Ramón Gener and Javier Castillo head the list, provisionally, of the best-selling books on Saint George's Day 2024. The musicologist Gener has convinced readers of literature in Catalan with his History of a Piano (Columna), a novel that travels through 20th century Europe through the secret that hides a mysterious musical instrument.
The Malaga writer Javier Castillo returns to the universe of The Snow Girl with a new book, La crack of silence (Suma), which has just been published and which today has been the best seller in Spanish. The new novel by Javier Castillo once again has Miren Triggs as its protagonist and is set in Staten Island in 1981, where a child disappears without a trace. Thirty years later, Triggs, an investigative journalist, follows a trail that leads her to the terrible discovery of a corpse with its lips sealed.
Joël Dicker has done a double by placing himself in second position on both the best-seller lists in Catalan and in Spanish with his latest novel Un animalwild / Un animal salvatge (Alfaguara/La Campana) that begins with the attempted robbery in a Geneva jewelry store.
The entertaining Three Enigmas for the Organization (Seix Barral), where Eduardo Mendoza recreates the adventures of some very particular secret investigators who face three mysteries from their secret headquarters on Valencia Street in Barcelona, has been sneaked in, as expected, among the best sellers in Spanish and has been placed in third position on this list, which will be refined in the coming days when booksellers have more specific data on the day.
The journalist Xavi Coral occupies the third place in the case of the best-selling books in Catalan for his first novel Aprendre a esquivar les bales (La Campana), the story of a young man who enlists in the Republican army during the Civil War. Eva Baltasar has reached fourth place with Ocàs i fascination (Club Editor). And the fifth place has been for a publishing phenomenon, Blackwater I. La riuada (Blackie Books), by the late Michael McDowell, which has occupied the same place in its Spanish version.
The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, which had remained unpublished and which his family has now decided to publish, In August See Us (Random House) has been the fourth best-selling novel in the Spanish language.
The list of bestsellers in today's massive day also includes in the non-fiction section in Catalan the writer and columnist of La Vanguardia Quim Monzó for the work Ments preclares (Libros de Vanguardia). Monzó's work occupies fourth place. La teva salut begins here (Rosa dels Vents), by Xevi Verdaguer; Tor: Foc encès (La Campana), by Carles Porta, and Cremo! (Editions Column), by Maria Nicolau. The fifth plaza has been for Three Months of Vacations (Rosa dels Vents), from Neus Rossell.
The famous psychiatrist Marian Rojas Estapé has won the non-fiction section in Spanish with Recover your mind, reconquer your life (Espasa Libros). He is followed in that ranking by James Clear with Atomic Habits (Diana); Jordi Wild with Anatomy of Evil (Editions B); Xavier Guix for The problem of being too good (Arpa Editores) and Xevi Verdaguer (who has also made a place for himself on the Catalan list) for Your health starts here (Grijalbo / Rosa dels Vents).
