The best Clarice Lispector books
The top 3 according to 22 votes from people: The Hour of the Star · An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures · Água Viva. (Updated Oct 22, 2025.)
Where to start and what to read next: the Clarice novels and stories most recommended by readers and specialists.
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Top 14
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The Hour of the Star
1977. Macabéa, the northeastern girl in Rio; the most recommended way in.
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
1969. Lóri and Ulisses; the most linear of her novels.
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Água Viva
1973. Poetic prose in free flow.
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A Breath of Life
1978. Posthumous, a dialogue between an author and his character.
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The Via Crucis of the Body
1974. Stories written on commission over a weekend.
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The Passion According to G.H.
1964. A woman, a room and a cockroach: her most radical work.
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Covert Joy
1971. Stories with childhood memories of Recife.
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The Apple in the Dark
1961. A man on the run in the Brazilian interior.
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The Foreign Legion
1964. Stories and chronicles.
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The Chandelier
1946. Her second novel.
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The Woman Who Killed the Fish
1968. A children's book in which she confesses to forgetting the fish.
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Family Ties
1960. Stories such as "Love" and "Happy Birthday".
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Near to the Wild Heart
1943. Her debut novel, written at 23.
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The Besieged City
1949. A young woman and the growing city.
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