Isabel Allende Books in Order

The House of the Spirits traces three generations of the Trueba and del Valle families, blending ghosts, prophecy, and political upheaval as Chile moves from country estates to dictatorship and a young woman must choose between vengeance and hope.

Of Love and Shadows pairs privileged journalist Irene Beltrán with photographer Francisco Leal as a routine assignment leads them to a hidden mass grave, forcing them to risk their lives—and their forbidden love—exposing the terror of a military dictatorship.

Eva Luna follows an orphaned girl with a gift for storytelling as she survives servitude, revolution, and love in a turbulent Latin American country, turning her own life into the most daring tale she knows how to tell.

Paths of Resistance collects talks by writers including Isabel Allende, Charles McCarry, Gore Vidal, and others, reflecting on how political history, ideology, and personal conviction shape the modern novel and the risks of turning outrage into art.

The Stories of Eva Luna gathers tales the heroine tells her lover, from folktale‑like fables to sharp portraits of soldiers, servants, and schemers, each revealing another facet of power, desire, and survival in Latin America.

The Infinite Plan follows Gregory Reeves from a childhood in a travelling revival caravan to a rough Los Angeles barrio, the war in Vietnam, and a restless legal career, as he struggles to escape neglect and build a life that finally feels his own.

Edited by Thomas Colchie, this geographically organized anthology presents twenty-six short stories from across Latin America, translated from Spanish and Portuguese. Many selections appeared in English for the first time, and the volume includes author biographies.

Written beside her comatose daughter’s hospital bed, Paula weaves Isabel Allende’s memories of family, exile, and early success with the story of Paula’s illness, becoming an intimate meditation on grief, faith, and the stubborn will to go on.

Mothers and Sons: In Their Own Words pairs black‑and‑white portraits with brief, first‑person reflections from famous and ordinary families, framed by Isabel Allende’s introduction on the complicated, enduring bond between mothers and their sons.

Edited by Charlotte Cole, this anthology gathers summer reading by contemporary women writers. It brings together varied, self-contained pieces for holiday reading, offering multiple voices and moods instead of one continuous narrative.

Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses is Isabel Allende’s playful exploration of the links between appetite and desire, mixing personal anecdotes, folklore, and history with recipes meant less for perfect cooking than for shared pleasure at the table.

Conversations with Isabel Allende gathers interviews in which she talks about her childhood, exile, writing process, politics, and family, offering a candid, often funny self‑portrait that complements the stories told in her fiction and memoirs.

In Daughter of Fortune, orphan Eliza Sommers leaves the safety of her British‑Chilean household to chase a vanished lover into the lawless gold fields of California, discovering instead her own resourcefulness, thirst for freedom, and a very different kind of love.

Set between San Francisco and Chile at the turn of the twentieth century, Portrait in Sepia follows photographer Aurora del Valle as she uses images and memory to uncover her lost childhood and the tangled history of the family that raised her.

City of the Beasts sends fifteen‑year‑old Alexander Cold to the Amazon with his fearless grandmother, where he and local girl Nadia confront dangerous explorers, a legendary creature, and an invisible Indigenous tribe that forces them to rethink what “civilized” really means.

Marjorie Agosín’s bilingual new-and-selected poetry collection brings together work shaped by memory, exile, Jewish identity, women’s lives, and human rights. English translations accompany poems originally written in Spanish.

My Invented Country blends memoir and essay as Isabel Allende revisits the Chile of her childhood, the coup that sent her into exile, and the quirks of her adopted home, asking how memory, nostalgia, and storytelling shape the idea of a homeland.

Celia Correas de Zapata selects thirty short stories by Latin American women, translated into English and linked by approaches to magical realism. The anthology includes writers such as Isabel Allende, Rosario Ferré, Amparo Dávila, and Clarice Lispector.

Forest of the Pygmies takes Alex, Nadia, and Kate to East Africa on a safari that becomes a rescue mission, as they uncover a brutal regime enslaving villagers and help a hidden Pygmy community reclaim its freedom.

In Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, Alex and Nadia travel with Kate Cold to a remote Himalayan kingdom where a sacred statue coveted by outsiders draws them into palace intrigue, mountain dangers, and another test of their shared animal‑spirit powers.

Edited by Marcy Sheiner, this adult anthology selects standout stories from the first six years of the Best Women’s Erotica series. Its fiction explores women’s sexuality across a range of desires, relationships, and identities, including work by Isabel Allende.

Zorro reimagines the masked vigilante’s youth, tracing Diego de la Vega from his mixed‑heritage childhood in colonial California to his fencing lessons in Spain and his choice to become Zorro, defending the oppressed with wit, courage, and a flashing blade.

Inés of My Soul dramatizes the life of Inés Suárez, a poor Spanish seamstress who follows her missing husband to the New World and instead becomes a key partner to conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, helping to found Santiago amid brutal conflict and moral compromise.

