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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17131 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership John C. Maxwell 1998 American English
7643 The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh 2004 Indian English
1342 The Principles of Psychology William James 1890 American English
386 La Regenta Clarín 1884 Spanish Spanish
2106 Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey 1968 American English
1892 A Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold 1949 American English
14984 The Sea And Summer George Turner 1987 Australian English
14984 Christianity Diarmaid MacCulloch 2010 British English
1254 Death and the Dervish Meša Selimović 1966 Bosnian Serbo-croatian
14089 Dune Messiah Frank Herbert 1969 American English
17131 Up Country Nelson DeMille 2002 American English
2823 The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis 1954 British English
11832 Wayfarers Becky Chambers 2014 American English
263 The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati 1940 Italian Italian
1256 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus -455 Greek Ancient greek
1144 A Month In The Country J. L. Carr 1980 British English
17131 Lord Brocktree Brian Jacques 2000 British English
14984 The Battle For God Karen Armstrong 2000 British English
2024 The Chosen Chaim Potok 1967 American English
3813 Henry IV, Part II William Shakespeare 1600 British English
4261 Essays of Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau 1862 American English
4665 Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1992 American English
1947 Shame Salman Rushdie 1983 British English
11321 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ana Camallonga 2017 British English
599 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams 1947 American English
17131 Suburban Nation Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk 2000 American English
3485 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 2012 American English
830 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1776 British English
1323 A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller 1960 American English
882 The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 1977 Brazilian Portuguese
17131 I Hope This Reaches Her In Time r.h. Sin 2017 American English
1137 Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West 1933 American English
1297 Poetics Aristotle -322 Greek Greek
1126 Women of Trachis Sophocles -450 Greek Ancient greek
1335 Kiss of the Spider Woman Manuel Puig 1976 Argentinian Spanish
376 The Golden Bowl Henry James 1904 American English
2501 Rebellion In The Backlands Euclides da Cunha 1902 Brazilian Portuguese
2081 Στροφή George Seferis 1931 Greek Greek
605 Claudine Colette 1900 French French
4608 Here Richard McGuire 2014 American English
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
570 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
2076 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 2011 Israeli English
910 The New York Trilogy Paul Auster 1985 American English
16658 Values, Objectivity, And The Social Sciences Gresham Riley 1974 American English
17131 The Nelson De Mille Collection Nelson DeMille 2003 American English
10168 Dragon's Teeth Upton Sinclair 1942 American English
360 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov 1969 American English
17131 The Courage To Be Disliked Ichirō Kishimi, Fumitake Koga 2013 Japanese Japanese
17131 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
2285 The Crossing Cormac McCarthy 1994 American English
90 Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann 1901 German German
2292 Consciousness Explained Daniel Dennett 1991 American English
215 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959 American English
2604 The Wars Timothy Findley 1977 Canadian English
1124 Ajax Sophocles -440 Greek Ancient greek
14232 Jerusalem Jez Butterworth 2009 British English
17131 Namíbia, Não! Aldri Anunciação 2012 Brazilian Portuguese
1421 Ubik Philip K. Dick 1969 American English
4398 The Obscene Bird Of Night José Donoso 1970 Chilean Spanish
4468 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 2005 American English
1086 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
540 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 1968 American English
1260 The President Miguel Angel Asturias 1946 Guatemalan Spanish
1125 Philoctetes Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
10883 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
1515 The World as Will and Idea Arthur Schopenhauer 1818 German German
1221 Thank You, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1934 British English
589 Bel Ami Guy de Maupassant 1885 French French
935 Martin Eden Jack London 1909 American English
917 The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951 British English
14984 Can't Stop Won't Stop Jeff Chang 2005 American English
17131 With The End In Mind Kathryn Mannix 2017 British English
2563 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
6890 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2001 Irish English
2720 Richard Ii William Shakespeare 1595 British English
14984 The Secret Lives Of Colour Kassia St. Clair 2016 British English
8836 Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger 2013 American English
9832 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
624 The Histories of Herodotus Herodotus -450 Greek Ancient greek
17131 Trillion Year Spree Brian Aldiss 1986 British English
488 The Shipping News Annie Proulx 1993 Canadian English
718 Possession A. S. Byatt 1990 British English
458 Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1781 German German
14984 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
2887 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 American English
15719 The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
5390 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
17131 I Would Leave Me If I Could Halsey 2020 American English
2741 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
6307 The Lost Symbol Dan Brown 2009 American English
5230 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
3056 The Invention of Solitude Paul Auster 1982 American English
2715 Coriolanus William Shakespeare 1608 British English
16808 Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie 1920 British English
926 Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne 1864 French French
12473 The Witcher Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
17131 The Darwin Wars Andrew Brown 1999 British English
2967 The Sea John Banville 2005 Irish English
901 Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby 1964 American English
11572 Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 1927 American English
14749 Children Of Dune Frank Herbert 1976 American English
4658 The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear Walter Moers 1999 German German
362 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor 1952 American English
1180 Annals Cornelius Tacitus 109 Roman Latin
2899 Moneyball Michael M. Lewis 2003 American English
2483 The Cider House Rules John Irving 1985 American English
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
508 Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877 British English
2188 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy 2005 American English
4576 No Ordinary Time Doris Kearns Goodwin 1994 American English
17131 Destiny Disrupted Tamim Ansary 2009 American English
17131 Kingbird Highway Kenn Kaufman 1997 American English
1098 Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer 1952 Austrian German
2797 The Theory Of Communicative Action Jürgen Habermas 1981 German German
17131 The Unnatural Nature Of Science Lewis Wolpert 1992 British English
4753 Angels And Demons Dan Brown 2000 American English
17131 Indignation Philip Roth 2008 American English
853 Mc Teague Frank Norris 1899 American English
1844 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 2014 American English