On April 23, Sant Jordi is celebrated, although this year we will have to celebrate it from home. Luckily, we won't have to give up literature, which has become one of our greatest allies in recent weeks.
And among the millions of options available, we can choose between the physical and the digital option. If you prefer to opt for the second, which is immediate and more affordable, keep these in mind twenty references, which have been the most read so far this year in Kindle format . To enjoy!
Red Queen, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Anthony Scott , the character created by the writer from Madrid, has fallen in love with millions of readers around the world (his works have been translated into forty languages). And without the need to make a fuss, because the protagonist of this saga does not need to leave her attic in Lavapiés to solve crimes.
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Red Queen, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Black Wolf, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
The second place in the ranking is occupied by the same author. This time, Gómez-Jurado confronts the Police and the Mafia in a plot where the fight to the death remains innate , which will be updated thanks to technology.
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Black Wolf, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
The North Face of the Heart, by Dolores Redondo
After the success of the Baztán trilogy, the writer from San Sebastian, winner of the Planeta Prize, goes back to 2005. Long before Amaia Salazar faced the crimes that happened in the Navarrese valley , the protagonist of this saga travels to the FBI Academy, in the United States, to study a case of a serial killer. From there, she will travel to New Orleans, where she will try to find her target.
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The North Face of the Heart, by Dolores Redondo
Sidi, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte goes back to the 11th century to follow the path of Cid Champion at the time of his banishment. A border story, as the author has titled it, full of warriors, horsemen, combats, weapons and a tireless struggle between life and death.
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Sidi, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende
During the Spanish Civil War, the two protagonists of this novel must leave Barcelona to go into exile in France; aboard the Winnipeg , a ship chartered by the poet Pablo Neruda, in search of the freedom that has been taken from them.
Plaza and Janes
Long Petal of the Sea, by Isabel Allende
The Gypsy Bride, by Carmen Mola
the inspector Elena White , head of the Case Analysis Brigade, faces a difficult case: the disappearance of Susana Macaya, of a gypsy father.
Two days later, her corpse appears tortured, after having been the victim of a ritual ; the same one that was practiced with her sister seven years before. So: either her murderer is innocent or there is someone copying her methods.
Alfaguara
The Gypsy Bride, by Carmen Mola
Scar, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
A novel that asks what success really consists of. Simon Sax is about to be part of the exclusive list of billionaires, thanks to an algorithm that he will sell to a multinational.
But his job success does not ensure a full life in the field of affection. Him until one day he meets Irina, who is thousands of miles away...
B is for Books
Scar, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Redemption, by Fernando Gamboa
A new police novel 650 pages , that his readers assure that they have not been able to stop reading.
Everything starts when a van kills fifteen passers-by on the Ramblas . But a few meters away, is Nuria Badal, a woman who could have prevented him and who has not. And from that moment on, nothing will be the same.
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Redemption, by Fernando Gamboa
The Purple Net, by Carmen Mola
The Spanish writer, who has been compared to Elena Ferrante (because you both use a pseudonym), brings Inspector Elena Blanco back to life, who this time will be immersed in an investigation in which a group traffics snuff videos , which can be seen through the Deep web.
And Blanco fears that the disappearance of her son when he was just a child may be related to this plot.
Alfaguara
The Purple Net, by Carmen Mola
Terra Alta, by Javier Cercas
A new crime has moved the readers of our country: this time the region of Terra Alta (Tarragona) follows one another, where the owners of an important company appear murdered after being tortured.
It will be then when the policeman Melchor Marín faces this case; although his life is also full of secrets.
Editorial Planet
Terra Alta, by Javier Cercas
Sofia's Suspicion, by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
Sofía and Daniel are a normal couple, with a normal life, which changes after he receives an anonymous letter in which his sender claims that his mother is not the woman he thinks.
If he wants to solve this mystery, he must move to paris , but this trip will have consequences (not always pleasant) and will change their lives forever.
Planet
Sofia's Suspicion, by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
The day sanity was lost, by Javier Castillo
This romantic thriller takes place on American soil. The director of the Boston psychiatric center and the FBI agent Stella Hyden will be implicated in a police investigation that will endanger their lives and that will take them back to the town of Salt Lake, almost two decades earlier.
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The day sanity was lost, by Javier Castillo
The Luck of Idiots, by Roberto Martínez Guzmán
Lucas Acevedo returns to Galicia after a frustrated mission in the Spanish capital. There, he will try to compose himself and his loneliness will be considered , which will begin to dissipate when one night he meets a woman. But then there are many deaths and his life is also in danger.
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The Luck of Idiots, by Roberto Martínez Guzmán
The Lords of Time: The White City Trilogy, by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
Unai López de Ayala must solve a disturbing mystery: the series of deaths that occur in his city are exactly the same as those described in the novel The Lords of Time.
All murders start from a premise; follow a medieval modus operandi : poisonings, sandwiched victims or prisoners locked in a barrel along with some animals that are thrown into the river.
Planet
The Lords of Time: The White City Trilogy, by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
A perfect story, by Elísabet Benavent
The most popular millennial writer of the moment reflects this time on the meaning of success and self-demand: two fundamental values for the new generations, which they face, more than ever, constant self-exploitation through social networks, from which they must also make a profit . But how does all this affect love?
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A perfect story, by Elísabet Benavent
The silence of the white city: Trilogy of the White City, by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
A new thriller that takes place in a city of Victoria. its protagonist faces a serial killer that performs rituals related to mysterious archaeological remains. But what would happen if the person convicted of these crimes, the archaeologist Tasio, was his own twin? Twenty years later, coinciding with his release from prison, the deaths resumed.
The silence of the white city: Trilogy of the White City, by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
A history of Spain, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The column of the writer and journalist who for four years published in the XL Weekly supplement, 'Letter of marque', has been compiled in this work, with the purpose of revisiting the history of our country through the centuries in an entertaining way. And in his words, in an "unorthodox way".
The end point is marked by the Transition: " The vision, more often acidic than sweet, of someone who, as a character in one of my novels says, knows that being lucid in Spain always brought with it a lot of bitterness, a lot of loneliness and a lot of despair.".
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A history of Spain, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Patient, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Sixty-three hours in which neurosurgeon David Evans must face a complex moral dilemma: let the president of the United States or his daughter die, who could be killed at the hands of a psychopath . And the rapid passing of seconds, minutes and hours only adds more tension to this crossroads.
Planet
The Patient, by Juan Gómez-Jurado
The Legacy of the Fabric Village, by Anne Jacobs
The third installment of the best-selling saga that has sold more than 2 million copies all over the world. Marie will have to rebel against the German society of the 1920s, where women suffer from obvious inequality.
But sociocultural circumstances do not prevent Paul Melzer's wife - who has just returned from the front - from giving up her dream: set up your fashion studio ; a business that, despite flourishing, does not seem to please her husband. That's when Marie decides leave her home with her children.
Plaza and Janes
The Legacy of the Fabric Village, by Anne Jacobs
The mother of Frankenstein: Episodes of an endless war, by Almudena Grandes
The last place on this list is occupied by the veteran Almudena Grandes , which once again recalls the Spain of Francoism; this time by the hand of psychiatrist Germán Velázquez, who returns from exile to work in a women's asylum.
There, he meets again with a parricide that he knew when he was a teenager, but he will also meet the nursing assistant María Castejón, with a complicated life full of secrets.
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