Present at the 17th edition of the Bookfest Fair, the Humanitas Group (Humanitas, Humanitas Fiction and Humanitas Junior) offered the public titles just out of print, but also bestsellers that are only good to read during the summer vacation.
Top 10 Humanities
Ioana Pârvulescu, The Gold of the Cat
Radu Paraschivescu, Freedom from depression: Coverings and revelations from us
Marius Chivu (coord.), The book of depressions: 24 confessions about sadness, fear, despair and other demons
Alexandru N. Stermin, Looking at the orangutan or About the animal in us
Gabriel Liiceanu, Letter to Dorothea: Brief of ideas in love
Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid
Tatiana Niculescu, Delicious story of the Romanian cozonac
Cătălin Vasilescu, My Dear Wallace: The History of the Day Sir Charles Darwin Lost His Elegance
Radu Umbreș, Distrust: How Deep Romania Works. An anthropological research, Translation by Iulian Comănescu
Douglas MacKenzie, Before It Collapsed: Modernism and Art Déco in Bucharest, Translated by Ruxandra Avian
Top 10 Humanities Fiction
Thomas Schlesser, Ochii Monai, Translation and notes by Daniel Nicolescu
Thomas Leoncini, The Man Who Wanted to Be Loved and the Motan Who Fell in Love with Him, Translated by Liliana Nechita
JM Coetzee, The Pole, Translated by Irina Horea
Isabel Allende, My Name Knows the Wind, Translated by Cornelia Rădulescu
Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn, Translation and notes by Cristina Nicolae
Yiyun Li, The Book of the Goose, Translation and notes by Justina Bandol
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, My Life with Mozart, Translated by Lidia Bodea
Amos Oz, Where Jackals Roar. Stories, Translation and notes by Marlena Braester
Sawako Ariyoshi, River of Destinies, Translation and notes by Angela Hondru
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Dark Sun: Traversing the Third Centuries, Translated by Doru Mareș
Top 5 Humanitas Junior
1. “Mountain with doors”, (8+) by Cătălin Pavel and illustrations by Oana Ispir.
2. ,,The stories of the owl. The bear that wanted to be happy” (4+) by Eric-Emmanuel Schimtt, illustrations by Barbara Brun and translation by Lidia Bodea.
3. “Stories that pull you by the sleeve” (8+) by Adriana Ştefan, illustrations by Bianca Bratu.
4. “The Case of Bizarre Bouquets” (13+) by Nancy Springer, translated by Maria Rizoiu.
5. ,,How to create a comic strip” (8+) by Manuela Manita, illustrations by Manuela Manita.
