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 The Brother Karamazov / The Idiot David Fishelson American Unknown
17152 The Best Of Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe American English
17152 Convict Conditioning Paul Wade Australian English
17152 The Shortest Day Cooper, Susan 2019 British English
17152 The Science Of Last Things Ellen Wayland-Smith American Unknown
16962 How To Stop Worrying & Start Living Dale Carnegie 1948 American English
17068 Preobražaj Franz Kafka 1915 German German
17152 The Call Peadar Ó Guilín 2013 Irish English
17152 The Mahabharata Ramesh Menon 2004 British English
17152 Rascal Does Not Dream Of Bunny Girl Senpai Hajime Kamoshida 2014 Japanese Japanese
17152 Chef's Special Susan X. Meagher 2016 Unknown Unknown
17152 Tryst Six Venom Penelope Douglas 2021 American English
17152 We Are Green And Trembling Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2023 Argentinian Spanish
17152 We Live Here Now C.D. Rose Unknown English
17152 Diego Garcia Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams 2022 British English
17152 Sterling Karat Gold Isabel Waidner 2021 British English
17152 Europe And The Faith Hilaire Belloc British English
17152 The Magpie At Night Li Qingzhao Chinese Chinese
17152 Qur'an And Woman Amina Wadud 1992 American English
17152 The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore 2010 American English
17152 The Sarah Book Scott McClanahan 2015 American English
17152 A Forbidden Alchemy Stacey McEwan Unknown English
17152 Shield Of Sparrows Devney Perry American English
17152 Divided Allegiance Elizabeth Moon 1988 American English
17152 Oath Of Gold Elizabeth Moon 1989 American English
17152 The Brendan Voyage Severin, Tim 1978 Irish English
17152 Ireland In The Medieval World, Ad400–1000 Bhreathnach, Edel Irish English
17152 The World Played Chess Robert Dugoni American English
17152 Year Book Seth Rogen Canadian English
16872 Farenhajt 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
17152 薫る花は凛と咲く 1 Saka Mikami 2022 Japanese Japanese
17152 薫る花は凛と咲く 6 Saka Mikami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17152 A Book Of Silence Maitland, Sara 2008 British English
17152 ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン 1 Kana Akatsuki 2015 Japanese Japanese
17152 The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Kaoru & Rin Vol. 1 Saka Mikami 2022 Japanese Japanese
17152 薫る花は凛と咲く 5 Saka Mikami 2022 Japanese Japanese
17152 薫る花は凛と咲く 7 Saka Mikami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17152 Plum Island Nelson DeMille 1997 American English
17152 Eyes Of Horus Joan Grant 1980 British English
17061 Lord Of The Horizon Joan Grant 1969 British English
17152 Initiation Elizabeth Hatch Unknown Unknown
17124 The Death Ivan Ilych And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
17152 A Good Marriage Stephen King 2010 American English
17152 Thinking In Systems Donella H. Meadows 2008 American English
17152 Yatharth Geeta Swami Adgadanand 1994 Indian Unknown
17152 Sita Amish Tripathi 2017 Indian English
17152 The Secret Of The Nagas Amish Tripathi 2011 Indian English
17152 The Oath Of The Vayuputras Amish Tripathi 2013 Indian English
17152 Kafka Nishioka Kyodai Japanese Unknown
17059 Jane Eyre Emily Bronte 1847 English English
17152 Station Eternity Mur Lafferty 2022 American English
17152 The Murders In Great Diddling Katarina Bivald 2024 Swedish Unknown
17152 You Sexy Thing Cat Rambo 2021 American English
17152 The Antique Hunter's Guide To Murder C.L. Miller 2024 Unknown English
17152 The Kaiju Preservation Society John Scalzi 2022 American English
17152 The Treasure Hunters Club Tom Ryan 2024 Unknown English
17152 The Square Of Sevens Laura Shepherd-Robinson 2023 British English
17152 Red Side Story Jasper Fforde 2024 British English
17152 The Last Word Elly Griffiths 2024 British English
17152 Close To Death Anthony Horowitz 2024 British English
