# The best books by Isabel Allende

The Chilean author's novels and memoirs most valued by readers and critics (Babelio, Goodreads and the press), from The House of the Spirits to Violeta.

- 35 votes · 12 items
- Sep 13, 2024 · Trinidad Contreras
- https://even.best/en/l/534/the-best-books-by-isabel-allende

## Top 12

1. **The House of the Spirits** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1982. The Trueba family saga up to the 1973 coup; her most famous novel, with tens of millions of copies sold.
2. **Eva Luna** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1987. An orphan storyteller who survives by telling tales.
3. **Paula** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1994. Written at the bedside of her daughter in a coma; her most intimate memoir.
4. **Daughter of Fortune** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1999. Eliza Sommers travels from Valparaíso to the California gold rush.
5. **Of Love and Shadows** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1984. A journalist uncovers a mass grave in Pinochet's Chile.
6. **A Long Petal of the Sea** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2019. Spanish exiles aboard the Winnipeg who reach Chile in 1939.
7. **Inés of My Soul** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 2006. Inés Suárez and the founding of Santiago de Chile.
8. **Island Beneath the Sea** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2009. Zarité, a slave in French Saint-Domingue and New Orleans.
9. **Portrait in Sepia** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2000. Aurora del Valle, granddaughter of the heroine of Daughter of Fortune.
10. **Violeta** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2022. A century of Latin American history through a woman born in 1920.
11. **The Japanese Lover** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2015. Alma Belasco and a lifelong secret love.
12. **City of the Beasts** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2002. Her first novel for young readers, set in the Amazon.

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