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
670 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2000 French French
676 The Princess Bride William Goldman 1973 American English
680 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever 1978 American English
683 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson 1971 American English
685 Them Joyce Carol Oates 1969 American English
686 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
697 The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald 1995 German German
700 Tales of the City Armistead Maupin 1978 American English
701 The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa 2000 Peruvian Spanish
713 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 1974 American English
717 A Sport and a Pastime James Salter 1967 American English
718 Possession A. S. Byatt 1990 British English
722 Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992 American English
723 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004 British English
732 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 Trinidadian English
735 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1993 Indian English
738 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan 1989 American English
741 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 American English
744 Moscow to the End of the Line Venedikt Yerofeev 1970 Russian Russian
746 Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga 1988 Zimbabwean English
747 Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000 American English
750 Money Martin Amis 1984 British English
751 All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 1992 American English
765 The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977 Australian English
770 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
779 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967 American English
784 Rabbit at Rest John Updike 1990 American English
786 The Far Pavilions Mary Margaret Kaye 1978 British English
788 Roots Alex Haley 1976 American English
789 The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek 1983 Austrian German
791 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 2012 American English
792 A Kestrel for a Knave Barry Hines 1968 British English
803 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 American English
804 The Vegetarian Han Kang 2007 Korean Korean
808 Watchmen Alan Moore 1986 American, British English
827 Fear of Flying Erica Jong 1973 American English
837 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
838 The Book of Daniel E. L. Doctorow 1971 American English
841 Crash J. G. Ballard 1973 British English
842 Outlander Diana Gabaldon 1991 American English
849 Regeneration Pat Barker 1991 British English
856 Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa 1969 Peruvian Spanish
862 Smilla's Sense of Snow Peter Høeg 1992 Danish Danish
869 Woodcutters Thomas Bernhard 1984 Austrian German
874 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000 American English
878 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 1998 American English
882 The Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 1977 Brazilian Portuguese
885 A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz 2002 Israeli Hebrew
890 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 1995 British English
892 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 Afghan English
893 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
894 Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin 1967 American English
898 My Struggle Karl Ove Knausgård 2009 Norwegian Norwegian
903 Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991 Chinese English
904 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1973 American English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
910 The New York Trilogy Paul Auster 1985 American English
915 Malina Ingeborg Bachmann 1971 Austrian German
918 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 American English
920 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 1974 German German
921 Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian 1969 British English
922 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
924 Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver 1988 American English
925 Deliverance James Dickey 1970 American English
933 Lives of Girls and Women Alice Munro 1971 Canadian English
936 A Void Georges Perec 1969 French French
938 Burger's Daughter Nadine Gordimer 1979 South African English
941 Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell 1968 British English
947 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 American English
958 The Periodic Table Primo Levi 1975 Italian Italian
959 A Tomb for Boris Davidovich Danilo Kiš 1976 Serbian Serbo-croatian
968 Jesus' Son Denis Johnson 1992 American English
971 The Discovery of Heaven Harry Mulisch 1992 Dutch Dutch
975 The Reader Bernhard Schlink 1995 German German
977 Couples John Updike 1968 American English
981 It Stephen King 1986 American English
982 Speedboat Renata Adler 1976 American English
988 Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes 1984 British English
993 Essays of E. B. White E. B. White 1977 American English
994 Blindness José Saramago 1995 Portuguese Portuguese
1000 A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 American English
1001 Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1981 American English
1002 Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 American English
1003 A Dry White Season Andre Brink 1979 South African Afrikaans
1004 2001 Arthur C. Clarke 1968 British English
1005 The Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper 1973 British English
1009 Love Story Eric Segal 1970 American English
1010 Fingersmith Sarah Waters 2002 British English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
1020 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 American English
1021 If Not Now, When? Primo Levi 1982 Italian Italian
1022 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 American English
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
1028 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally 1982 Australian English
1037 The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston 1976 American English
1038 Cosmos Carl Sagan 1980 American English
1039 Birds of America Lorrie Moore 1998 American English
1040 The German Lesson Siegfried Lenz 1968 German German
1043 Danny The Champion Of The World Roald Dahl 1975 British English
1048 The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy 1984 American English
1050 The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi 1990 British English
1056 Maurice E. M. Forster 1971 British English
1060 Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2006 American English
1067 A Boy's Own Story Edmund White 1982 American English
1070 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 1993 British English
1074 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English
1079 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
1081 The War of the End of the World Mario Vargas Llosa 1981 Peruvian Spanish
1085 The Book Thief Markus Zusak 2005 Australian English
1086 Misery Stephen King 1987 American English
1089 Suttree Cormac McCarthy 1979 American English
1093 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 1979 Czech Czech
1094 Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith 1981 American English
1095 The Swimming-Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst 1988 British English
1096 The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard 1980 Australian English
1099 The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald 1995 British English
1101 Outline Rachel Cusk 2014 British English
1104 Maus Art Spiegelman 1980 American English
1106 The Passion Jeanette Winterson 1987 British English
1110 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 American English