The year 2026 is full of good expectations and better names for reading lovers. Known authors such as Fernando Aramburu, Cristina Araújo, Máximo Huerta, Sergio del Molino, Yasmina Reza, the Nadal Prize awarded on the night of January 6, the Biblioteca Breve de Seix Barral, which will be announced in February… will parade in the first quarter of this year in their own right It will be dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his death (Geneva, June 1986). Not everyone who will know is there, but they are the ones who are. “We are not what we are because of what we write, but because of what we have read. The greatness of reading is that it makes us wiser. Writing is only the logical consequence.” words of a cultivated and illustrious Argentinian, author of immortal works such as Aleph and fictions.
“Mom is sleeping”, by Máximo Huerta
Memory and fiction: Aurora loses her memory. One day, he asks his only son where his brother is. To discover where the border between oblivion and secrecy lies, mother and son undertake a trip to Vera de Bidasoa (Navarra), where she was at the Women’s Section (Ed. Planeta).
‘Oxygen’, by Marta Jiménez Serrano
Truth and literature: In November 2020, shortly before publishing his first novel (proper nouns, Sixth Floor), the author was on the verge of losing his life. One Saturday, at home, unknowingly, she and her partner were dying, when they began to build their life without thinking that it could end at any moment. The boiler had a leak and the carbon monoxide was making them drowsy. She collapsed in the bathroom. An intimate and painful story. (Ed. Alfaguara)
“Iceland”, by Manuel Vilas
A love story in reverse: It is with a strong sentence that this story begins, the end of which is the beginning of everything. “I’m not in love with you anymore,” Ada tells her partner. That is to say, the end of love as a literary engine wrapped in the emotional tone of the author of Huesca. His publisher, Destino, suggests that it is Vilas’s greatest book since the phenomenon Ordesa. (Ed. Destiny)
“Distance” of flight, by Cristina Araujo Gámir
Love and failure: The first novel by this writer won the Tusquets Prize and the Revolution Prize, look at this girlon sexual harassment. Araújo now places his story in Italy and Germany. Théo spends a few days at his friend Robin’s family villa, in northern Italy. There he meets Frances, Robin’s sister, and this meeting will change their lives. Because while Theo struggles to concentrate on the thesis that could open the doors to a select group at university, Frances is on the verge of becoming an actress and a world star. A love story told with the precision of a scalpel. (Ed. Tusquets)
“A Hidden Voice” by Parinoush Saniee
Iranian literature banned: The author bestseller (Tehran, 1949) delves into the childhood of a child who does not speak, not because he does not want to, but because he has decided to wait for the moment. His silence becomes a form of resistance against the rejection and ridicule of those around him. Inspired by the real case of a child who did not say a word until the age of 7, this novel is an argument against social judgment, educational rigidity and lack of sensitivity towards others. The same author will publish at the same time The book of my destiny, another classic, a courageous portrait of stifling Iranian society (Ed. Alianza)
“Lost and Found”, by Carlos Zanón
Return to Barcelona: Zanón delves into the darkest corners of Barcelona with a story that combines sensitivity and rawness, full of suspense, through which complex and lost characters travel, victims of their decisions and an implacable environment. With his direct, precise prose, Zanón transforms the city into another character, imbuing each page with an urban melancholy that lingers long after the book closes. (Ed. Salamander)
“The Antidote”, by Karen Russell
Ecology: A finalist for the National Book Award, the novel takes place between two extreme climatic events that occurred a few months apart in the drought-stricken Plains lands of 1935 in the United States: the dust storm of Black Sunday and the overflow of the Republican River, during which this serene river collected more than six hundred liters of rain per square meter in twenty-four hours. For the most part, the historical events in this novel follow their real-life timelines closely. (Sixth floor ed.)
