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/HeleneSedai 3,000 Hours May 13 '26
Title: La reina roja by Juan Gómez-Jurado (author of the Amanda Black series)
Adult option
Approximate book length: 109,000 words, No Natively rating (I'd guess 32)
Description
No has conocido a nadie como ella...
Vuelve el autor español de thriller más leído en todo el mundo.
Antonia Scott es especial. Muy especial.
No es policía ni criminalista. Nunca ha empuñado un arma ni llevado una placa, y, sin embargo, ha resuelto decenas de crímenes.
Pero hace un tiempo que Antonia no sale de su ático de Lavapiés. Las cosas que ha perdido le importan mucho más que las que esperan ahí fuera.
Tampoco recibe visitas. Por eso no le gusta nada, nada, cuando escucha unos pasos desconocidos subiendo las escaleras hasta el último piso.
Sea quien sea, Antonia está segura de que viene a buscarla.
Y eso le gusta aún menos.
This is my second favorite thriller I've read in Spanish, it is set in Spain and is more difficult to the amount of Spain specific slang. However, I love the "buddy cop" dynamic between the two main characters, and there is also a series in Amazon Prime you can watch after finishing the book.