January has been very productive because it brought us our first favorite book of 2026 and because we have no shortage of works in our preferred genre, crime fiction, to provide the perfect excuse to enjoy winter at home. But we were eager to start February, for many reasons, especially for books arriving in bookstores, and for new work from Carrère, the fashionable Japanese literary phenomenon, and the latest novel by a Planeta prize winner.
Among the literary novelties of the second month of the year there are also a new novel from the latest fiction Pulitzer winner, David Foenkinos’s, and Jane Smiley’s. A stand against gastronomic pose, another about violence against women, and several family dramas complete our selection of releases we will add now to our reading list.
So we hope you have a clear literary agenda because the books you have to read in February are many and varied. We begin:
Cover of Las carniceras, the novel by Sophie Demange arriving in bookstores in February.
Las carniceras. Sophie Demange. Siruela.
In a middle-class neighborhood of Rouen, it is impossible to ignore the pink façade of Las Carniceras. From the street you can hear the sharpening of knives, the dry thud of meat on the counter, and the laughter of the three professionals who run it. But these women share more than their trade: they have all been victims of gender-based violence and, although they have survived, they have not forgotten.
When one of them suffers a new assault, their reaction is swift and collective. They decide that they have endured enough, and that the transgressors, rapists, accomplices, liars, and abusers will pay for their crimes. As several men in the neighborhood begin to disappear without a trace, panic spreads among the residents. Within weeks, the singular avengers will become targets of gossip and threats, and while they keep a close eye on the next one who might go too far, the police will gradually close in on them. In bookstores February 2.
Cover of Phone, Percival Everett’s new fiction novel in Spain.
Teléfono. Percival Everett. De Conatus.
The winner of the last National Book Award and the Fiction Pulitzer, Percival Everett, returns to Spanish bookstores with Phone, a novel starring Zach Wells, a professor who is his own worst skeptic. Capable of mocking his own suicidal impulses, the only thing keeping him on earth are chess games with his only daughter, a preadolescent girl whom he believes he loves.
But a single move of a bishop, a blink, a second of absence, will cause the world to collapse beneath his feet in the form of illness, and Zach will discover that only hell can save you from your own hell. Everett’s sixth work published in our country, originally released in 2020, is considered by many one of the most moving novels by the American writer. On sale February 4.
Cover of The Friday Library, the Japanese literary phenomenon arriving in Spain.
La librería de los viernes. Sawako Natori. Espasa.
The latest Japanese literary phenomenon begins at Nohara Station, on the outskirts of Tokyo, where a small bookstore wrapped in urban legends hides. They say that whoever enters finds exactly the book they need, at the precise moment. Fumiya, an insecure university student, arrives looking for a book for his ailing father and discovers an unexpected place: a literary refuge with a warm café where the daily menu changes according to the chef’s inspiration and the books he reads, and three librarians as eccentric as they are endearing.
Among readers seeking answers, stories interweave and books heal; Fumiya will learn to trust himself and the power of reading. With more than half a million readers in the Nippon country, this work is a multisensory experience in which books heal and food comforts. In bookstores on February 4.
Cover of A Family Matter, Claire Lynch’s novel.
Un asunto de familia. Claire Lynch. Random House.
Dawn is a young wife and mother who feels her life slipping away slowly. Everything changes when she meets Hazel, her new neighbor: between them a connection immediate emerges, as bright as it is forbidden. But in an era that does not forgive women who step outside the socially accepted script, happiness has a price.
Forty years later, Maggie, mother of two, faces a personal crisis. When her father Heron receives a terminal diagnosis, the past bursts back with force: the truths they told her about her mother begin to crumble. A delicate and brave prose to denounce the abandonment of lesbians in the 1980s and, at the same time, celebrate the strength of forgiveness, the resilience of love, and the bonds that endure even after pain. In bookstores on February 5.
Cover of Prequel, Rachel Maddow’s non-fiction book arriving in bookstores in February.
