Dream, laugh, cry, remember, forget, love… Literature has the ability to stir the reader’s deepest feelings and move them at any time and place where they find themselves with a book in their hands. In the living room, on the subway, on the beach, sitting on a park bench, or even on a plane, it is possible to cry with joy (or sadness) when reading the pages of a book when you manage to reach it. the deepest part of our being. In fact, the latter is what happens in a video that we published on our Instagram profile, in which a young reader couldn’t help but get excited in the middle of a flight.
And to find out which books have moved our readers the most, we encouraged them in the publication itself to share them through the comments. With the numerous proposals we received we have prepared this selection of 15 exciting books.
Invisible
Through the eyes of a child, Eloy Moreno builds an environment full of mystery to tell a story in which any reader could feel identified because “who hasn’t ever wanted to be invisible? Who hasn’t ever wanted to leave to be?”. With short chapters and simple writing but loaded with emotional elements, readers delve into a novel that addresses such important topics as friendship, equality, inclusion and bullying, accompanied by superheroes such as Hulk, Superman or Spiderman, and also some monster and dragon.
- Author: Eloy Moreno
- Editorial: ink cloud
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The boy in the striped pajamas
This well-known best seller revolves around two little ones who live in the middle of World War II but who belong to ‘different universes’. One of them is called Bruno, he is eight years old and the son of a Nazi officer. Bruno’s family moves to a new place and in his new house the boy has no one to play with. One day, after exploring the surroundings, he comes across a concentration camp, of which the minor is unaware of its existence, and in which he meets Shmuel, a boy with whom he will make friends behind the fence that separates them.
- Author: John Boyne
- Editorial: Salamander
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The house of impossible loves
The Laguna women have carried a terrible curse from the beginning of their lineage: one after another they suffer love sickness and only give birth to girls who perpetuate this cruel inheritance. But when, after decades of forbidden passions and tragic loves, the first boy is born, the door of hope opens. Will this be the end of the curse? A novel to move you through the traps of desire, the tragedy of love and the indestructible bonds of family.
- Author: Cristina Lopez Barrio
- Editorial: POCKET-SIZE
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My orange-lime plant
Zezé dreams of being a poet and wearing a bow tie, but for now he is a five-year-old Brazilian boy opening up to life. In his house he goes from mischief to mischief; At school he is an angel with an overflowing imagination that has dazzled his teacher. But for a child like him, intelligent and sensitive, growing up in a poor family is not always easy; When he is sad, Zezé takes refuge in his friend Minguinho, a little lime orange tree, with whom he shares all his secrets.
- Author: José Mauro de Vasconcelos
- Editorial: Asteroid Books
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Paula
When the Chilean writer was in Spain presenting her fifth novel, ‘The Infinite Plan’‘, her daughter went into a coma. At Paula’s bedside, while anxiously following the evolution of her illness, Allende began to write in a notebook the history of her family and herself with the purpose of giving it to her daughter once she passed the age of terrible trance However, this went on for months and her notes ended up becoming a book in which she takes on her own experiences as a woman and writer as well as those of her family and the recent history of her country.
- Author: Isabel Allende
- Editorial: Plaza & Janes
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Marine
The narrative takes place between the end of 1979 and the beginning of 1980, in Barcelona, at which time Óscar Drai, a teenage boy, meets Marina, a young woman in delicate health. Both delve into a painful enigma of the city’s past. Marina is in charge of revealing the mystery of Óscar and telling this love story, 15 years later, when she realizes that she cannot escape from her past and has to return to Barcelona.
- Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Editorial: Booket
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Under the same star
Hazel Grace is sixteen years old and has lung cancer. This is why her parents encourage her to go to a support group, where she meets ‘Gus’ Waters, eighteen and with an amputated leg. It is a novel about life and death, with touches of humor and many others of tragedy, which is considered one of the masterpieces of current adolescent literature.
- Author: John Green
- Editorial: ink cloud
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A thousand splendid suns
The illegitimate daughter of a rich businessman, Mariam grows up with her mother in a house on the outskirts of Herat (Afghanistan). At fifteen, her life changes when her father sends her to Kabul to marry Rashid, a shoemaker thirty years older than her. Almost two decades later, Rashid finds Laila, a homeless fifteen-year-old girl, on the streets of Kabul. When the shoemaker offers him shelter in her house, which he must share with Mariam, a deep and emotional relationship begins between the two women that will end up being like that of two sisters, as strong as that of mother and daughter.
