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 Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Kevin Henkes 1996 American English
17010 Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson 2003 American English
17010 Lon Po Po Ed Young 1989 American English
17010 Meet Danitra Brown Nikki Grimes 1984 American English
17010 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe 1987 American English
17010 Pink And Say Patricia Polacco 1994 American English
17010 Rickshaw Girl Mitali Perkins 2007 American English
17010 A Sick Day For Amos Mc Gee Philip Stead 2010 American English
17010 Starry River Of The Sky Grace Lin 2012 American English
17010 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron 1981 American English
17010 The Tales Of Uncle Remus Julius Lester 1987 American English
17010 Ten, Nine, Eight Molly Bang 1983 American English
17010 Tomie De Paola’s Mother Goose Tomie dePaola 1985 American English
17010 Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People’s Ears Verna Aardema 1975 American English
17010 The Lion And The Lily Ira Mukhoty 2023 Unknown English
17010 Big Fiction Dan Sinykin 2023 Unknown English
17010 Audacious Hope Indrajit Roy Unknown English
17010 Yellow Book Amitava Kumar 2023 Unknown English
17010 Intertidal Yuvan Aves Unknown English
17010 Breaking The Mould Raghuram Rajan, Rohit Lamba Unknown English
17010 Daybreak In Gaza Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller Unknown English
17010 Day Michael Cunningham American Unknown
17010 A Shining Jon Fosse Unknown Norwegian
17010 Tokyo Express Taiyō Matsumoto Unknown Unknown
17010 Zpověď Maxe Tivoliho Andrew Sean Greer 2004 American English
17010 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English
17010 Svolení Vanessa Springora 2020 French French
17010 Coma Robin Cook 1977 American English
17010 The Washing Of The Spears Donald R. Morris 1965 American English
17010 The Broken String Neil Bennun 2004 Unknown English
17010 The Afrikaners John Fisher 1969 Unknown English
17010 The Rise & Fall Of The Zulu Nation John Laband 1995 Unknown English
17010 Jameson's Raid Elizabeth Longford 1982 British English
17010 Marrying Winterborne Lisa Kleypas 2016 American English
17010 Binding 13 Chloe Walsh 2018 Unknown English
17010 We Believe The Children Richard Beck 2015 Unknown English
17010 One Of Us Knows Alyssa Cole Unknown Unknown
17010 Cursed Fates Caroline Peckham 2022 Unknown English
17010 Gold Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
17010 The Ballad Of Never After Stephanie Garber 2022 American English
17010 A Dowry Of Blood S.T. Gibson 2021 Unknown English
17010 Rouge Mona Awad 2023 Canadian English
17010 A Heart Of Blood And Ashes Milla Vane 2020 Unknown English
17010 A Fate Inked In Blood Danielle L. Jensen 2023 Unknown English
17010 Masters Of Death Olivie Blake 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Curse For True Love Stephanie Garber 2023 American English
17010 The Captain Will Wight 2023 Unknown English
17010 Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix 2023 Unknown English
17010 River Sing Me Home Eleanor Shearer 2023 Unknown English
17010 Sirens & Muses Antonia Angress 2022 Unknown English
17010 Broken Bonds J. Bree 2021 Unknown English
17010 A Day Of Fallen Night Samantha Shannon 2023 British English
17010 Twisted Lies Ana Huang 2022 Unknown English
17010 Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion 2021 American English
17010 The Phone Booth At The Edge Of The World Laura Imai Messina 2020 Italian Italian
17010 Him Sarina Bowen 2015 Unknown English
17010 All We Can Save Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 2020 Unknown English
17010 A History Of Wild Places Shea Ernshaw 2021 American English
17010 Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 2021 American English
17010 This Woven Kingdom Tahereh Mafi 2022 American English
17010 Dog Songs Mary Oliver 2013 American English
17010 Velvet Was The Night Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2021 Mexican English
17010 I Want To Eat Your Pancreas Yoru Sumino 2015 Japanese Japanese
17010 Almond Sohn Won-Pyung 2017 Korean Korean
17010 House Of Hollow Krystal Sutherland 2021 Australian English
17010 If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura 2012 Japanese Japanese
17010 Wordslut Amanda Montell 2023 American English
17010 The Queen Of The Tearling Erika Johansen 2014 American English
17010 The Beautiful Struggle Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 American English
17010 All The Tides Of Fate Adalyn Grace 2021 American English
17010 Time's Convert Deborah Harkness 2018 American English
17010 Lord Of The Mysteries Volume 1 Ai Qianshui de Wuzei 2018 Chinese Chinese
17010 Reverend Insanity Gu Zhen Re 2015 Chinese Chinese
16647 A Moth To A Flame Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
16653 دایی جان ناپلئون Iraj Pezeshkzad 1973 Iranian Persian
16652 The Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1902 American English
17010 To Calais In Ordinary Time James Meek 2019 British English
17010 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Marcus Rediker 1987 American English
17010 Time Song Julia Blackburn 2019 British English
17010 Inventario Di Alcune Cose Perdute Judith Schalansky 2018 German German
17010 Il Paradiso Degli Orchi Daniel Pennac 1985 French Italian
17010 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17010 Q Luther Blissett 1999 Italian Italian
17010 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17010 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian
17010 The Five Gates Of Hell Rupert Thomson 1991 British English
17010 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17010 The Kills Patrick House 2013 Unknown English
17010 The Year Of The Ladybird Graham Joyce 2013 British English
17010 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17010 The Race Nina Allan 2014 British English
17010 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
17010 The Ecliptic Benjamin Wood 2015 British English
17010 I Swear I'll Make It Up To You Mishka Shubaly 2016 American English
17010 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17010 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17010 Let My People Go Surfing Carolyn Chouinard 2005 Unknown English
17010 Sphinx Anne Garréta 1986 French French
17010 The First Bad Man Miranda July 2015 American English
17010 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17010 The Wake Paul Kingsnorth 2014 British English
17010 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17010 Our Ecstatic Days Steve Erickson 2005 American English
17010 Angelmaker Nick Harkaway 2012 British English
17010 Appeasement Tim Bouverie 2019 British English
17010 American Gun Cameron McWhirter 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Future Naomi Alderman British Unknown
17010 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English
17010 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17010 The World And All That It Holds Aleksandar Hemon 2023 Bosnian English
17010 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17010 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
17010 People From Bloomington Budi Darma 1980 Indonesian Indonesian
17010 The Wrong End Of The Telescope Rabih Alameddine 2021 American English
17010 Devil House John Darnielle 2022 American English
16778 The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life Emile Durkheim 1912 French French
17010 Thought To Exist In The Wild Derrick Jensen 2007 American English
17010 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17010 The Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig 2012 American English
17010 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English