Books about the Spanish Civil War

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Fiction and Non-Fiction
Based on tag
Spanish Civil War
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Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
7,109 members
130 reviews
4.1
3 Members
inge87, aulsmith, Kristelh
2
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30,873 members
1,107 reviews
4.1
Member
Kristelh
3
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
25,682 members
282 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Kristelh
4
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
21,615 members
223 reviews
3.9
Member
Kristelh
5
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
by Antony Beevor
2,335 members
37 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
6
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
by José Saramago
2,063 members
45 reviews
4
Member
Kristelh
7
The Hive
by Camilo José Cela
1,928 members
51 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Kristelh
8
The Foreign Correspondent
by Alan Furst
1,405 members
35 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
9
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
by Laurie Lee
1,377 members
36 reviews
4
Member
inge87
10
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
by Giles Tremlett
734 members
31 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
11
While England Sleeps
by David Leavitt
676 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
12
Homage to Catalonia/Looking Back on the Spanish War
by George Orwell
605 members
9 reviews
4
Member
Kristelh
13
American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays
by Noam Chomsky
478 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith: Not that much of the book is on the Spanish Civil War, but I found it a useful introduction to the Anarchist movement there.
14
The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
by Helen Graham
462 members
1 review
3.8
Member
aulsmith
15
The Face of War
by Martha Gellhorn
447 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
Kristelh
16
The Cypresses Believe in God
by José María Gironella
321 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
inge87
17
The Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
by Franz Borkenau
168 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
inge87
18
Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution
by Emma Goldman
102 members
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
19
To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936
by Murray Bookchin
94 members
2 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
20
Uncommon Faith: The Early Years of Opus Dei, 1928-1943
by John F. Coverdale
51 members
½ 3.5
Member
inge87
21
The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse
by Valentine Cunningham
44 members
1 review
3
Member
inge87
22
Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell
by Joseph Pearce
35 members
½ 3.5
Member
inge87
23
Flowering Rifle: A Poem from the Battlefield of Spain
by Roy Campbell
3 members
Member
inge87
24
The Time in Between
by María Dueñas
2,184 members
118 reviews
3.8
25
Soldiers of Salamis
by Javier Cercas
1,608 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
26
The Spanish Civil War
by Hugh Thomas
1,305 members
18 reviews
4.1
27
In Diamond Square
by Mercè Rodoreda
1,288 members
46 reviews
4
28
Pan's Labyrinth [2006 film]
by Guillermo Del Toro
838 members
13 reviews
½ 4.3
29
The Carpenter's Pencil
by Manuel Rivas
595 members
25 reviews
½ 3.5
30
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
by Paul Preston
458 members
11 reviews
3.8
31
A Moment of War
by Laurie Lee
414 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
32
Fifth Column: And Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
by Ernest Hemingway
370 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
33
Death of a Nationalist
by Rebecca Pawel
285 members
8 reviews
3.8
34
The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939
by Gabriel Jackson
242 members
2 reviews
4.1
35
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
by Amanda Vaill
217 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
36
Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
by Richard Rhodes
200 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
37
Orwell in Spain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
193 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
38
We Saw Spain Die
by Paul Preston
134 members
2 reviews
3.8
39
Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II
by Stanley G. Payne
134 members
½ 3.5
40
The Last Crusade
by Warren H. Carroll
131 members
1 review
5
41
The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
by Stanley G. Payne
78 members
4
42
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
by Stanley G. Payne
76 members
½ 4.3
43
Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
by Robert Capa
74 members
½ 4.7
44
Death's Other Kingdom
by Gamel Woolsey
66 members
2 reviews
3.8
45
The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War
by Stanley G. Payne
65 members
1 review
4.2
46
Farewell Spain
by Kate O'Brien
63 members
3.8
47
Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936
by Jeremy Treglown
58 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
48
The Spanish Civil War
by Stanley G. Payne
58 members
1 review
3.8
49
The Spanish Republic and Civil War
by Julián Casanova
27 members
5
52
Democracy and Civil War in Spain 1931-1939 (Lancaster Pamphlets)
by Martin Blinkhorn
18 members
1 review
½ 4.5
53
Catholic martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
by Justo Perez De Urbel
17 members
4
54
The Spanish Civil War (Studies in European History)
by Andy Durgan
12 members
3
56
Carlism and Crisis
by Martin Blinkhorn
7 members
58
Winter in Madrid
by C. J. Sansom
2,216 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
59
A Long Petal of the Sea
by Isabel Allende
2,310 members
87 reviews
3.9
61
Guernica
by Dave Boling
712 members
65 reviews
3.8
62
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
by Adam Hochschild
570 members
19 reviews
4.1
63
The Return
by Victoria Hislop
791 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
64
The Fountains of Silence
by Ruta Sepetys
1,877 members
72 reviews
4.2
65
Man's Hope
by André Malraux
698 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
66
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
by Paul Preston
331 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
67
Midnight in Europe
by Alan Furst
776 members
51 reviews
½ 3.5
68
A Dangerous Place
by Jacqueline Winspear
1,195 members
73 reviews
½ 3.7
69
Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
by Ronald Fraser
241 members
3 reviews
4
70
Winter of the World
by Ken Follett
5,865 members
175 reviews
4
71
Night Soldiers
by Alan Furst
1,698 members
54 reviews
3.9
72
The Spanish Civil War: 1936-39
by Paul Preston
297 members
5 reviews
3.8
73
The Forging of a Rebel
by Arturo Barea
268 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
74
The Prisoner of Heaven
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4,442 members
176 reviews
3.8
75
Requiem for a Spanish Peasant
by Ramón J. Sender
941 members
21 reviews
3.9
76
The voices of Pamano river
by Jaume Cabré
538 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
77
An Englishman in Madrid
by Eduardo Mendoza
565 members
32 reviews
½ 3.4
78
Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
241 members
7 reviews
4.2
79
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936
by Murray Bookchin
251 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
80
The Muse
by Jessie Burton
1,498 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
81
In the Night of Time
by Antonio Muñoz Molina
368 members
19 reviews
4
82
Blind Sunflowers
by Alberto Méndez
500 members
19 reviews
3.9
83
Franco: A Biography
by Paul Preston
348 members
8 reviews
3.9
84
Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
by Martha Ackelsberg
191 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
86
¡Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War
by Paul Preston
149 members
4 reviews
3.9
87
The Ebro 1938: Death Knell of the Republic
by Chris Henry
63 members
½ 2.7
88
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2,152 members
64 reviews
½ 4.3
89
Love and Ruin
by Paula McLain
760 members
47 reviews
3.8
90
The Frozen Heart
by Almudena Grandes
563 members
24 reviews
4.2
91
Lord of All the Dead
by Javier Cercas
243 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
92
The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain
by Pierre Broué
118 members
1 review
4
93
Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War
by Gerald Howson
68 members
½ 3.5
94
A sangre y fuego. Héroes, bestias y mártires de España
by Manuel Chaves Nogales
242 members
12 reviews
½ 4.3
95
Cry, Mother Spain
by Lydie Salvayre
188 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
96
International Brigades in Spain 1936-39
by Ken Bradley
54 members
3
97
Uncertain Glory
by Joan Sales
277 members
5 reviews
4
98
Picasso's War
by Russell Martin
269 members
2 reviews
3.9
99
Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
2,670 members
109 reviews
4.1
100
La voz dormida
by Dulce Chacón
365 members
13 reviews
3.9