The Best Books of Spring 2026

Spring is synonymous with renewal, and in the publishing world it is no different. Publishers launch their strongest bets for the season and we, as every year, have selected the titles we believe will define these months. Here is our list.

Fiction

The City and Its Uncertain Walls — Haruki Murakami

Murakami returns with a novel that reworks a story from his youth and transforms it into a profound reflection on memory, solitude, and parallel worlds. With his usual hypnotic prose, the Japanese author takes us to a walled city where time works differently. Essential for fans and newcomers alike.

Intermezzo — Sally Rooney

The most influential Irish writer of her generation returns with the story of two very different brothers trying to overcome the death of their father. Rooney once again demonstrates her ability to dissect human relationships with surgical precision and tenderness.

Orbitor — Mircea Cartarescu

The first installment of the trilogy that established the Romanian writer as one of the greats of European literature finally arrives in translation. A monumental, dreamlike, and overflowing work that mixes autobiography, fantasy, and the history of Bucharest.

Essays

Empty Spain — Sergio del Molino (expanded edition)

Ten years after its original publication, Sergio del Molino revisits and expands the essay that put a name to a social phenomenon. The new edition includes an epilogue on how the conversation about rural depopulation has evolved.

Land of Women — Maria Sanchez

The veterinarian and writer from Cordoba offers a fresh and necessary look at the rural world from a feminine perspective. A brief but intense book that mixes family memoirs, essay, and poetry.

Poetry

House of Mercy — Joan Margarit

Reissued on the anniversary of the Catalan poet's passing, this collection remains one of the peaks of contemporary Spanish poetry. Bare verses that speak of old age, loss, and the beauty of the everyday.

Our special recommendation

If you can only read one book this spring, make it the Murakami. Not because it is the most well-known, but because it is one of those books that changes your pace for weeks. You read it, close it, and keep thinking about that walled city. That is what good literature does.

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