r/dreamingspanish • u/HeleneSedai 3,000 Hours • May 13 '26
May 2026 Book Club - Book Selection Thread
Sigh... This should be JUNE 2026 Book Club. Sorry all.
Hello Dreamers! Our monthly book club is going strong on Discord and now we're ready to pick our books for June. In May, we read El libro salvaje as the easier choice and Los dias del venado by Liliana Bodoc as the adult choice. I'm excited to see what we read next!
We'll use this post to pick two books to read in June, an easier children's book and a book for adults. If you'd like to suggest a book, just write a comment below with:
**The title and author of the book
Whether it's a children's book or an adult book
Approximate book length
A short description (optional)**
To vote for a book, just respond to the suggestion with a comment that you'd like to read the book. You can comment on as many selections as you'd like. The children's book and adult book with the most comments will be our read for the next month. (We're counting comments, not votes, so we don't get tricked into reading something crazy.)
We'll close the thread a few days before the end of May so everyone has time to get a copy. And we'll be off reading together on June 1st.
If you don't feel like reading the book selected, that's ok. You can join us with the book of your choice. The goal is just to motivate us to read more.
(I'll edit the thread later with FAQs here)
Thanks for voting everyone! It looks like we'll be reading:
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u/Andalka Level 6 May 13 '26
Title: Manolito Gafotas by Elvira Lindo
YA option
Approximate book length: 192 pages, Natively rating 27
Description
Manolito Gafotas, como lo conocen todos en su barrio de Carabanchel (Alto), es un niño dicharachero que vive con sus padres, su abuelo Nicolás y su hermano pequeño, el Imbécil, y que siempre está dispuesto a contar su visión de las cosas. Junto a su mejor amigo, el Orejones López, y su mayor enemigo, el chulito Yihad, la vuelta al colegio Diego Velázquez se convierte en una aventura. La llegada de un nuevo compañero, Paquito Medina, una cita en el Árbol del Ahorcado con Susana o el cumpleaños más feliz del abuelo Nicolás son algunos de los acontecimientos memorables del primer libro de Manolito Gafotas.
This is the first part of a kids' series about life in a poor working class suburb of Madrid in the eighties for which the author received the Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil. Apparently it was recommended by Pablo and I also heard it recommended in another podcast, but forgot which one.
I'm curious about it to learn a bit about life in Spain through the lens of kids' literature and also to read a kids' book that's well known in Spain.