The Greatest Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17122 Wildful Kengo Kurimoto 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Runaway Nancy Vo 2024 Unknown English
17122 Sos Water Yayo 2024 Unknown English
17122 Let's Go Julie Flett 2024 Unknown English
17122 Noodles On A Bicycle Kyo Maclear 2024 Canadian English
17122 Age 16 Rosena Fung 2024 Unknown English
17122 Little Moons Jen Storm 2024 Unknown English
17122 Who We Are In Real Life Victoria Koops 2024 Unknown English
17122 Chuck's Home Cooking Chuck Hughes 2024 Unknown English
17122 Babette's Bread Babette Frances Kourelos 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 I Love You Pamela Anderson 2024 Unknown English
17122 Good Food, Healthy Planet Puneeta Chhitwal-Varma 2024 Unknown English
17122 Inside Crime Colin Hynson 2007 Unknown English
17122 No Right To An Honest Living Jacqueline Jones 2023 Unknown English
17122 Canto Contigo Jonny Garza Villa 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Partition Project Saadia Faruqi 2024 Unknown English
17122 Another Word For Love Carvell Wallace 2024 Unknown English
17122 Aloha Everything Kaylin Melia George 2024 Unknown English
17122 Lunar New Year Love Story Gene Luen Yang 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Mindful Magic Of Flower Drawing Chloe Wilson 2024 Unknown English
17122 Wander In The Dark Jumata Emill 2024 Unknown English
17122 Sunrise Nights Jeff Zentner 2024 American English
17122 The Maid And The Crocodile Jordan Ifueko 2024 Unknown English
17122 Brave Baby Hummingbird Sy Montgomery 2024 Unknown English
17122 Twenty Four Seconds From Now Jason Reynolds 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 Ten Bridges I've Burnt Brontez Purnell 2024 Unknown English
17122 Sky Full Of Elephants Cebo Campbell 2024 Unknown English
17122 Queerceañera Alex Crespo 2024 Unknown English
17122 Seeing Things Kartik Nair 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Black Girl Survives In This One Desiree S. Evans, Saraciea J. Fennell 2024 Unknown English
17122 I Survived Capitalism And All I Got Was This Lousy T Shirt Madeline Pendleton 2024 Unknown English
17122 Say Hello To My Little Friend Jennine Capó Crucet 2024 Unknown English
17122 Shut Up, This Is Serious Carolina Ixta 2024 Unknown English
17122 I Hope This Doesn't Find You Ann Liang 2024 Unknown English
17122 Fury Clyo Mendoza 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Ping Pong Queen Of Chinatown Andrew Yang 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 No Cats In The Library Lauren Emmons 2024 Unknown English
17122 Abortion Jessica Valenti 2024 American English
17122 Opere V Vasile Alecsandri 1992 Romanian Romanian
17122 De Zondvloed Jeroen Brouwers 1988 Dutch Dutch
17122 Pitface Herman Brusselmans 1994 Belgian Dutch
17122 The Viceroy Of Ouidah Bruce Chatwin 1980 British English
17122 Of Walking In Ice Werner Herzog 1978 German German
17122 Absolution Jeff VanderMeer 2024 American English
17122 Accordion Eulogies Noé Álvarez 2024 Unknown English
17122 American Diva Deborah Paredez 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Barn Wright Thompson 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Book Censor's Library Bothayna Al-Essa 2024 Kuwaiti Arabic
17122 The Bookshop Evan Friss 2024 Unknown English
17122 A Complicated Passion Carrie Rickey 2024 Unknown English
17122 Devil Is Fine John Vercher 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 Dinner For Vampires Bethany Joy Lenz 2024 Unknown English
17122 Get The Picture Bianca Bosker 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Great Divide Cristina Henríquez 2024 Unknown English
17122 Hip Hop Is History Questlove 2024 American Unknown
17122 I Cannot Control Everything Forever Emily C. Bloom 2024 Unknown English
17122 I'm Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself Glynnis MacNicol 2024 Unknown English
17122 Lessons For Survival Emily Raboteau 2024 Unknown English