‘Majareta’, by Juan Manuel Gil
Fiction and absurdity: After more than thirty years as a school janitor, Leo Almada, ‘el Majareta’, unexpectedly takes early retirement. This will lead him to play in a worrying episode in which the main victims are the students of the school. Shocked by what happened, all the residents of the neighborhood will share what they know about him and give their opinion on the reasons that pushed this man to commit what for some was madness and, for others, the worst of their nightmares. Gil’s rich narrative structure will surprise you once again. (Ed. Seix Barral)
“It will bear your name”, by Sonsoles Ónega
Vindictive novel: 1882, Quotations. The appearance of a woman’s body on the beach shakes the town. Between whispers, accusations and family secrets, young Mada Riva is accused of murder. To protect her name and honor, her own family forces her to disappear without a trace. Sonsoles Ónega is the best-selling author of a Planeta Prize, with 500,000 copies of The servant’s daughters, currently being shown on television. (Ed. Planet)
‘Maite, by Fernando Aramburu
Back to “terrorism”: San Sebastian, July 1997. While her husband is away at work, Maite receives her sister Elene, who, after many years in the United States, returns to her city to see her mother, who has suffered a stroke. The sisters and mother live together, refusing to tell each other the whole truth and avoiding looking directly at the social tension that surrounds them: ETA has kidnapped a municipal councilor of Ermua, Miguel Ángel Blanco. The purest Aramburu. (Ed. Tusquets)
“The Names”, by Florence Knapp
First film: The dazzling and surprising first novel by this North American author has already been translated into 25 languages. Cora goes out with her 9-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband wants to be called after him, it’s a family tradition. But the mother doubts, she thinks that the rest of her life will depend on this choice. You have three options that really sum up a family’s story: Bear, Julian, and Gordon. (Ed. Salamander)
‘The Girl’, by Sergio del Molino
History and art: Juan Antonio Rascón arrived in Paris in 1878 to see some paintings by Goya which turned out to be the black paintings that decorated the painter’s villa in Madrid. This recalls the painter Rosario Weiss, with whom he was in love in his youth. Weiss lived with Goya as a child, she was his disciple, but above all she was for him a daughter on whom a cloak of forgetting and denial ended up falling that Del Molino recovers with his exquisite prose. (Ed. Alfaguara)
“The White and Blue City”, by Azahara Palomeque
Historical memory: This is the first novel in Spanish published by this publishing house, which has mainly French-speaking authors in its catalog. Land and water, democratic memory and ecological demands go hand in hand in a novel that somatizes historical pain – gender and class violence and trauma – by imbuing itself with the voices of its dead men and women, Marta Sanz said. (Ed. Cabaret Voltaire)
‘Manes, by Marc Colell
Café Gijón Novel Prize 2025: A man travels from Spain to Argentina to a friend’s country house. The protagonist sets off in search of solitude, but some will force him to leave his privacy, people who will show him a landscape in the immensity of the plain. (Ed. Siruela/New Times)
Other authors who will come in a few days are Yasmina Reza with real cases; Unamuno’s Last Caseof Luis Garcia Jambrina This makes the writer the detective of his own death. There will also be presented a special edition of firing line, of Arturo Pérez-Revertethe definitive novel on the Spanish Civil War -on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the war-, with additional elements on its reception. And the definitive edition of strange fruitsof Leila Guerrierobrings together 25 years of his best journalism.
They will return throughout this year The Korean Nobel Prize winner Han Kang and the French Emmanuel Carrère and Pierre Lemaitre. Santiago Díaz continues his saga of Inspector Jotadé, in The master (Alfaguara), and from Random House will come the new one by Reyes Monforte, The look of evil, in which he reconstructs the life of Leni Riefenstahl, the best filmmaker of the 20th century and known as the great propagandist of Nazism.
They will see the light The water palaceby Laura Portasthe fascinating history of the Mondáriz spa (Plaza & Janés). Planet will present Parallel lovesby Mayte Uceda, a family story in Asturias in the 1930s. Sara Torres publishes her first essay on January 15 Erotic thought, (Random House), an invitation to escape the heterosexual binary. Welcome to a year 2026 full of good literary news.
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