The Greatest Books of All Time
Click to learn how this list is calculated.
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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17122 | War And Punishment | Mikhail Zygar | 2023 | Unknown | Russian | |
| 17122 | Last Of The Lions | Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | You, Bleeding Childhood | Michele Mari | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17122 | The Migrant Chef | Laura Tillman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Centre | Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | A Most Tolerant Little Town | Rachel Louise Martin | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | The Parrot And The Igloo | David Lipsky | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Hope | Andrew Ridker | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Dykette | Jenny Fran Davis | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Ultra‑Processed People | Chris van Tulleken | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | Retrospective | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | 2023 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 17122 | Last Call At Coogan’s | Jon Michaud | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Rhythm Man | Stephanie Stein Crease | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Grand Delusion | Steven Simon | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17122 | Fire Rush | Jacqueline Crooks | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Eight Bears | Gloria Dickie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Ninth Building | Zou Jingzhi | 2023 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17122 | Thunderclap | Laura Cumming | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | How To Love Your Daughter | Hila Blum | 2023 | Unknown | Hebrew | |
| 17122 | So To Speak | Terrance Hayes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Snow Road Station | Elizabeth Hay | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17122 | Elsewhere | Yan Ge | 2023 | Chinese | English | |
| 17122 | A Madman’s Will | Gregory May | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Tabula Rasa | John McPhee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Fires In The Dark | Kay Redfield Jamison | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | After The Funeral And Other Stories | Tessa Hadley | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | Wasteland | Oliver Franklin‑Wallis | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Natural Light | Julian Bell | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | I Do Everything I’m Told | Megan Fernandes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Lost Sons Of Omaha | Joe Sexton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The 272 | Rachel L. Swarns | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Book Of Eve | Carmen Boullosa | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17122 | A History Of Burning | Janika Oza | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Art Thief | Michael Finkel | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Winnie And Nelson | Jonny Steinberg | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Tiger Work | Ben Okri | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | The Covenant Of Water | Abraham Verghese | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Tomorrow Perhaps The Future | Sarah Watling | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The House Is On Fire | Rachel Beanland | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Sullivanians | Alexander Stille | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Late Americans | Brandon Taylor | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Instructions For The Drowning | Steven Heighton | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17122 | Easily Slip Into Another World | Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Lament For Julia | Susan Taubes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Owlish | Dorothy Tse | 2023 | Unknown | Chinese | |
| 17122 | V Is For Victory | Craig Nelson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Be Mine | Richard Ford | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | A Life Of One’s Own | Joanna Biggs | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Wounded World | Chad L. Williams | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | An Honorable Exit | Éric Vuillard | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17122 | The Talk | Darrin Bell | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Samuel Barber | Howard Pollack | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Commitment | Mona Simpson | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | We’re All In This Together...So Make Some Room | Tom Papa | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Monsters | Claire Dederer | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Take What You Need | Idra Novey | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | The World | Simon Sebag Montefiore | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | The Plot To Save South Africa | Justice Malala | 2023 | South African | English | |
| 17122 | Mozart In Motion | Patrick Mackie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | My Father’s Brain | Sandeep Jauhar | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Gravity And Center | Henri Cole | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | The Earth Transformed | Peter Frankopan | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | Paved Paradise | Henry Grabar | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Biting The Hand | Julia Lee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | When The World Didn’t End | Guinevere Turner | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Carmageddon | Daniel Knowles | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Weeds | Katy Simpson Smith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Hungry Ghosts | Kevin Jared Hosein | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Actual Malice | Samantha Barbas | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Girl Juice | Benji Nate | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Holding The Note | David Remnick | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Parfit | David Edmonds | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Go Back And Get It | Dionne Ford | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | We The Scientists | Amy Dockser Marcus | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness | Jai Chakrabarti | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Postcard | Anne Berest | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17122 | Traffic | Ben Smith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | In The Orchard | Eliza Minot | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Camera Girl | Carl Sferrazza Anthony | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Shy | Max Porter | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | Hit Parade Of Tears | Izumi Suzuki | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17122 | Waco | Jeff Guinn | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Waco Rising | Kevin Cook | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Writers And Missionaries | Adam Shatz | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Impossible People | Julia Wertz | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Stealing | Margaret Verble | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Skip To The Fun Parts | Dana Jeri Maier | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Nothing Stays Put | Willard Spiegelman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Still Life With Bones | Alexa Hagerty | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | To Anyone Who Ever Asks | Howard Fishman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Fawn | Magda Szabó | 2023 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 17122 | We Should Not Be Friends | Will Schwalbe | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Künstlers In Paradise | Cathleen Schine | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Fatherland | Burkhard Bilger | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Best Minds | Jonathan Rosen | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | Spoiled | Anne Mendelson | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17122 | The Cult Of Creativity | Samuel W. Franklin | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Psychonauts | Mike Jay | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Benjamin Banneker And Us | Rachel Jamison Webster | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Spring Rain | Marc Hamer | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17122 | In Memoriam | Alice Winn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Tenacious Beasts | Christopher J. Preston | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Is It Hot In Here? | Zach Zimmerman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Greek Lessons | Han Kang | 2023 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17122 | Raving | McKenzie Wark | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Laughter | Sonora Jha | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | The Diary Keepers | Nina Siegal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Steady Rollin | Fred Noland | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17122 | Pineapple Street | Jenny Jackson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Courting India | Nandini Das | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Skeletons | Deborah Landau | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | There Will Be Fire | Rory Carroll | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | A Spell Of Good Things | Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ | 2023 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17122 | White Cat, Black Dog | Kelly Link | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17122 | The Great Reclamation | Rachel Heng | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17122 | Siblings | Brigitte Reimann | 2023 | German | German |