The best Benito Pérez Galdós novels
The top 3 according to 75 votes from people: Compassion · Fortunata and Jacinta · Doña Perfecta. (Updated Apr 5, 2024.)
Galdós's novels most recommended by critics and reading guides, with Fortunata and Jacinta at the summit.
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Top 16
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Compassion
1897. The maid Benina and the dignity of the poor.
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Fortunata and Jacinta
1887. Two women and 19th-century Madrid; his masterpiece.
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Doña Perfecta
1876. Intolerance in a provincial town; it caused a stir.
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4
The Disinherited Lady
1881. It opens his contemporary novels period.
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Tristana
1892. A young woman who wants to be free.
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Marianela
1878. A girl and a blind man who regains his sight.
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Trafalgar
1873. The first of the National Episodes.
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Torment
1884. A young woman caught between a priest and a returning emigrant.
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That Bringas Woman
1884. A middle-class family keeping up appearances.
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Our Friend Manso
1882. A narrator who claims not to exist.
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Miau
1888. A dismissed civil servant in bureaucratic Madrid.
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Nazarín
1895. A priest who tries to live like Christ.
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Saragossa
1874. The siege of the city in the National Episodes.
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Torquemada in the Fire
1889. A moneylender facing his son's illness.
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15
El abuelo
1897. A novel in dialogue about honour and inheritance.
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Lo prohibido
1884-1885. A man in love with his cousins.
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