What are the bedside books of Margaret Atwood, Bret Easton Ellis, Javier Cercas, Manuel Vilas, Mathias Énard, Alejandro Zambra or Cristina Morales? The 15 authors invited to the literary festival Chapter one, organized by Matadero Madrid in collaboration with Casa del Lector, Cineteca Madrid and the Naves del Español and seven major Spanish publishing labels, have chosen their reference readings on the occasion of International Book Day, which takes place this Thursday. The festival, which was due to take place in late March and was suspended due to the health crisis, has been postponed until autumn.
Margaret Atwood
Jack London's Iron Heel
Looking Back by Edward Bellamy
A Happy World by Aldous Huxley
1984 by George Orwell
Wandering Doubt , by Russell Hoban
The Death of Grass , by John Christopher (Samuel Youd)
The Left Hand of Darkness , by Ursula K. LeGuin
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
Relationship , by Octavia Butler
The Water Knife , by Paulo Bacogalupi
Station Eleven by Emily St. John
Mandel Company Town by Madeline Ashby
The Power , by Naomi Alderman
Javier Cercas
Los miserables , by Víctor Hugo
Miguel Strogoff , by Jules Verne
Imaginary lives , by Marcel Schowb
Sixty tales , by Dino Buzzatti
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
The Aspern Papers , by Henry James
The Player by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The adventure of a photographer in La Plata , by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Zama , by Antonio di Benedetto
Helena or the summer sea , by Julián Ayesta
Bret Easton Ellis
The sentimental education , by Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
As the game comes , by Joan Didion
The Sabath Theater by Philip Roth
The Corrections , by Jonathan Franzen
Madame Bovary , by Gustave Flaubert
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses by James Joyce
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Mathias Énard
A grave for Boris Davidovich , by Danilo Kis
Vertigo by WG Sebald
The tongue saved , by Elias Canetti
The troubadours , by Martín de Riquer
Mural , by Mahmud Darwish
Two routes , by Salim Barakat
Tiny Lives by Pierre Michon
Danube , by Claudio Magris
War does not have a woman's face , by Svetlana Alexievich
A world at hand , by Maylis de Kerangal
Kalaf Epalanga
Signs that will precede the end of the world , by Yuri Herrera
She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
The Moor's Account , by Laila Lalami
Luanda, Lisbon, Paradise , by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
His eyes looked at God , by Zora Neale Hurston
When Trouble Sleeps by Leye Adenle
Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Mr Loverman , by Bernadine Evaristo
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Miguel Ángel Hernández
The use of the photo , by Annie Ernaux
All I Loved , by Siri Hustvedt
Paris never ends , by Enrique Vila-Matas
The Bad One , by Thomas Bernhardt
Samuel Beckett's The Nameless Trilogy
Killing Plato by Chantal Maillard
Background noise by Don DeLillo
Estrella distante , by Roberto Bolaño
A Russian novel by Emmanuel Carrère
The Invention of Solitude , by Paul Auster
Iowa Girls (Violeta Gil, Helena Mariño, Cynthia Smart)
Single mother by Marina Yuszczuk
The age of deserving , by Berta García Faet
Asphalt , by Luis Chávez
My united youth , by Mariano Blatt
So much anxiety , by Tálata Rodríguez
Basket of braids , by Natalia Litvinova
A rib on the table , by Angélica Liddell
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Citizen , by Claudia Rankine
It made a noise , by María Salgado
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
Fuegos , by Ismael Ramos
Antígona González , by Sara Uribe
Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
Background noise by Don DeLillo
Journey to the End of the Night , by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Correction , by Thomas Bernhard
Demons , by Fedor Dostoievski
Wolf Fur by Hans Lebert
The shipyard , by Juan Carlos Onetti
Great Sertón: Veredas , by João Guimarães Rosa
Memoirs of Hadrian , by Marguerite Yourcenar
Complete stories by Flannery O'Connor
Marie Modiano
Dark Avenues by Ivan Bounine
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Precious bane by Mary Webb
Under the Volcano , by Malcolm Lowry
Prose of the Trans-Siberian and the little Jehanne of France , by Blaise Cendrars
Vie de Samuel Belet , by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
En famille , by Marie NDiaye
Le petit monde de la rue Krochmalna , by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Lord of the barnyard by Tristan Egolf
Cristina Morales
It cannot be decolonized without depatriarcalizing , by María Galindo
Journey to the end of the night , Louis-Ferdinand Céline
My relationship with food , by Angélica Liddell
What will I do with this sword , by Angélica Liddell
All whores , by Hernán Migoya
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I will learn to pray to achieve it , by Víctor Balcells
Cháchara , by Juan Bonilla
Against Democracy , by Coordinated Anarchist Groups
No woman is born for a whore , by María Galindo and Sonia Sánchez
Karina Sainz Borgo
El Qujiote , by Miguel de Cervantes
Madame Bovary , by Gustave Flaubert
Heart so white , by Javier Marías
Berta Isla , by Javier Marías
Antigone by Sophocles
The origin, the basement, the breath, the cold, a child , by Thomas Bernhard
The Dark Side of the Heart by Joseph Conrad
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Family lexicon , by Natalia Ginzburg
The Gatopardo , by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pedro Páramo , by Juan Rulfo
Conversation in the cathedral , by Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude , by Gabriel García Márquez
The painter of battles , by Arturo Pérez Reverte
Marta Sanz
A stunning blonde , by Dorothy Parker
The lover , by Marguerite Duras
The broken lace , by Emilia Pardo Bazán
The beautiful summer , by Cesare Pavese
Consciousness , by Zeno de Svevo
The Good Soldier , Ford Madox Ford
Lazarillo de Tormes
Torment , by Benito Pérez Galdós
Poet in New York , by Federico García Lorca
Complete poetry , by César Vallejo
Pedro Páramo , by Juan Rulfo
Family lexicon , by Natalia Ginzburg
Bestial Crimes by Patricia Highsmith
Miriam Toews
Random Family by Adrienne Nicole LeBlanc
Crime and Punishment , by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grapes of Wrath , by John Steinbeck
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing
The life of women , by Alice Munro
The Wild Detectives , Roberto Bolaño
A walk on the wild side , Nelson Algren
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease
Manuel Vilas
The castle by Franz Kafka
The people of the verb , by Jaime Gil de Biedma
The Karamazov brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Koba, the fearsome , by Martin Amis
Nada , by Carmen Laforet
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Reality and desire , by Luis Cernuda
The Holy Innocents , by Miguel Delibes
The tree of science , by Pío Baroja
Alejandro Zambra
The Little Virtues , by Natalia Ginzburg
Cynthia Ozick's Metaphor and Memory
Complete stories by Lydia Davis
Complete stories by Hebe Uhart
The empty book , by Josefina Vicens
My friends , by Emmanuel Bove
The promise of dawn , by Romain Gary
The desert of the tartars , by Dino Buzzati
The luminous novel , by Mario Levrero
The palace of laughter, by Germán Marín