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Books like Paula

If you loved Paula by Isabel Allende, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Death & Dying, Diseases, Mexico, and South America.

Death & Dying Diseases Mexico South America Spanish Latin America Medical (incl. Patients) NURSING Literary Figures Women Authors Death, Grief, Bereavement Love & Romance Drama Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Foreign Language Study Essays World Medical Family & Relationships Women Social Science Biography & Autobiography History

Top related books to Paula

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Paula A Memoir

Isabel Allende

Themes: Diseases • Mexico • South America

Truth & Beauty A Friendship

Ann Patchett

Themes: Diseases • Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

Rodrigo García

Themes: Mexico • Latin America • Literary Figures

Vindication A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

Lyndall Gordon

Themes: Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING • Literary Figures

Waiting for the Monsoon

Rod Nordland

Themes: Death & Dying • Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING

Manic A Memoir

Terri Cheney

Themes: Diseases • Medical (incl. Patients) • Women Authors

A Living Remedy A Memoir

Nicole Chung

Themes: Medical (incl. Patients) • Women Authors • Death, Grief, Bereavement

The In-Between Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments – the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Hadley Vlahos

Themes: Death & Dying • Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING

Finding Chika A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Mitch Albom

Themes: Death & Dying • Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING

#10

White Hot Light Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

Frank Huyler

Themes: Diseases • Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING

#11

Assembling My Father A Daughter’s Detective Story

Anna Cypra Oliver

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#12

The Council of Dads My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me

Bruce Feiler

Themes: Diseases • Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING

#13

Strong at the Broken Places Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope

Richard M. Cohen

Themes: Death & Dying • Diseases • Medical (incl. Patients)

#14

The Girl from Lamaha Street A Guyanese Girl at a 1950s English Boarding School and Her Search for Belonging

Sharon Maas

Themes: South America • Latin America • Literary Figures

#15

Dying to Cross Spa

Jorge Ramos

Themes: Mexico • South America • Latin America

#16

Memorial Drive A Daughter’s Memoir

Natasha D. Trethewey

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Drama

#17

Marley & Me Tie-in Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog

John Grogan

Themes: Love & Romance • Drama • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#18

More Than a Woman

Caitlin Moran

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#19

Marley & Me Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog

John Grogan

Themes: Love & Romance • Drama • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#20

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Themes: Death & Dying • Medical (incl. Patients) • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#21

Dear Senator A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

Essie Mae Washington-Williams

Themes: Women Authors • Drama • Essays

#22

Taking Care The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

Sarah DiGregorio

Themes: Diseases • NURSING • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#23

Tell Me a Story My Life with Pat Conroy

Cassandra King Conroy

Themes: Literary Figures • Women Authors • Love & Romance

#24

The First Cell And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

Azra Raza

Themes: Diseases • Medical (incl. Patients) • NURSING

If Paula by Isabel Allende is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Death & Dying, Diseases, Mexico and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Isabel Allende, Ann Patchett, Rodrigo García, Lyndall Gordon, and others.