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
17151 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
17151 Metabolical Arnost Lustig 2021 Unknown English
17151 M.D. Neil Ravin 1981 Unknown English
17151 Sweet Dream Baby Sterling Watson 2002 American English
17151 Nothing Can Go Wrong John D. MacDonald, John H. Kilpatrick American English
17143 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1605 Spanish Spanish
17151 To Sing With The Angels Maurice Hindus American English
17151 Outlaw Angus Donald 2009 British English
17151 Heads You Win Jeffrey Archer 2018 British English
17151 Envy Sandra Brown 2001 American English
17151 Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark 2009 English
16837 The Assassins Elia Kazan 1972 American English
17151 The Last Go Round Ken Ksey American English
17151 Dangerous Beauty Mark Ross 2001 Unknown English
17151 The Pleasure Dome Judith Liederman 1981 Unknown English
17151 Todos Os Contos Clarice Lispector 2015 Brazilian Portuguese
17151 Anima Rising Christopher Moore 2025 American English
17151 Deeper Than The Dead Tami Hoag 2009 American English
17151 Secrets To The Grave Tami Hoag 2010 American English
17151 Down The Darkest Road Tami Hoag 2011 American English
17151 Almost Dead Lisa Jackson 2007 American English
17151 Absolute Fear Lisa Jackson 2007 American English
17151 You Will Pay Lisa Jackson 2017 American English
17151 If She Only Knew Lisa Jackson 2000 American English
17151 After She's Gone Lisa Jackson 2015 American English
17151 Inferno Dan Brown 2013 American English
17151 I'm Feeling Lucky Douglas Edwards 2011 American English
17151 Omnisophie Gunter Dueck German German
17151 El Español Que Enamoró Al Mundo Ignacio Peyró Unknown Spanish
17151 Light And Thread Han Kang 2025 South Korean Korean
17002 Endurance Alfred Lansing 1959 American English
17151 Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke Unknown Unknown
17151 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
17151 Saul And Morris James Yaffe 1982 Unknown English
17151 Goethe Werke 6 Volumes In German Insel Verlag Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German German
17151 Skycastle Steve Krantz 1981 American English
17151 Als Zeuge Der Zeit Arthur Koestler 1983 German Unknown
17151 Also Sprach Bellavista. Neapel, Liebe Und Freiheit. Luciano De Crescenzo 1977 Italian Italian
17151 Wie Politik Funktioniert Wolf Wagner German German
17151 Der Unbewußte Gott. Psychotherapie Und Religion Frankl, Viktor E. 2005 Austrian German
17151 The Stone Flower Alan Scholefield 1983 South African English
17151 Tom Mix And Pancho Villa Clifford Irving 1982 American English
17151 City Of Illusion Vardis Fisher American English
17151 Giant Bones Peter S. Beagle 1997 American English
17151 The Unsinkable Ship Of Fools Jonas Goonface 2025 Unknown English
17151 When Sisterhood Was In Flower Florence King 1982 American English
17151 The Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman 2011 American English
17151 Baking Cakes In Kigali Gaile Parkin 2009 South African English
17151 Us Dark Few alexis petton Unknown Unknown
17052 Rebellion Joseph Roth 1924 Austrian German
17151 Bodies And Souls Nancy Thayer 1983 American English
17151 The Books Of The Bible Anonymous Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, koine greek
17151 Platform Decay Martha Wells 2026 American English
17151 Kill Decision Daniel Suarez 2012 American English
17151 Lettere A Lucilio Seneca 2064 Roman Italian
17151 El Vago Laurence Gonzales 1983 American English
17151 Coming Home Sue Gee 2013 British English
17151 Keeping Secrets Sue Gee 1980 British English
17151 Cousins Sally Vickers British English
17151 Grandmothers Sally Vickers British English
17151 At The End Of The Orchard Tracy Chevalier British English
17151 The Book Of D'ni Rand Miller 1997 American English
17151 Foggage Patrick McGinley 1983 Irish English
17151 Twice Mitch Albom 2025 American English
17151 A Good Death Philip Ross 1983 Unknown English
17151 Honor Bound Richard Harris 1980 Unknown English
17151 Eternal Love Xuemo Unknown Unknown
17151 Schizoanalytic Cartographies Félix Guattari 1989 French French
17151 Psychotherapy And Materialism Unknown Unknown Unknown
17151 Gray Mirror Yarvin, Curtis American English
17151 Kincaid Henry Denker American English
17151 Captain Paul Edward Ellsberg 2010 American English
17151 Lightsource Bari Wood 1984 American English
17151 Miracles Marcy Heidish 1984 Unknown Unknown
17151 Nerve Endings William Martin Unknown English
17151 You've Found Oliver Dustin Thao 2025 American English
17041 The Fellowship Of The Ring J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 English English
16918 Clarkton Howard Fast 1947 American English
17151 Tolk Maja Lee Langvad Danish Unknown
17151 All Of Their Lives Myron Brinig Unknown Unknown
17151 The Pull Of The Earth Alfred Alcorn 1985 Unknown English
17151 Birdwatchingwatching Donald Horne 2009 Australian Unknown
17151 Princess Of Dorsa Eliza Andrews 2018 American English
17151 Soldier Of Dorsa Eliza Andrews Unknown English
17151 Empress Of Dorsa Eliza Andrews Unknown English
17151 History Of England From The Accession Of King James I. Samuel Rawson Gardiner English English
17151 The Voices Of Robby Wilde forgotten Unknown Unknown
17151 The Voices Of Robby Wilde Elizabeth Kytle 1987 Unknown English
17151 The Vulgate Bible Ronald Knox, translator English English
17151 Buddhadharma anonymous Unknown Unknown
17151 A Concise History Of The Common Law Theodore Plucknett 2013 British English
17151 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Studs Terkel 1996 American English
17151 Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson American English
16866 The World Of Null A A. E. Van Vogt 1945 Canadian English
17151 Novels By Saratchandra Chattapodhyay Saratchandra Chattapodhyay Indian Bengali
17151 Beyond Stephen Walker 2021 Unknown Unknown
17151 Losing The Signal McNish, Jacquie, Silcoff, Sean 2015 Canadian English