Books, Readers, and Readings is a book about some important novels published in the first quarter of this century in Spain, by independent publishers, in various literary supplements, and in the media. It contains ninety reviews of ninety-two unforgettable contemporary novels, undoubtedly the genre that best represents us, written by men and women for whom writing, more than a profession or a vocation, was a destiny. Max Blecher, Ida Fink, Christine Lavant, Emma Reyes, Varlam Shalámov, Gyula Illyés, Sarah Kofman, Odette Elina, Irmgard Keun, Erich Hackl, Gordon Lish, and Clarice Lispector are some of the names readers will encounter in these pages, alongside others such as Wolfe, Grass, Coetzee, Antunes, O’Brien, Sebald, Walser, Zweig, and Simenon.