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
17119 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17119 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
17119 Wilderness Robert Penn Warren 1961 American English
17119 Stone's Fall Iain Pears 2009 British English
17014 The Double And The Gambler Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 Russian Russian
17119 Gathering Blue Lois Lowry 2000 American English
17119 The Essential Calvin And Hobbes Bill Watterson 1988 American English
16866 Taran Wanderer Lloyd Alexander 1967 American English
17119 Kringe In 'N Bos Dalene Matthee 1984 South African Afrikaans
17119 Children Of Memory Adrian Tchaikovsky 2022 British English
17119 Nona The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2022 New Zealand English
17119 System Collapse Martha Wells 2023 American English
17119 The Talk Darrin Bell 2023 American English
17119 Fugitive Telemetry Martha Wells 2021 American English
17119 Rogue Protocol Martha Wells 2018 American English
17119 Unmasking Autism Devon Price 2022 Unknown English
17119 House Of Suns Alastair Reynolds 2008 British English
17119 The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge 2007 Canadian English
17119 The Driftless Area Tom Drury 2006 American English
17119 Pandaemonium Humphrey Jennings 1985 British English
17119 Impro Keith Johnstone 1979 British English
17119 Daemon Daniel Suarez 2006 American English
17119 The Impersonators Jessica Anderson 1980 Australian English
17119 The Slow Natives Thea Astley 1965 Australian English
17119 Homesickness Murray Bail 1980 Australian English
17119 Lucinda Brayford Martin Boyd 1946 Australian English
17119 The Australian Ugliness Robin Boyd 1960 Australian English
17119 The Naked Island Russell Braddon 1951 Australian English
17119 Caddie Caddie Australian Unknown
17119 All The Green Year D E Charlwood 1965 Australian English
17119 A History Of Australia, Vol. Iv. Manning Clark 1978 Australian English
17119 They're A Wierd Mob Nino Culotta 1957 Australian English
17119 Come In Spinner Dymphna Cusack, Florence James 1951 Australian English
17119 The Timeless Land Eleanor Dark 1941 Australian English
17119 Man Shy Frank Dalby Davison 2002 Australian English
17119 Kings In Grass Castles Mary Durack 1959 Australian English
17119 Careful, He Might Hear You Summer Locke Elliott 1963 Australian English
16769 Rum Rebellion H V Evatt 1938 Australian English
17119 Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia Edward John Eyre 2004 Australian English
17119 Squatter's Castle George Farwell 1973 Australian English
17119 Moonlite David Foster 1981 Australian English
17119 The Fring Dwellers Nene Gare 1961 Australian English
17119 The Letters Of Rachel Henning Rachel Henning 1952 Australian English
17119 The Lucky Country Donald Horne 1964 Australian English
17119 The Ridge And The River Tom Hungerford 1952 Australian English
17119 The Unknown Industrial Prisoner David Ireland 1971 Australian English
17119 Wild Cat Falling Colin Johnson 1965 Australian English
17119 The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith Thomas Keneally 1972 Australian English
17119 The Year Of Living Dangerously Christopher Koch 1978 Australian English
17119 The Pea Pickers Eve Langley 1942 Australian English
17119 Trap Peter Mathers 1966 Australian English
17119 1915 Roger McDonald 1979 Australian English
17119 The Americans, Baby Frank Moorhouse 1972 Australian English
17119 The Shiralee D'Arcy Niland 1955 Australian English
17119 Wild Men Of Sydney Cyril Pearl 1958 Australian English
17119 The Watcher On The Cast Iron Balcony Hal Porter 1963 Australian English
17119 Flying Fox And Drifting Sand Francis Ratcliffe 1976 Australian English
17119 They All Ran Wild Eric Rolls 1969 Australian English
17119 Vision Splendid Tom Ronan 1951 Australian English
17119 On Our Selection Steele Rudd 1976 Australian English
17119 Naked Under Capricorn Olaf Ruhen 1958 Australian English
