2019 ends. Touch balance of best-selling books and this list will not have varied much by now. These are 6 fiction and non-fiction titles highlights that take the top positions in the final stretch of this year. In fiction are the Planet Award most recent, the poetry unbeatable of the latest genre phenomenon and a usual best seller. And in non-fiction first person stories about past and present experiences plus a high-profile political and economic essay. Let's see…
Among the best selling fiction
Unconditional - Offreds
Or José A. Gómez Iglesias, which returns to the top of the best-seller list with its poems that combine verses, thoughts and poetic prose in his successful store. Outstanding topics such as unconditional love, life as a couple, passion, heartbreak, friendship ... And dreams of a better world where that love can with everything.
High ground - Javier Cercas
The recent Planet Award a niche has been made in this list of best sellers with the narration of a crime that shakes the peaceful region of Terra Alta. Melchor Marin, a young policeman, a great reader and with a dark past, will handle the case. But that past always comes back.
Sidi - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Pérez-Reverte is a fixed of the best-selling books of the year and this 2019 has placed two: A history of Spain, compilation of articles written to tell that story in their own particular way; and this Sidi, its also very personal review of a character and hero so ours and controversial in these times as Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid.
Among the best sellers of non-fiction
Smile even if it costs you - Angela Marble
First person account of this influential from TikTok who talks about his experience as victim of bullying. Intended for the young reader with vocation of self-help, in this book you can also learn to recognize and combat that harassment school. All to discover many more important things such as not giving up, trusting yourself and being a better person. For this, you also have to have the help of others, for at the same time to be able to lend a hand to those who suffer it.
The fury and the colors - Greater Wyoming
The media and popular actor, presenter and writer also sneaks among the best sellers with this account in the first person, and in his own way, about his life. Or rather, about the historical and social context around it. An exercise in memory with a great protest component that he already demonstrated in another literary success, We are not crazy.
La Transition, the contradictions between the Spain of the dictadura and the one that began to wake up modernity of the 80 years, plus the drugs, sex, music. Everything mixed with politics and fighting for also finding his own professional place.
Capital and ideology - Thomas Piketty
Already got a great success with a previous work, Capital in the XNUMXst century. That has allowed Thomas Piketty to continue accessing fiscal and historical sources that until now many and different governments have refused to offer. So with that data build an economic, social, intellectual and political history of current inequality. All this going through the estates and slave societies to the modern hypercapitalists.
His conclusion: that inequality it is not economic or technological, but ideological and political. In reality, the common thread in the history of human societies is not the fight of classes, defended by theorists such as Marx and Engels, but the of ideologies. But in the end he is convinced that it is possible to overcome capitalism and achieve that just society.
Other fiction and non-fiction titles
They also stand out among the best sellers of non-fiction A people betrayed de Paul preston; and fictional, The north face of the heart, from another habitual, Dolores Round.
Source: House of the Book