The best Almudena Grandes books
The top 3 according to 95 votes from people: The Frozen Heart · The Ages of Lulu · The Patients of Dr García. (Updated Nov 10, 2023.)
From The Ages of Lulu to the Episodes of an Endless War: the Almudena Grandes novels readers and publishers recommend most.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 13
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The Frozen Heart
2007. Two families and the legacy of the Civil War; one of her finest novels.
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The Ages of Lulu
1989. The novel that made her name; La Sonrisa Vertical prize.
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The Patients of Dr García
2017. Espionage between the Second World War and the Franco regime.
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The Mother of Frankenstein
2020. A women's asylum in the 1950s.
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Inés and the Joy
2010. The 1944 invasion of the Aran Valley; it opens the Episodes.
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Malena es un nombre de tango
1994. The novel that confirmed her as a writer.
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El lector de Julio Verne
2012. A boy in the mountains of Jaén and the guerrillas.
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Todo va a mejorar
2022. Her last novel, published after her death.
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Atlas de geografía humana
1998. Four women approaching forty.
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Castillos de cartón
2004. Three young artists in the eighties.
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Los besos en el pan
2015. A Madrid neighbourhood in the middle of the crisis.
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The Three Weddings of Manolita
2014. Post-war Madrid through a young woman's eyes.
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The Wind from the East
2002. Second chances and the weight of the past on the Cádiz coast.
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Comments (1)
El corazón helado es de los libros que más me han marcado, lo leí en un verano y no podía soltarlo