To celebrate El Día del Libro - The Day of The Book on April 23, various personalities have recommended the following list of books
These are some of the titles:
- Cosas de la Cosa Nostra by Giovanni Falcone (Ediciones Barataria), recommended by Baltasar Garzón Real, Judge.
- La ciudad de las pasiones terribles by Judith R. Walkowitz (Editorial Cátedra), recommended by Justa Montero, Spanish feminist activist.
- De cómo me convertí en alcalde y cambié el mundo by Jon Gnàrr (Editorial Capitán Swing), recommended by Stéphane M. Grueso,
documentary filmmaker. - Tan poca vida by Hanya Yanagihara (Editorial Lumen), recommended by eldiario.es.
- Entre el mundo y yo by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Editorial Seix Barral), recommended by Moha Gerehou, President of SOS Racismo.
- Flores para Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Editorial Barco de Vapor), recommended by Raúl Gay, specialized journalist
- Un cuarto propio by Virginia Woolf (Alianza Editorial), recommended by Ana Requena, blog coordinator eldiario.es
- Una humilde propuesta by Jonathan Swift (published anonymously in 1729. Spnish Translation Nórdica, 2014), recommended by Edu Galán,co-founder of Mongolia magazine.
- En defensa de los animales by Jorge Riechmann (Libros La Catarata), recommended by Ruth Toledano, editor of El Caballo de Nietzsche blog.
- La forja de un rebelde by Arturo Barea (Editorial Debolsillo), recommended by Ian Gibson (Hispanist).
View the entire list here