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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
12043 Akira Katsuhiro Otomo 1982 Japanese Japanese
465 Collected Poems Wallace Stevens 1954 American English
539 So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell 1980 American English
15828 The Cunning Of History Richard L. Rubenstein 1975 American English
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
625 The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers 1934 British English
3406 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
4259 Petals of blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1977 Kenyan English
1305 Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene O'Neill 1956 American English
15803 The Harz Journey And Selected Prose Heinrich Heine 1826 German German
1367 Like Water For Chocolate Laura Esquivel 1989 Mexican Spanish
313 Meditations Marcus Aurelius 161 Roman Greek
861 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 1962 American English
12008 The Echo Maker Richard Powers 2006 American English
1083 Upanishads Unknown -799 Indian Sanskrit
788 Roots Alex Haley 1976 American English
490 Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 American English
1451 The Children of Men P. D. James 1992 British English
791 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 2012 American English
2364 The Sorrow Of War Bao Ninh 1990 Vietnamese Vietnamese
326 The Unnamable Samuel Beckett 1953 Irish French
15802 The New Guide To Modern World Literature Martin Seymour-Smith 1973 British English
2854 Swami and Friends R. K. Narayan 1935 Indian English
1236 Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Ryunosuke Akutagawa 1915 Japanese Japanese
1901 The Power Broker Robert Caro 1974 American English
13560 The Path to Power Robert Caro 1982 American English
11530 Poems of Matsuo Bashō Matsuo Bashō 1601 Japanese Japanese
1007 The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs 1961 American English
1270 Omeros Derek Walcott 1990 Saint Lucian English
548 Le Morte d'Arthur Thomas Malory 1485 British Middle english
1809 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2001 Spanish Spanish
17131 Paradigms Regained John L. Casti 2000 American English
1780 Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda 1970 Chilean Spanish
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
528 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 American English
618 Poems of W. H. Auden W. H. Auden 1930 British English
1548 Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce 1958 British English
112 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 Russian Russian
2425 Platform Michel Houellebecq 2001 French French
3615 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
14232 Means Of Ascent Robert Caro 1990 American English
1242 The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis José Saramago 1984 Portuguese Portuguese
17131 Fire In The Mind George Johnson 1995 American English
601 The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 American English
123 Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar 1951 French French
17131 The Secret Of Our Success Joseph Henrich 2015 American English
533 Cousin Bette Honoré de Balzac 1846 French French
657 The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 1998 French French
365 Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin 1833 Russian Russian
17131 Political Order And Inequality Carles Boix 2015 Spanish English
11540 The Economic Consequences of the Peace John Maynard Keynes 1919 British English
877 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov 1904 Russian Russian
1661 A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 1595 British English
2445 The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth 1952 American English
270 Malone Dies Samuel Beckett 1951 Irish French
1026 Murphy Samuel Beckett 1938 Irish English
2098 The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver 1988 American English
17131 The Great Divergence Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 American English
258 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1824 Scottish English
471 Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee 1980 South African English
428 Death Of A Salesman Arthur Miller 1949 American English
672 Three Trapped Tigers Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1965 Cuban Spanish
756 The Labyrinth of Solitude Octavio Paz 1950 Mexican Spanish
553 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
2232 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling 2007 British English
2546 Martín Fierro José Hernández 1872 Argentinian Spanish
701 The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 Peruvian Spanish
17131 Humanity's End Nicholas Agar 2010 New Zealand English
7148 Atomic Habits James Clear 2018 American English
614 Facundo Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 1845 Argentinian Spanish
17131 Thinking The Twentieth Century Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder 2012 American English
738 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 1989 American English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
941 Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell 1968 British English
708 Captain Hornblower R.N. C. S. Forester 1937 British English
1397 The BFG Roald Dahl 1982 British English
963 Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm 1911 British English
981 It Stephen King 1986 American English
17131 Common Sense, Science, And Scepticism Alan Musgrave 1993 New Zealand English
4407 The Essential Rumi Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi 1995 Persian Persian
416 Out of Africa Isak Dinesen 1937 Danish Danish
892 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 Afghan English
17131 The Dreams Of Reason Heinz R. Pagels 1988 American English
1776 Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 British English
1799 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
11000 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth 1979 American English
1170 Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman 1962 American English
2199 Trojan Women Euripides -415 Greek Ancient greek
17131 The Science Of The Mind Owen J. Flanagan 1984 American English
829 The Road to Serfdom Friedrich von Hayek 1944 Austrian English
2652 Circe Madeline Miller 2018 American English
331 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 1980 American English
17131 Defenders Of The Truth Ullica Segerstrale 1986 American English
211 The Tempest William Shakespeare 1623 British English
2086 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 British English
1306 Widdershins G. Oliver Onions 1911 British English
3280 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 1992 Cuban Spanish
1557 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 1974 American English
2606 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
1719 No Longer Human Osamu Dazai 1948 Japanese Japanese
1127 The Devil in the Flesh Raymond Radiguet 1923 French French
691 Excellent Women Barbara Pym 1952 British English
17131 Moral Sense James Q. Wilson 1993 American English
328 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
1074 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English
3235 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
544 The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Unknown 1554 Spanish Spanish
3089 I, Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchú Tum 1983 Guatemalan Spanish
256 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1922 American English
1783 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers 2000 American English
1677 A Theory of Justice John Rawls 1971 American English
512 The Golden Ass Apuleius 158 Roman Latin
1635 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez 1975 Colombian Spanish
842 Outlander Diana Gabaldon 1991 American English
348 The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse 1943 German German
385 Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz 1895 Polish Polish
17131 What Does It All Mean? Thomas Nagel 1987 American English
1529 Orientalism Edward W. Said 1978 Palestinian English
1347 Story of the Eye Georges Bataille 1928 French French
913 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1845 American English