# The best Clarice Lispector books

Where to start and what to read next: the Clarice novels and stories most recommended by readers and specialists.

- 22 votes · 14 items
- Oct 22, 2025 · leitora.curioso
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## Top 14

1. **The Hour of the Star** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1977. Macabéa, the northeastern girl in Rio; the most recommended way in.
2. **An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1969. Lóri and Ulisses; the most linear of her novels.
3. **Água Viva** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1973. Poetic prose in free flow.
4. **A Breath of Life** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1978. Posthumous, a dialogue between an author and his character.
5. **The Via Crucis of the Body** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1974. Stories written on commission over a weekend.
6. **The Passion According to G.H.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1964. A woman, a room and a cockroach: her most radical work.
7. **Covert Joy** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1971. Stories with childhood memories of Recife.
8. **The Apple in the Dark** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1961. A man on the run in the Brazilian interior.
9. **The Foreign Legion** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1964. Stories and chronicles.
10. **The Chandelier** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1946. Her second novel.
11. **The Woman Who Killed the Fish** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1968. A children's book in which she confesses to forgetting the fish.
12. **Family Ties** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1960. Stories such as "Love" and "Happy Birthday".
13. **Near to the Wild Heart** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1943. Her debut novel, written at 23.
14. **The Besieged City** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1949. A young woman and the growing city.

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