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 The Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig 2012 American English
17010 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17010 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17010 Janesville Amy Goldstein Unknown Unknown
17010 Audience Of One James Poniewozik 2019 American English
17010 Dracula Jon J. Muth Unknown Unknown
16698 No Surrender Hiroo Onoda 1974 Japanese Japanese
17010 King Of The World David Remnick 1998 American English
17010 Hollow Kingdom Bill Buxton 2019 Unknown English
17010 Rabbit Cake Annie Hartnett 2017 American English
17010 My Father, The Pornographer Andrew J. Offutt 2016 American English
17010 The Red Parts Maggie Nelson 2007 American English
17010 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17010 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17010 Christmas Days Jeanette Winterson 2016 British English
16731 Tears And Saints Emil Cioran 1937 Romanian French
17010 White Egrets Derek Walcott 2010 Saint Lucian English
16793 Notes From Underground & The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
17010 Entered From The Sun George Garrett 1990 American English
17005 The Singing Wilderness Sigurd F. Olson 1956 American English
17010 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
16711 The Frontiersmen Allan W. Eckert 1967 American English
17010 Tales Of The Unexpected Roald Dahl 1979 British English
17010 Desperadoes Ron Hansen 1979 American English
17010 The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore 2008 American English
17010 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
17010 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17010 Lipstick Traces Greil Marcus 1989 American English
17010 The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer 2005 American English
17010 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17010 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
17010 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17010 Delilah Green Doesn't Care Ashley Herring Blake 2022 American English
16761 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 American English
17010 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17010 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17010 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17010 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17010 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17010 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17010 The Drowned Moniro Ravanipour 1989 Unknown Persian
17010 The Woman Who Read Too Much Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 2015 Unknown English
17010 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17010 Better Than War Siamak Vossoughi 2015 Unknown English
17010 Song Of A Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2018 American English
17010 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17010 The Last Days Of Cafe Leila Donia Bijan 2017 Unknown English
17010 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17010 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17010 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17010 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17010 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17010 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17010 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17010 The Neighbors Ahmad Mahmoud 1974 Unknown Persian
17010 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17010 Equal Of The Sun Anita Amirrezvani 2012 Unknown English
17010 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17010 Fresh Water For Flowers Valerie Perrin 2018 French French
17010 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17010 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17010 Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen 2020 American English
17010 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17010 Poems Of Sextus Propertius Propertius -29 Roman Latin
17010 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17010 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
16685 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
16818 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17010 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
17010 Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen 2013 American English
17010 Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank 1990 American English
17010 The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. Thomas Tufte 1983 Unknown English
17010 Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch 2019 Canadian English
17010 The Fall Of Gondolin J. R. R. Tolkien 2018 British English
17010 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17010 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17010 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17010 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17010 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann 2011 American English
17010 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17010 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 3 Hayao Miyazaki 1984 Japanese Japanese
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 4 Hayao Miyazaki 1990 Japanese Japanese
17010 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 2 Hayao Miyazaki 1983 Japanese Japanese
17010 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17010 The Short Drop Matthew FitzSimmons 2015 American English
17010 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
17010 The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth 2011 British English
17010 The Elements Of Eloquence Mark Forsyth 2013 British English
17010 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
17010 Jhereg Steven Brust 1983 American English
17010 D.Gray Man, Vol. 1 Katsura Hoshino 2004 Japanese Japanese
17010 By The Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle 2024 Unknown English
17010 Mother Of Learning Domagoj Kurmaić 2011 Unknown English
17010 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17010 Percy Jackson And The Olympians Boxed Set Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17010 The Black Circle Patrick Carman 2009 American English
17010 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17010 Beyond The Grave Jude Watson 2009 American English
17010 The Sword Thief Peter Lerangis 2009 American English
17010 The Emperor Of Nihon Ja John Flanagan 2010 Australian English
17010 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17010 Dragon Prince Melanie Rawn 1988 American English
16776 Fate Is The Hunter Ernest K. Gann 1961 American English
17010 Red Army Amanda Peters 1989 Unknown Unknown
17010 Teresa Degli Oracoli Cecconi 2020 Unknown Italian
17010 Länsimaisen Filosofian Historia Huipulta Huipulle, Sokrateesta Marxiin Esa Saarinen 1985 Finnish Finnish
17010 Siilo Hugh Howey 2011 American English
16927 Valentino / Sagittarius Natalia Ginzburg 1957 Italian Italian
17010 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
17010 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17010 Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 1995 Italian Italian
16804 The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg 1947 Italian Italian
16860 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
16984 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17010 In The Shade Of Spring Leaves Ichiyō Higuchi 1981 Japanese Japanese
17010 A Small Corner Of Hell Anna Politkovskaya 2003 Russian Russian
17010 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17010 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17010 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English