The Greatest Multiple 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
51 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
261 The Epic Of Gilgamesh Unknown -2100 Multiple Akkadian
1342 Panchatantra Unknown -300 Multiple Sanskrit
2233 Gospels Unknown 70 Multiple Greek
2680 Reynard the Fox Unknown 1479 Multiple Middle dutch
2913 Cinderella Unknown 23 Multiple French
2959 Kebra Nagast Unknown 1350 Multiple Ge'ez
2959 Poems Of Wine And Revelry Abu Nuwas 800 Multiple Arabic
4153 The Poetic Edda Unknown 1270 Multiple Old norse
4413 Six Studies In Communism Arthur Koestler, Richard Crossman 1960 Multiple English
4856 The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 2004 Multiple German
5159 Disciplina Clericalis Petrus Alphonsi 1919 Multiple Latin
5293 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
5614 Book Of The Dead John Skipp , Craig Spector 1989 Multiple English
5845 The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights United Nations 1948 Multiple English
6155 The Secret History Procopius 550 Multiple Greek
6279 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki 1957 Multiple English
6705 Charter of the United Nations United Nations 1945 Multiple English
7307 This Is How You Lose The Time War Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone 2019 Multiple English
7647 Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Chogyam Trungpa 1973 Multiple English
7998 Carmina Burana Unknown 1230 Multiple Latin
7998 The Logbook Of Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus 1493 Multiple Spanish
9045 Feminists Theorize The Political Judith Butler, Joan Wallach Scott 1992 Multiple English
9428 Arabs And Israelis Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman, Khalil Shikaki 2013 Multiple English
9647 The Dead Sea Scrolls Unknown -150 Multiple Hebrew, aramaic, greek
9787 36 Ways Of Writing A Vietnamese Poem Nam Le 2024 Multiple English
9854 Translating Myself And Others Jhumpa Lahiri 2022 Multiple English
10350 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
10546 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
11310 Origins Reconsidered Roger Lewin, Richard Leakey 1992 Multiple English
11831 The Extreme Self Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist 2021 Multiple English
12325 The Twelve Labours of Hercules Unknown -100 Multiple Ancient greek
12719 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
14239 The Mabinogion Unknown 1400 Multiple Middle welsh
14331 Great Japanese Stories Jay Rubin Multiple English
14550 Corpus Juris Canonici Unknown 1140 Multiple Latin
14640 Dhammapada Unknown -299 Multiple Pali
14640 Kabbalah Unknown 1300 Multiple Hebrew
14640 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Unknown 1903 Multiple Russian
14640 The Eunuch Terence -161 Multiple Latin
14640 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
15506 The Book Of Dede Korkut Unknown 1400 Multiple Oghuz turkic
15569 Digenes Akritas Unknown 1050 Multiple Greek
15604 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
15951 Aisha Al-Bashir bin Salamah Multiple Unknown
15951 The Poetry Of Arab Women Nathalie Handal 2001 Multiple English
15951 Indivisible Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam 2010 Multiple English
15951 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
15951 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
15951 Memoirs Of An Anti Semite Gregor von Rezzori 1979 Multiple German
15951 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
15940 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
15822 The Romance Of 'Antar Unknown 1100 Multiple Arabic
15866 The Tales Of Sendebar Unknown -100 Multiple Sanskrit
15901 Epic Of Sundiata Unknown 1235 Multiple Mandinka
15939 Daredevils Of Sassoun Unknown 800 Multiple Armenian
15951 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
15951 The Sagas Of Icelanders Jane Smiley 2000 Multiple Old norse