- Author: Khaled Hosseini
- Editorial: Salamander
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The pillars of the earth
It is the first title in the trilogy that receives the same name; the author’s most popular: ‘A world without end’ and ‘A column of fire’ are the books that complete it. It tells and describes the lives of typical characters of the Middle Ages: ladies and knights, kings, witches… The story revolves around the construction of a Gothic cathedral and, in this process, shows how relationships are established and developed. power at that time.
- Author: Ken Follett
- Editorial: Plaza and Janes
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kites in the sky
Against the backdrop of Afghanistan, life in Kabul during the winter of 1975 unfolds with all the intensity and color of a city confident in its future and unaware that one of the bloodiest periods it has ever suffered is approaching. At barely twelve years old, Amir sets out to win the annual kite competition in any way possible, even at the expense of his inseparable Hassan, a lower-class Hazara who has been his servant and playmate. since childhood. Thus, determined to prove to his father that he is already a man, Amir will put his friendship in danger and learn a truth that will accompany him for the rest of his life. This is the moving story of two parents and two children and how chance can mark an unexpected milestone in our destiny.
- Author: Khaled Hosseini
- Editorial: Salamander
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The day the sky falls
A novel with which to question several things: why is fate capable of making us find our better half at the worst moment of our lives? Why do we always say that the good ones die and the bad ones stay to annoy us? Alba and Nacho have known each other since they were children. The connection between them is very special and increases over the years, until she marries and distances herself from him. Nacho goes to London. There he will find the love of his life, whom he will later lose due to illness. Alba, who doesn’t know how bad her friend is going through, goes to him after her failed marriage. Her reunion creates an unbreakable bond, but before long she discovers that Nacho is also sick and she doesn’t know how long it will last.
- Author: Megan Maxwell
- Editorial: Essence
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Love in the time of cholera
‘It was inevitable: the smell of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of crossed loves.’ Thus begins one of the great classics of the Colombian author with Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza as the protagonists of a story of unrequited love that lasts more than half a century. Although when they were young they fell head over heels in love, Fermina married a wealthy doctor from a good family. Florentino, for his part, will have thousands of romances but none will be like the one he lived with Fermina during her youth. When Fermina’s husband dies, Florentino will go to her funeral and, there, 50 years after meeting her, he will once again profess everything he feels to the love of her life. This edition recreates the author’s extraordinary universe through a series of illustrations created by Luisa Rivera.
- Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Editorial: Random House Literature
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The ridiculous idea not to see you again
When Rosa Montero read the diary that Marie Curie began after the death of her husband, and which is included at the end of this book, she felt that the story of that woman who faced her time filled her head with ideas and emotions. After the death of her husband, the journalist wrote this novel that has become a reference for all those who have suffered a loss or are grieving. Following Curie’s career, Montero builds a roadmap that accompanies and consoles, with pages that talk about overcoming pain, relationships between men and women, a good death and a beautiful life, and science. and of ignorance, of the saving force of literature and of the wisdom of those who learn to enjoy existence fully and lightly.
- Author: Rosa Montero
- Editorial: Six Barral
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Lemon Poppy Seed Bread
During the winter of 2010, in a small town in the interior of Mallorca, Anna and Marina, two sisters who were separated in their youth, meet again to sell a bakery that they have inherited from a mysterious woman whom they believe they do not know. They are two very different women: Anna has barely left the island and is still married to a man she no longer loves. Marina travels the world working as a volunteer for an NGO. This novel is a story about female friendship, about kept secrets and forgotten bread recipes. But, above all, it is the story of women who learn to decide, freely, about their future.
- Author: Cristina Campos
- Editorial: booket
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Tuesday with my old teacher
This story based on real events has as its protagonist Mitch, a character who has always remembered one of his university professors. When he sees him on television being interviewed because he is sick with ALS, he decides to take advantage of the time he has left in life to continue listening to those teachings that marked his heart. The book is a compilation of the conversations between the two in which they talk about life and which take place every Tuesday.
- Author: Mitch Albom
- Editorial: Maeva
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