The 25 most anticipated books of February. Reading is one of the best tools to think differently.

Some of the books that will arrive in bookstores in the coming weeks precisely manage to invite us to rethink stories and securities. From Latin America to northern Europe, from young writers to prestigious journalists, the most anticipated works of February discover that we can be others to be ourselves. Or invent ourselves, as Enrique Vila-Matas did with his false interviews from half a century ago. And without water there is no civilization, writes Virginia Mendoza.