Great entertaining drama to add to your library

If you are looking for some great drama books to fill your days, take a look at these curated by the Goeread team.

The Sky Over Lima by Juan Gómez Bárcena

The best heartbreaker novels are the ones that sneak up on you like this one: A tragicomic love story about two amateur young male poets in Lima in the early 20th century who are desperate to get the newest book by their hero, Juan Ramón Jiménez. They pose together as a beautiful woman admirer, write him a fan letter, ask for it, and receive back … a signed copy and a letter. The resulting correspondence grows quite severe, and soon their literary hero is in love and insists on meeting their fictional character. So the young poets realize their most incredible literary creation must die, and no one can ever know it was them.

SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

You’re at the beach with a summer hangover, a little outside language, but you long for the pleasures of the narrative. These stories are for that, from a place that is best thought of as a cross between Professor Xavier’s X-Men school in Westchester and Brakebills from The Magicians. Most are a page to three pages long and hilarious. You do sort of have to be a next-level nerd to understand all of them but in the right way.

This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell

O’Farrell is an enormous talent, and her latest novel is her best one yet. Daniel, a New Yorker, lives in rural Ireland with his wife, Claudette, a former film star who staged her disappearance and greeted uninvited guests with a shotgun. The appearance of a woman from Daniel’s past throws their carefully constructed life into turmoil, exposing all sorts of secrets. O’Farrell’s prose sparkles. This book is a total delight.

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Reading outside in winter

Curling up with a good book, maybe in front of a fire with a cup of coffee, or hot chocolate, maybe even something stronger. It’s one of the great pleasures of winter. You are warm and secure and untroubled, you are in the optimum state for diving headlong into a good story.

The season may dictate when and where you read, but is it really out of the question that you could take that book into the back garden or to a park or nice, leafy forest and read it?

Reading outside in the winter may not be as crazy as it sounds. For a start, you are getting some nice fresh air, which is good for your mood. Sunlight is limited at his time of the year, some grabbing a bit while you can is a good way to boost your vitamin D levels.

OK, so it’s cold. That just gives you more of a chance to wrap up warm in your favorite sweater and knitted scarf, and hat and gloves combo. As long as it isn’t raining or too windy, you’re good to go. After all, a nice summer breeze may help cool you down when the sun is blazing, but it can be a curse if you’re trying to hold down the pages of a book. A nice, still winter’s morning shouldn’t give you too much bother.

Reading outside in winter can be a more visceral experience too. A lot of a book’s story may take place outdoors, so you can get a good sense of what the characters are feeling, particularly if you have decided to plump for a bit of Nordic Noir.

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