The best books in Spanish for the last 25 years

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

50 critics, writers and booksellers from both sides of the Atlantic choose the milestones of the last quarter century.

This list was originally published in 2016 and was added to this site over 9 years ago.

Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
701	The Feast of the Goat	Mario Vargas Llosa	2000	Peruvian	Spanish
355	The Savage Detectives	Roberto Bolaño	1998	Chilean	Spanish
1989	Your Face Tomorrow	Javier Marias	2002	Spanish	Spanish
2361	Bartleby & Co	Enrique Vila-Matas	2000	Spanish	Spanish
2114	The Luminous Novel	Mario Levrero	2005	Uruguayan	Spanish
1394	Soldiers of Salamis	Javier Cercas	2001	Spanish	Spanish
3502	Borges	Adolfo Bioy Casares	2006	Argentine	Spanish
452	A Heart So White	Javier Marias	1992	Spanish	Spanish
8301	Lizard Tails	Juan Marsé	2004	Spanish	Spanish
6400	La Grande	Juan José Saer	2012	Argentinian	Spanish
4365	The Anatomy Of A Moment	Javier Cercas	2009	Spanish	Spanish
7715	The Desert And Its Seed	Jorge Barón Biza	1998	Argentine	Spanish
2902	Cremation	Rafael Chirbes	2007	Spanish	Spanish
6881	Tinísima	Elena Poniatowska	1992	Mexican	Spanish
5122	In The Night Of Time	Antonio Muñoz Molina	2012	Spanish	Spanish
4625	The Abyss	Fernando Vallejo	2001	Colombian	Spanish
7076	The Investigation	Juan José Saer	1994	Argentinian	Spanish
9069	Son Memorias	Tulio Halperin Donghi	2008	Argentinian	Spanish
10064	Campo De Retamas	Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio	2013	Spanish	Spanish
8001	Fragmentos De Un Libro Futuro	José Ángel Valente	2000	Spanish	Spanish
6461	Never Did The Fire	Diamela Eltit	2022	Chilean	Spanish
7010	Variable Cloud	Carmen Martín Gaite	1993	Spanish	Spanish
2083	Santa Evita	Tomás Eloy Martínez	1995	Argentinian	Spanish
2681	El Día Del Watusi	Francisco Casavella	2002	Spanish	Spanish