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
17152 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Two Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
17152 No One Will Come Back For Us Premee Mohamed 2023 Canadian English
17152 The Strange Nathan Ballingrud 2023 American English
17152 Critical Mass Daniel Suarez 2023 American English
17152 Fixit Joe Ide 2023 American English
17152 The Kind Worth Saving Peter Swanson 2023 American English
17152 The Murder Of Mr. Wickham Claudia Gray 2022 Unknown English
17152 The Lock Up John Banville 2023 Irish English
17152 My Men Victoria Kielland 2023 Unknown Norwegian
17152 Prom Mom Laura Lippman 2023 American English
17152 The Many Assassinations Of Samir, The Seller Of Dreams Daniel Nayeri 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Magicians Blexbolex, Karin Snelson 2022 Unknown French
17152 Bunny & Tree Balint Zsako 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Tree And The River Aaron Becker 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Shade Tree Suzy Lee, Helen Mixter 2023 Unknown English
17152 Do You Remember? Sydney Smith 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Search For The Giant Arctic Jellyfish Chloe Savage 2022 Unknown English
17152 Discovering Life’s Story Joy Hakim 2023 American English
17152 The Bathysphere Book Brad Fox 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17152 Barbara Isn’t Dying Alina Bronsky 2021 German German
17152 Confidence Rafael Frumkin 2023 Unknown English
17152 Dayswork Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel 2023 Unknown English
17152 Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain 2023 Unknown English
17152 A Haunting On The Hill Elizabeth Hand 2023 American English
17152 I Will Greet The Sun Again Khashayar J. Khabushani 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Madstone Elizabeth Crook 2023 American English
17152 My Father’s House Joseph O’Connor 2023 Irish English
17152 My Name Is Iris Brando Skyhorse 2023 American English
17152 No One Prayed Over Their Graves Khaled Khalifa 2019 Syrian Arabic
17152 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Sunset Crowd Karin Tanabe 2023 Unknown English
17152 Up With The Sun Thomas Mallon 2023 American English
17152 Vintage Contemporaries Dan Kois 2014 Unknown English
17152 Althea Sally H. Jacobs 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Big Break Ben Terris 2023 Unknown English
17152 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17152 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17152 The Critic’s Daughter Priscilla Gilman 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17152 Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You Lucinda Williams 2023 American English
17152 George Frieda Hughes 2023 British English
17152 Gun Country Andrew C. McKevitt 2023 Unknown English
17152 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17152 Leg Greg Marshall 2023 Unknown English
17152 Lou Reed Will Hermes 2023 Unknown English
17152 Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2023 Unknown English
17152 Of Time And Turtles Sy Montgomery 2023 American English
17152 The People’s Hospital Ricardo Nuila 2023 Unknown English
17152 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Red Hotel Alan Philps 2019 Unknown English
17152 Saying It Loud Mark Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff 2023 American English
17152 Starkweather Harry N. MacLean 2023 Unknown English
17152 Ufo Garrett M. Graff 2023 Unknown English
17152 Under The Eye Of Power Colin Dickey 2023 American English
17152 The Upside Down World Benjamin Moser Unknown Unknown
17152 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17152 Without Children Peggy O’Donnell Heffington 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
17152 Sparks Ian Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg 2023 Danish English
17152 The Fiscal Theory Of The Price Level John Cochrane 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Geek Way Andrew McAfee 2023 American English
17152 Material World Ed Conway 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani, James White 2023 Unknown English
17152 Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17152 Hitler, Stalin, Mum And Dad Daniel Finkelstein 2023 British English
17152 Ian Fleming Nicholas Shakespeare 2023 Unknown English
17152 Into The Amazon Larry Rohter 2017 Unknown English
17152 J.L. Austin M.W. Rowe 2004 Unknown English
17152 Milton Friedman Jennifer Burns 2023 Unknown English
17152 Monet Jackie Wullschläger 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
17152 Emperor Of Rome Mary Beard 2023 British English
17152 In Her Nature Rachel Hewitt 2023 Unknown English
17152 The Lumumba Plot Stuart Reid 2023 Unknown English
17152 On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock 2023 Unknown English
17152 Gradual Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox 2022 Unknown English
17152 High Caucasus Tom Parfitt 2023 Unknown English
17152 Pandora’s Box Peter Biskind 2004 Unknown English
17152 Sailing Alone Richard King 2023 Unknown English
17152 Time To Think Hannah Barnes 2023 Unknown English
17152 Wrath Of The Triple Goddess Rick Riordan Unknown Unknown
17152 Mefisto Kulübü Tess Gerritsen 2006 American English
16857 Olağanüstü Bir Gece Stefan Zweig 1922 Austrian German
17030 An Unpleasant Predicament Fyodor Dostoevsky 1862 Russian Russian
17152 Günahkar Tess Gerritsen 2003 American English
17152 Siliniş Tess Gerritsen 2005 American English
17152 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17152 Read People Like A Book Patrick King 2020 Unknown English
17152 To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 Tad Williams 1993 American English
17152 Traitor's Blade Sebastien de Castell 2014 Canadian English
17152 Remnant Population Elizabeth Moon 1996 American English
17152 The Curse Of The Mistwraith Janny Wurts 1993 American English
17152 Temporary Hilary Leichter 2020 American English
17152 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 7 Hayao Miyazaki 1995 Japanese Japanese
17152 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 6 Hayao Miyazaki 1994 Japanese Japanese
17152 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 5 Hayao Miyazaki 1994 Japanese Japanese
17152 Lost Gods Brom 2016 American English
17152 To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 Tad Williams 1993 American English
17152 Stone Of Farewell Tad Williams 1990 American English
17152 Bloodline Claudia Gray 2016 American English
17152 Lost Stars Claudia Gray 2015 Unknown English
17152 Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
17152 The Islanders Meg Mitchell Moore 2019 Unknown English
17152 Savannah Blues Mary Kay Andrews 2002 American English
17152 Enchantment Orson Scott Card 1999 American English
17152 9 From The Nine Worlds Rick Riordan 2018 American English
17152 The Maze Of Bones Rick Riordan 2008 American English
17152 Still Life / A Fatal Grace / The Cruelest Month Louise Penny 2005 Canadian English
17152 The Mastermind Evan Ratliff 2019 American English
17152 The Most Important Thing Howard Marks 2011 American English
17152 Small Great Things Jodi Picoult 2016 American English
17152 Judas Jeff Loveness 2018 Unknown English
17152 1999 Emily Dickinson Unknown Unknown
16879 My Autobiography Charles Chaplin 1964 British English
17152 Pentimento Lillian Hellman 1973 American English
17152 Popular Mechanics Raymond Carver 1981 American English