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
16989 Vis And Ramin Fakhraddin Gorgani 1048 Persian Persian
17010 The Gate Of The Feral Gods Matt Dinniman 2022 American English
17010 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook Matt Dinniman 2020 Unknown English
17010 Carl's Doomsday Scenario Matt Dinniman 2023 Unknown English
17010 Okay For Now Gary D. Schmidt 2011 American English
17008 Pied Piper Nevil Shute 1942 British English
17010 The Stupids Step Out Harry Allard 1974 American English
17010 Food Fight! Carol Diggory Shields 2002 Unknown English
17010 The Day My Bum Went Psycho Andy Griffiths 2001 Australian English
17010 Honus & Me Dan Gutman 1997 American English
17010 The Beast Walter Dean Myers 2003 American English
17010 Judy Moody Megan McDonald 2000 American English
17010 Junie B. Jones And The Stupid Smelly Bus A.K.A. Junie B. Jones Is On Her Way! Barbara Park 1992 American English
17010 Sammy Keyes And The Hotel Thief Wendelin Van Draanen 1998 American English
17010 Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining Anne Mazer 2000 American English
17010 Dead Street Mickey Spillane 2007 American English
17010 End Games Michael Dibdin 2007 British English
17010 I Can't Accept Not Trying Michael Jordan 1994 American English
17010 The Marriage Of Sense And Soul Ken Wilber 1998 American English
17010 The Book Of Virtues William Bennett 1993 American English
17010 The Great American Bathroom Book Stevens W. Anderson 2007 American English
17010 The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook Joshua Piven 2001 American English
17010 In The Checklist Of Life Lynn McPhelimy 1997 Unknown English
17010 I Was Called To Dixie Andrew Karl Larson 1961 Unknown English
17010 Quicksand And Cactus Juanita Brooks 1982 American English
17010 Winter Count Barry Lopez 1981 American English
17010 Graven Images Paul Fleischman 1982 American English
17010 Having Our Say Amy Hill Hearth, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Sarah Louise Delany 1993 American English
16822 Rosa Knut Hamsun 1908 Norwegian Norwegian
16886 Under The Autumn Star Knut Hamsun 1906 Norwegian Norwegian
16943 The Wanderer Knut Hamsun 1917 Norwegian Norwegian
16960 Victoria Knut Hamsun 1898 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 The Idiot Brain Dean Burnett 2016 British English
17010 The Extinction Of Experience Christine Rosen 2004 Unknown English
17010 May Contain Lies Alex Edmans Unknown Unknown
17010 Misericórdia Lídia Jorge Portuguese Portuguese
17010 This Thing Of Darkness Harry Thompson 2005 British English
17010 Soviet Milk Nora Ikstena 2015 Latvian Latvian
17010 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17010 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
17010 In My Time Of Dying Sebastian Junger Unknown Unknown
17010 The Book Amaranth Borsuk 2018 Unknown English
17010 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Russian Russian
16691 Sette Piani Dino Buzzati 1954 Italian Italian
17010 Caminhar Frédéric Gros 2009 French French
17010 The Identity Trap Yascha Mounk 2023 Unknown English
17010 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17010 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17010 A Stranger In Your Own City Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 2023 Unknown English
17010 Your Brain On Art Susan Magsamen 2023 Unknown English
17010 Under Alien Skies Philip Plait 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Middle Kingdoms Martyn Rady 2023 Unknown English
17010 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
17010 Surfaces And Essences Douglas Hofstadter 2013 American English
17010 Un Monde à Portée De Main Maylis de Kerangal 2018 French French
17010 Out Of Mesopotamia Salar Abdoh 2020 Iranian English
17010 Morrer Na Primavera Ralf Rothmann 2015 German German
17010 Censoring An Iranian Love Story Shahriar Mandanipour 2009 Iranian Persian
17010 Fire From Heaven Mary Renault 1969 British English
17010 Be Water, My Friend Shannon Lee 2020 Unknown English
17010 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
17010 The Sea Came In At Midnight Steve Erickson 1999 American English
16702 The Belly Of Paris Émile Zola 1873 French French
17010 Inés Da Minha Alma Isabel Allende 2006 Chilean Spanish
16649 Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai 1939 Japanese Japanese
17010 Scale Geoffrey B. West 2017 American English
17009 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17010 The Sculptor Scott McCloud 2015 American English
16922 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17010 Silêncio Na Era Do Ruído Erling Kagge 2016 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 Diego & Frida J. M. G. Le Clezio 1993 French French
17010 Rosalie Lightning Tom Hart 2016 American English
17010 The Underground Girls Of Kabul Jenny Nordberg 2014 Unknown English
17010 Social Matthew D. Lieberman 2013 American English
17010 Pay It Forward Catherine Ryan Hyde 1999 American English
17010 Shrek! William Steig 1990 American English
16903 Bambi Felix Salten 1923 Austrian German
17010 O Tempo Dos Simulacros Philip K. Dick American Unknown
17010 Curious Ian Leslie 2014 British English
17010 Nexus Ramez Naam 2012 American English
17010 Morgon Og Kveld Jon Fosse 2000 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17010 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
17010 The Loneliest Americans Jay Caspian Kang 2021 American English
17010 Wanting Tom Burgis 2021 Unknown English
17010 The Wonderful Works Of God Herman Bavinck, R. Carlton Wynne Dutch Dutch
17010 Heavenly Participation Boersma, Hans 2011 Canadian English
17010 What Tech Calls Thinking Daub, Adrian 2020 Unknown English
17010 Barlaam And Josaphat Gui de Cambrai 2014 French Old french
16683 The Biography Of Ying Ying Yuan Zhen 820 Chinese Classical chinese
16786 Le Jouvencel Jean V de Bueil 1466 French French
16808 The Romance Of 'Antar Unknown 1100 Multiple Arabic
17010 Kallimachos And Chrysorrhoe Unknown Unknown Unknown
16881 The Tales Of Sendebar Unknown -100 Multiple Sanskrit
16931 Epic Of Sundiata Unknown 1235 Multiple Mandinka
17010 Huon De Bordeaux Unknown French Old french
16994 Daredevils Of Sassoun Unknown 800 Multiple Armenian
17010 The Gospel According To The New World Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox 2021 French French
17010 Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow 2016 American English
17010 The Golden Spruce John Vaillant 2005 Canadian English
16915 Candide And Other Stories Voltaire 1759 French French
17010 The Call Of Cthulhu And Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1999 American English
17010 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
16817 The Gentle Spirit Fyodor Dostoevsky 1876 Russian Russian
16969 Uncle’s Dream Fyodor Dostoevsky 1859 Russian Russian
17010 Outsmart Your Brain Daniel T. Willingham 2023 American English
17010 Same As Ever Morgan Housel 2023 American English
17010 The 12 Week Year Brian P. Moran 2013 American English
17010 Reality Transurfing Steps I V Vadim Zeland 2004 Russian Russian
17010 Limitless Jim Kwik 2020 American English
17010 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17010 Savarkar Vikram Sampath 2019 Indian English
17010 Good Reasons For Bad Feelings Randolph M. Nesse 2019 American English
17010 Bark, George Jules Feiffer 1999 American English
17010 Ben’s Trumpet Rachel Isadora 1979 American English
17010 Big Red Lollipop Rukhsana Khan 2010 Canadian English
17010 The Bossy Gallito El Gallo De Bodas Lucía M. González 1994 Unknown English
17010 Chains Laurie Halse Anderson 2008 American English
17010 A Chair For My Mother Vera B. Williams 1982 American English
17010 Chato’s Kitchen Gary Soto 1995 American English