CITY · SPAINBooks set in Barcelona
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24 books · 18 authors · 1605–2020
24 books here
Most-set authors
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (4) · Ildefonso Falcones (2) · Mercè Rodoreda (2) · Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (2) · Jaume Cabré (1) · Miguel de Cervantes (1)
Genres
literary fiction (5) · mystery & crime (3) · historical fiction (3) · thriller & suspense (2)
Books set here
Set in Barcelona (20)
Confessions
Jaume Cabré
Eixample apartment protagonist
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Heirs of the Earth
Ildefonso Falcones
medieval Ribera shipyards
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Spanish Civil War Barcelona
In Diamond Square
Mercè Rodoreda
Barcelona's Gracia neighbourhood where Natalia lives through the Spanish Civil War and Francoism
Last Afternoons with Teresa
Juan Marsé
1950s class divide Barcelona
Marina
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1979 Barcelona boarding school
Montano's Malady
Enrique Vila-Matas
narrator home base, Barcelona
Southern Seas
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
post-Franco Barcelona noir
Tattoo
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Carvalho investigates tattooed corpse
The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1920s Barcelona backdrop
The City of Marvels
Eduardo Mendoza
late 19th-century Barcelona
The Impostor
Javier Cercas
Barcelona; home city of Enric Marco, the fraudulent Holocaust survivor and president of the Friends of Mauthausen
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
late 1950s Franco-era Barcelona
The Prisoner of Heaven
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1950s Franco-era Barcelona
Uncertain Glory
Joan Sales
Wartime Barcelona on the Republican rearguard during the Spanish Civil War
Victus
Albert Sánchez Piñol
1714 Siege of Barcelona
Nada
Carmen Laforet
post-Civil War Barcelona boarding house
The Time of the Doves
Mercè Rodoreda
Gràcia square, Civil War backdrop
Cathedral of the Sea
Ildefonso Falcones
14th-century cathedral construction site
Also featuring Barcelona (4)
Notable locations in Barcelona
Calle de Aribau, Barcelona1El Raval1Gothic Quarter1Gràcia1Plaça del Diamant, Barcelona1Plaça del Diamant, Gràcia, Barcelona1Santa Maria del Mar1
Nearby books
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
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The Impostor
Javier Cercas
0 km · Barcelona
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
0 km · Gothic Quarter
Cathedral of the Sea
Ildefonso Falcones
1 km · Santa Maria del Mar
Nada
Carmen Laforet
2 km · Calle de Aribau, Barcelona
In Diamond Square
Mercè Rodoreda
2 km · Gràcia
The Time of the Doves
Mercè Rodoreda
2 km · Plaça del Diamant, Gràcia, Barcelona
The Painter of Battles
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
76 km · Costa Brava