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 Old Lion Jeff Shaara 2023 American English
17010 Spies In The Family Eva Dillon 2017 Unknown English
17010 The Spy In Moscow Station Eric Haseltine 2019 Unknown English
17010 Blind Man's Bluff Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Drew 1998 American English
17010 Stalking The Red Bear Peter Sasgen 2009 Unknown English
17010 The Combat Codes Charles Darwin Unknown Unknown
17010 Moshi Moshi Banana Yoshimoto 2010 Japanese Japanese
17010 The River Has Roots Amal El Mohtar 2025 Unknown Unknown
17010 Heavenbreaker Christa Wolf Unknown Unknown
17010 Maya & Natasha Elyse Durham Unknown Unknown
17010 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, Vol. 1 Singshong 2018 Korean Korean
17010 Crier's War Francisco J. Varela 2019 Unknown English
17010 The Simple Path To Wealth J.L. Collins 2016 American English
17010 Waiting For The Galactic Bus Parke Godwin 1988 American English
17010 Beauty Sheri S. Tepper 1991 American English
16843 What's Wrong With The World G. K. Chesterton 1910 British English
17010 The Last Language Jennifer duBois 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Upstairs Delicatessen Dwight Garner 2023 American English
17010 Menewood Nicola Griffith 2023 British English
17010 The Heaven And Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
17010 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Things We Make Bill Hammack 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Steerswoman Rosemary Kirstein 1989 American English
17010 Worn Sofi Thanhauser 2022 Unknown English
17010 Body Neutral Jessi Kneeland 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Rascal King Jack Beatty 1992 American English
17010 The Rise Of The Counter Establishment Sidney Blumenthal 1986 American English
17010 The Anatomy Of Genres John Truby 2022 American English
17010 Orthodoxy And The Kingdom Of Satan Spyridon Bailey Unknown English
17010 Dilla Time Dan Charnas 2022 Unknown English
17010 Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Nabeel Qureshi 2014 American English
17010 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17010 Perfectly Good Food Irene Li, Margaret Li 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Man From The Future Ananyo Bhattacharya 2021 Unknown English
17010 Period Kate Clancy 2023 Unknown English
17010 Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Patriarchs Angela Saini 2023 British English
17010 The Warped Side Of Our Universe Kip S. Thorne, Lia Halloran 2023 American English
17010 Grace In All Simplicity Chris Quigg, Robert Cahn 2023 Unknown English
17010 Girlfriend On Mars Deborah Willis 2023 Canadian English
17010 Archangel Andrea Barrett 2013 American English
17010 The Terraformers Annalee Newitz 2023 American English
17010 The Nature Book Tom Comitta 2023 Unknown English
17010 For Blood And Money Nathan Vardi 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Darkness Manifesto Johan Eklöf, Elizabeth DeNoma 2020 Unknown Swedish
17010 Elixir Theresa Levitt 2023 Unknown English
17010 In The Herbarium Maura C. Flannery 2023 Unknown English
17010 On Earth As It Is On Television Emily Jane 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Second Chance For Yesterday RA Sinn 2023 Unknown English
17010 Alfie & Me Carl Safina 2023 Unknown English
17010 Eat, Poop, Die Joe Roman 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Mind Of A Bee Lars Chittka 2022 Unknown English
17010 Ice Amy Brady 2023 Unknown English
17010 Building Science Graphics Jen Christiansen 2023 Unknown English
17010 I Feel Love Rachel Nuwer 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Same Dog Robert Aickman 2023 British Unknown
17010 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
17010 The Sounds Of Life Karen Bakker 2022 Unknown English
17010 A Half Built Garden Ruthanna Emrys 2023 Unknown English
17010 Astrotopia Mary-Jane Rubenstein 2023 Unknown English
17010 My Murder Katie Williams 2023 Unknown English
17010 Emergency Kathleen Alcott 2023 Unknown English
17010 To Name The Bigger Lie Sarah Viren 2023 Unknown English
17010 Beware The Woman Megan Abbott 2023 American English
17010 The Stolen Coast Dwyer Murphy 2023 Unknown English
17010 Mobility Lydia Kiesling 2023 American English
17010 Strega Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel 2020 Unknown Swedish
17010 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17010 The Skull Jon Klassen 2023 Canadian English
17010 The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing Melissa Banks 1999 Unknown English
17010 The Glow Jessie Gaynor 2023 Unknown English
17010 Fear Is Just A Word Azam Ahmed 2023 Unknown English
17010 Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez 2023 Unknown English
17010 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Unknown Russian
17010 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
17010 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
17010 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17010 Liliana’s Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza 2023 Unknown Spanish
17010 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
17010 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 American English
17010 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
17010 A Shining Jon Fosse 2023 Norwegian Unknown
17010 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
17010 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2023 French French
17010 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17010 How To Build A Boat Elaine Feeney 2023 Unknown English
17010 Orbital Samantha Harvey 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17010 Wrong Way Joanne McNeil 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 State Of Silence Sam Lebovic 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Money Kings Daniel Schulman 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 About Ed Robert Gluck 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Fund Rob Copeland 2023 Unknown English
17010 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
17010 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters 2023 Unknown English
17010 The Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel 2023 Unknown English
17010 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild Mathias Énard 2023 French French
17010 Holler, Child LaToya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17010 Yesterday Tobias Becker 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips 2023 American Unknown
17010 In The Shadow Of Quetzalcoatl Merilee Grindle 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 The Book At War Andrew Pettegree 2023 Unknown English
17010 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17010 Brooklyn Crime Novel Jonathan Lethem 2023 American English
17010 Earlier Sasha Frere‑Jones 2023 Unknown English
17010 Klan War Fergus M. Bordewich 2023 Unknown English
17010 Camille Pissarro Anka Muhlstein 2023 Unknown French
17010 A History Of Fake Things On The Internet Walter Scheirer 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 Charlie Chaplin Vs. America Scott Eyman 2023 Unknown English
17010 Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward 2023 American English
17010 The Love Of Singular Men Victor Heringer 2023 Brazilian Portuguese
17010 Beyond The Wall Katja Hoyer 2023 Unknown English
17010 Naked In The Rideshare Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold 2023 Unknown Unknown
17010 Flee North Scott Shane 2023 Unknown English
17010 Mapping The Darkness Kenneth Miller 2023 Unknown English
17010 January Sara Gallardo 2023 Argentine Spanish
17010 A Council Of Dolls Mona Susan Power 2023 Unknown English