Come celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us by picking up a book series with Latinx roots! Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s Cemetery of Forgotten Books series is the PERFECT starting point if you’re not sure where to begin. The first book alone has over 525,000 ratings on GoodReads and averages 4.27/5 stars — that’s seriously phenomenal and well-loved by readers! Continue reading to learn more about the summary and why half a million people on just one website have rated this series so highly.
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Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets–an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
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