GLOBO has brought together the best arrivals in bookstores in 2025, with the hundred literary highlights of the year, in a privileged environment. Highlights of fiction include the novel “O Hipótamo,” by Chico Mattoso, in which the adolescent Rodrigo discovers, in his own family, the wounds of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Or the astronauts in “Orbital,” an award-winning novel by English author Samantha Harvey about the routine aboard a space station.
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There are also old acquaintances who now appear in a new costume, like Hansel and Gretel who populate the tales full of sex and blood by Dalton Trevisan, brought together in a new anthology that celebrated the centenary of the Curitiba writer in June. Or Macabéa, Clarice Lispector’s most famous character, whose life, a succession of humiliations, from poor childhood to spectacular death, is told with earthy tones in a graphic novel.
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Autofiction has remained firm and strong in 2025. Annie Ernaux says so. In “Memória de Girl”, one of the high points of her literature, she evokes her first (and violent) encounter with sex and explains clearly her method of working with memory: “Capturing and understanding the behavior of this girl (…), her happiness and her suffering, situating them in relation to the beliefs of society half a century ago.”
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