17119 Dryandra Vincent Serventy 1981 Australian English
17119 Ash Road Ivan Southall 1965 Australian English
17119 To The Islands Randolph Stow 1958 Australian English
17119 Ideas For Australian Cities Hugh Stretton 1970 Australian English
17119 The Battlers Kylie Tennant 1941 Australian English
17119 Man Of Two Tribes Arthur William Upfield 1956 Australian English
17119 Bottersnikes And Gumbles S A Wakefield 1967 Australian English
17119 The Australian Legend Russell Ward 1958 Australian English
17119 Alien Son Judah Waten 1952 Australian English
17119 The Nargun And The Stars Patricia Wrightson 1970 Australian English
16769 Philochristus Edwin A. Abbott 1878 British English
17119 John Inglesant Joseph Henry Shorthouse 1881 British English
17119 Dorothy Forster Walter Besant 1884 British English
17119 The Green Book Mór Jókai 2003 Hungarian Hungarian
17119 The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1898 British English
17119 A Woman's Story Annie Ernaux 1988 French French
17119 The Infinite Plan Isabel Allende 1992 Chilean Spanish
17119 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 2017 Nigerian English
16842 The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown 1942 American English
17119 Three Little Pigs Steven Kellogg 1985 American English
17119 Sulwe Lupita Nyong’o 2019 Unknown English
17119 The World That Made Mandela Luli Callinicos 2000 Unknown English
17119 Tomorrow Is Another Country Allister Sparks 1994 South African English
17119 A History Of South Africa Frank Welsh 1998 Unknown English
17119 The Anglo Boer War, 1899 1902 F. Pretorius 1999 Unknown English
17119 Portraits Of Power Mark Gevisser 1996 Unknown English
17119 New Babylon New Nineveh Charles Van Onselen 2011 Unknown English
17119 Cape Town E. Van Heyningen, Nigel Worden, Vivian Bickford-Smith 1998 Unknown English
17119 Midlands Jonny Steinberg 2002 South African English
17119 Three Letter Plague Jonny Steinberg 2008 South African English
17119 Welcome To Our Hillbrow Phaswane Mpe 2001 South African English
17119 Fools And Other Stories Njabulo Ndebele 1986 South African English
17119 A Place Called Vatmaar Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz 2000 South African English
17119 Moxyland Lauren Beukes 2008 South African English
17119 The New Century Of South African Poetry Michael Chapman 2002 South African English
17119 Yakhal'inkomo Mongane Wally Serote 1983 South African English
17119 Inside & Out Jeremy Cronin 1999 South African English
17119 Transfer Ingrid de Kok 1997 Unknown English
17119 If I Could Sing Keorapetse Kgositsile 2002 South African English
17119 The Chinese Machiavelli Dennis Bloodworth 1976 Chinese English
17119 Mountain Of Fame John E. Wills Jr. 1992 Chinese English
17119 Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden 2001 Chinese English
17119 Confucian Moral Self Cultivation Philip J. Ivanhoe 1993 Chinese English
17119 The Philosophy Of The Daodejing Hans-Georg Moeller 2006 Chinese English
17119 Finding Them Gone Red Pine 2015 Chinese English
17119 The Tragedy Of Liberation Frank Dikötter 2013 Chinese English
17119 The Cultural Revolution Frank Dikötter 2016 Chinese English
17119 Readings In Later Chinese Philosophy Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden 2014 Chinese English
17119 Neo Confucianism Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald 2017 Chinese English
17119 Border Country Raymond Williams 1962 British English
17119 So Long, Hector Bebb Ron Berry 1970 Welsh English
17119 Sport In Literature Bruce Emra Unknown Unknown
17119 Home To An Empty House Alun Richards 1973 Welsh English
17119 A Few Selected Exits Gwyn Thomas 1968 Welsh English
17119 Incendiary Chris Cleave 2005 British English
17119 Sociopath Patric Gagne 2024 Unknown English
17119 Fruit Of The Dead Rachel Lyon 2024 Unknown English
17119 A Guest In The House Emily Carroll 2023 Canadian English
17119 Kantika Elizabeth Graver 2023 Unknown English