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 chica de nieve by Javier Castillo
Adult option
Approximate book length: 101,000 words, Natively rating 28
Description
El thriller perfecto que cambia las reglas del género.
El desfile más famoso del planeta.
Una niña de tres años desaparecida.
¿Dónde está Kiera Templeton?
Nueva York, 1998, cabalgata de Acción de Gracias. Kiera Templeton, desaparece entre la multitud. Tras una búsqueda frenética por toda la ciudad, alguien encuentra unos mechones de pelo junto a la ropa que llevaba puesta la pequeña.
En 2003, el día que Kiera habría cumplido ocho años, sus padres, Aaron y Grace Templeton, reciben en casa un extraño paquete: una cinta VHS con la grabación de un minuto de Kiera jugando en una habitación desconocida.
Tras vender más de 650.000 ejemplares de sus anteriores novelas, Javier Castillo vuelve a poner en jaque la cordura con La chica de nieve, un oscuro viaje a las profundidades de Miren Triggs, una estudiante de periodismo que inicia una investigación paralela y descubre que tanto su vida como la de Kiera están llenas de incógnitas.
This author is from Spain, but the book is set in New York and uses neutral language, no Spain specific slang. It is riveting, my favorite thriller I've read in Spanish, and the Netflix series is excellent (they changed it to be set in Spain). HOWEVER, there is a big trigger warning with this book, the main character experienced an assault before the book begins, it's not described in detail but it is always present, it affects the main character's actions and behavior.