The nineteenth annual volume gathers nearly four dozen fantasy and horror stories and poems, moving from fairy-tale retellings and magical realism to gothic and more disturbing work. It is supplemented by the editors’ survey of the field, features on graphic novels, anime, and manga, and honorable mentions.

The Sum of Our Days continues the story after Paula, as Isabel Allende recounts rebuilding a patched‑together family in California, navigating love, addiction, spirituality, and fame while trying to honor her daughter’s memory through everyday acts of care and generosity.

Island Beneath the Sea follows Zarité, known as Tété, from childhood slavery on a brutal sugar plantation in Saint‑Domingue through the fires of the Haitian Revolution and onward to New Orleans, tracing one woman’s fight to claim freedom, love, and a future.

Zorro, Volume 1 collects the opening arc of a graphic‑novel retelling of Diego de la Vega’s youth, following his training, first adventures, and decision to don the mask of Zorro to fight corruption in colonial California.

An anthology of nineteenth-century travel journals by women who crossed Latin America from Europe and the United States. The selections follow travelers ranging from religious sisters to wives accompanying business journeys, pairing firsthand encounters with brief context on each writer.

Maya’s Notebook is the journal of a runaway teenager who crashes into addiction and crime in Las Vegas, then is hidden by her Chilean grandmother on a remote island, where she slowly rebuilds her life and uncovers buried political secrets.

Edited by Don George, this travel anthology gathers 32 nonfiction pieces by novelists writing about journeys near and far. Contributors turn encounters with places such as Mexico, Antarctica, Malawi, Sudan, and the American West into intimate accounts of discovery and displacement.

Edited by Richard Glyn Jones and A. Susan Williams, this international anthology brings together women’s short fiction about desire and intimacy across roughly a century. Stories from writers in many countries consider passion, loneliness, power, secrecy, and changing sexual norms.

Ripper centers on Amanda, a brilliant San Francisco teen who plays an online mystery game with her grandfather—until a string of real‑world murders, and then her mother’s disappearance, forces her to use every clue‑hunting skill she has to stop a killer.

The Japanese Lover braids the secret, decades‑long love between Alma Belasco and Japanese American gardener Ichimei Fukuda with the present‑day story of Irina, a young care worker, as they piece together a hidden past marked by war, exile, and forbidden devotion.

In the Midst of Winter begins with a fender‑bender in a Brooklyn snowstorm and quickly turns into a journey shared by a grieving professor, a Chilean scholar, and a young Guatemalan refugee, each forced to confront buried trauma and unexpected second chances.

A richly illustrated reference book profiling more than 80 novelists, poets, and playwrights from the medieval period to the present. Through portraits, manuscripts, artifacts, and concise commentary, it relates each writer’s life to major works, techniques, themes, and cultural setting.

A Long Petal of the Sea follows doctor Victor Dalmau and musician Roser Bruguera from the Spanish Civil War onto a refugee ship bound for Chile, then through decades of exile and dictatorship as they build an improvised marriage and a chosen country.

The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s brief, fiery reflection on a lifetime of feminism, tracing how her mother’s struggles, her own relationships, and global movements shaped her beliefs about power, aging, desire, and what liberation might look like for women today.

Told as a long letter to her grandson, Violeta recounts a Chilean woman’s hundred‑year life, from birth during a pandemic in 1920 through war, dictatorships, great loves, betrayals, and reinvention, turning one woman’s story into a panorama of a turbulent century.

The Wind Knows My Name links a boy sent away from Nazi‑occupied Vienna on a Kindertransport with a Salvadoran girl separated from her mother at the U.S. border, as a lawyer and social worker fight to reunite families across decades of war and migration.

Lovers at the Museum is a playful short tale in which a runaway bride wakes after a night of impossible passion inside the Guggenheim Bilbao beside a stranger, forcing a skeptical detective to decide whether their enchanted explanation could somehow be true.

Perla the Mighty Dog introduces a small rescue dog with a huge roar who helps her boy, Nico, face a school bully, showing young readers that bravery, kindness, and speaking up can matter more than size or strength.

My Name Is Emilia del Valle follows a bold young journalist who leaves San Francisco for Chile to cover the 1891 civil war and secretly track down the aristocratic father who abandoned her, confronting danger, censorship, and the cost of telling the truth.

In Perla and the Pirate, Perla uses her two superpowers—making everyone love her and roaring like a lion—to track down Nico after he gets lost on the way home, turning a scary afternoon into a gentle lesson about courage, friendship, and feeling safe.

In this forthcoming reflection on a writing life, Isabel Allende discusses her creative process, reading, memory, research, translation, and the discipline of storytelling. The book combines experiences from her long career with practical observations for writers.