Throughout 2014, great titles have been released. What have been the best books or, at least, the most read and best valued by readers?
Nubico, a digital reading service without limits by subscription, has published a list in which it collects which have been the best books of 2014. Let's see what its proposal is, in which fiction books stand out.
Familiar demons by Ana María Matute
Familiar demons It is a story of love and guilt, of betrayal and friendship, in the purest style of the author. The story takes place in a small inland Spanish town in 1936, with a female protagonist who will soon be unforgettable.
Adultery, by Paulo Coelho
Adultery tells the story of Linda, a girl married to a rich man with whom they have two children. The family lives in a beautiful house in Geneva, Switzerland. In everyone's eyes, his life is perfect. However, he is not happy; great dissatisfaction corrodes her and she feels guilty for not being able to enjoy what she has. That is why he does not talk to anyone about what is happening. She loves her husband but her relationship with him has become routine, apathetic.
Offering to the stormby Dolores Redondo
Offering to the storm It is the end of the Baztán Trilogy. A month has passed since the Provincial Police inspector recovered her son and was able to arrest Berasategui. But despite the fact that both the Civil Guard and Judge Markina consider Rosario for dead, Amaia feels that she is not free from danger, a distress that only Jonan understands. The sudden death of a girl in Elizondo is suspicious.
The patientby Juan Gómez-Jurado
The patient tells the story of the prestigious neurosurgeon David Evans and how he faces a terrible crossroads: if his next patient leaves the operating table alive, his little daughter Julia will die at the hands of a psychopath. For Dr. Evans a desperate countdown begins when he discovers that the patient who must die for his daughter to live is none other than the President of the United States.
The great forgetfulnessby Pilar Urbano
After the resounding success of The price of the throne, Pilar Urbano does a courageous research exercise in The great desmomoria to end myths and half-truths that have disfigured our recent history. With unpublished documents and witnesses that finally tell what they had never told, Urbano finds out how the King acted in the Transition.
Foreign bodiesby Lorenzo Silva
Foreign bodies is a novel that tells how, while spending the weekend with the family, the Bevilacqua brigade receives the notice that the corpse of the mayor of a Levantine town, whose disappearance had been previously reported by the husband, has been found by some tourists on the beach. By the time Bevilacqua and his team arrive and take over the investigation, the judge has already raised the body, the first arrangements are made, and the funeral is being prepared.
The three weddings of Manolita, by Almudena Grandes
Manolita's three weddings is a moving choral story about the years of poverty and desolation in the immediate postwar period of real and imagined characters. A memorable novel about the solidarity network that many people weave, from the artists of a flamenco tablao to the women who queue in jail to visit the prisoners, or the old friends from her brother's school, to protect a young woman with courage.
La vida eso, Nadal Novel Prize 2014, by Carmen Amoraga
La vida eso tells the story of the sudden death of Giuliana's husband, leaving her devastated and alone with two young daughters. Overcoming day after day is testing your stamina and your imagination, as you go from disbelief to anger, and from there to idealizing your relationship with William.
The immortal pyramidby Javier Sierra
The great mystery of humanity, immortality, is the cornerstone on which the arguments of The immortal pyramid, a revised, updated and expanded version of his novel Napoleon's Egyptian Secret. After El maestro del Prado, Javier Sierra returns with more emotion, more feeling, more enigmas.
The dream night, Spring Novel Award 2014, by Màxim Huerta
The dream night is a story about the pursuit of happiness. From the hand of Màxim Huerta, the reader will discover that the most risky journey is the one that is undertaken towards love, so often painful and impossible, but with which we should never stop dreaming.