Top 11 libros del 2021, de Kiko Amat

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#1 Joe, LARRY BROWN (Dirty Works)

#2 Letra torcida, letra torcida, TOM FRANKLIN (Dirty Works)

#3 Gordo de feria, ESTHER GARCÍA LLOVET (Anagrama)

#4 La ciudad de la euforia; una hipótesis de la mafia, RODRIGO TERRASA (Libros del K.O.)

#5 Lejos del bosque, CHRIS OFFUTT (Sajalín)

#6 La gran ola / Tsunami, ALBERT PIJUAN (Sexto Piso / Angle Editorial)

#7 La cita, KATHARINA VOLCKMER (Anagrama)

#8 L’amo, MIQUEL ADAM (L’Altra Editorial)

#9 Eva y las fieras, ANTONIO UNGAR (Anagrama)

#10 H.P. Lovecraft: contra el mundo, contra la vida, MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (Anagrama)

#11 Un par de cómicos, DON CARPENTER (Sexto Piso)

Cosas Que Leo #209: ESTO NO ESTÁ BIEN, Irene Márquez

Esto no está bien

IRENE MÁRQUEZ

Autsaider Cómics, 2020

Cosas Que Leo #208: A MOST PECULIAR BOOK; THE INHERENT STRANGENESS OF THE BIBLE, Kristin Swenson

“The Ark was no mere precious object but shows up in several narratives as possessing extraordinary powers. It was somehow instrumental in bringing down Jericho’s walls, proved fatal to its keepers upon capture, and was a source of painful hemorrhoids and a plague of mice to its Philistine captors.”

A most peculiar book; the inherent strangeness of the Bible

KRISTIN SWENSON

Oxford University Press, 2021

Cosas Que Leo #207: THE BURGESS BOYS, Elizabeth Strout

“Bob thought about this. “It’s not that she didn’t like you”.

“Yeah, she liked me”.

“She loved you”.

“Yeah, she loved me”.

“Jimmy, you were like a hero or something. You were good at everything. You never gave her a minute of grief. Of course she loved you. Susie -Mom didn’t like her so much. Loved her, but didn’t like her”.

The Burgess boys

ELIZABETH STROUT

Scribner 2016 (publicado por primera vez en 2013)

Cosas Que Leo #206: TRAGICALLY I WAS AN ONLY TWIN; THE COMPLETE PETER COOK, Peter Cook

“PETER: Father, there’s no need for you to come down the Kings Road too. I could do perfectly well without you.

DUDLEY: I’ll be perfectly well without you my boy. Rosie, did we in our moment of joy, spawn this werewolf, this Beelzebub?

PETER: I don’t know why you keep looking upwards when you mention mother. You know perfectly well she’s living in Frinton with a sailor.”

Tragically I was an only twin; The complete Peter Cook

PETER COOK, edited by William Cook

Arrow, 2003

Cosas Que Leo #205: THE COMPLETE TWO PINTS, Roddy Doyle

“- The problem is, the fuckers -the doctors- tha’ do these surveys. They haven’t a fuckin’ clue what a good binge is. They’ve no right to use the word.

– It’s ours.

– Exactly. So they can fuck off. Three pints in a row isn’t a national crisis. It’s a fuckin’ necessity. It’s probably the only thing tha’ stops us from bein’ Swiss.”

The complete Two Pints

RODDY DOYLE

Vintage, 2020

425 págs.

Cosas Que Leo #204: THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, Erik Larson

“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Bellknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precission what it was about men like Holmes that would cause them to seem warm and intgratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing. At first alienists described this condition as “moral insanity” and those who exhibited the disorder as “moral imbeciles”. They later adopted the term “psychopath”.

The devil in the White City; murder, magic, and madness at the Fair that changed America

ERIK LARSON

Vintage, 2003

390 págs.

Cosas Que Leo #203: BASURA, Derf Backderf

Basura

DERF BACKDERF

Astiberri, 2015

237 págs.

Cosas Que Leo #202: TSUNAMI, Albert Pijuan

“…i després en Víctor o Vittorio o com sigui s’arromanga les mànigues del polo i fa bola, mira quins bíceps té en Vittorio, es diu d’ell mateix, Mira quins tríceps té en vittorio, i dels deltoides del Vittorio, què me’n dieu?, i en acabat, Ah, això és nou, i es treu el polo, En Víctor no creia que es pogués fer, però en Vittorio sap que amb esforç tot és possible, i el croissanet posa els braços rígids i tots dos pectorals, voluminosos, van fent salts compassadament…”

Tsunami

ALBERT PIJUAN

Angle Editorial, 2020

267 págs.

**** Este libro ha sido traducido recientemente por Sexto Piso con el título de La gran ola. Se lo recomiendo que no veas. Libro nacional más divertido del año, de calle.

Cosas Que Leo #201: THE FREE, Willy Vlautin

“Freddie nodded and walked back up the stairs. He put more wood on the fire and sat down, worried. He stared at the flames and looked at the fabric of the couch. He remembered when his parents bought it from a furniture store brand-new. His mother put a plastic slip over it then a blanket. When she died, the first thing his father did was take all the plastic off the furniture and wear his shoes in the house.”

The free

WILLY VLAUTIN

Harper Perennial, 2014

297 págs.

Cosas Que Leo #200: LAZY DAYS, Erlend Loe

“Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, in allen Wipfelm spürest du kaum einen Hauch. Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde, warte nur, balde, ruhest du auch… Beautiful, isn’t it?

Yeah. Yeah. Great. Nice sound, But it’s a bit off-putting that I don’t understand what it means.

You shouldn’t be so focussed on what things mean.

Shouldn’t I?”

Lazy days

ERLEND LOE

Anansi, 2013

211 págs.

Cosas Que Leo #199: THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLES, Anthony Read

“Among the authors he condemned to the flames were obvious targets like Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Arnold and Stephan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. But others were less understandable: why should they burn Emil and the detectives, for instance, or Bambi, simply because their authors, Eric Kästner and Felix Salten respectively, were deemed unacceptable?”

The devil’s disciples; the lives and times of Hitler’s inner circle

ANTHONY READ

Pimlico, 2004

923 págs.