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 743 '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
17010 Naples 1925 Martin Mittelmeier 2024 Unknown German
17010 Life As No One Knows It Sara Imari Walker 2024 Unknown English
17010 Four Points Of The Compass Jerry Brotton 2024 Unknown English
17010 Savings And Trust Justene Hill Edwards 2024 Unknown English
17010 The Roads To Rome Catherine Fletcher 2024 Unknown English
17010 Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor 2024 Unknown English
17010 Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs 2015 British English
17010 Klf John Higgs 2012 British English
17010 Plato At The Googleplex Rebecca Goldstein 2014 American English
17010 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
16880 Winged Pharaoh Joan Grant 1937 British English
17010 Tolstoy's "War And Peace" A Study R.F. Christian 1978 Unknown English
16892 Nightfall And Other Stories Isaac Asimov 1969 American English
17010 The Salmon Of Doubt Douglas Adams 2002 British English
17010 Habitus Emma Rooksby Unknown Unknown
17010 Leviathan And The Air Pump Steven Shapin 1985 Unknown English
17010 The Pleasures Of The Imagination John Brewer 1997 British English
17010 Third Wave Alvin Toffler 1980 American English
17010 Architectural Composition And Building Typology Gianfranco Caniggia Italian Italian
17010 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
17010 Of Wolves And Men Barry Lopez 1978 American English
17010 The Angelical Language, Volume I Aaron Leitch 2010 Unknown English
16847 The Book Of Thoth Aleister Crowley 1944 British English
17010 The Unfolding Of Language Guy Deutscher 2005 British English
16758 Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness Of Crowds Charles Mackay 1841 British English
17010 Murder Among Friends Elizabeth Ferrars 1946 British English
17010 The Fabulous Clipjoint Frederick Brown 1947 American English
17010 Five Roundabouts To Heaven John Bingham 1953 British English
17010 Post Mortem Guy Cullingford 1953 British English
17010 The Party At No. 5 Shelley Smith 1964 Unknown English
17010 Gideon’s Week John Creasey 1956 British English
17010 Mystery Stories Stanley Ellin 1956 American English
17010 The New Sonia Wayward Michael Innes 1960 British English
17010 Gun Before Butter Nicolas Freeling 1963 British English
17010 The Expendable Man Dorothy B. Hughes 1963 American English
17010 Murder Against The Grain Emma Lathen 1967 American English
17010 The Last Best Friend George Sims 1967 British English
17010 Mr. Splitfoot Helen McCloy 1968 American English
17010 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17010 Young Man, I Think You're Dying Joan Fleming 1970 British English
17010 Beyond This Point Are Monsters Margaret Millar 1970 Canadian English
17010 The Players And The Game Julian Symons 1972 British English
17010 Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Stanley Ellin 1972 American English
17010 The Poison Oracle Peter Dickinson 1974 British English
17010 The Long Shadow Celia Fremlin 1975 British English
17010 The Naked Nuns Colin Watson 1975 British English
17010 A Death In The Life Dorothy Salisbury Davis 1976 American English
17010 The Investigation Dorothy Uhnak 1977 American English
17010 Nobody's Perfect Donald E. Westlake 1977 American English
17010 A Pinch Of Snuff Reginald Hill 1978 British English
17010 Skinflick Joseph Hansen 1979 American English
17010 Kill Claudio P. M. Hubbard 1979 British English
17010 The Green Ripper John D. MacDonald 1979 American English
17010 All On A Summer's Day John Wainwright 1981 British English
17010 The Glitter Dome Joseph Wambaugh 1981 American English
17010 To Make A Killing June Thomson 1982 British English
17010 The Artful Egg James McClure 1984 South African English
17010 Maurice And Maralyn Sophie Elmhirst 2024 Unknown English
17010 جای خالی سلوچ Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 1979 Iranian Persian
16794 Family Happiness And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1973 Russian Russian
17010 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17010 The Art Of Fiction David Lodge 1992 British English
17010 Hue 1968 Mark Bowden 2017 American English
17010 Fanged Noumena Nick Land 2011 British English
17010 State Of Exception Giorgio Agamben 2003 Italian Italian
17010 Great Expectations Kathy Acker 1989 American English
17010 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
17010 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Great Movies Roger Ebert 2003 American English
17010 Better Never To Have Been David Benatar 2006 South African English
16793 Capitães Da Areia Jorge Amado 1937 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17010 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17010 Mayakovsky's Revolver Matthew Dickman 2012 American English
17010 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17010 I Was Told There'd Be Cake Sloane Crosley 2008 American English
17010 Zen In The Art Of Writing Ray Bradbury 1990 American English
16866 The Fate Of A Man And Early Stories Mikhail Sholokhov 1967 Russian Russian
17010 On Becoming A Novelist John Gardner 1983 American English
17010 Writing Fiction Janet Burroway 1982 American English
17010 Writing Down The Bones Natalie Goldberg 1986 American English
16840 Twilight Of The Idols/The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 German German
17010 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It Robert Fulghum 1989 American English
17010 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell 2017 British English
17010 Turtle Diary Russell Hoban 1975 British English
17010 The Art Of Fiction John Gardner 1983 American English
17010 All The Names They Used For God Anjali Sachdeva 2018 American English
17010 In The Country Mia Alvar 2015 Unknown English
17010 Who Wrote The Bible? Richard Elliott Friedman 1987 American English
17010 Congo David Van Reybrouck 2010 Belgian Dutch
17010 War Sebastian Junger 2010 American English
17010 The Bang Bang Club Greg Marinovich 2000 South African English
17010 Screenplay Syd Field 1979 American English
17010 Dear Church lenny duncan 2019 American English
17010 Practical Demonkeeping Christopher Moore 1992 American English
16821 Trout Fishing In America / The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
17010 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17010 Sombrero Fallout Richard Brautigan 1976 American English
16870 The World As Will And Representation, Volume Ii Arthur Schopenhauer 1844 German German
17010 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17010 The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare's Memory Jorge Luis Borges 1977 Argentinian Spanish
17010 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
17010 The Canning Season Polly Horvath 2003 Canadian English
17010 Godless Pete Hautman 2004 American English
17010 Claudette Colvin Phillip Hoose 2009 American English
17010 Goblin Secrets William Alexander 2012 American English
17010 The Thing About Luck Cynthia Kadohata 2013 American English
17010 What I Saw And How I Lied Judy Blundell 2008 American English
17010 Inside Out & Back Again Thanhhà Lại 2011 American English
17010 Pulp Charles Bukowski 1994 American English
17010 Don't Call Us Dead Danez Smith 2017 American English
17010 The Twenty Days Of Turin Giorgio De Maria 1977 Italian Italian
17010 A Night In The Lonesome October Roger Zelazny 1993 American English
17010 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17010 St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Karen Russell 2024 American English
17010 Tiny Experiments Anne-Laure Le Cunff Unknown Unknown
17010 August Blue Deborah Levy 2023 British English
17010 Mindhunter John E. Douglas 1995 American English
17010 China Room Sunjeev Sahota 2021 British English
17010 Trick Domenico Starnone 2016 Italian Italian