Books like El libro hueco by Roberto Pineda

In post‑war Barcelona, young Daniel Sempere discovers a cursed book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, setting off a gripping literary mystery that intertwines love, secrets and the city’s shadowed past.

A powerful family saga of landowners in 19th-century Latin America with a mystical backdrop and themes of family dynamics and social tension, adapted into a gripping film adaptation featuring actors like Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas.

Irene Vallejo explores the ancient world’s rich literary culture, tracing the origins of books, libraries, and the heroic individuals who preserved them amid war, disaster, and censorship.

Una novela de crímenes y enigmas, una parodia burlesca, y un satirista moral y social que explora el mundo del ruido y la picaresca del siglo XVII.

A groundbreaking Argentine novel that defies conventional narrative structure with 155 chapters, 99 of which are considered 'expendable', challenging readers to reimagine the way stories can be told.

SYPNOPSIS Francisco Burdett O’Connor, a General from the Bolivian Army Division, Peruvian Brigade also the Colombian Army Colonel of the Liberator’s Order of Venezuela, Cundinamarca and Peru, is on his deathbed. His whole life he has been known as Colonel O’Connor, a hero, combatant, enemy and liberator. Now, intimately recounting his conquests in the Latin American fight for independence from the Spanish Empire, he is confronted with himself as an old man and father. It takes him back to the freedom and simplicity of being a child growing up in Ireland, and being known simply as Francisco. It faces him with the contrast of his time as a happy child, to his life fighting for freedom as a liberator. And reminds him of losing his mother and the guilt and pain that drove him to leave Ireland and head into the unknown, to leave his life as Francisco and become O’Connor. He recounts aloud to his son he believes is by his side in his dying hours. He speaks of the joys and heartbreaks, aesthetics and ceremony and harmony and rhythm of fighting a war. He also speaks of pity and human pain, of repugnance and inhumanity and the loss of ethics and decency.

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.