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Coronavirus: 10 books you have to read once in your life

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Home plan looming? Although a priori it does not sound very attractive, we have found hundreds of very fun activities with which we do not have the need to step on the street. Some people take advantage of these days to do all those things that have been pending for a long time: tidy up your underwear drawer, change the order of the furniture, … And others prefer to take advantage of these moments of relaxation to watch a series, put themselves in shape or relax by reading a good book. 

Are you short of ideas? Here we leave a list of books that we recommend that you read: classic, modern, humorous… Keep reading and enjoy reading! 

Home plan looming? Although a priori it does not sound very attractive, we have found hundreds of very fun activities with which we do not have the need to step on the street. Some people take advantage of these days to do all those things that have been pending for a long time: tidy up your underwear drawer, change the order of the furniture, … And others prefer to take advantage of these moments of relaxation to watch a series, put themselves in shape or relax by reading a good book. 

Are you short of ideas? Here we leave a list of books that we recommend that you read: classic, modern, humorous… Keep reading and enjoy reading! 

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€ 9.45

'Love in the time of cholera'

We start our list of must-have books ( rather, must read) with Love in the Times of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márrquez, which tells the love story, with serialized resources, of the parents of the Colombian Nobel Prize winner.

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€ 8.55

'Bernarda Alba's house'

Although the best known of Federico García Lorca are his poems, he also left us great (and fun) plays, such as La casa de Bernarda Alba , a story of women forced by their mother (Bernarda) to mourn, but when Pepe arrives the Roman to their lives everything turns upside down (and pun intended).

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€ 7.50

'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

Along with In Cold Blood , which marked a before and after in the history of literature for the way in which Truman Capote narrates a murder of a family in Kansas, Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of the most famous works of the journalist and writer . The play is about the friendship of Holly Golightly, a young woman dating wealthy men, and her neighbor.

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€ 5.95

'The little Prince'

It has been almost 80 years since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince , a book that, due to its illustrations and the way it is written, seems for children but is loaded with lessons on love, friendship, loneliness or death.

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'One hundred years of solitude'

Like Love in the Times of Cholera , One Hundred Years of Solitude , marked by magical realism, is one of Gabriel García Márquez's key works.

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'Lysistrata'

If you want to laugh for a while, you have to read a classic of Greek theater, Lysistrata , by Aristophanes, which recreates a feminist struggle in the fourth century BC

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€ 9.45

'The sleeping voice'

Dulce Chacón wrote La voz dormida a few years before dying of cancer, a story set in the Spanish Civil War told in the first person by "the woman who was going to die, Hortensia." A tough story about justice and dignity.

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€ 11.35

'For whom the Bell Tolls'

Ernest Hemingway, who was a correspondent in Spain, related the story between a soldier from the International Brigades and a woman in the middle of the Civil War.

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€ 19

'The Handmaid's Tale'

Machismo, religion, the null role of women in a society dominated by men … Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which has brought HBO to the small screen, is one of the best works of recent times .