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
4681 The Autobiography of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1924 American English
4682 A Horse Walks Into A Bar David Grossman 2014 Israeli Hebrew
4683 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss 1960 American English
4684 The Complete Poems Philip Larkin 1988 British English
4685 Extracts From Notes On The Bulgarian Uprisings Zahari Stoyanov 1884 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4686 The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht 2011 Serbian English
4687 The Sabbath Abraham Joshua Heschel 1951 American English
4687 Essays In Zen Buddhism D. T. Suzuki 1925 Japanese English
4687 The Cost Of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1937 German German
4687 Letters And Papers From Prison Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1951 German German
4687 Letters And Religion John Jay Chapman 1892 American English
4687 The Myth Of The Eternal Return Mircea Eliade 1949 Romanian French
4687 Christianity And Culture T. S. Eliot 1939 British English
4687 The Lord Romano Guardini 1934 German German
4687 The Reign Of Quantity & The Signs Of The Times René Guénon 1945 French French
4687 Testament Of Devotion Thomas R. Kelly 1941 American English
4687 Enthusiasm Ronald Knox 1950 British English
4687 Christ And Culture H. Richard Niebuhr 1951 American English
4687 The Idea Of The Holy Rudolf Otto 1917 German English
4687 In Search Of The Miraculous P.D. Ouspensky 1947 Russian English
4687 The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna Mahendranath Gupta 1902 Indian Bengali
4687 Major Trends In Jewish Mysticism Gershom Scholem 1929 German German
4687 Centuries Of Meditations Thomas Traherne 1665 British English
4687 Practical Mysticism Evelyn Underhill 1914 British English
4705 The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1922 British English
4706 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter 1965 American English
4707 Faserland Christian Kracht 1995 German German
4708 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
4709 Roots Arnold Wesker 1959 British English
4710 Grimus Salman Rushdie 1975 British English
4711 Flesh Brigid Brophy 1962 British English
4711 Pigeon Feathers And Other Stories John Updike 1962 American English
4711 My Michael Amos Oz 1968 Israeli Hebrew
4711 Umgang Mit Der Angst Horst-Eberhard Richter 1968 German German
4715 Jumping Jenny Anthony Berkeley 1933 British English
4716 Office Politics Wilfrid Sheed 1965 British English
4717 A Life of Picasso John Richardson 1991 British English
4718 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
4719 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
4720 The Sword of the Lictor Gene Wolfe 1982 American English
4721 The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta 1976 Nigerian English
4721 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 3 Mircea Eliade 1985 French French
4723 Death of a Lake Arthur William Upfield 1954 Australian English
4723 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
4723 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
4723 Of Time and the River Thomas Wolfe 1935 American English
4723 The Bone is Pointed Arthur William Upfield 1938 Australian English
4723 Venus in Furs Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch 1870 Austrian German
4723 Mission Box Aris Alexandrou 1974 Greek Greek
4723 Days Of Sand Bujor Nedelcovici 1979 Romanian Romanian
4731 Don Carlos Friedrich Schiller 1787 German German
4732 The Making of Homeric Verse Milman Parry 1971 American English
4733 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation M. T. Anderson 2006 American English
4734 Woman Of Straw Catherine Arley 1956 French French
4736 Shadow and ACT Ralph Ellison 1964 American English
4735 The Headless Horseman Thomas Mayne Reid 1865 Irish English
4737 Trees And Shrubs Of New Zealand Audrey Eagle 1975 New Zealand English
4738 When A Scot Ties The Knot Tessa Dare 2015 American English
4739 At Play in the Fields of the Lord Peter Matthiessen 1965 American English
4740 Tell Me How It Ends Valeria Luiselli 2017 Mexican English
4741 The Man With The Golden Touch Mór Jókai 1872 Hungarian Hungarian
4742 The Commandant Jessica Anderson 1975 Australian English
4742 Willard and His Bowling Trophies Richard Brautigan 1975 American English
4744 The Christian Tradition Jaroslav Pelikan 1971 American English
4745 Nos Matamos O Cão Tinhoso Bernardo Honwana 1964 Mozambican Portuguese
4745 Indaba, My Children Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa 1964 South African English
4745 Oeuvre Poétique Léopold Sédar Senghor 1964 Senegalese French
4748 Blood Oranges John Hawkes 1971 American English
4749 The Glamour Christopher Priest 1984 British English
4750 The Wycherly Woman Ross Macdonald 1961 American English
4751 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
4752 Origins of the New South C. Vann Woodward 1951 American English
4753 Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Chogyam Trungpa 1973 Multiple English
4754 Angels And Demons Dan Brown 2000 American English
4755 Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 British English
4756 The Second Shot Anthony Berkeley 1930 British English
4757 The Faculty of Useless Knowledge Yuri Dombrovsky 1976 Russian Russian
4758 Claros Del Bosque María Zambrano 1977 Spanish Spanish
4759 Baptism Yang Jiang 1988 Chinese Chinese
4760 Amiria Amiria Manutahi Stirling, Anne Salmond 1976 New Zealand English
4761 For Kicks Dick Francis 1965 British English
4762 Vertigo W. G. Sebald 1990 German German
4763 Metropole Ferenc Karinthy 1970 Hungarian Hungarian
4764 400 Million Customers Carl Crow 1937 American English
4765 The Abc Murders Agatha Christie 1936 British English
4766 The Soldier's Art Anthony Powell 1966 British English
4767 The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon 2007 American English
4768 The Incomplete Enchanter L. Sprague de Camp 1940 American English
4768 Dark Carnival Ray Bradbury 1947 American English
4768 Works Of Fancy And Imagination George MacDonald 1867 British English
4768 The Supernatural Tales Of Fitz James O'brien Fitz-James O'Brien 1908 British English
4768 The Bee Man Of Orn Frank R. Stockton 1887 American English
4768 The White Deer James Thurber 1945 American English
4768 Turnabout Thorne Smith 1931 American English
4768 The Ship Of Ishtar A. Merritt 1924 American English
4776 An Angel At My Table Unknown 1984 New Zealand English
4777 The Life Of Katherine Mansfield Anthony Alpers 1980 New Zealand English
4778 Odes Pindar -518 Greek Ancient greek
4779 Helping Verbs Of The Heart Peter Esterhazy 1985 Hungarian Hungarian
4781 Pharsalia Lucan 61 Roman Latin
4779 Look Back, Mrs. Lot! Ephraim Kishon 1969 Israeli Hebrew
4782 The Art Of Love Ovid 2 Roman Latin
4785 Amphitryon Plautus -184 Roman Latin
4784 The Princess Casamassima Henry James 1886 British English
4783 Ice Anna Kavan 1967 British English
4786 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 1985 American English
4788 Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1840 American English
4787 The Way Of The World William Congreve 1700 British English
4789 The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen 1892 Norwegian Norwegian
4790 Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1879 British English
4790 Memento Mori Muriel Spark 1959 British English
4792 Corporale Paolo Volponi 1974 Italian Italian
4794 Yvain Chrétien de Troyes 1177 French Old french
4793 The Birth Of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche 1872 German German
4795 The Good Person of Szechwan Bertolt Brecht 1943 German German
4796 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1922 British English
4798 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 1974 American English
4797 The Fish Can Sing Halldor Laxness 1957 Icelandic Icelandic
4800 Home to Harlem Claude McKay 1928 American English
4799 Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson 1836 American English