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Buzzfeed, 31 Books

By Hannah Loewentheil of BuzzFeed.
A list of 31 best books that individuals state is their single best book, sourced by "browsing through the subreddit r/books and parsed through responses from the BuzzFeed Community".
While the list is numbered I think it is an unranked list.

This list was originally published in 2022 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1129 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
6665 Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner 2021 American English
3874 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 2003 American English
14985 The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats Jan-Philipp Sendker 2002 German German
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
2535 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
3580 Call Me By Your Name André Aciman 2007 Italian English
103 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 American English
892 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 Afghan English
279 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992 American English
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
17160 Sag Den Wölfen, Ich Bin Zu Hause Carol Rifka Brunt 2012 American English
1085 The Book Thief Markus Zusak 2005 Australian English
17160 The Infinite Plan Isabel Allende 1992 Chilean Spanish
1413 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2014 American English
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
266 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British English
17160 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 2017 Nigerian English
2059 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007 Afghan English
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
17160 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate 2017 American English
14985 Beneath A Scarlet Sky Mark T. Sullivan 2017 American English
521 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 American English
648 The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 1990 American English
3235 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
7839 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
14985 Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Lori Gottlieb 2019 American English
9988 I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 1998 American English