The 20 best books to give away on Father’s Day: novels, thrillers, biographies…

There is only one father, but there are many types of fathers. Father’s Day is celebrated every year in Spain on March 19, a date that serves as a tribute to our parents. In addition to the congratulations, the hug and the obligatory visit, it is tradition to give a gift. A gift that, in the case of a book, is worth two, because we already know the innumerable benefits that reading implies, whether your father is thirty, fifty or eighty years old. The following list brings together 20 book recommendations to give away on Father’s Day so as not to fail. It presents works for all possible readers, with special attention to the latest news. That your father is not a book? Well, here you have another 50 original ideas to give away on Father’s Day.

Despite the fact that the latest data on reading habits in our country, published last year, indicated that 35.6% of the population never or almost never read (men being less readers than women in all age groups), the truth is that the reading habit has not been lost in recent decades in Spain. In this way, reading continues to be a leisure activity for 64.4% of the Spanish population, and the purchase of books has not declined as many doomsayers have long speculated. But beyond all these data, the truth is that reading continues to produce infinite pleasure for many people, being of great help to face problems of our day to day, to discover new worlds (real or imagined) and/or to better discover ourselves as individual and society.

For all this, giving a book on Father’s Day is one of the best gifts that can be made. The 20 titles that we propose in the list shown below are designed both for reading parents and for those who have not done so for a long time or who have not yet acquired the right habit for it. The political novel, the crime novel, the memoirs and autobiographies, the philosophical essay, the sociological one, the collection of stories, the illustrated book or even the activity notebook to recall childhood and youth, are present here; an eclectic selection of books with which it is impossible to deny that more than one could be of interest to your father. From Vuillard to Kafka passing through Sanz, Roth, Aramburu, Ernaux or García Montero. Celebrate this day with the best gift that can be given to a father!