Very little is missing in August and the longed-for holidays. For those who are still undecided about which readings to pack, we have prepared a list of what we think are the books to read this summer.
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In a Swiss valley, one day in July, a Milanese industrialist is torn to pieces alive by a bear. Marco Besana, a black journalist with too many years of work behind him and just as much disillusionment with him, and reluctantly forced to deal with that strange death. It would be easy to dismiss the case as a mountain accident if Ilaria Piatti, a very young reporter, perennially precarious, were not convinced that she was facing a serial killer. She is much more ferocious than any animal. Fairytale in New York , Victor La Valle
Little Apollo, son of today’s New York, grows up with his mother, a young single of Ugandan origins. His father, who disappeared into thin air, left him only a box of books and a strange recurring nightmare. When he grows up, Apollo becomes an antique book dealer and falls in love with the librarian Emma, with whom he soon has a son. But the newcomer breaks the idyll of the couple: he relives the abandonment of his father and, struggling with his own ghosts, struggles to understand that something has changed in her … Lena and the storm , Alessia Gazzola
From the author of the series L’Allieva, an extraordinary success in bookstores and on TV, a novel about the magic of new beginnings and the will to live by going beyond one’s barriers. A novel with a protagonist who has to deal with herself, her past and a heavy secret. A novel that has the scent of the sea, the delicacy of the sand between the fingers, the strength of the stormy waves. I hate flying , Stephen King and others
Curated by Stephen King together with Bev Vincent, his friend and long-time collaborator, I hate to fly is a collection of horror stories that have a particular thread: they are all set at high altitude, aboard an airplane. A mix of new and previously published stories from famous and lesser known authors, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Matheson, Ambrose Bierce, Dan Simmons, Ray Bradbury, and more. Aria , Marzia Sicignano
This is the story of Guido and Silvia, very young yet already in debt of oxygen with life, forced to deal with a past that slips into their chest like blades, in the indecision of a void inside that seems to speak, that he seems to be saying: “Everything will go wrong”. With her unmistakable style, which moves freely from prose to poetry, Marzia Sicignano shows us that, when you meet that someone, the only thing to do is to keep them with you, taking care of them as you do with the most precious treasures, because that first breath that gave you back to the world last as long as possible. Louise’s game , Tara Isabella Burton
Louise is nobody. She struggles between jobs and lives in a small apartment in Brooklyn. Lavinia, on the other hand, has it all: beauty, money, the right connections and a dream home in Manhattan. They meet by chance, yet they immediately slip into an unhealthy, almost toxic friendship. With Lavinia’s help, Louise finally has access to the glamorous and sophisticated New York that she has always admired on other people’s Instagram profiles. But when the doors of that world are in danger of closing, Louise will be forced to go beyond all reason not to be excluded. The lions of Sicily , Stefania Auci
Intertwining the path of the commercial and social rise of the Florio family with their tumultuous private events, against the backdrop of the most troubled years of Italian history – from the riots of 1818 to the landing of Garibaldi in Sicily – Stefania Auci unravels a family saga of incredible strength, so lively and pulsating that it seems contemporary. Normal people , Sally Rooney
Connell and Marianne are “like two little plants sharing the same piece of land, growing close to each other, writhing to make room, assuming unlikely positions”: in their growth, they lean on and climb over each other, they hurt themselves a lot but also very well, and the suffering they cause is nothing but a boycott of themselves. For years Marianne and Connell revolve around “like figure skaters”, risking their lives and saving it, wondering, promising, denying each other, proving that what binds them is a love story. Sleeping nymph , Ilaria Tuti
After Flowers over Hell – the Italian debut of 2018 most loved by readers – the extraordinary Teresa Battaglia returns: a proud and indomitable character, at times brusque, always compassionate. She returns to the setting full of suggestions, a nature made of woods and mountain peaks, of isolated valleys and unexpected beauties. Above all, the talent, imagination and graceful writing of a great author return. Cross-eyed Marie , Georges Simenon
Sylvie is seventeen and beautiful, busty, shameless; Marie, who is a year older than her, is ugly and cross-eyed, shy and frightened. Yet, of what goes through Sylvie’s head, which she adores and despises at the same time, Marie senses everything. She knows why she undresses in front of the open window with the light on, and she also knows that it is she who causes the suicide of Louis, the retarded and epileptic boy who wanders around in the evening in the garden of the boarding house where they both work … The devil in the Holy Land , Enrico Brizzi
Inspired by the real journey that took him first on foot, then by boat and then again on the way from Rome to Jerusalem, Enrico Brizzi recounts twelve acrobatic and equally profound weeks at the cadenced rhythm of his steps, to the amazing and painful discovery of the Holy Land at the same time. , a portion of the world that represents the cradle of the most ancient stories heard by children, but also the theater of a fierce dispute and, perhaps, the most effective litmus test of the contradictions of us Westerners, heirs of a long tradition as persecutors . After the wave , Sandrine Collette
Six days ago a volcano sank into the ocean, kicking up a giant wave, and for Louie, her parents and her eight brothers and sisters, the world around them disappeared. Their house, perched on the top of a hill, resisted. All around, as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but an expanse of silvery water. A water shaken by violent storms like fits of anger.
