I have been going to Los Cabos for many years now, I remember a time when I used to carry 3 to 5 books for every week vacation, I would plan ahead for which titles I wanted to enjoy; sometimes I would buy a book a couple of months in advance and ask my girlfriend to hide it from me, just because it would be the perfect book for a day on the beach,  crazy ,isn’t it? Then I start to buy books from the airport, after all I was going on  a vacation to relax but now, after reading this post on Las Ventanas, I may let go the book controlling issue and open up for whatever the hotels have to offer, well in a second thought I will bring one emergency book just in case.…

Read Next Year’s Hot Books Today at Las Ventanas in Mexico || HotelChatter

We’ve been following the Hotel Bookshelves craze for awhile now, and for good reason. We’re fans of anything that lightens our carry-on load, so books in our room or lobby are welcome. We like to leaf through those big, sexy art books that hotels like the Cooper Square and the Greenwich Hotel in New York stock bedside, and occasionally we might reacquaint ourselves with a classic while we wait for room service.

But the best thing about the books available for guests at Las Ventanas al Paraíso in Los Cabos Mexico is the fact that you can read them before anyone back home. As we mentioned when the resort first introduced its Hot Type Menu, an arrangement with top publishing houses means that the Las Ventanas library features books six weeks to six months before their official publication date.

The titles are rotated every quarter, with a new batch just hitting shelves before the holidays. Here’s what you can pick up to read poolside right now:
* Impatient With Desire, by Gabrielle Burton
* The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom
* One Amazing Thing, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
* The Information Officer, by Mark Mills
* Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson
* Noah’s Compass, by Anne Tyler

The books’ backdrops range from pioneer days in California and a quaint English village to the island of Malta after WWII and the dreary outskirts of Baltimore. Frankly, all very serious and important sounding. Given Las Ventanas’s pretty beach location, we wouldn’t mind if they loosened up this lineup with a few trashy thrillers or potboilers to go with our Margaritas.

You can’t take the books with you when you check-out, but read all six titles and you’ll have enough posh-party conversation to get you through the holidays. These books don’t hit stores until January through March, so you’ll sound like quite the insider—and have something to brag about other than your tan.

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