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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
9280 What Hath God Wrought Daniel Walker Howe 2007 American English
17131 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
1042 Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger 1961 American English
699 The Nibelungenlied Unknown 1200 German Middle high german
1811 A Time Of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor 1977 British English
11164 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
3588 The First Man Albert Camus 1994 French French
17131 Philosopher On Dover Beach Roger Scruton 1990 British English
2998 Staying On Paul Scott 1977 British English
251 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 1926 British English
960 The Gift Vladimir Nabokov 1938 Russian Russian
1492 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Vladimir Nabokov 1941 Russian English
654 The Praise of Folly Erasmus 1511 Dutch Latin
133 Confessions Augustine 397 Roman Latin
1239 The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne John Donne 1952 British English
177 The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud 1899 Austrian German
6927 Travesties Tom Stoppard 1974 British English
2144 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998 British English
8726 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
3318 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 2003 Australian English
383 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles -401 Greek Ancient greek
633 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré 1974 British English
985 Mythology Edith Hamilton 1942 American English
10634 The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell 1937 British English
17131 Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz 1997 Mexican English
438 Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein 1953 Austrian German
3109 Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche 1886 German German
2017 Riddley Walker Russell Hoban 1980 British English
2121 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare 1623 British English
409 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 2012 American Italian
812 Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1963 British English
1160 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami 1987 Japanese Japanese
242 The Godfather Mario Puzo 1969 American English
17131 America Right Or Wrong Anatol Lieven 2004 British English
682 The Open Society and Its Enemies Karl Popper 1945 British English
4305 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 1961 American English
8566 Ghost Wars Steve Coll 2004 American English
234 The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 1950 British English
2714 The Narrow Road to the Deep North Matsuo Bashō 1684 Japanese Japanese
890 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 1995 British English
9716 The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 American English
1385 The Bell Iris Murdoch 1958 British English
17131 Just The Arguments Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone 2011 American English
11316 When The Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka 2002 American English
17131 The Five Invitations Frank Ostaseski 2017 American English
3398 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
2253 A Field Guide to the Birds Roger Tory Peterson 1934 American English
9091 Consuelo George Sand 1842 French French
564 Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1920 American English
1961 Demian Hermann Hesse 1919 German German
7790 Sandstorms Peter Theroux 1990 American English
319 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes 1936 British English
1750 The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes 1986 American English
2115 Just Kids Patti Smith 2010 American English
17131 Eastern Philosophy Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad 2005 British English
14984 If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor 2002 British English
3386 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh 1988 Indian English
1011 Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis 1952 British English
2553 The Last Temptation of Christ Nikos Kazantzakis 1955 Greek Greek
140 The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 French French
273 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni 1827 Italian Italian
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
14158 My Side Of The Mountain Jean Craighead George 1959 American English
736 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward FitzGerald 1859 British English
2612 The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare 1623 British English
5238 Travels With Myself And Another Martha Gellhorn 1978 American English
361 Foundation Isaac Asimov 1951 American English
321 We Yevgeny Zamyatin 1924 Russian Russian
17131 Dear Medusa Olivia A. Cole 2023 American English
17131 Human Nature After Darwin Janet Radcliffe Richards 2000 British English
2170 Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman 2001 British English
1101 Outline Rachel Cusk 2014 British English
5446 The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson 2010 American English
3035 The Crab With The Golden Claws Hergé 1941 Belgian French
573 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970 American English
17131 So Many Ways To Begin Jon McGregor 2006 British English
6277 Citizens Simon Schama 1989 British English
4624 Blue Bird Maurice Maeterlinck 1908 Belgian French
741 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 American English
2470 Hyperion Dan Simmons 1989 American English
2593 The Gods Of Pegana Lord Dunsany 1905 Irish English
852 The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1867 British English
986 Electra Sophocles -409 Greek Ancient greek
481 The Lusiad Luís Vaz Camões 1572 Portuguese Portuguese
17131 Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor 2017 British English
1758 Sabbath's Theater Philip Roth 1995 American English
3068 Tintin In Tibet Hergé 1960 Belgian French
733 Arrow of God Chinua Achebe 1964 Nigerian English
969 Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger 1920 German German
377 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams 1907 American English
16535 Moonraker Ian Fleming 1955 British English
2108 The Shell Seekers Rosamunde Pilcher 1987 British English
285 Oresteia Aeschylus -458 Greek Ancient greek
2382 Battle Cry of Freedom James M. McPherson 1988 American English
3205 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
15869 The Death Of The Past J. H. Plumb 1969 British English
14984 A Nation under Our Feet Steven Hahn 2003 American English
308 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 American English
14984 The Cellist Of Sarajevo Steven Galloway 2008 Canadian English
8237 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters J. D. Salinger 1963 American English
17131 Sara's Face Melvin Burgess 2006 British English
14784 Fear and Trembling Soren Kierkegaard 1843 Danish Danish
10057 In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick 2000 American English
14984 The Fiery Trial Eric Foner 2010 American English
1177 Phèdre Jean Racine 1677 French French
10450 The Topeka School Ben Lerner 2019 American English
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
16602 Trilby Charles Lomon 1894 British Unknown
301 The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas Machado de Assis 1881 Brazilian Portuguese
3156 The Castafiore Emerald Hergé 1963 Belgian French
9073 Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow 1989 American English
17131 A Short History Of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton 1982 British English
3458 The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams 1944 American English
9261 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
356 Germinal Émile Zola 1885 French French
2545 The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe 1842 American English
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
1272 Erasure Percival Everett 2001 American English
17131 Historied Thought, Constructed World Joseph Margolis 1995 American English
391 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927 American English