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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3610 The Blue Lotus Hergé 1936 Belgian French
908 The Life of a Good-For-Nothing Joseph von Eichendorff 1826 German German
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
1135 The Tunnel Ernesto Sábato 1948 Argentinian Spanish
14984 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
272 The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Joao Guimaraes Rosa 1956 Brazilian Portuguese
14984 William Cooper's Town Alan Taylor 1995 American English
223 A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul 1961 Trinidadian English
10450 Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt 2012 American English
1210 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 1984 British English
4122 Either Or Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
15899 The Retreat To Commitment William Warren Bartley 1962 American English
869 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard 1984 Austrian German
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
497 Murder Must Advertise Dorothy L. Sayers 1933 British English
451 Hiroshima John Hersey 1946 American English
651 Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 1925 American English
2449 Bostan Saadi 1257 Persian Persian
17131 F*Ck Feelings Sarah Bennett, Michael Bennett 2015 American English
1000 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 American English
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
1785 The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe 1841 American English
17131 Relativism Refuted Harvey Siegel 1987 American English
1324 A Judgement In Stone Ruth Rendell 1977 British English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
3121 The Possibility Of An Island Michel Houellebecq 2005 French French
2218 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 2011 British English
1542 The Devil In The White City Erik Larson 2003 American English
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
17131 Claws Of The Cat Susan Spann 2013 American English
658 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
3062 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem 2003 American English
17131 Crank Ellen Hopkins 2004 American English
10165 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
4664 Building Stories Chris Ware 2012 American English
459 The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells 1896 British English
17131 The Problem Of The Soul Owen J. Flanagan 2002 American English
2107 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 American English
402 The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle -334 Greek Ancient greek
2171 Italian Folktales Italo Calvino 1956 Italian Italian
803 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 American English
602 The Go-Between L. P. Hartley 1953 British English
720 The Professor's House Willa Cather 1925 American English
14855 Anatomy Of Criticism Northrop Frye 1957 Canadian English
14984 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
17131 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
4854 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith 1998 Scottish English
2433 The Forever War Joe Haldeman 1974 American English
2856 The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac 1958 American English
2147 Aniara Harry Martinson 1956 Swedish Swedish
17131 The Slynx Tatyana Tolstaya 2000 Russian Russian
5351 The Book Of Mormon Unknown 1830 American English
13505 Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian English
10072 Prufrock and Other Observations T. S. Eliot 1917 British English
1767 The Man of Feeling Henry Mackenzie 1771 British English
2703 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah 2015 American English
637 The Quiet American Graham Greene 1955 British English
17131 Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) Paul Ricœur 1983 French French
1307 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor 1976 American English
7711 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
17131 The Tangled Wing Melvin Konner 1982 American English
201 Berlin Alexanderplatz Alfred Döblin 1929 German German
17131 Ttyl Lauren Myracle 2004 American English
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
2625 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell 1949 American English
2936 The Better Angels Of Our Nature Steven Pinker 2011 American English
1087 Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1916 Indian Bengali
5937 Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 British English
2645 The Hardy Boys Franklin W. Dixon 1927 American English
17131 Harsh Cry Of The Heron Lian Hearn 2006 Japanese English
1340 As You Like it William Shakespeare 1600 British English
479 Four Quartets T. S. Eliot 1943 British English
14984 Me Elton John 2019 British English
7152 Gateway Frederik Pohl 1977 American English
6284 Earth Abides George Rippey Stewart 1949 American English
16668 Hunter's Green Phyllis A. Whitney 1968 American English
300 The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell 1791 British English
6083 Dissolution C. J. Sansom 2003 British English
9922 Children Of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 British English
841 Crash J. G. Ballard 1973 British English
2957 Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels 1996 Canadian English
1395 The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley 1983 American English
1280 The Death of Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes 1962 Mexican Spanish
283 Nostromo Joseph Conrad 1904 British English
17131 Milk And Honey & The Sun And Her Flowers By Rupi Kaur 2 Books Collection Set Rupi Kaur 2014 Canadian English
17131 Tangerine Edward Bloor 1997 American English
844 Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud 1930 Austrian German
2390 The Wheel of Time Series Robert Jordan 1990 American English
673 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 1870 French French
446 Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann 1933 German German
17131 Innumeracy John Allen Paulos 1988 American English
16509 The Machine Stops E. M. Forster 1909 British English
13543 The Spectator Bird Wallace Stegner 1976 American English
2488 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann 2005 German German
1199 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski 1947 Polish Polish
1485 A Perfect Spy John le Carré 1986 British English
12249 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth 1986 Indian English
541 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence 1926 British English
138 The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal 1839 French French
9603 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
1723 1Q84 Haruki Murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
17131 Labyrinths Of Reason William Poundstone 1988 American English
14167 Going Postal Terry Pratchett 2004 British English
16678 The Reluctant Widow Georgette Heyer 1946 British English
17131 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie 1999 British English
1381 Station Eleven Emily St John Mandel 2014 Canadian English
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
2234 Last And First Men Olaf Stapledon 1930 British English
5681 The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury 1951 American English
10747 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 British English
1959 Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault 1975 French French
1420 The October Country Ray Bradbury 1955 American English
284 The Princess of Cleves Madame de La Fayette 1678 French French
1353 William Tell Friedrich Schiller 1804 German German
4932 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
3305 The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien 1977 British English
288 Independent People Halldor Laxness 1934 Icelandic Icelandic
2336 Libra Don DeLillo 1988 American English
1442 Little House In The Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 American English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English