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Love is in the air.

Then again, maybe it’s hay fever, or pollution.. or perhaps it’s the collective desire for spring to stay for good. Whatever it is, with Valentine’s Day lingering in the memory, even though Valentine’s Day is not very popular in Spain, along with the fact that Lonely Planet readers consider Spanish the sexiest accent in the world, we’d like to invite our library members to delve into some of the most beautiful essays, novels and poems about love written in Spanish throughout the month of March. We’ll provide the books; the rest is up to you.

And if our selection leaves you wanting more, in this list you’ll find 40 titles, so that you can make your own selection. Did we forget any?

		Doña Inés (Historia de amor) Azorín  Castalia, 1990

		Los nombres del tiempo Hernández, Delibes Destino, 1986

		Sonetos del amor oscuro ; Poemas de amor y erotismo ; Inéditos de madurez García Lorca, Federico Altera, 1995

		Del amor y otros demonios García Márquez, Gabriel Mondadori, 1994

		El amor en los tiempos del cólera García Márquez, Gabriel  Mondadori, 2007

		A todo amor González, Ángel Visor, 1996

		La sonrisa amorosa : antología de la poesía de Pedro Salinas Izquierdo, Luis Juan Granica, 1985

		100 love sonnets = Cien sonetos de amor Neruda, Pablo University of Texas, 1999

		Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada Neruda, Pablo Visor, 1997

		La filosofía del amor en la literatura española Parker, Alexander A. Cátedra, 1986

		Un viejo que leía novelas de amor Sepúlveda, Luis Tusquets, 1994