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Isabel Allende

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in Lima, Peru

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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda

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Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving myth and realism together. She has lectured and done extensive book tours and has taught literature at several US colleges. She currently resides in California with her husband. Allende adopted U.S. citizenship in 2003.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,460,246 ratings · 114,183 reviews · 216 distinct works • Similar authors

	The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author), Magda Bogin (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 308,563 ratings — published 1982 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughter of Fortune 3.94 avg rating — 138,704 ratings — published 1998 — 209 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author), Nick Caistor (Translator), Amanda Hopkinson (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 111,168 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violeta 4.03 avg rating — 103,087 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Japanese Lover 3.88 avg rating — 94,610 ratings — published 2015 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eva Luna really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 58,065 ratings — published 1987 — 221 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paula 4.22 avg rating — 55,050 ratings — published 1994 — 190 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author), Francis Riddle (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 57,840 ratings — published 2023 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island Beneath the Sea 4.11 avg rating — 45,746 ratings — published 2009 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Midst of Winter 3.72 avg rating — 48,661 ratings — published 2017 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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On Feb 12th we will have a group discussion for Ripper. You can see more details here.

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Series by Isabel Allende

Trilogía Involuntaria (3 books)
by

Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author),

Magda Bogin (Translator)

4.17 avg rating — 490,383 ratings

Las memorias del Águila y del Jaguar (3 books)
by

Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author),

Margaret Sayers Peden

3.80 avg rating — 82,368 ratings

Perla (2 books)
by

Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author),

Sandy Rodriguez (Goodreads Author) (illustrator)

3.90 avg rating — 298 ratings

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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

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Temporada de huracanes

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Quotes by Isabel Allende (?)

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

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“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

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“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

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May 2022 Revisit the Shelf Poll

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874) 443 pages, last read Nov. 2016

64 votes, 26.2%

The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942) 123 pages. last read Feb 2016.

57 votes, 23.4%

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982), 448 pages, last read Sept. 2016

32 votes, 13.1%

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952), 581 pages, last read Oct 2016

30 votes, 12.3%

King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605) 335 pages (must have a lot of notes!) Last read Oct, 2012

24 votes, 9.8%

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877), 247 pages, last read May 2016

23 votes, 9.4%

Howards End by E.M. Forster (1910) 368 pages, last read in Feb. 2019.

14 votes, 5.7%

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