Every recommended book
The books we have recommended, one a month, tied to prizes, anniversaries and releases. Search by title or author, or filter by genre.
- Gabriel García Márquez
October 2026
Cien años de soledad
The saga of the Buendía family across seven generations in Macondo, a town where the everyday and the extraordinary sit side by side. A classic of magical realism.
- Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
2026 International Booker Prize
Taiwan Travelogue
A fictional 1930s travel memoir set in Japanese-occupied Taiwan: two women tour the island on a culinary journey. The first work translated from Mandarin to win the International Booker.
- Daniel Kraus
2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Angel Down
In the First World War, five soldiers find a fallen angel in no man's land and wonder whether it could end the war. Written as a single sentence across about 300 pages.
- David Toscana
2026 Alfaguara Prize
El ejército ciego
The Byzantine emperor Basil II orders thousands of Bulgarian soldiers blinded, and the story is told by Kozaro, the scribe. 2026 Alfaguara Prize winner, by Mexican author David Toscana.
- David Uclés
2026 Nadal Prize
La ciudad de las luces muertas
A multi-voiced novel set in postwar Barcelona, where a total blackout plunges the city into darkness. 2026 Nadal Prize winner, by the author of «La península de las casas vacías».
- David Szalay
2025 Booker Prize
Flesh
The life of István, a quiet Hungarian boy who moves from a modest neighbourhood to the army, to London and to money. Spare, almost unadorned prose to tell a whole life.
- Laurent Mauvignier
2025 Goncourt Prize
La Maison vide
In 1976 a Touraine mansion shut for twenty years is reopened, and the narrator pulls on the thread of his family across generations, with his grandmother's accusation of collaboration at its centre. A family saga of about 750 pages.
- Juan del Val
2025 Planeta Prize
Vera, una historia de amor
After twenty years married to a marquis, Vera separates and meets a younger man of humble origins. Her ex-husband's resentment turns the love story into something far darker.
- László Krasznahorkai
2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Tango satánico
In a ruined Hungarian hamlet, news that a man presumed dead has returned changes everything. The 2025 Nobel laureate's first novel: hypnotic, with very long sentences and black humour.
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