Spanish Literature

The Best Spanish-Language Novels: From Don Quixote to Today

Spanish is one of the great literary languages, and it holds two capitals at once. It gave the world the first modern novel and, four centuries later, the most influential novel of the twentieth century. To read across it is to travel between two continents that share a tongue but not a history.

A knight and squire crossing the windmill-dotted plains of La Mancha, evoking the best Spanish-language novels.