Precuela. Rachel Maddow. Capitán Swing.
The American journalist and political commentator Raxchel Maddow, known for her rigorous analysis of current events, shows in this book how, in the years before the United States entered World War II, the government and its institutions were threatened from both abroad and from within by the advance of fascism: conspirators backed by elected officials tried to undermine democracy.
Maddow reconstructs the stories of those who resisted, risking their lives to shed light on the conspiracy and protect the institutions. They are tales that tremble, but also remind us that it is possible to face the current threats to democracy and the challenges that lie ahead. On sale February 9.
Cover of Desperdigados por el mundo, Yoko Tawada’s novel.
Desperdigados por el mundo. Yoko Tawada. Anagrama.
Hiruko has watched as her homeland, an archipelago between southern China and Polynesia, disappeared swallowed by the ravages of climate change. Residing in Denmark, she has invented her own language, the panska, a flexible tongue with which she can communicate in any Scandinavian country and that she teaches to those who, like her, no longer belong anywhere.
Driven by nostalgia and the sense of loss after the disappearance of her country, and accompanied by Knut, a young Danish linguist fascinated by the relationship between identity and language, Hiruko embarks on a journey across Europe in search of former compatriots who speak their mother tongue. Along the way, they will cross stories of a cast of characters who, each in their own way, try to face their prejudices, social expectations, and the constant evolution of their varied realities. In bookstores on February 11.
Cover of Among Friends, Hal Ebbott’s acclaimed novel to be published in our country soon.
Entre amigos. Hal Ebbott. Tusquets.
Amos and Emerson have been friends for more than 30 years, and the bond between them is unbreakable, or so they believe. Amos is a psychiatrist, Emerson runs a successful business. They live in New York and form an almost perfect portrait of life in their fifties: their daughters grew up together, their wives get along. The two families, including their offspring, are set to spend a quiet autumn weekend in the magnificent house Emerson owns outside the city.
Little by little, however, frictions arise, old resentments surface, and unresolved problems between them emerge… perhaps since adolescence. A misstep by Emerson will sour the atmosphere and the flawless veneer that clothes these two affluent families will begin to crack. As anger and envy simmer, everyone will have to reevaluate their loyalties and beliefs. A literary debut that has garnered many accolades in the Anglophone market. On sale February 11.
Cover of Everyone Loves Clara, David Foenkinos’s new novel.
Todos aman a Clara. David Foenkinos. Alfaguara.
Alexis Koskas holds a respectable job at a private bank and has a teenage daughter, Clara. When the young woman suffers an accident that leaves her in a coma, Alexis’s life takes a sharp turn. While reconnecting with his ex-wife during hospital visits, he begins a writing process to try to ease the pain. But the consequences of the accident go further when Clara awakens and is not the same.
Moving, intelligent, ironic, full of suspense and reflections on writing, family, and fate, the latest novel by the winner of the Renaudot and the Goncourt des Lycéens lets us understand once again why “everyone loves David Foenkinos.” In bookstores on February 12.
Cover of The Solitude of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai’s awaited novel.
La soledad de Sonia y Sunny. Kiran Desai. Salamandra.
After 20 years of silence, and work, the Indian writer who won the Man Booker in 2006 with The Inheritance of Loss returns with the story of Sonia and Sunny, who meet for the first time on a night train and feel an immediate attraction, though tainted by the uncomfortable memory of a failed matchmaking attempt years earlier.
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Both, unsure about the future but determined to find a way to be happy, move through a world that confronts them with the challenges of contemporary life while looking for a place to feel at home. A long-awaited literary return that in 2025 made its way onto many year-end lists. On sale February 12.
Cover of A Warning, the second novel in Jane Smiley’s Hundred Years Trilogy
Una advertencia. Jane Smiley. Sexto Piso.
Second novel in the Hundred Years Trilogy, which begins in 1953 when the Langdon family patriarch’s funeral gathers the family once again. None of its members are aware of the profound changes that will shape their lives in the coming years. For now, Walker and Rosanna’s children have grown up and already have their own children.
