2016 has been a year that has left us many literary joys: Lucia Berlin and her Handbook for Cleaning Women, Homeland of Fernando Arambururu, Cinco Esquinas, by Mario Vargas Llosa or even a new volume of the Harry Potter saga. One more example that literature can continue to be of high quality and, above all, surprise readers, all the more reason to look to the next twelve months and discover those 7 books we will read in 2017.
Novelist as a Vocation, by Haruki Murakami
While Japan warms up engines for the announced new Murakami novel, which will be published in the Japanese country next February, Spaniards will have the opportunity to read Novelist as a vocation, a bundle of articles by the writer of Kafka On The Shore written for Monkey magazine plus 150 bonus pages of new content.
Into the water, by Paula Hawkins
Tras the success of The Girl on the Train, book that so far has sold 18 million copies since its publication in January 2015, Paula Hawkins returns with a new story, Into the water. Set in a remote town, the novel tells the troubled past of a single mother and a teenage girl, who are found dead in a nearby river a week apart. The novel will be published in Spain on May 2 by Planeta.
Beren and Lúthien, by JRR Tolkien
Which is one of the most mythical stories in all of Tolkien's work it was included for the first time in The Book of Lost Tales II and also in The Silmarilion. Decades later, the author's son, Christopher Tolkien, has decided to publish a complete volume with all the stories about Bere and Lúthien, relying on the illustrator Alan Lee. The work will be published in the United States on May 4, 2017, one hundred years after Edith, Tolkien's wife, danced for him, inspiring the way the two elven characters meet each other whose romance took place 6500 before The Lord of the rings. We hope that Minotauro will soon confirm its publication in Spain.
The patients of Dr. García, by Almudena Grandes
After publishing the novel Kisses on bread, that ode to a post-war period with more than one iota in common with the economic crisis of these years, Grandes has continued with the development of the fourth installment of the saga "Episodes of an interminable war" composed so far by Inés and joy, Jules Verne's reader and Manolita's three weddings. The fourth installment is entitled Dr. García's patients and will take place between Spain and Argentina from 1945 to 1954. It will be published sometime in the spring of 2017 by Tusquets.
Millenium Saga: Volume 5, by David Lagercrantz
While waiting to know the final title, the publisher Alfred A. Knoft has confirmed that there will be more Millenium in 2017. Let's remember that Stieg Larsson, author of Men Who Loved Women, The Girl Who Dreamed of a Match and a Can of Gasoline, and The Queen in the Draft Palace, all of them published since 2005, he died a year earlier, leaving incomplete the saga of ten titles that he had envisioned in life. In 2015 a new title of the saga was published, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, written by David Lagercrantz. The good reception of the latter has led to the development of a fifth story of Lisbeth Salander written again by Lagercrantz.
Origin by Dan Brown
Established as one of the most widely read authors of this century, Brown is one of those few writers whose novels are published simultaneously throughout the world and the next, Origin, will do so on September 27, 2017. This new story, starring again for Robert Langdon, will encompass the search for new answers to great mysteries of humanity through religion or art, two of the recurring themes in the bibliography of an author who has sold 200 million books to date.
4 3 2 1, by Paul Auster
Almost seven years after the publication of Sunset Park, Seix Barral has announced the publication of the new novel by the American Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1, for September 2017. The novel will star Archibald Isaac Ferguson, born in 1947 and witness to some of the great events that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century that determine the four different futures of the character.
These 7 what we will read in 2017 they will undoubtedly become some of the proposals that will occupy the shelves of half the world over the next few months. And in the meantime, we still don't know anything new about The Winds of Winter by George RR Martin. Crick crick.
Will you read any of these books?