17122 Lies And Weddings Kevin Kwan 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Lions' Den Iris Mwanza 2024 Unknown English
17122 The Lucky Ones Zara Chowdhary 2024 Unknown English
17122 Perfume And Pain Anna Dorn 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 The Rich People Have Gone Away Regina Porter 2024 Unknown English
17122 Root Fractures Diana Khoi Nguyen 2024 Unknown English
17122 Shanghailanders Juli Min 2024 Unknown English
17122 Sidetracks Bei Dao 2024 Chinese Chinese
17122 The Skunks Fiona Warnick 2024 Unknown English
17122 State Of Paradise Laura Van den Berg 2024 Unknown English
17122 There Is No Ethan Anna Akbari 2024 Unknown English
17122 We Loved It All Lydia Millet 2024 American English
17122 You Glow In The Dark Liliana Colanzi 2022 Unknown Spanish
17122 The Museum Of Failures Thrity Umrigar 2023 American English
17122 The Endless Vessel Charles Soule 2023 Unknown English
17122 No Two Persons Erica Bauermeister 2023 Unknown English
17122 West With Giraffes Lynda Rutledge 2021 Unknown English
17062 The Bridal Wreath Sigrid Undset 1920 Norwegian Norwegian
17122 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17122 Reincarnation Blues Michael Poore 2017 American English
17122 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor Hank Green 2020 American English
17122 Everyone Brave Is Forgiven Chris Cleave 2016 British English
17122 The Book Of Illusions Paul Auster 2002 American English
17122 The Hopefuls Jennifer Close 2016 American English
17122 The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August Claire North 2014 British English
17122 The Antagonist Lynn Coady 2011 Canadian English
17122 Black Like Me John Howard Griffin 1961 American English
17083 The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood 1969 Canadian English
17122 Neither Here Nor There Bill Bryson 1992 American English
17122 Mad Ship Robin Hobb 1999 American English
17122 Girls In White Dresses Jennifer Close 2011 American English
17122 The Expats Chris Pavone 2012 American English
17122 Trans Atlantic Colum McCann 2013 Irish English
17122 When You Are Engulfed In Flames David Sedaris 2008 American English
17122 Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami 2001 Japanese Japanese
17122 Run Ann Patchett 2007 American English
17122 Skinny Dip Carl Hiaasen 2004 American English
16826 Cup Of Gold John Steinbeck 1929 American English
17116 How To Be Good Nick Hornby 1960 British English
17122 Helen Of Troy Margaret George 2006 American English
17122 My Year Of Meat Ruth Ozeki 1998 American English
17122 The Stupidest Angel Christopher Moore 2004 American English
17122 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket 2005 American English
17122 Royal Assassin Robin Hobb 1997 American English
17122 The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists Gideon Defoe 2004 British English
17122 Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles Margaret George 1992 American English
17122 The Autobiography Of Henry Viii Margaret George 1986 American English
17122 Politics On The Edge Rory Stewart 2023 British English
17122 The Secret Public Jon Savage 2024 Unknown English
17122 I Was There Alan Edwards 2024 Unknown English
17122 On Leadership Tony Blair 2024 British English
17122 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17122 Island Book Of Records Volume 2: 1969 1970 Neil Storey 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 The Library Mouse Frances Tosdevin 2024 Unknown English
17122 A Riddle For A King Mark Forsyth 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 Goethe, His Faustian Life AN Wilson 2024 British English
17122 Café Cecilia Cookbook Max Rocha, Diana Henry 2024 Unknown English
17122 Aphex Twin — A Disco Pogo Tribute Jim Butler 2024 Unknown Unknown
17122 Revolutionary Acts Jason Okundaye 2024 Unknown English
17122 Becoming Bulletproof Evy Poumpouras 2020 Unknown English
17122 The Let Them Theory Mel Robbins Unknown Unknown
17122 1177 B.C. Eric H. Cline 2014 American English