El Pais conducted a survey of 100 Spanish authors and their favorite books. This is a overview of all books
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Bible by Christian Church
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- One Thousand and One Nights by India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
- Antigone by Sophocles
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Journey to the End of The Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
- Light in August by William Faulkner
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
- The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Das Kapital by Karl Marx
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
- The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
- A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
- Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
- Complete Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
- Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
- Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
- Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
- The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- The Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
- Bouvard et Pécuchet by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by William Faulkner
- Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser
- Los Siete Locos by Roberto Arlt
- Poems by Machado
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Bohemian Lights by Ramón del Valle-Inclán
- Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
- Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Demian by Hermann Hesse
- Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós
- Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
- Juan De Mairena by Antonio Machado
- La Regenta by Clarín
- Last Evenings with Teresa by Juan Marse
- Mortal y rosa by Francisco Umbral
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
- Poems of Góngora by Luis de Góngora
- Poet in New York by Frederico García Lorca
- Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda
- Rimas by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
- Sanctuary by William Faulkner
- Sonnets by Julián Olivares
- Spain, Take This Chalice from Me by Cesar Vallejo
- The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo by César Vallejo
- The First Man by Albert Camus
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
- The Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma by Jaime Gil de Biedma
- The Poetry of Luis Cernuda by Luis Cernuda
- The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad
- The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti
- The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Trilce by César Vallejo
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