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The literary year 2024 is still quite fresh.
There is a lot of movement and titles in the Spiegel bestseller list that you should definitely take a look at.
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It remains to be seen whether such a long queue will form again in the current and still young literary year at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
What is certain is that there are many great new releases coming to bookstores this year.
On February 2nd, exciting books will also be discussed as part of the “Literary Quartet”.
We definitely recommend that you read these four books on the Spiegel bestseller list.
Spiegel bestseller list: These four titles are worth it
The literary year 2024 is still young.
But there are titles from the Spiegel bestseller list that you should definitely check out.
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Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt “The guilt you carry”
The seventh week in the Spiegel bestseller list is the Swedish crime thriller “The Guilt You Bear”.
The new volume about Sebastian Bergman is also our “Book of the Week”.
The two authors inspire with their atmospheric descriptions and the complex plot.
The previous volumes should also be read gradually.
After a colleague in the Reich Murder Commission was exposed as a murderer, the special unit headed by Sebastian's daughter Vanja Lithner is to be disbanded.
Then she receives a call: A woman was found murdered outside Västerås, in a pig farm.
On the stable wall someone has written in blood-red letters: “Solve the case, Sebastian Bergman!”
Blurb/Rowohlt
Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt “The guilt you carry”
Translated by Ursel Allenstein
2023 Rowohlt, ISBN-13 978-3-8052-0094-3
Price: hardcover €25, e-book €21.99, 480 pages (different format)
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Marc-Uwe Kling “The Trace Finder”
What do you get when you cross the fantasy genre with a crime thriller?
The new novel by Marc-Uwe Kling, which he wrote together with his daughters.
It's not just young readers who will enjoy the book.
The adult readership of the Kangaroo Chronicles will also be enthusiastic about this book.
The review of “The Trace Finder” can be found here.
Elos von Bergen has actually given up tracking since a case with a resentful night magician almost cost him and his children Ada and Naru their lives.
That's why the three of them have been living in Friedhofen, the sleepiest village in the entire kingdom, for several years now.
There Elos works on writing his twenty-volume memoirs - much to the chagrin of the children, who are incredibly bored in the town.
Blurb/Ullstein
Marc-Uwe Kling, Johanna Kling, Luise Kling “The Trace Finder”
2023 Ullstein, ISBN-13 978-3-550-20268-1
Price: Hardcover €19.99, e-book €15.99, 327 pages (different format)
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Florian Illie’s “Magic of Silence”
When it comes to non-fiction books, Florian Illies has been topping the Spiegel bestseller list for some time with “The Magic of Silence”.
This is how you can resurrect the past with your new book.
For the very first time, the adventures of Caspar David Friedrich are told here.
For anyone who would like to travel back in time to the person who brought the Germans closer to their longing, this book is just right for them.
Last year Florian Illies received the honorary award of the Bavarian Book Prize.
Friedrich's evening skies have aroused the most passionate feelings for centuries: Goethe's melancholy drives her so madly that he wants to smash her on the edge of the table, while Walt Disney falls so deeply in love with her that he only lets his "Bambi" run through Friedrich's landscapes .
As revered by Hitler as by Rainer Maria Rilke, as hated by Stalin as by the '68ers, as coveted by the mafia as by Leni Riefenstahl - using the example of Caspar David Friedrich, 250 years of German history become visible in this thrillingly told book.
And Friedrich, the painter, becomes a human being made of flesh and blood.
Blurb/p.
Fisherman
Florian Illie’s “Magic of Silence”
2023 S. Fischer, ISBN-13 978-3-103-97252-8
Price: hardcover €25, 256 pages
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Giovanni di Lorenzo “On life and other impositions”
Giovanni di Lorenzo, editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper
Die Zeit
and presenter, collects entertaining conversations with contemporaries from politics and culture in his book “On Life and Other Impositions”.
Whether Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Udo Jürgens or Telekom boss Timotheus Höttges, the conversations each offer a look at the person behind the function they perform.
A book that invites you to look it up.
Click here for the discussion.
The intensity of the encounters creates exciting portraits that are also a reflection of the major political and social issues of the past decade - refugee crisis, pandemic, war, xenophobia or cancel culture debates.
Blurb/KiWi
Giovanni Di Lorenzo “On Life and Other Impositions”
2023 KiWi, ISBN-13 978-3-462-00618-6
Price: Hardcover €25, e-book €19.99, 352 pages (different format)
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These six additional books should be on every bookshelf.