The Greatest Books Since 1967

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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
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
84 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 American English
99 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
113 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
132 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
166 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombian Spanish
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
197 Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985 American English
200 The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 1982 Portuguese Portuguese
202 Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 1972 Italian Italian
203 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 1980 American English
204 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 1989 British English
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
214 Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 1980 Russian Russian
221 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
224 Watership Down Richard Adams 1972 British English
232 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2004 Chilean Spanish
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
237 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
241 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth 1969 American English
242 The Godfather Mario Puzo 1969 American English
248 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
254 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 American English
255 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee 1999 South African English
260 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 American English
262 Austerlitz W. G. Sebald 2001 German German
266 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British English
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
276 Life, a User's Manual Georges Perec 1978 French French
278 A Wizard Of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin 1968 American English
279 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992 American English
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
291 The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Chilean Spanish
295 Franz Kafka Franz Kafka 1971 Czech Unknown
296 The Lover Marguerite Duras 1984 French French
304 The Double Helix James D. Watson 1968 American English
308 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 American English
310 Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe 1987 American English
314 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon 2000 American English
318 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 1979 Italian Italian
329 History Elsa Morante 1974 Italian Italian
332 Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 1980 American English
334 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
350 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
355 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 1998 Chilean Spanish
359 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997 Indian English
360 Ada or Ardor Vladimir Nabokov 1969 American English
363 The Left Hand Of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 1969 American English
364 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
370 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 American English
380 American Pastoral Philip Roth 1997 American English
389 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
396 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 2007 Dominican English
397 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009 British English
399 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman 1995 British English
400 The Shining Stephen King 1977 American English
406 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow 1975 American English
407 The World According to Garp John Irving 1978 American English
409 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 2012 American Italian
411 Underworld Don DeLillo 1997 American English
415 The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth 1971 British English
418 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 American English
420 The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000 American English
421 A Visit From The Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 American English
427 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 British English
433 Play It As It Lays Joan Didion 1970 American English
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
452 A Heart So White Javier Marias 1992 Spanish Spanish
454 The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch 1978 British English
471 Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee 1980 South African English
473 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
475 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 American English
477 Fateless or Fatelessness Imre Kertész 1975 Hungarian Hungarian
488 The Shipping News Annie Proulx 1993 Canadian English
494 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien 1967 Irish English
501 W, or the Memory of Childhood Georges Perec 1975 French French
504 Her Lover Albert Cohen 1968 Swiss French
511 Perfume Patrick Suskind 1985 German German
513 Kindred Octavia E. Butler 1979 American English
521 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 American English
524 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 1989 American English
528 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968 American English
534 Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 British English
539 So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell 1980 American English
540 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe 1968 American English
545 The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie Agota Kristof 1986 Hungarian French
549 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 1995 Indian English
553 The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974 American English
558 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Alexander Brown 1970 American English
560 Sula Toni Morrison 1973 American English
566 I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal 1983 Czech Czech
567 The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles 1969 British English
570 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
573 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970 American English
574 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003 American English
576 Complete Poems Elizabeth Bishop 1969 American English
577 Anniversaries Uwe Johnson 1970 German German
578 The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 1988 American English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
597 The Years Annie Ernaux 2008 French French
607 House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 American English
623 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985 American English
628 Nights At The Circus Angela Carter 1984 British English
633 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John le Carré 1974 British English
634 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 1974 American English
641 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
648 The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 1990 American English
652 Dispatches Michael Herr 1977 American English
655 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
657 The Elementary Particles Michel Houellebecq 1998 French French
658 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 1971 American English
661 Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice 1976 American English
663 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell 1973 British English
666 Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow 1975 American English
668 Rabbit Redux John Updike 1971 American English