# The best Almudena Grandes books

From The Ages of Lulu to the Episodes of an Endless War: the Almudena Grandes novels readers and publishers recommend most.

- 95 votes · 13 items
- Nov 10, 2023 · spoiler_merida
- https://even.best/en/l/3543/the-best-almudena-grandes-books

## Top 13

1. **The Frozen Heart** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — 2007. Two families and the legacy of the Civil War; one of her finest novels.
2. **The Ages of Lulu** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — 1989. The novel that made her name; La Sonrisa Vertical prize.
3. **The Patients of Dr García** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — 2017. Espionage between the Second World War and the Franco regime.
4. **The Mother of Frankenstein** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 2020. A women's asylum in the 1950s.
5. **Inés and the Joy** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 2010. The 1944 invasion of the Aran Valley; it opens the Episodes.
6. **Malena es un nombre de tango** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — 1994. The novel that confirmed her as a writer.
7. **El lector de Julio Verne** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 2012. A boy in the mountains of Jaén and the guerrillas.
8. **Todo va a mejorar** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 2022. Her last novel, published after her death.
9. **Atlas de geografía humana** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1998. Four women approaching forty.
10. **Castillos de cartón** (2 · ▲6 ▼4) — 2004. Three young artists in the eighties.
11. **Los besos en el pan** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 2015. A Madrid neighbourhood in the middle of the crisis.
12. **The Three Weddings of Manolita** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 2014. Post-war Madrid through a young woman's eyes.
13. **The Wind from the East** (0 · ▲4 ▼4) — 2002. Second chances and the weight of the past on the Cádiz coast.

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