to be read 2026

1984

George Orwell · 2013

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

La Odisea

Homero · 1999

La iliada

Homero · 2000

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 2017

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 2014

Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin's estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. Rosamund Bartlett's translation conveys Tolstoy's precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling.

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 2017

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury · 2013

"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."--taken from back cover.

El gran Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 2021

«El gran Gatsby tiene pocos rivales como la gran novela americana del siglo XX. Al volver a leerla, una vez más, mi inicial y primera reacción es de renovado placer».<br/><br/>Harold Blomm<br/><br/>En los felices años veinte, en la era del jazz, la ciudad de Nueva York es el centro del universo. Hay música desenfrenada, noches en blanco y champán a raudales; hay contrabando, tiroteos y bonanza económica; y además está Gatsby. Jay Gatsby, enigmático, millonario y hecho a sí mismo, que organiza fiestas de ensueño en su babilónica mansión de Long Island, bailes a los que acude el mundo entero. Y eso incluye a la arrebatadora Daisy Buchanan, la mujer que una vez lo amó, antes de que la abandonase para luchar en Europa, antes de que permitiera que se casara con otro, tan deslumbrante, tan imposible de recuperar como lo es todo tiempo pasado...<br/><br/>Una de las grandes novelas de la literatura estadounidense del siglo XX que se ofrece aquí en una nueva traducción, una obra única que, como escribe Jesús Ferrero en su esclarecedor prólogo, «hay que abordar como quien se adentra en un espacio oscilante y mágico, donde todo está matizado y sugerido hasta el dolor y la extenuación, y donde el lenguaje discurre como música de jazz, emitiendo en cada párrafo la luz resplandeciente y líquida de la más profunda y evanescente melancolía».

La señora Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 2021

Virginia Woolf es una de las autoras más relevantes de la literatura del siglo XX.<br/>Clarissa Dalloway es una mujer de cincuenta y dos años de la alta sociedad londinense, casada con un diputado conservador del parlamento británico y madre de una hija adolescente. Un día de junio de 1923, se prepara para dar una fiesta en su casa aquella misma noche. Allí se rencontrará con amigos que hace muchos años que no ve. Mientras pasea por las calles londinenses ultimando los preparativos, Clarissa se encuentra inmersa en sus propios recuerdos y examina las decisiones que ha tomado a lo largo de su vida, como su romance de infancia con Peter Walsh.<br/>Pasado, presente y futuro se entretejen en este relato que, a través de las complejas vidas interiores de sus personajes, consigue explorar los límites de la experiencia humana. Por su narrativa cargada de lirismo, capaz de reseguir con maestría los monólogos interiores de los protagonistas, y su reivindicación de la condición femenina, La señora Dalloway se ha convertido en una de las novelas más revolucionarias e imprescindibles del siglo XX.

Everything I Know about Love A Memoir

Dolly Alderton · 2021

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

Just Kids

Patti Smith · 2010

<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong · 2021

A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post “This is one of the best novels I’ve ever read...Ocean Vuong is a master. This book a masterpiece.”—Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and more!

Nuestra parte de noche

Mariana Enriquez · 2020

PREMIO HERRALDE DE NOVELA 2019<br/><br/>La herencia, el deseo de pervivir, la paternidad, el horror, lo íntimo y lo político. Una novela libre y osada, hechizante y genial.<br/><br/>Un padre y un hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguazú, en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los años de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensión en el ambiente. El hijo se llama Gaspar y el padre trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado. La madre murió en circunstancias poco claras, en un accidente que acaso no lo fue.<br/><br/>Como su padre, Gaspar está llamado a ser un médium en una sociedad secreta, la Orden, que contacta con la Oscuridad en busca de la vida eterna mediante atroces rituales. En ellos es vital disponer de un médium, pero el destino de estos seres dotados de poderes especiales es cruel, porque su desgaste físico y mental es rápido e implacable. Los orígenes de la Orden, regida por la poderosa familia de la madre de Gaspar, se remontan a siglos atrás, cuando el conocimiento de la Oscuridad llegó desde el corazón de Africa a Inglaterra y desde allí se extendió hasta Argentina.<br/><br/>English: A father and a son cross Argentina by road, from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls. Its the military regime era, there are controls of armed soldiers and tension in the environment. The sons name is Gaspar and the father tries to protect him from his destiny after his mother died in unclear circumstances.

