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 759 '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
17160 Obra Maestra Juan Tallón 2022 Spanish Spanish
17160 The Skull Jon Klassen 2023 Canadian English
17160 The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing Melissa Banks 1999 Unknown English
17160 The Glow Jessie Gaynor 2023 Unknown English
17160 Fear Is Just A Word Azam Ahmed 2023 Unknown English
17160 Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez 2023 Unknown English
17160 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Unknown Russian
17160 Judgment At Tokyo Gary J. Bass 2023 Unknown English
17160 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
17160 The Lights Ben Lerner 2023 American Unknown
17160 Liliana’s Invincible Summer Cristina Rivera Garza 2023 Unknown Spanish
17160 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
17160 Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Rediscovery Of America Ned Blackhawk 2023 American English
17160 Roman Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown English
17160 A Shining Jon Fosse 2023 Norwegian Unknown
17160 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
17160 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2023 French French
17160 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17160 How To Build A Boat Elaine Feeney 2023 Unknown English
17160 Orbital Samantha Harvey 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Time’s Echo Jeremy Eichler 2023 Unknown English
17160 Wrong Way Joanne McNeil 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 State Of Silence Sam Lebovic 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Money Kings Daniel Schulman 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 About Ed Robert Gluck 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Fund Rob Copeland 2023 Unknown English
17160 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
17160 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Berry Pickers Amanda Peters 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Manuscripts Club Christopher de Hamel 2023 Unknown English
17160 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild Mathias Énard 2023 French French
17160 Holler, Child LaToya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17160 Yesterday Tobias Becker 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips 2023 American Unknown
17160 In The Shadow Of Quetzalcoatl Merilee Grindle 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 The Book At War Andrew Pettegree 2023 Unknown English
17160 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17160 Brooklyn Crime Novel Jonathan Lethem 2023 American English
17160 Earlier Sasha Frere‑Jones 2023 Unknown English
17160 Klan War Fergus M. Bordewich 2023 Unknown English
17160 Camille Pissarro Anka Muhlstein 2023 Unknown French
17160 A History Of Fake Things On The Internet Walter Scheirer 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Charlie Chaplin Vs. America Scott Eyman 2023 Unknown English
17160 Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward 2023 American English
17160 The Love Of Singular Men Victor Heringer 2023 Brazilian Portuguese
17160 Beyond The Wall Katja Hoyer 2023 Unknown English
17160 Naked In The Rideshare Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Flee North Scott Shane 2023 Unknown English
17160 Mapping The Darkness Kenneth Miller 2023 Unknown English
17160 January Sara Gallardo 2023 Argentine Spanish
17160 A Council Of Dolls Mona Susan Power 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Long Form Kate Briggs 2023 Unknown English
17160 Lies And Sorcery Elsa Morante 2023 Italian Unknown
17160 The Necessity Of Exile Shaul Magid 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 A Haunting On The Hill Elizabeth Hand 2023 American English
17160 The House Of Doors Tan Twan Eng 2023 Malaysian English
17160 Cross‑Stitch Jazmina Barrera 2023 Unknown Spanish
17160 The Vulnerables Sigrid Nunez 2023 American Unknown
17160 Romney McKay Coppins 2023 American English
17160 The Dimensions Of A Cave Greg Jackson 2023 Unknown English
17160 How To Be Multiple Helena de Bres 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Going Infinite Michael Lewis 2023 American English
17160 The Mysteries Bill Watterson 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 The Chapter Nicholas Dames 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Lumumba Plot Stuart A. Reid 2023 Unknown English
17160 On Marriage Devorah Baum 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Revolutionary Temper Robert Darnton 2023 American English
17160 What The Taliban Told Me Ian Fritz 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Monica Daniel Clowes 2023 American English
17160 The Two‑Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
17160 A Volga Tale Guzel Yakhina 2023 Russian Russian
17160 Artificial Amy Kurzweil 2023 Unknown English
17160 Omega Farm Martha McPhee 2023 Unknown English
17160 Pandora’s Box Peter Biskind 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 A City On Mars Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Pensive Citadel Victor Brombert 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Crossings Ben Goldfarb 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Body Of The Soul Lyudmila Ulitskaya 2023 Russian Russian
17160 The Lies Of The Land Steven Conn 2023 Unknown English
17160 American Poly Christopher M. Gleason 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17160 Wound Oksana Vasyakina 2023 Russian Russian
17160 The Boy From Kyiv Marina Harss 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 This Country Navied Mahdavian 2023 Unknown English
17160 This Won’t Help Eli Grober 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17160 Black Friend Ziwe 2023 Unknown English
17160 Our Hideous Progeny C. E. McGill 2023 Unknown English
17160 Blood In The Machine Brian Merchant 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Burning Of The World Scott W. Berg 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Emperor Of Rome Mary Beard 2023 British English
17160 Pet Catherine Chidgey 2023 New Zealand English
17160 A Man Of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen 2023 American English
17160 American Visions Edward L. Ayers 2023 American English
17160 I Must Be Dreaming Roz Chast 2023 American English
17160 Revolutionary Spring Christopher Clark 2023 British English
17160 The Upstairs Delicatessen Dwight Garner 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 Fire In The Canyon Daniel Gumbiner 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17160 Ladies’ Lunch Lore Segal 2023 American English
17160 The English Experience Julie Schumacher 2023 American English
17160 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 American English
17160 American Gun Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson 2023 Unknown English
17160 Reproduction Louisa Hall 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Unsettled Ayana Mathis 2023 American English
17160 How To Be Adam Nicolson 2023 British English
17160 The End Of Eden Adam Welz 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright 2023 Irish English
17160 How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair 2023 Unknown English
17160 The Civic Bargain Brook Manville, Josiah Ober 2023 Unknown English
17160 A Flat Place Noreen Masud 2023 Unknown English
17160 Live To See The Day Nikhil Goyal 2023 Unknown English
17160 Paris Notebooks Mavis Gallant 2023 Canadian English
17160 Sparks Ian Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17160 Loved And Missed Susie Boyt 2023 British English
17160 The Glint Of Light Clarence Major 2023 Unknown Unknown
17160 The Pole J. M. Coetzee 2023 South African English
17160 Glossy Marisa Meltzer 2023 Unknown English