CITY · SPAINBooks set in Madrid
40.417, -3.704
18 books · 10 authors · 1887–2023
18 books here
Most-set authors
Arturo Pérez-Reverte (5) · Javier Marías (4) · Antonio Muñoz Molina (2) · Javier Fuentes (1) · Almudena Grandes (1) · Benito Pérez Galdós (1)
Genres
historical fiction (4) · literary fiction (3) · mystery & crime (3)
Books set here
Set in Madrid (17)
Captain Alatriste
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
17th-century Habsburg Madrid
Countries of Origin
Javier Fuentes
Madrid where Demetrio returns after deportation from the US; story of a queer undocumented pastry chef's reverse migrati
Dr. García's Patients
Almudena Grandes
primary setting, postwar Francoist Spain
Fortunata and Jacinta
Benito Pérez Galdós
entire novel setting, 1870s Madrid
Heart So White
Javier Marías
newlywed home, interpreters life
In the Night of Time
Antonio Muñoz Molina
1936 Republican Madrid during the Civil War; Ignacio Abel's life before exile to America
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner
Madrid 2004 — where American poet Adam Gordon witnesses the Atocha train bombings on his fellowship year
The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
rare book hunt Madrid
The Dumas Club
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Corso book dealer base
The Fencing Master
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
1868 Madrid fencing school
The Flanders Panel
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
art restorer solves chess mystery
The Infatuations
Javier Marías
Madrid; a publishing editor observes an ideal couple at her breakfast cafe until the husband's fatal street stabbing
The Time in Between
María Dueñas
seamstress origin, spy return
Thus Bad Begins
Javier Marías
Madrid in 1980, as Spain transitions from Franco's dictatorship to democracy (La Movida), where young Juan de Vere works
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Marías
primary narrative setting
Undiscovered
Gabriela Wiener
Madrid; narrator Gabriela lives in a polyamorous household while investigating her colonial ancestor explorer Charles Wi
Winter in Madrid
C.J. Sansom
post-Civil War Madrid, 1940
Also featuring Madrid (1)
Notable locations in Madrid
Vallehermoso1
