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Hola a todos, I've been studying Spanish at a university level for six years now, and I'm looking for good books to read in Spanish to keep advancing outside of class. I've read quite a few full length Spanish novels already, so I'm not looking for easy. I'd like something that's interesting and will keep me reading, but that's also a bit of a challenge and will introduce me to other writing styles. What are your favorite Spanish books?
Some that I would recommend:
-El Camino, Miguel Delibes
-La plaza del diamante, Merce Rodoreda
-Marianela, Benito Perez Galdos
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I read an English translation of this book. Some day, maybe, I'll be good enough to read it in Spanish. If you have not already read it, consider:
Cien Años De Solidad - por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You might enjoy Aura by Carlos Fuentes. Not necessarily a "mystery" novel, it does, however, employ a very interesting narrative style.
Del amor y otros demonios by Gabriel Garcia Márquez is a fairly good read.
If you like political/historical, you might like Manos en la nuca by Chilean singer, songwriter and author, Ángel Parra.
Another classic that is also steeped in history is the World War I era novel, Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis by Vicente Blasco Ibañez. This one should be available online for free (as I believe that any copyright should be well expired by now).
I also enjoyed El alquimista by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, but I would be hesitant to characterize this as an "advanced" read.
Right now I'm reading De amor y de sombra by Isabel Allende and a non-fiction work by journalist Jorge Ramos called Lo que vi: Experiencias de un Periodista Alrededor del Mundo (The latter being basically a series of essays). I have not gotten far enough in either to give you a qualified opinion on them, but I will let you know later if I think they are worth the time.
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Cien Años de Soledad is excellent in Spanish and is a very unusual story, but very well-known. I used it as a book for learning new words with a tutor.
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I'll read just about anything- I've been a huge bookworm since I was 4. As long as it has good characters and plot, I'll enjoy it. However, I especially like books with some sort of mystery in them, even if they aren't specifically mystery novels. I also like fiction that relates to historical events or political/historical movements.
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Re Zafon, Today I bought a copy of his latest in what is now a trilogy. It's called El Prisionero Del Cielo.
I'm looking forward to starting it tonight 
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Try last year's Nobel prize winner: ' Mario Vargas Llosa' he is a fantastic and prolific writer.I read four of his books in English translations.I hope sometime in the future to be able to read one of his books in the original.
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I have enjoyed several of the books by Francisco Jiménez:
Senderos fronterizos
Cajas de cartón
Más allá de mí
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When I studied abroad in a Spanish university two of my American who were there with me took a Spanish literature class. One of the books they had to read was Amor se escribe sin hache. They really enjoyed the book and from what I saw of it it had a very different writing style from most of the book that I have ever read :p
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Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's a little shorter, and it's one of those stories that give you a little piece of the plot here, another there... If you like mystery-ish things you'll probably enjoy it as much as I did.
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