17152 How To Solve Your Own Murder Kristen Perrin 2024 Unknown English
17152 The Secret Hours Mick Herron 2023 British English
17152 Never Sleep Fred Van Lente American English
17152 To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars Christopher Paolini 2020 American English
17152 Murder Your Employer Rupert Holmes 2023 American English
17152 The Twist Of The Knife Anthony Horowitz 2019 British English
17152 Bleeding Heart Yard Elly Griffiths 2022 British English
17152 Certain Dark Things Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2016 Canadian English
17152 Made For Love Alissa Nutting 2017 American English
17152 The Paradox Hotel Rob Heart 2022 American English
17152 Aresenic And Adobo Mia P. Manansala 2021 American English
17152 The Postscript Murders Elly Griffiths 2020 British English
17152 Fake Fruit Factory Patrick Wensink 2015 American English
17152 Strange Practice Vivian Shaw 2017 American English
17152 The Blacktongue Thief Christopher Buehlman 2021 American English
17152 The Lost Love Songs Of Boysie Singh Ingrid Persaud 2024 Trinidadian English
17152 Stand Firm Svend Brinkmann Danish Danish
17152 The Rising Tide Ann Cleeves British English
17152 Not That Bad Roxane Gay 2018 American English
17152 Forever, Interrupted Taylor Jenkins Reid 2013 American English
17152 When The Angels Left The Old Country Sacha Lamb Unknown English
17152 A Empregada Freida McFadden 2022 American English
17152 Hooked McIntire, Emily 2021 Unknown English
17152 The Memory Painter Womack, Gwendolyn 2015 American English
16850 The Cloud Of Unknowing And Other Works Anonymous 1375 English Middle english
17152 The Hitchhiker's Trilogy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
17152 チェンソーマン 9 [Chainsaw Man 9] Tatsuki Fujimoto Japanese Japanese
17152 God Is Love Pope Benedict XVI 2005 German Latin
16882 Pedro Páramo / El Llano En Llamas Juan Rulfo 1953 Mexican Spanish
17152 Loner Teddy Wayne 2016 American English
17152 Who Deserves Your Love K.C. Davis American English
17152 The Ogress And The Orphans Kelly Barnhill 2022 American English
17152 The Moth Keeper K. O’Neil Unknown English
17152 Island Of Whispers Frances Hardinge 2023 British English
17152 Perlmann's Silence Pascal Mercier Swiss German
17152 Starting Point 1979 1996 Hayao Miyazaki Japanese Japanese
17152 Psychology Of Money Morgan Housel 2020 American English
17152 Wee Wee woo Unknown Unknown
17152 Classroom Of The Elite Syougo Kinugasa 2020 Japanese Japanese
17152 From A Buick 8 Stephen King 2002 American English
17152 Harold Stephen Wright American English
17152 What Dreams May Come Richard Matheson 1978 American English
17152 1 Q84 Haruki Murakami 2009 Japanese Japanese
17152 1984 & Animal Farm George Orwell British English
17152 History Is All You Left Me Adam Silvera 2017 American English
17152 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
16875 The Heart Of A Dog Mikhail Bulgakov 1925 Russian Russian
17152 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17152 Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire Drusilla Dunjee Houston 1985 American English
17152 In This Corner Of The World Fumiyo Kouno 2007 Japanese Japanese
17152 The Silence Of The Lambs And Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1991 American Unknown
17152 Saint Thomas Aquinas And Saint Francis Of Assisi G.K. Chesterton English English
17152 Scott Pilgrim The Complete Series Bryan Lee O'Malley 2010 Canadian English
17152 Remembrance Of Earth's Past Liu Cixin 2012 Chinese Chinese
17152 The Dalemark Quartet Diana Wynne Jones 1993 British English
17152 Will Eisner's New York Will Eisner 2006 American English
17152 Hyperbole And A Half & Solutions And Other Problems By Allie Brosh 2 Books Collection Set Allie Brosh 2013 American English
17152 Year Of The King Antony Sher 1985 British English
17152 Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library Frank Miller 2005 American English
17152 Real Analysis Jay Cummings Unknown English