Our readers recommend: books with which they started 2022

We know that for many people a regular New Year's resolution is to read much more than the previous 365 days.

At CNN Underscored in Spanish we gave you a few weeks ago 15 book suggestions to start 2022 and we also asked you through our Instagram stories what was the text with which you started the year.

Here are the answers you and other readers gave us, accompanied by a synopsis of the book and links to where you can buy it, should it catch your eye.

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'The things we lost in the fire' by Mariana Enríquez

In these 12 stories, the reader is forced to follow the adventures and investigations of bodies that disappear or reappear at the least expected moment.

Whether it is a social worker, a police officer or a tour guide, the protagonists fight to sponsor socially invisible beings, delving into the weight of guilt, compassion, cruelty and the difficulties of living together.

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'My best friend's exorcism: a novel' by Grady Hendrix

The story takes place in 1988 when Abby and Gretchen, high school sophomores, experience a paranormal moment in which one of the girls begins to act differently.

The story has a terrifying conclusion and became one of the author's most famous books.

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'I, Diaz' ​​by Pedro J. Fernández

This is the story of Don Porfirio, one of the most controversial men who ruled Mexico.

From the author of 'The last shadow of the empire' and 'The sins of the Montejo family', comes this novel that puts Díaz on his deathbed in Paris, during exile, where he narrates in his own voice the personal life and his politics.

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'1984' by George Orwell

In the year 1984 London is a gloomy city in which the thought police suffocatingly control the lives of citizens.

Winston Smith is a pawn in this perverse gear, his task is to rewrite history to adapt it to what the party considers the official version of events until he decides to rethink the truth of the system that governs and subjugates them.

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Sally Rooney's 'Normal People'

This is a love story about how one person can change another person's life, a simple yet profound realization that unfolds beautifully throughout the novel.

It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us, unabashedly, about the cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege.

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'Rescue Distance' by Samantha Schweblin

The book follows the vertiginous fatality by always asking the same questions: Is there an apocalypse that is not personal?

What is the exact point at which, without knowing it, the false step is taken that, now, condemns us?

The field has changed in front of our eyes without anyone noticing.

And maybe it's not just about droughts and herbicides, maybe it's about the sharp, vital thread that ties us to our children, and the poison in them.

Nothing is a cliché when it finally happens.

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'The Paper Menagerie' by Ken Liu

Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking, and award-winning short story writers of his generation.

This is the first collection of his oeuvre: sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, at once profound, alluring and heartbreaking, including 'The Paper Menagerie' (the only story to win Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy).

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'The House of the Spirits' by Isabel Allende

The despotic patriarch Esteban Trueba has built with an iron hand a private empire that begins to falter with the passage of time and an explosive social environment.

Finally, the personal decline of the patriarch will drag the Trueba to a painful disintegration.

Caught up in dramatic family relationships, the characters in this powerful novel embody the social and spiritual tensions of an era that spans much of the 20th century.

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'The art of thinking clearly' by Rolf Dobelli

Have you ever invested time in something that, in hindsight, just wasn't worth it?

Or did you keep doing something that you knew was bad for you?

These are examples of cognitive biases, simple mistakes we all make in our everyday thinking.

But by knowing what they are and how to detect them, we can avoid them and make better decisions, that's what this text by Dobelli is about.

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'History of Art in the 19th Century' by A. T Silva

The history of art in the 19th century, from the academic movement, to the Impressionists, Fauves and Post-Impressionists.

Everything explained through artists and their works of art.

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