# The best Benito Pérez Galdós novels

Galdós's novels most recommended by critics and reading guides, with Fortunata and Jacinta at the summit.

- 75 votes · 16 items
- Apr 5, 2024 · medalloversionoriginal
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## Top 16

1. **Compassion** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — 1897. The maid Benina and the dignity of the poor.
2. **Fortunata and Jacinta** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1887. Two women and 19th-century Madrid; his masterpiece.
3. **Doña Perfecta** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1876. Intolerance in a provincial town; it caused a stir.
4. **The Disinherited Lady** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1881. It opens his contemporary novels period.
5. **Tristana** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1892. A young woman who wants to be free.
6. **Marianela** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1878. A girl and a blind man who regains his sight.
7. **Trafalgar** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1873. The first of the National Episodes.
8. **Torment** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1884. A young woman caught between a priest and a returning emigrant.
9. **That Bringas Woman** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1884. A middle-class family keeping up appearances.
10. **Our Friend Manso** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1882. A narrator who claims not to exist.
11. **Miau** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1888. A dismissed civil servant in bureaucratic Madrid.
12. **Nazarín** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1895. A priest who tries to live like Christ.
13. **Saragossa** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1874. The siege of the city in the National Episodes.
14. **Torquemada in the Fire** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1889. A moneylender facing his son's illness.
15. **El abuelo** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1897. A novel in dialogue about honour and inheritance.
16. **Lo prohibido** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1884-1885. A man in love with his cousins.

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