There are people who measure summer by the number of swims in the sea or by the beers at sunset. But there are also those who count it in pages devoured under the umbrella,

books enjoyed in stages between naps or paragraphs savored with the tranquility of a summer night.

This year, Babelia's critics and journalists from EL PAÍS have made the most difficult task: to choose the best books for the summer.

- ‘Viajes con las adas’ (Sylvain Tesson). Aboard a sailboat, Tesson sails along the Celtic coasts in search of fairies. A journey as poetic as it is unpredictable.

- Ahora y en la hora (Héctor Abad Faciolince). A missile that failed to kill him gives Abad the opportunity to reflect on death, chance and guilt.

- El resto de nuestras vidas (Benjamin Markovits). Marriages, silences, reproaches and tenderness. Everything a family does not tell each other is here.

- Dónde se esconde el dinero (Atossa Araxia Abrahamian). An essay that uncovers the darkest corners of the financial system and helps us to understand why the world is so unbalanced.

- Recuérdanos para vivir (Joanna Rubin Dranger). Comic that goes beyond the Holocaust to tell the story of how anti-Semitism was woven outside Germany as well.

To see the 70 selected readings, go here