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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
596 The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides -410 Greek Ancient greek
17163 I'm Thinking Of Ending Things Iain Reid 2016 Canadian English
408 The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus 1942 French French
1344 The Emigrants W. G. Sebald 1992 German German
1031 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima 1956 Japanese Japanese
626 Promise at Dawn Romain Gary 1960 French French
4798 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 1974 American English
7899 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah 2018 American English
7732 Ready Player One Ernest Cline 2011 American English
3569 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
675 The Joy of Cooking Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker 1931 American English
13229 Gardens Of The Moon Steven Erikson 1999 Canadian English
7926 Letters From The Earth Mark Twain 1962 American English
2166 Bread Givers Anzia Yezierska 1925 American English
17163 She Felt Like Feeling Nothing r.h. Sin 2018 American English
3250 Death On The Nile Agatha Christie 1937 British English
14985 The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 American English
9222 The Rachel Papers Martin Amis 1973 British English
531 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1776 Scottish English
10964 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
392 Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 1954 British English
14985 Sailing Alone Around The Room Billy Collins 2001 American English
11006 Balkan Ghosts Robert D. Kaplan 1993 American English
16901 The Alienist Machado de Assis 1882 Brazilian Portuguese
1554 The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishiguro 1995 British English
5623 V for Vendetta Alan Moore 1982 British English
14232 Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman, Lenny Henry, Mónica Faerna 2005 British English
3246 The Transcendent Unity Of Religions Frithjof Schuon 1953 French French
6895 O Guarani José de Alencar 1857 Brazilian Portuguese
809 Poems by Machado Antonio Machado 1907 Spanish Spanish
1436 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 1929 Austrian German
17163 The Secret Book Of Kings Yokhi Brandes 2008 Israeli Hebrew
636 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 American English
9365 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
3051 Centennial James A. Michener 1974 American English
6561 The Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle 1995 American English
17163 A Sunlit Absence Martin Laird 2011 American English
1448 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky 2004 French French
16887 The Crisis Of The Modern World (Guenon, Rene. Works.) René Guénon 1927 French French
3145 Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 1975 American English
16954 The Princess And The Goblin George MacDonald 1872 British English
2421 The Melancholy of Resistance László Krasznahorkai 1989 Hungarian Hungarian
611 Revolutionary Road Richard Yates 1961 American English
3848 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
5301 The Museum Of Innocence Orhan Pamuk 2008 Turkish Turkish
9515 A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick 1977 American English
371 History of My Life Giacomo Casanova 1822 Italian French
14957 Lucky Per Henrik Pontoppidan 1898 Danish Danish
429 The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino 1957 Italian Italian
14985 Crossing The River Caryl Phillips 1993 British English
397 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009 British English
770 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
14132 A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Winston Churchill 1956 British English
578 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 American English
16952 Dear And Glorious Physician Taylor Caldwell 1959 American English
1309 The Member Of The Wedding Carson McCullers 1946 American English
1654 O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1913 American English
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
971 The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch 1992 Dutch Dutch
1657 Essays and Aphorisms Arthur Schopenhauer 1851 German German
1998 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace 1880 American English
17163 Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass Lana Del Rey 2020 American English
13941 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand 2010 American English
6250 Great Apes Will Self 1997 British English
15896 The Great Brain John Dennis Fitzgerald 1967 American English
3437 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
7093 Small Gods Terry Pratchett 1992 British English
16617 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
2881 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys 1825 British English
14885 Poems of Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1207 Persian Persian
1241 The Life Before Us Romain Gary 1975 French French
4631 De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1905 British English
6665 Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner 2021 American English
4493 All The Little Live Things Wallace Stegner 1967 American English
3104 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
17163 Into The Silent Land Martin Laird 2006 British English
1116 Hadrian the Seventh Frederick Rolfe 1904 British English
874 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000 American English
8387 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
1103 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë 1848 British English
16575 Letter From An Unknown Woman Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
373 The Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke 1923 German German
513 Kindred Octavia E. Butler 1979 American English
12441 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
6283 Union Street Pat Barker 1982 British English
10454 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
1183 In A Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 1947 American English
8299 Empire Of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 American English
7018 Charm School Nelson DeMille 1988 American English
433 Play It As It Lays Joan Didion 1970 American English
3249 A Distant Mirror Barbara Wertheim Tuchman 1978 American English
16971 Black Majority Peter H. Wood 1974 American English
1255 Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach 1970 American English
7757 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
6840 Other Inquisitions Jorge Luis Borges 1952 Argentinian Spanish
14985 Deception Point Dan Brown 2001 American English
1079 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
16852 Revolt Against The Modern World Julius Evola 1934 Italian Italian
828 Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 British English
14208 Have Space Suit—Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein 1958 American English
6312 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
13941 A Tale For The Time Being Ruth Ozeki 2013 American English
16979 The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit 1907 British English
687 The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa 1963 Peruvian Spanish
15801 Runaway Horses Yukio Mishima 1969 Japanese Japanese
975 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 1995 German German
14985 East West Street Philippe Sands 2016 British English
3397 King Rat James Clavell 1962 British English
17163 Chesapeake James A. Michener 1978 American English
13921 Book Of Psalms Alabaster Co. 2018 Unknown Hebrew
5910 The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1914 American English
1499 Three Comrades Erich Maria Remarque 1936 German German
17163 Frontiers Noel Mostert 1992 South African English
1835 Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder 1991 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 Empty Bottles Full Of Stories r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake 2019 American English
7612 The Short Stories Katherine Mansfield 1945 New Zealander English
14985 Translations Brian Friel 1980 Irish English
1123 The Symposium Plato -385 Greek Ancient greek
1343 The Hamlet William Faulkner 1940 American English
16851 Judas Iscariot Leonid Andreyev 1907 Russian Russian