2025 will be full of unforgettable readings. Right now, this is what is in Xataka’s slope battery

Let us recognize it: we love Christmas because if we like reading, dozens of books rain. The drama arrives in January, when the battery acquires proportions of skyscrapers. In Xataka we have already got to work and we are engaged in multiple readings. Perhaps some of them are interested in increasing your own list of outstanding volumes. This is what we are reading!

‘Cointeligency: Live and work with AI’, by Ethan Mollick

I am still reading Mollick’s book and it is one of those rare readings about ia that manage to keep their feet on the ground. The one of the books of AI is a section full of tectoutopic manifestos or apocalyptic warnings, but this text, at least in what I have read, stands out for its genuine curiosity and healthy skepticism. Who reads it will find a pragmatic analysis of how to integrate these tools into our life, without falling into the trap of imagining that they can or should do everything, and of course without falling into cheap catastrophism. Mollick understands that the real question is not whether we will use the AI, but how we will choose to use it. Javier Lacort

‘Everything dies’ by Juan Gómez Jurado

I am reading with some laziness the eighth book of the Red Reina saga, more for a “since I have read the previous ones, to know how this ends”, although I am seeing myself coming than last delivery, nothing. The familiarity of knowing both the characters, the humor of the dialogues and the narratives, and the tone of action so characteristic of Gómez Jurado are liking, but I cannot avoid that feeling of reading again the same and with the same resources that work from the first books. Fear gives me the end. At least, for now he is being entertaining and agile. César Muela

‘The newspapers of La Boticaria’, by Natsu Hyûga

I had been listening to this series for a long time, and how good it is, but since I did not usually trust the Hype I took late to read the manga. It was a serious mistake. ‘The newspapers of the apothecary’ tells the story of Mao Mao, a herbalist who was kidnapped to work as a maid in the imperial palace. I must admit that at the beginning, it is hard to believe that she is the protagonist of the series. It appears to be a dry girl whose purpose is to avoid getting into trouble in life. The only thing that seems to care is his father, a doctor named Luomen, and the only thing that excites him is the poisons. Although Mao Mao promised to maintain a low profile in the palace, he cannot avoid taking action on the matter when the children of the emperor mysteriously begin to get sick.

His actions put him in the spotlight of Jinshi, a beautiful eunuch that is responsible for managing all the affairs The Interior Palace. As opposite as water and oil, together they are dedicated to investigating the mysterious cases that are crossed along the way. You will not be able to avoid laughing when you see this pair, as well as its numerous misunderstandings, in action. In addition, the manga is impressive and reflects the talent of the artist, Nekokurage.

‘The newspapers of the apothecary’ is available in numerous formats. Apart from having its own anime in Crunchyroll, it is also available in Japanese light novel format, which is where it was born. After seeing the anime, I have read the manga and read the light novels because, as you can see, my head went a bit. However, I can only say that it is a will to how good this series is and how it leaves you asking for more. Jody Serrano

‘Travel with Herodoto’, by Rysard Kapuściński

I have always liked to read. From childhood. But it took me much more to launch me for readings that can carry the label of “journalistic”, if we understand from chronicles to essays written by and for reporters. The first, I remember it well, was a book of Manu Leguineche about the vericuetos of this profession. I devoured it when I was in the second year of Baccalaureate, while I was enrolled in Communication Sciences. The second, if the memory does not falter me, was ‘the cynics do not work for this trade’, the classic classic of Rysard Kapuściński for aspiring stories.

From those years of university I recognize that I had abandoned the Polish, the cheerful face, with a sharp look and populated eyebrows, that the students of my fifth contemplate with devotion when I went up to collect the Prince of Asturias. In the Faculty I also read ‘ebony’ and ‘One more day with life’, but I had one of his great works pending, which, if I am not wrong, puts the brooch to his bibliographic legacy and in a way it serves as a vital testament , professional and deontological: ‘Travel with Herodoto’. 2025 has started fulfilling that pending account. It has been my first reading. And how I appreciate it.

‘Travel with Herodoto’ is chronic, biography, communication treaty, sociological essay and a declaration of love towards reading and history, a philosophical manifesto and the daddy test that mixing the local and global approach is not only possible, it is also necessary. It is all that and something else: the frank and uncomplexed work of an extraordinary reporter who does not tremble the narrative when moving from his own childhood memories to the political column or the fragments of a chronicler who lived more than twenty centuries before him . ‘Travel with Herodotus’ is also something else: a powerful vitamin that helps to remember because this is, without a doubt, the best trade in the world. Carlos Prego

‘The Body of Christ’, by Bea Lema

I had been pending to read the National Comic Award of 2024, so I had remedied him. Bea Lema tells us in ‘The Body of Christ’ The History of Adela (Mother) through the eyes of Vera (daughter). And it is not an easy story or a bearable life. It tells us about the care, of mental illness, of the obsessions, of the fears that paralyze and torment us, of the demons that we carry inside … but all camouflaged through a distorted religious faith, of the beliefs imposed or of The culture of guilt. The crudeness that means living together being a girl with a tormented mother and growing without understanding at all, without having all the answers, without knowing how to ask the right questions. “We learned to communicate, to know what not to say … and what yes.”

All the topics discussed are current and resonate us so much that what Bea has placed in the eighties and nineties. Family dynamics, parenting in a hostile environment, superstition, misunderstood religion, depression, mental health, suicidal ideas, migration … topics that are still hotter today than ever. And how in the end the care always falls into their hands.

All this Bea Lema reflects it with a delicacy and masterful beauty, using different drawing techniques, intermingling previously embroidered pages (oh, what a beautiful cover). The aesthetics of the drawings brushing what naif It relieves the tough theme. It is a book that cannot leave you indifferent because in addition to impacting what counts makes you stop for a good time on each page to delight in every detail, feel every emotion that transmits and realize that there is finally a lot of love behind. Eva López

‘Terrifying stories’, by Junji Ito

Junji Ito is a master of contemporary terror. In recent years, Japanese has become a recognized figure for many, among other reasons for adapting his work to anime. Their ‘terrifying stories’ are a great introduction to the author and give what they promise: a collection of short stories that could be classified as fantastic horror. Both the narrative and the drawing of these stories make this work a nightmare of the most entertaining. Pablo Martínez-Juarez

‘Nicomedes Méndez, the executioner of Barcelona’, by Salvador García Jiménez

If you are interested in the Iberian black chronicle, this book will provide you with a unique immersion in life and, above all, the work of Nicomedes Méndez, which was the owner of the audience of Barcelona between 1877 and 1908. It is estimated that he executed Around eighty people and García Jiménez, apart from a very much chronic of each of their executions, immerses himself in his private, bland but significant life and not lacking tragic details. It also offers a very sharp portrait of the nineteenth -century Barcelona and, between lines, of our addictive relationship with the death show, which acquires innumerable forms. Sometimes novel, a dry and direct vece as a chronic aseptic of events, this volume proposes a time trip to tougher times and where crime and punishment were part of the everyday. John Tones

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