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I must also second House of the Spirits, because it happens to be my favorite book as well! I love Isabel Allende so much! Although, I would say House of the Spirits is my favorite, I have also enjoyed Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna. Both of these books have similar themes. One I have not read that I would really like to, and I think would be very relevant to this couse is called Aphrodite: a memoire of the senses. This book has been described as part cookbook, part anthology and part personal experience from Allende. It has memories, literary excerpts, folklore, and recipes - most of them developed by Allende's mother that involve some sort of aphrodesiac power. After reading The Book of Salt, I thought that it would be interesting to draw in the idea of taste and other less used senses again. A "memoire" of the senses would be a good way to do that.