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
3436 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
3437 So Far From God Ana Castillo 1993 American English
3443 Transit Rachel Cusk 2016 British English
3450 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
3451 The Elegant Universe Brian Greene 1999 American English
3453 Magic for Beginners Kelly Link 2005 American English
3467 Kudos Rachel Cusk 2018 British English
3469 Solar Bones Mike McCormack 2016 Irish English
3472 We Do Not Part Han Kang 2021 Korean Korean
3473 Native Speaker Chang-rae Lee 1995 American English
3477 American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang 2006 American English
3479 The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 2002 Norwegian Norwegian
3485 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 2012 American English
3488 Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor 2011 American English
3494 Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer 2009 American English
3500 Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2002 Canadian English
3501 Borges Adolfo Bioy Casares 2006 Argentine Spanish
3503 The Big Blowdown George P. Pelecanos 1996 American English
3505 Speak Laurie Halse Anderson 1999 American English
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
3507 The Journalist and the Murderer Janet Malcolm 1990 American English
3508 Joe Cinque's Consolation Helen Garner 2004 Australian English
3510 Alone With The Horrors Ramsey Campbell 1993 British English
3519 Sidetracked Henning Mankell 1995 Swedish Swedish
3520 Nothing to Envy Barbara Demick 2009 American English
3522 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
3526 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews 2014 Canadian English
3531 An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine 2013 Lebanese English
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3535 Netherland Joseph O'Neill 2008 Irish English
3539 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3543 The Good Women Of China Xinran 2002 Chinese Chinese
3562 Charming Billy Alice McDermott 1998 American English
3564 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3568 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
3570 The Inquisitors' Manual António Lobo Antunes 1996 Portuguese English
3573 Notes from No Man's Land Eula Biss 2009 American English
3576 The Possessed Elif Batuman 2010 Turkish English
3577 Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson 1995 British English
3578 Mercy Of A Rude Stream Henry Roth 1994 American English
3580 Call Me By Your Name André Aciman 2007 Italian English
3588 The First Man Albert Camus 1994 French French
3590 Do Everything in the Dark Gary Indiana 2003 American English
3589 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3592 The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson 1999 British English
3594 Thick Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 American English
3598 The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 2018 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
3600 Debt David Graeber 2011 American English
3601 Human Acts Han Kang 2014 Korean Korean
3603 A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride 2013 Irish English
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3607 Virgin River Robyn Carr 2007 American English
3609 Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell 2006 American English
3613 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
3615 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3623 Sepharad Antonio Muñoz Molina 2001 Spanish Spanish
3627 Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata 2016 Japanese Japanese
3801 A Imortalidade Milan Kundera 1990 Czech Czech
3814 Dark Lover J. R. Ward 2005 American English
3816 City of Bohane Kevin Barry 2011 Irish English
3817 The Beach Alex Garland 1996 British English
3821 Lenin's Tomb David Remnick 1993 American English
3823 The Search For Modern China Jonathan Spence 1990 American English
3824 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 2008 Canadian English
3825 The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman 1997 British English
3827 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
3838 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage 2006 Canadian English
3842 An Extraordinary Union Alyssa Cole 2017 American English
3845 Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson 1992 British English
3845 Troubling Love Elena Ferrante 1992 Italian Italian
3847 Quiet Susan Cain 2012 English
3848 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
3855 Breath Tim Winton 2008 Australian English
3858 Enduring Love Ian McEwan 1997 British English
3873 The Alienist Caleb Carr 1994 American English
3874 Flow Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1990 American English
3875 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 2003 American English
3886 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
3889 There But For The Ali Smith 2011 British English
3891 Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine 1997 American English
3902 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
3906 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson 2003 Norwegian Norwegian
3910 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen 2006 American English
3914 Sudden Death Alvaro Enrigue 2013 Mexican Spanish
3922 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English
3923 The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah 1999 American English
3926 In The Woods Tana French 2007 Irish English
3927 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
3931 Mean Spirit Linda Hogan 1990 American English
3936 All The World's Mornings Pascal Quignard 1991 French French
3945 The Arrival Shaun Tan 2006 Australian English
3944 In The Dream House Carmen Maria Machado 2019 American English
3951 The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama 1992 American English
4054 Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner 2011 American English
4055 The Tunnel William H. Gass 1995 American English
4065 The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot 2000 American English
4066 Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère 2009 French French
4067 The Story Of Lucy Gault William Trevor 2002 Irish English
4072 The Song Of Everlasting Sorrow Wang Anyi 1995 Chinese Chinese
4074 Travels With Lizbeth Lars Eighner 1993 American English
4075 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand 2001 American English
4076 Birthday Letters Ted Hughes 1998 British English
4077 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
4088 Silk Alessandro Baricco 1996 Italian Italian
4091 The Debt To Pleasure John Lanchester 1996 British English
4096 Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall 2020 British English
4101 Purge Sofi Oksanen 2008 Finnish Finnish
4113 Brick Lane Monica Ali 2003 British English
4115 Why Did I Ever? Mary Robison 2001 American English
4124 The Black Book Orhan Pamuk 1990 Turkish Turkish
4123 A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot 1991 French French
4134 Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex Oksana Zabuzhko 1996 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4135 The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit 2013 American English
4138 The Liars' Club Mary Karr 1995 American English
4143 Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2012 American English
4145 Vineland Thomas Pynchon 1990 American English
4149 The Devotion Of Suspect X Keigo Higashino 2005 Japanese Japanese
4151 American Genius Lynne Tillman 2006 American English