What if you could only have 10 books?

What if you could only have 10 books? Fortunately this is not going to happen, but what if it did? What would be the 10 titles that you would choose to read and reread hundreds of times throughout your life?

Very often we see articles from book lists to read: "The essentials for the summer", "The 101 books you have to read before you die", "The best poetry books", "The 10 fantasy novels, ideal to give to teenagers", and so on. endless possibilities. If you had to make your own list, which ones would be on it? I would like to know.

In the meantime, I leave a very personalized list of ten books highly recommended. Although this is a very personal article, I consider that from these lists where they give you a title and at the same time explain in a few words why you should read it, you can get good ideas. Who knows? Maybe your future favorite book is on my list.

Top 10

1. "Rhymes and Legends" de Gustavo Adolfo Becquer: If the idea that you were born in the wrong era has ever crossed your mind, if you like romanticism and you are romantic or romantic, if you consider that a good book should have both poetry and short stories, or if for On the contrary, Bécquer is on your list of favorite poets, you should not stop reading this book. In the Austral Collection publishing house, the first Spanish-speaking pocket collection, you can find it for about 8 euros. Some 380 pages full of mystery, romanticism in its purest form and a wide introduction about its writer and his time.
2. "Siddhartha" de Hermann Hesse: If you like to meditate, if you consider yourself a humanist, if you fervently believe that people should go further and not stay on the surface of the things and situations that we experience every day, this is one of your books. It will make you think, it will relax you at times, it will make you see that life can be simpler than we sometimes imagine.
3. "Fahrenheit 451" de Ray Bradbury: If you like futuristic novels, if you like philosophy, if you refuse to go with the flow of people just because it is what everyone does and if you think you could not live without reading, you will like "Fahrenheit 451". This book, which could be applied to many of the situations that we currently live in the world, will not leave you indifferent. You may like it more or less but when you finish it you will not consider it as wasted time.
4. "The little Prince" de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: A picture book made for adults. It will make you reflect, it will make you value the really important things in life and discard the useless and unnecessary from it, it will make you look beyond the surface and delve into what is true, what is essential. A short novel of almost obligatory reading, I would dare to indicate. A book that has been translated into more than 250 languages ​​and has become the best-selling French novel of all time. And what will you see: a boa that has eaten an elephant or a hat? You will understand ...
5. "The monk Who Sold His Ferrari" de Robin S Sharma: A suggestive and emotional story that hooks you from beginning to end. It is a small fable that contains small doses of practical exercises to make your life easier and happier. It is not a self-help book, since it is written like a novel but it does have some interactivity with the reader since it will make him think, meditate, reflect on the good and bad in his life, on what he really wants to achieve with it. time, your goals, your dreams, your goals, your motivations, etc. Highly recommended for those nonconformist people who aspire to everything in life.
6. "Tokyo Blues" de Haruki Murakami: This Japanese writer could not be missing from the list. Many are the books by this author that deserve to be among these ten, but "Tokio Blues" is a must. If you have never read anything by this author, you are taking time and if you have already done it but it has not been this book that we recommend, you are also taking time. He treats nostalgia, sexuality, death with a delicacy that only Murakami can convey with his narratives. Highly recommended for young people as it treats the maturation phases with a sense of humor and gentleness at the same time and for adults nostalgic for a certain past.
7. "V for Vendetta" de David Lloyd and Alan Moore: It is one of the greatest masterpieces of the comic industry. If you like politics, if you don't like having your freedom stolen from you, if you are against oppression and the dictatorship of a totalitarian world, you are going to love this comic. It could be said that it is very current and that in these times it is very good to read it.
8. "Letter from a stranger" de Stefan Zweig: It is a very timeless and very beautiful novel. With a very delicate writing style and very mysterious from the start. It is a book that has been taken to the cinema and to the opera. For those who believe in love for life despite adversity.
9. "Know how to lose" de David trueba: A book that teaches one of the most difficult things: to live. To live despite being born starred and not with a star, to live despite not having luck and always having everything against it,… To fall 100 times and get up 101. A story of losers who are not defeatists, but are fighters.
10. A blank notebook: It is not the title of a book. It really is a blank notebook. I would choose a notebook or book with empty pages to continue creating novels, poetry, stories, literature in general ... Because if you can only have 10, it would be preferable to have 9 and one that will help us to continue creating dozens more of them.

Let literature not die!