List of 32 Books Based in Spain
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Want to find books whose story takes place somewhere specific? Try this handy list of books based in Spain. You'll be sure to find the reading material you need here.
Interested in learning more about Spain? The books below are great but some were published a while ago. Some other resources to learn about Spain include the Crowdsourced Explorer and Wikipedia.
| Title | Author | Publishing Year | Genre |
| As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | Laurie Lee | 1969 | Biography, Travel literature |
| Barcelona | Robert Hughes | 1992 | Travel literature |
| Captain Alatriste | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 1996 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery |
| Cathedral of the Sea | Ildefonso Falcones | 2006 | Novel, historical novel, Historical Fiction |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1605 | Parody, Satire, Farce, Psychological Fiction |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 1940 | Novel, Fiction, War story |
| Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past | Giles Tremlett | 2006 | Non-fiction, Travel literature, Personal narrative |
| Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | 1938 | Biography |
| Iberia | James A. Michener | 1968 | Travel literature |
| Odds On | John Lange | 1966 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense |
| Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 | Adam Hochschild | 2016 | Biography |
| The Basque History of the World | Mark Kurlansky | 1999 | History, Nonfiction, Travel, Politics |
| The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 | Antony Beevor | 1989 | History, Nonfiction, War, Military History |
| The Bird King | G. Willow Wilson | 2019 | Novel, Fantasy Fiction, Romance novel, Historical Fiction, Historical fantasy |
| The Blind Man of Seville | Robert Wilson | 2003 | Crime novel, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense |
| The Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepetys | 2019 | Historical Fiction |
| The Island Villa | Lily Graham | 2018 | Domestic Fiction |
| The Last Jew | Noah Gordon | 1999 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
| The Last Queen | C.W. Gortner | 2006 | Novel, Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction |
| The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain | María Rosa Menocal | 2002 | Non-fiction |
| The Pit and the Pendulum | Edgar Allan Poe | 1842 | Short story, Horror fiction |
| The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile | C.W. Gortner | 2012 | Novel, Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction |
| The Return | Victoria Hislop | 2013 | Historical Fiction |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 2001 | Novel, Mystery, Thriller, Gothic fiction, Drama |
| The Sisterhood | Helen Bryan | 2013 | Historical Fiction, Adventure fiction, Religious Fiction |
| The Spanish Bride | Georgette Heyer | 1940 | Novel, Romance novel, Historical Fiction |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | Novel, Fiction, Roman à clef |
| The Time in Between | María Dueñas | 2009 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
| Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba | Federico García Lorca | 1953 | Plays, Drama, Fiction, Classics |
| Treacherous | Sara Rosett | 2017 | Mystery, Fiction, Cozy mystery |
| Winter in Madrid | C.J. Sansom | 2006 | Novel, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Romance novel, Spy fiction, Suspense, War story |
| Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 | Nicholas E. Reynolds | 2017 | Biography |
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