Clarice Lispector Books in Order

Selected from Complete Stories, Covert Joy highlights Lispector's most beloved tales, many centered on childhood, books, and secret pleasures. From a girl who longs for a coveted volume to uncanny domestic scenes, it pairs quiet happiness with sharp emotional shocks.

This volume gathers Clarice Lispector's newspaper crônicas, brief pieces that move from everyday scenes to sudden philosophical questions. Written late in her career, they show her thinking out loud about love, work, writing, and ordinary Brazilian life.

This slim volume gathers three of Lispector's most celebrated stories, including the title piece and Love. Each follows a seemingly ordinary woman whose day is upended by drink, desire, or a chance encounter that cracks open her carefully arranged life.

Complete Stories assembles all of Lispector's short fiction, from pieces she wrote as a teenager to late, enigmatic works. Teen girls, bored housewives, and lonely elders stumble into uncanny moments that make the ordinary world feel newly unstable.

Narrated by Lispector's dog Ulisses, this whimsical story follows a greedy fig tree, a scheming witch, and a coop full of hens who must outwit them. The dog's voice blurs truth and invention, inviting young readers to enjoy fantasy while sensing deeper questions underneath.

Drawn from two late Brazilian collections, Soulstorm's twenty nine stories plunge into the unsettled inner lives of Lispector's characters. Brief yet intense, they capture people on the edge of strange decisions and sudden insights rather than tidy, resolved plots.

Composed from fragments Lispector left at her death, this novel stages a dialogue between an unnamed Author and his invented character Angela Pralini. Their overlapping voices explore identity, creation, faith, and mortality more than any fixed external plot.

Lispector's final novel follows Macabéa, a poor young typist from Brazil's northeast trying to survive in Rio de Janeiro, as told by a self conscious male narrator. Brief and unsettling, it probes poverty, invisibility, and the ethics of telling another's story.

In this picture book, a talkative rabbit named Joãozinho keeps escaping from his locked hutch, daring readers to guess how he does it. His twitching nose points toward ideas and adventure, turning a simple escape story into a playful puzzle about animal intelligence.

This short, genre breaking book unfolds as a monologue from an unnamed artist addressing a mysterious you. Abandoning conventional plot, it meditates on time, perception, and the struggle to catch the present instant in language and art.

In this inward love story, primary school teacher Lóri and philosophy professor Ulisses slowly learn how to meet each other without losing themselves. The novel traces Lóri's spiritual and erotic awakening as she tests what pleasure, faith, and freedom might mean.

In this confessional tale for young readers, a narrator who once forgot to feed her son's fish begs children for forgiveness. Along the way she spins funny, digressive stories about many animals, gently inviting readers to think about guilt, empathy, and responsibility.

After a well off sculptor known only as G.H. enters her former maid's room and crushes a cockroach, she is thrown into an intense mystical crisis. The novel is her raw inner account of identity breaking down and touching something vast and impersonal.

This collection joins short stories with Lispector's experimental newspaper crônicas. Moving between strange fables, sharp domestic scenes, and playful essays, it circles feelings of estrangement, belonging, and what it means to be a foreigner even in familiar places.

Martim, believing he has killed his wife, flees into the countryside and hides on a remote ranch run by two women. As he works and talks with them, the book turns his supposed crime into a long meditation on guilt, language, and starting over.

Family Ties gathers thirteen stories in which routine family rituals tilt into revelation. Housewives, children, and relatives brush against moments of shock or wonder that unsettle their roles and expose buried longings inside everyday Brazilian life.

Set in the growing suburb of São Geraldo in the 1920s, this novel follows young Lucrécia Neves, more observer than thinker, as she watches her town swell into a city. Through her wandering gaze, ordinary streets and houses take on a strange, dreamlike charge.

Beginning on a rural estate called Quieta Farm and ending in the city, The Chandelier follows Virgínia from childhood into a tense, solitary adulthood. Lispector tracks her shifting memories, family bonds, and fragile sense of self in dense, atmospheric scenes.

This groundbreaking debut traces flashes from the life of Joana, a fiercely independent girl who grows into a woman unwilling to fit neat domestic expectations. Written in a modernist stream of consciousness, it explores desire, freedom, and moral ambiguity.