Until a few days ago, the only audiobook edition of Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) I was familiar with was priced at over a hundred dollars.

Now it can be purchased for $25.

That’s not bad for an edition which comes in 8 cds lasting 8 hours.

Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal is the first title in the series created by J.K. Rowling and, unfortunately, the only one that has been published in audio book format so far.

If you want to listen to this Spanish audio book along with the printed version, here is Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) in book format.

If you’re an audiobook fan, you’re in for a treat. The number of Spanish audiobooks now published every month has dramatically increased over the last few years.

Today you can find dozens of titles in every category imaginable: religion, thrillers and mystery novels, classic literature, children’s books, yoga and fitness classes, self-help books, poetry readings and, of course, Spanish language learning.

Here I’m going to focus on the top 10 bestselling thrillers in Spanish on cd. There are some Spanish authors I expected to feature on this list, like Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Arturo Pérez Reverte, but unfortunately they still haven’t been published on cd in Spanish.

To keep you up to date, I’m monitoring all new audiobook releases and will let you know through this blog what comes out.

Top 10 bestselling thrillers – Spanish audiobooks on cd

1. Ángeles y demonios – Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown

2. El rey de los pleitos – The King of Torts, by John Grisham

3. Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

4. El intermediario – The Broker, by John Grisham

5. La fortaleza digital – Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown

6. El código da Vinci – The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

7. Caballo de Troya: Jerusalén, by Juan José Benítez

8. La esperada – The Expected One, by Kathleen McGowan

9. Caballo de Troya 2. Masada, by Juan José Benítez

10. Caballo de Troya 7. Nahum, by Juan José Benítez

If you need help finding a Spanish audiobook, or if you want to let us know about a title you like, please post a comment below!

In 1924 Pablo Neruda published Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair). He was only twenty years old and was to become one of the greatest Spanish-speaking poets of all times.

One of the most memorable poems in this book is the one I bring you here. It’s poem number 20 and is called Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche (Tonight I can write the saddest lines).

In the first video below you can hear Poem number 20 read out in Spanish. Of all the versions I’ve heard this is, in my opinion, the most beautiful one. The reader’s voice captures all the strength and sadness of the verses.

In the second video you can hear Poem number 20 in English. Poetry loses a lot of its beauty and mystery in translation, but in this video enough remains of it to be worth watching at least once.

Pablo Neruda was born in 1904 in Parral, Chile, and died in 1973 in Santiago de Chile, twelve days after general Augusto Pinochet’s military coup. Two years earlier he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

If you want to get the books Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada or Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, you can find them here.