{"id":1309,"date":"2024-08-25T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2024-08-25T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T19:19:20","slug":"30-livros-com-verao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inesbotelho.com\/en\/2024\/08\/25\/30-livros-com-verao\/","title":{"rendered":"(30) Books of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"Plenty of reading recommendations appear in newspapers and magazines around this time, generally accompanied by some kind of drawing that transforms a book into a swimming pool (really, let designers come up with a few other options). There’s the lists by CEOs, and by presidents, celebrities, critics, then the thematic lists and the meant-for-the-kids ones, plus a bit of this and that and anything else we might want.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m adding an extra one. Admittedly a bit late, and not necessarily one light in weight or themes, yet I still somehow tend to associate these books with the warm months. Maybe simply because of the settings or character length.<\/p>\n

This time around, the blog’s English and Portuguese versions differ a bit, mainly to ensure all books are published in the post’s respective language. But really, there are far too many great Portuguese books without an English translation. Or even any translation at all. Portugal seriously needs to become better at promoting more of its authors.<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnd then there were none<\/em> (Agatha Christie)<\/span>
\nAnnihilation<\/em> (Jeff VanderMeer)<\/span>
\nGirl, Woman, Other<\/em> (Bernardine Evaristo)<\/span>
\nInvisible Man<\/em> (Ralph Ellison)<\/span>
\nLolita<\/em> (Vladimir Nabokov)<\/span>
\nThe God of Small Things<\/em> (Arundhati Roy)<\/span>
\nThe prodigious physician<\/em> (Jorge de Sena)<\/span>
\nThe return<\/em> (Dulce Maria Cardoso)<\/span>
\nThe word tree<\/em> (Teolinda Gers\u00e3o)<\/span>
\nWide sargasso sea<\/em> (Jean Rhys)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nonfiction<\/strong><\/span>
\nAll the living and the dead<\/em> (Kyley Campbell)<\/span>
\nEntangled life<\/em> (Merlin Sheldrake)<\/span>
\nFemina<\/em> (Janina Ramirez)<\/span>
\nRaising demons<\/em> (Shirley Jackson)<\/span>
\nThe dawn of everything<\/em> (David Graeber and David Wengrow)<\/span>
\nThe eloquence of the sardine<\/em> (Bill Fran\u00e7ois)<\/span>
\nThe Sadeian Woman<\/em> (Angela Carter)<\/span>
\nThe secret history of Wonder Woman<\/em> (Jill Lepore)<\/span>
\nVoices from Chernobyl<\/em> (Svetlana Alexievich)<\/span>
\nWild swans<\/em> (Jung Chang)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Graphic novels<\/strong><\/span>
\nBallad for Sophie<\/em> (Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia)<\/span>
\nBlack hole<\/em> (Charles Burns)<\/span>
\nDucks<\/em> (Kate Beaton)<\/span>
\nFun Home<\/em> (Alison Bechdel)<\/span>
\nLocke & Key<\/em> (Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodr\u00edguez)<\/span>
\nNimona<\/em> (Noella Stevenson)<\/span>
\nPersepolis<\/em> (Marjane Satrapi)<\/span>
\nThe arrival<\/em> (Shaun Tan)<\/span>
\nThrough the woods<\/em> (Emily Carroll)<\/span>
\nWatchmen<\/em> (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons)<\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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