Novels in Spanish begin with Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote, often called the first modern novel. Here you can read them free in PDF, from Spain, Latin America and the great world classics.
Start with the writers who shaped the language, like Benito Pérez Galdós, Jorge Isaacs and Ricardo Güiraldes. Then read Kafka, Austen and Dostoevsky in Spanish translation.
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Novels by Spanish Writers
From Lazarillo de Tormes to Galdós and Clarín, these novels in Spanish come straight from Spain. Start with Don Quixote if you want the book every other novel answers to.
Both parts of the novel every other novel answers to: a country gentleman reads too many books of chivalry and rides out to fix the world. Long and funny, with Sancho Panza stealing half the scenes.
The first picaresque novel: a poor boy serves a blind beggar, a stingy priest and a starving squire, and learns to survive by his wits. Short enough to finish in an evening.
Ana Ozores, bored in a provincial cathedral town, is pulled between a scheming priest and a local seducer. Often called the greatest Spanish novel of the 19th century.
A poor, plain girl guides a blind young man through the mining country of northern Spain, until a surgeon offers him his sight. A short, moving way into Galdós.
A young priest arrives at a crumbling Galician manor ruled by a brutal marquis and his steward. The key novel of Spanish naturalism, violent and hard to put down.
Augusto Pérez falls in love, gets rejected and goes to argue with his own author, Unamuno himself. A playful, strange novel that feels decades ahead of its time.
A German doctor marries a fisherman’s daughter with a wild voice, and fame in Seville changes everything. Written by a woman under a man’s name, it opened the way for Spanish realism.
Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru wrote their own classic novels in Spanish long before the Boom. Jorge Isaacs' María made a whole continent cry, and Don Segundo Sombra turned the gaucho into literature.
A runaway boy follows an old gaucho across the Argentine pampas and learns to ride, work cattle and live by his own rules. The classic novel of gaucho life.
A young widow hides a wounded rebel in her Buenos Aires home during the Rosas dictatorship. Romance and political thriller in one, and Argentina’s first great novel.
In a small Andean town, a couple takes on the local priest and officials who exploit Indigenous families. A brave Peruvian novel that started a whole literary movement.
These are the world's great novels by Austen, Kafka, Dickens and Dostoevsky, translated into Spanish. They are a good choice if you already know the story and want to read it again in a new language.
Known in English as Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy start out disliking each other and slowly change their minds. A Proyecto Aldus edition, typeset by us with its own illustrated cover.
An orphan becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where her employer hides a secret on the top floor. A Proyecto Aldus edition, clean and easy to read on any screen.
The Great Gatsby in Spanish: a mysterious millionaire throws huge parties to win back the woman he lost. A Proyecto Aldus edition and one of the quickest reads here.
Known in English as White Nights: a lonely dreamer meets a young woman on four nights in St. Petersburg. Our own Proyecto Aldus edition, and a perfect first Dostoevsky.
Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant insect and his family has to decide what he is to them now. Our own Proyecto Aldus edition of Kafka’s best known story.
Known in English as Brave New World: a future where people are bred in labs and kept happy with a drug called soma. The dystopia that still feels uncomfortably close.
Known in English as Little Women: the four March sisters grow up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. Warm, funny and full of characters readers never forget.
Young d’Artagnan arrives in Paris and joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis against Cardinal Richelieu. Over a thousand pages of swordfights, intrigue and loyalty.
Known in English as A Tale of Two Cities: London and Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, and a sacrifice at the guillotine. Dickens at his most dramatic.
Tom Sawyer skips school, tricks his friends into painting a fence and witnesses a murder with Huck Finn. Mark Twain’s great boyhood adventure on the Mississippi.
Known in English as The Time Machine: an inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds humanity split into two species. The story that created time travel fiction.
Known in English as A Christmas Carol: the miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. Short, easy to follow and a good first novel in Spanish.