Frank, the eldest, ignores his troubled wife and is distracted by a face from the past. Lillian watches as her brilliant and eccentric husband, Arthur, self-destructs with guilt from secretly working for the government. Claire discovers that marriage is not what she expected. In Iowa, where the Langdons began, Joe sees some aspects of farm life remain unchanged, while others become unrecognizable. And while some family members remain trapped in the past, others will try to leave what they know behind to prosper as never before. In bookstores February 16.
Cover of Koljós, the new and awaited Emmanuel Carrère novel.
Koljós. Emmanuel Carrère. Anagrama.
Winner of the Médicis Prize and the Grand Continent Prize in 2025, the new novel from the renowned French novelist is a captivating narrative that opens with the State funeral of his mother, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, a major figure in French intellectual life, the first woman at the head of the Academy and a recognized authority in the study of Russian history. Her death, in 2023, will push the writer to review a collection of archives, letters, and photographs that his father has compiled throughout his life.
From the exile of his Georgian great-grandparents, educated bourgeois, after the Bolshevik Revolution; to the erratic grandfather Georges, marked by poverty, defeatism, and a collaboration with the German occupiers never entirely clarified, the unstoppable rise of Hélène, whose legacy and complexity condition those around her or the discreet figure of her father, Carrère moves between family history and history in bold terms to offer an exact portrait of Europe of the past and the present century. On sale February 18.
Cover of We Are the Brennans, Tracy Lange’s novel published in Spain in February.
Somos los Brennan. Tracy Lange. RBA.
Sunday Brennan wakes up battered in a Los Angeles hospital after an accident. That is the sign that it’s time to return to New York, after having left her siblings who do not forgive her and the man with whom she imagined she would share her life. The home that awaits her is full of cracks and questions. Sunday wants to rebuild her life, even if she has to walk on old resentments.
However, the longer she stays, the more she discovers that her family needs her as much as she needs them. And when a man from her past threatens to ruin the Brennans, Sunday realizes that the only way to save them is to unearth family secrets that tear apart and sustain and that are capable of blowing up everything they believed to be true, to find together a way to move forward. In bookstores on February 18.
Cover of Your Name Will Carry, Sonsoles Ónega’s new novel.
Llevará tu nombre. Sonsoles Ónega. Planeta.
Summer of 1882, Comillas. The discovery of a woman’s body on the shore shakes the villa. Amid whispers, accusations, and family secrets, the young Mada Riva is blamed for murder. To protect both the family name and its honor, her own family issues a verdict: she must disappear without a trace.
Mada arrives in a chaotic and fascinating Madrid where she must face loneliness and forgetting. Her refuge will be a home of humble girls, but her talent for reading and writing will lead her to work for don Gonzalo, who becomes smitten with her beauty and, above all, the rebellious spirit that will guide her life. In a society that silences women, Mada will raise her voice and, among the shadows of the past, will discover that it is possible to love without fear and reclaim her name. On sale February 25.
Cover of Against the Foodies, Juan Manuel Bellver’s gastronomic manifesto to be published in February.
Contra los foodies. Juan Manuel Bellver. Siruela.
In a time when foodies turn every bite into a show on social networks and every dish into a consumer fetish, Juan Manuel Bellver dismantles, with irony and erudition, the clichés of modern eating. Faced with artificial hedonism, he defends cooking as culture, memory, and true pleasure, far from passing fashion and the commodification of the experience.
With a sharp, cultured, and slightly mischievous style, the author traverses the recent history of gastronomy, unveils the rhetoric of cuisine, and proposes a return to common sense: less pose, more enjoyment, fewer selfies, more conversation, less spectacle, more truth. A brilliant mosaic of ideas and pleasures, a lucid and joyous manifesto that invites thinking, laughing, and above all savoring without artifice. In bookstores on February 25.
