Books set outside Spain

345 books and other written works set outside Spain, ordered by Spanish Wikipedia lookups, not readers or sales. There is no map: this is every country but one.

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Crónica de una muerte anunciadaby Gabriel García Márquez · 1981 · Colombia
#1600avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
La casa de los espíritusby Isabel Allende · 1982 · Chile
#2589avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
Como agua para chocolateby Laura Esquivel · 1989 · México
#3575avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
Rayuelaby Julio Cortázar · 1963 · Argentina
#4546avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
La vida es sueñoby Pedro Calderón de la Barca · Polonia
#5383avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
La ciudad y los perrosby Mario Vargas Llosa · 1963 · Perú
#6376avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
El Alephby Jorge Luis Borges · 1949 · Argentina
#7216avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
La treguaby Mario Benedetti · 1961 · Uruguay
#8198avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
Del amor y otros demoniosby Gabriel García Márquez · 1994 · Colombia
#9171avg. daily Wikipedia article visits
La Reina Del Surby Arturo Pérez-Reverte · 2011 · México
#10158avg. daily Wikipedia article visits

How this list is made

Placed by where the story is set, not where the book was written.

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