she lives with her family in a mansion surrounded by forests, but her idyllic world is about to shake.
‘Something that serves as light’ (Fernando Navarro)
Aguilar Something that serves as light
Aguilar Something that serves as light
The enormous publishing success of this book shows how much we missed knowing something about Supersubmarina, a wonderful ‘indie’ group formed by four friends from Baeza (Jaén) who gave us songs like ‘Viento de cara’ and whose career was cut short in a terrible traffic accident that occurred in the summer of 2016. The four members of the group almost lost their lives; They suffered very serious injuries that have kept them away from public life until the critic Fernando Navarro ‘rescued’ them to tell their story in ‘Something that serves as light’ (Aguilar). A very addictive book that hooks you from the first page that will make fans fall in love and will undoubtedly attract new followers.
‘The Child’ (Fernando Aramburu)
Tusquets The boy
Based on the accident in Ortuella (Vizcaya) that in 1980 caused the death of fifty children, the novel is based on the devastated lives of the members of a family and their attempts to overcome a harrowing experience. In ‘The boy’ (Tusquets), Nicasio, now retired, usually goes up to the Ortuella cemetery on Thursdays to visit his grandson’s grave. He is one of the many children who died after a gas explosion at a school in that town, an accident that shook the Basque Country and all of Spain in 1980.
‘Paris 2024’ (Francisco Ibáñez)
Bruguera Paris 2024
We end with another classic of our graphic literature, the great Francisco Ibáñez, who left us a magnificent legacy, a new album by ‘Magos del humor’; of Mortadelo and Filemón in the Olympics. ‘Paris 2024’ (Bruguera) It is Ibáñez’s unfinished work, since he was working on it when he died. But we can see his 20 pages of script and the pencil sketches. As always, in it, TIA agents have to solve a mystery that is putting the most important sporting event in the world at risk.
