The best novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: The Club Dumas · The Fencing Master · Captain Alatriste. (Updated Jun 15, 2026.)
The novels by the Spanish Academy member and former war reporter most recommended by El Debate, Lecturalia and El Quinto Libro.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 12
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1
The Club Dumas
1993. Book hunter Lucas Corso, a Three Musketeers manuscript and a cursed book; it inspired Polanski's The Ninth Gate.
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The Fencing Master
1988. Jaime Astarloa in Madrid in 1868; on El Mundo's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.
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Captain Alatriste
1996. A veteran of the Spanish tercios turned sword-for-hire in 17th-century Madrid.
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The Flanders Panel
1990. A restorer finds a hidden message in a Flemish painting; a deadly game of chess.
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Line of Fire
2020. The Battle of the Ebro seen from both sides; Critics' Prize.
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The Queen of the South
2002. Teresa Mendoza, from Sinaloa to drug kingpin on the Andalusian coast.
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The Painter of Battles
2006. A former war photographer paints a mural in a seaside tower.
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Territorio comanche
1994. His experience as a reporter in the Balkan wars.
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Cape Trafalgar
2004. The 1805 battle from the deck of a Spanish ship.
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The Siege
2010. Cádiz in 1811, under French siege, and a serial killer.
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The Nautical Chart
2000. A sailor without a ship hunts for a sunken Jesuit brigantine.
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Sidi
2019. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar as a frontier warlord.
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Comments (1)
El club Dumas primero, de acuerdo. La novena puerta de Polanski no le hace justicia.