Weekly literary recommendations feature six notable books

A selection of six notable book recommendations for the week highlights diverse literary works spanning various genres and themes.

Laila Lalami’s ‘El hotel de los sueños’ explores a near-future surveillance society where algorithms assess criminal risk based on personal data, including dreams. José Ovejero’s ‘Bajo la luna negra’ is described as a hyper-realistic parable regarding the cruelty of the wealthy.

Other featured titles include Rodrigo Cortés’s ‘Hija del cielo,’ set in the fictional town of Gabaón; Joe Dunthorne’s ‘Hijos de la radiación,’ which examines family history through a German-Jewish chemist during the Nazi era; Éric Vuillard’s ‘Los desesperados,’ a novel based on the real-life figure Billy the Kid; and José Castillejo’s ‘Democracias y dictaduras,’ which explores the life of a pedagogue caught in the tensions of the Civil War.