# The best novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The novels by the Spanish Academy member and former war reporter most recommended by El Debate, Lecturalia and El Quinto Libro.

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- Jun 15, 2026 · Antonio S.
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## Top 12

1. **The Club Dumas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1993. Book hunter Lucas Corso, a Three Musketeers manuscript and a cursed book; it inspired Polanski's The Ninth Gate.
2. **The Fencing Master** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1988. Jaime Astarloa in Madrid in 1868; on El Mundo's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.
3. **Captain Alatriste** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1996. A veteran of the Spanish tercios turned sword-for-hire in 17th-century Madrid.
4. **The Flanders Panel** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1990. A restorer finds a hidden message in a Flemish painting; a deadly game of chess.
5. **Line of Fire** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2020. The Battle of the Ebro seen from both sides; Critics' Prize.
6. **The Queen of the South** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002. Teresa Mendoza, from Sinaloa to drug kingpin on the Andalusian coast.
7. **The Painter of Battles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2006. A former war photographer paints a mural in a seaside tower.
8. **Territorio comanche** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1994. His experience as a reporter in the Balkan wars.
9. **Cape Trafalgar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2004. The 1805 battle from the deck of a Spanish ship.
10. **The Siege** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2010. Cádiz in 1811, under French siege, and a serial killer.
11. **The Nautical Chart** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2000. A sailor without a ship hunts for a sunken Jesuit brigantine.
12. **Sidi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar as a frontier warlord.

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