The Greatest Books Since 1990

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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
9159 This Is Water David Foster Wallace 2009 American English
9159 Correspondance Avec Le Mur Hélène Cixous 2009 French French
9159 Haiku Stephen Addiss 2009 Unknown English
9159 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French
9163 The Betrayer Michael Hennessey 2003 Canadian English
9164 A Place Between The Tides Harry Thurston 2004 Canadian English
9166 The Dying Animal Philip Roth 2001 American English
9168 Oleanna David Mamet 1992 American English
9170 Memories Of The Body Lisa Tuttle 1992 American English
9170 MetaHorror Dennis Etchison 1992 American English
9170 Christian Fantasy C. N. Manlove 1992 British English
9170 The Impulse Of Fantasy Literature C. N. Manlove 1992 British English
9174 Homeland Fernando Aramburu 2016 Spanish Spanish
9175 Anima Wajdi Mouawad 2012 French French
9178 The Cocktail Collection Alice Clayton 2016 Unknown English
9176 China's Second Continent Howard W. French 2014 American English
9181 Red Clocks Leni Zumas 2018 American English
9179 Beautiful Bastard Christina Lauren 2013 American English
9179 Off To Be The Wizard Scott Meyer 2013 English
9182 What Salmon Know Elwood Reid 1999 American English
9191 Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland 2006 Australian English
9191 Kieron Smith, Boy James Kelman 2008 Scottish English
9191 Cost Roxana Robinson 2008 American English
9191 American Rust Philipp Meyer 2009 American English
9191 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9191 The Undoing Project Michael M. Lewis 2016 American English
9191 Words On The Move John McWhorter 2016 American English
9191 How We Got To Now Steven Johnson 2014 American English
9191 The Accidental Universe Alan Lightman 2014 American English
9191 Happy City Charles Montgomery 2013 Canadian English
9191 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9191 How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Kiese Laymon 2013 American English
9191 Hit Makers Derek Thompson 2017 American English
9191 The Rise Sarah Lewis 2014 Unknown English
9191 Talking Back, Talking Black John McWhorter 2017 American English
9191 Violation Sallie Tisdale 2016 American English
9191 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9191 A Sliver Of Light Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd 2014 American English
9191 But What If We're Wrong? Chuck Klosterman 2016 American English
9191 The Confidence Game Maria Konnikova 2015 American English
9191 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9191 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9191 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
9191 Irritable Hearts Mac McClelland 2015 Unknown English
9191 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9191 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9184 By The Sea Abdulrazak Gurnah 2001 British English
9218 Eats, Shoots and Leaves Lynne Truss 2003 British English
9219 On Tyranny Timothy Snyder 2017 American English
9223 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
9224 Burning Your Boats Angela Carter 1995 British English
9225 Han Hinkon Makoto Yuasa 2008 Japanese Unknown
9228 Sun Dancing Geoffrey Moorhouse 1997 British English
9226 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
9229 Foal's Bread Gillian Mears 2011 Australian English
9230 El Traductor Salvador Benesdra 1998 Argentinian Spanish
9232 Jadviga Párnája Pál Závada 1996 Hungarian Hungarian
9231 Multitudes Lucy Caldwell 2016 Irish English
9236 Primal Fear William Diehl 1993 American English
9234 Panthers And The Museum Of Fire Jen Craig 2015 Australian English
9234 The Natural Way Of Things Charlotte Wood 2015 Australian English
9237 Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt 2011 American English
9238 Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement Barbara Ransby 2003 American English
9240 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9244 The Red Tree Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009 American English
9246 An Audience Of Chairs Joan Clark 2005 Canadian English
9251 White Is For Witching Helen Oyeyemi 2009 British English
9252 The Entrepreneurial State Mariana Mazzucato 2013 British English
9252 Arabs And Israelis Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman, Khalil Shikaki 2013 Multiple English
9256 The Grace Of Kings Ken Liu 2015 American English
9257 The Great Swindle Pierre Lemaitre 2013 French French
9258 Moving Beyond Words Gloria Steinem 1993 American English
9259 The Sexual Politics Of Meat Carol J. Adams 1990 American English
9260 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9261 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
9261 Lit Mary Karr 2009 American English
9261 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9261 An Immense World Ed Yong 2022 British English
9261 A Children’s Bible Lydia Millet, Xe Sands 2020 American English
9261 Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast 2014 American English
9261 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9261 Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 Indian English
9261 Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart 2006 Russian English
9274 Grief Is the Thing with Feathers Max Porter 2015 English
9280 What Hath God Wrought Daniel Walker Howe 2007 American English
9279 Kurangaituku Whiti Hereaka 2022 New Zealander English
9278 The Alternatives Caoilinn Hughes 2024 Irish English
9282 News Of The World Paulette Jiles 2016 American English
9283 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
9284 Revolution From Within Gloria Steinem 1991 American English
9287 It’s Been A Pleasure, Noni Blake Claire Christian 2020 Australian English
9287 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English
9287 The Lost And Found Bookshop Susan Wiggs 2020 American English
9287 Spoiler Alert Olivia Dade 2020 American English
9287 Brutal Prince Sophie Lark 2020 Unknown English
9292 A River Called Time Mia Couto 2002 Mozambican Portuguese
9298 The Imaginary Lives Of James Poneke Tina Makereti 2018 New Zealand English
9299 The Client John Grisham 1993 American English
9301 The Bellini Card Jason Goodwin 2008 British English
9301 Bleeding Heart Square Andrew Taylor 2008 British English
9303 The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka 2022 Sri Lankan English
9304 Part Of Your World Abby Jimenez 2022 American English
9305 Ploaia De Trei Sute De Zile Gabriel Chifu 2017 Romanian Romanian
9307 The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger 2003 American English
9308 Down To The Dirt Joel Hynes 2004 Canadian English
9309 The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo 2018 American English
9312 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9313 Exterminate All The Brutes Sven Lindqvist 1992 Swedish Swedish
9315 Russia Is Burning Maria Bloshteyn 2020 Russian English
9315 Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech Paul Celan 2020 German German
9315 My Husband Rumena Bužarovska 2020 Macedonian Macedonian
9314 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9315 The Dark Side Of Love Rafik Schami 2004 German German
9319 Bright Dead Things Ada Limón 2015 American English
9322 The Butterfly’s Burden Mahmoud Darwish 2007 Palestinian Arabic
9322 Terra Nullius Sven Lindqvist 2007 Swedish Swedish
9324 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9325 The Road Home Rose Tremain 2007 British English
9326 Sylvanus Now Donna Morrissey 2004 Canadian English
9328 Údolí Včel Vladimír Körner 2009 Czech Czech