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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Spain

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  • The Familiar
    The Familiar: A Novel
    Leigh Bardugo
    Hardcover: 04/09/2024
     
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish ...
  • The Birdcatcher
    Gayl Jones
    Paperback: 09/12/2023
     
    Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile.
  • The Wonders
    Elena Medel
    Paperback: 02/08/2023
     
    From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.
  • Barcelona Dreaming
    Rupert Thomson
    Paperback: 06/01/2021
     
    Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, this evocative novel is made up of three stories linked by time...
  • The Fountains of Silence
    Ruta Sepetys
    Paperback: 09/29/2020
     
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades ...
  • Gateway to the Moon
    Mary Morris
    Paperback: 03/12/2019
     
    From award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to ...
  • The Dark Flood Rises
    Margaret Drabble
    Paperback: 02/13/2018
     
    A magnificently mordant reckoning with mortality by the great British novelist.

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