Cadaver Exquisito

Agustina Bazterrica • 2023

La súbita aparición de un virus letal que ataca a los animales modifica de manera irreversible el mundo: desde las fieras hasta las mascotas deben ser sistemáticamente sacrificadas, y su carne ya no puede ser consumida. Los gobiernos enfrentan la situación con una decisión drástica: legalizando la cría, reproducción, matanza y procesamiento de carne humana. El canibalismo es ley y la sociedad ha quedado dividida en dos grupos: los que comen y los que son comidos. Marcos Tejo, encargado general del frigorífico Krieg, es un oscuro burócrata. El día en que recibe como regalo una mujer criada para el consumo, las tentaciones lo transforman en una conciencia peligrosa de pliegues truculentos que lo llevará a transgredir las nuevas normas hasta límites que la sociedad ignora. En esta despiadada distopía —tan brutal como sutil, tan alegórica como realista—, Bazterrica inspira, con el poder explosivo de la ficción, debates de suma actualidad.

El peligro de estar cuerda

Rosa Montero · 2022

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell · 2021

El lugar

Annie Ernaux · 2020

Pura Pasion

Annie Ernaux · 1998

El Acontecimiento

Annie Ernaux · 2022

Tan poca vida

Hanya Yanagihara · 2024

Quatre graduats d'una universitat de Massachusetts es traslladen a Nova York per construir el seu futur, amb pocs diners i molts dubtes, però sostinguts per la seva amistat i les seves ambicions. Hi ha en Willem, un aspirant a actor amable i atractiu; en JB, un pintor nascut a Brooklyn, ràpid de paraula i a vegades cruel; en Malcolm, un arquitecte frustrat que comença a treballar en una empresa prominent; i en Jude, un advocat introvertit, brillant i enigmàtic, què és el centre de gravetat del grup .- Prové de l'editor.

La canción de Aquiles

Madeline Miller · 2021

De la autora de Circe, una epopeya inolvidable Grecia en la era de los héroes. Patroclo, un príncipe joven y torpe, ha sido exiliado al reino de Ftía, donde vive a la sombra del rey Peleo y su hijo divino, Aquiles.Aquiles, el mejor de los griegos, es todo lo que no es Patroclo: fuerte, apuesto, hijo de una diosa. Un día Aquiles toma bajo su protección al lastimoso príncipe y ese vínculo provisional da paso a una sólida amistad mientras ambos se convierten en jóvenes habilidosos en las artes de la guerra.Pero el destino nunca está lejos de los talones de Aquiles. Cuando se extiende la noticia del rapto de Helena de Esparta, se convoca a los hombres de Grecia para asediar la ciudad de Troya. Aquiles, seducido por la promesa de un destino glorioso, se une a la causa, y Patroclo, dividido entre el amor y el miedo por su compañero, lo sigue a la guerra. Poco podía imaginar que los años siguientes iban a poner a prueba todo cuanto habían aprendido y todo cuanto valoraban profundamente.

Circe

Madeline Miller · 2020

"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times bestseller -- named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, BuzzFeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider

Los recuerdos del porvenir (Spanish Edition)

Elena Garro · 2019

Una Obra Maestra, Un Punto Y Aparte En La Literatura Mexicana. Escrita Con Una Prosa Dotada De Deslumbrantes Poderes Sensoriales, Los Recuerdos Del Porvenir Marcó El Luminoso Arranque En La Trayectoria De Elena Garro. El Pueblo De Ixtepec Es Quien Cuenta En Estas Páginas Una Sucesión De Episodios En Los Que Se Mezclan La Crueldad Y La Fe, La Pasión Y El Odio, La Mentira Y La Perfidia, Con La Mirada Propia De Los Grandes Relatos Fantásticos, A Través De Un Amplio Reparto De Personajes De Las Distintas Capas Sociales, Desde Las Prostitutas Y Los Campesinos Hasta Las Antiguas Familias Y Los Religiosos. Ixtepec Se Ubica En La Tierra Caliente Del Corazón De México, En Un Sitio Que Es Todos Y Es Ninguno, Pues Se Trata Del Pueblo Imaginario En Que Elena Garro Ambientó Su Representación De Los Convulsos Años Posrevolucionarios De Un México En El Que La Injusticia Del Despojo De Tierras, El Racismo Y La Violencia Contra Las Mujeres Eran, Como Lo Son Hoy, Un Asunto De Todos Los Días. Fábula Poderosa De Las Heridas Históricas De Un País Y Una época, Los Recuerdos Del Porvenir Está Llamada A Ocupar, Finalmente, Su Sitio Como Un Clásico Indiscutible De La Literatura Hispanoamericana.

Kafka en la orilla

Haruki Murakami · 2016