The best books by Isabel Allende
The top 3 according to 35 votes from people: The House of the Spirits · Eva Luna · Paula. (Updated Sep 13, 2024.)
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.
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Top 12
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The House of the Spirits
1982. The Trueba family saga up to the 1973 coup; her most famous novel, with tens of millions of copies sold.
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Eva Luna
1987. An orphan storyteller who survives by telling tales.
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Paula
1994. Written at the bedside of her daughter in a coma; her most intimate memoir.
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Daughter of Fortune
1999. Eliza Sommers travels from Valparaíso to the California gold rush.
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Of Love and Shadows
1984. A journalist uncovers a mass grave in Pinochet's Chile.
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A Long Petal of the Sea
2019. Spanish exiles aboard the Winnipeg who reach Chile in 1939.
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Inés of My Soul
2006. Inés Suárez and the founding of Santiago de Chile.
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Island Beneath the Sea
2009. Zarité, a slave in French Saint-Domingue and New Orleans.
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Portrait in Sepia
2000. Aurora del Valle, granddaughter of the heroine of Daughter of Fortune.
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Violeta
2022. A century of Latin American history through a woman born in 1920.
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The Japanese Lover
2015. Alma Belasco and a lifelong secret love.
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City of the Beasts
2002. Her first novel for young readers, set in the Amazon.
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Comments (8)
Eva Luna y sus cuentos, de mis favoritos.
Largo pétalo de mar sobre el Winnipeg y Neruda, precioso.
La casa de los espíritus primero, imprescindible. Clara la clarividente.
Paula me hizo llorar como pocos libros, el que escribió para su hija.
Inés del alma mía me encantó, la fundación de Santiago contada por una mujer.
Violeta es de las mejores de sus últimos años.
Isabel Allende es muy comercial
La ciudad de las bestias la leí de niña y me enganchó a la lectura.