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
4866 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4870 Music and Silence Rose Tremain 1999 British English
4871 Wartime Lies Louis Begley 1991 American English
4886 The Crimson Petal And The White Michel Faber 2002 British English
4887 The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry 2008 Irish English
4888 Natura Morta Josef Winkler 2001 Unknown German
4889 The Book of Salt Monique Truong 2003 American English
4889 The MaddAddam Trilogy Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
4897 The Book Of Fame Lloyd Jones 2000 New Zealand English
4896 The Emissary Yoko Tawada 2014 Japanese Japanese
4929 Dreaming Of You Lisa Kleypas 1994 American English
4931 Running Jean Echenoz 2008 French French
4933 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
4934 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4935 Exile And Pride Eli Clare 1999 American English
4937 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García 1992 Cuban English
4939 Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood 2023 Australian English
4941 Being Dead Jim Crace 1999 British English
4943 The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro 2015 British English
4942 Ghettoside Jill Leovy 2015 American English
4949 Dark Money Jane Mayer 2016 American English
4978 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
4980 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
4981 I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 Canadian English
4990 The Wandering Falcon Jamil Ahmed 2011 Pakistani English
4991 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 Lebanese English
4996 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
4995 Tigana Guy Gavriel Kay 1990 Canadian English
4997 The Sun Is Also A Star Nicola Yoon 2016 American English
5004 Feel Free Zadie Smith 2018 British English
5007 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English
5011 Zone One Colson Whitehead 2011 American English
5013 The Lesser Bohemians Eimear McBride 2016 Irish English
5014 Slave To Sensation Nalini Singh 2006 New Zealand English
5019 Me Before You Jojo Moyes 2012 British English
5029 The City & the City China Miéville 2009 British English
5031 Honored Guest Joy Williams 2004 American English
5031 The Sluts Dennis Cooper 2004 American English
5034 I Feel Bad About My Neck Nora Ephron 2006 American English
5039 Storm Front Jim Butcher 2000 American English
5040 Life is a Carawanserai Has Two Doors I Went in One I Came out the Other Emine Sevgi Özdamar 1992 Turkish German
5040 Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden 1999 American English
5040 Woman Natalie Angier 1999 American English
5040 The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out Richard P. Feynman 1999 American English
5082 Autobiography Of A Face Lucy Grealy 1994 American English
5084 Nowhere In Africa Stefanie Zweig 1995 German German
5087 Imperial Life in the Emerald City Rajiv Chandrasekaran 2006 American English
5093 Amity and Prosperity Eliza Griswold 2018 American English
5098 A Hunger Like No Other Kresley Cole 2006 American English
5100 Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 American English
5109 The Ministry Of Pain Dubravka Ugrešić 2004 Croatian Croatian
5109 Dancing In Odessa Ilya Kaminsky 2004 Ukrainian English
5113 Let The Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist 2004 Swedish Swedish
5112 The War Of Art Steven Pressfield 2002 American English
5117 Swamplandia! Karen Russell 2011 American English
5120 Baudolino Umberto Eco 2000 Italian Italian
5121 In The Night Of Time Antonio Muñoz Molina 2012 Spanish Spanish
5125 Killing The Black Body Dorothy E. Roberts 1997 American English
5143 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 American English
5148 Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez 2002 American English
5152 Midnight In Peking Paul French 2012 British English
5153 Quarantine Jim Crace 1997 British English
5154 Cursed Bunny Bora Chung 2021 Korean Korean
5155 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 2018 American English
5168 Bad Feminist Roxane Gay 2014 American English
5188 Stay True Hua Hsu 2022 Chinese English
5226 A Place Of Execution Val McDermid 1999 British English
5231 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
5234 Intensity Dean R. Koontz 1995 American English
5236 Holder of the World Bharati Mukherjee 1993 Indian English
5236 Deep River Shūsaku Endō 1993 Japanese Japanese
5249 The Art of Fielding Chad Harbach 2011 American English
5256 The Collected Stories Grace Paley 1994 American English
5257 Tiny Beautiful Things Cheryl Strayed 2012 American English
5259 Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga 2006 French French
5261 Death And The Penguin Andrey Kurkov 1996 Ukrainian Russian
5263 The Great Influenza John Barry 2004 American English
5267 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 2007 Sierra Leonean English
5268 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami 2007 Japanese Japanese
5269 Under The Feet Of Jesus Helena María Viramontes 1995 American English
5273 Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener 2020 American English
5275 The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 2017 American English
5280 At Last Edward St Aubyn 2011 British English
5281 Declare Tim Powers 2000 American English
5283 Strangers To Ourselves Rachel Aviv 2022 American English
5287 Fields Of Glory Jean Rouaud 1990 French French
5290 Revenge Yōko Ogawa 1998 Japanese Japanese
5300 The Museum Of Innocence Orhan Pamuk 2008 Turkish Turkish
5301 The Swarm Frank Schatzing 2004 German German
5309 The Emperor's Children Claire Messud 2006 American English
5313 A General Theory Of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa 2012 Angolan Portuguese
5317 Eleanor And Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
5316 Faithless Joyce Carol Oates 2001 American English
5322 The Remorseful Day Colin Dexter 1999 British English
5329 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5330 The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 1999 American English
5334 Jernigan David Gates 1991 American English
5335 Vendetta Michael Dibdin 1990 British English
5335 Bones And Silence Reginald Hill 1990 British English
5339 Days Without End Sebastian Barry 2016 Irish English
5342 Plainsong Kent Haruf 1999 American English
5343 White Girls Hilton Als 2013 American English
5344 Epileptic David B 1996 French French
5347 The Last Coyote Michael Connelly 1995 American English
5352 Stasiland Anna Funder 2002 Australian English
5353 Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem 1999 American English
5355 Praiseworthy Alexis Wright 2024 Australian English
5358 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 American English
5368 White Jazz James Ellroy 1992 American English
5374 Packing For Mars Mary Roach 2010 American English
5381 Longitude Dava Sobel 1995 American English
5382 All She Was Worth Miyuki Miyabe 1992 Japanese Japanese
5387 In Memory Of Memory Maria Stepanova 2017 Russian Russian
5390 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
5391 The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans 1995 British English
5405 Murambi, The Book Of Bones Boubacar Boris Diop 2000 Senegalese French
5406 I Love Dick Chris Kraus 1997 American English
5407 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra 2013 American English
5408 Melancholy Jon Fosse 1995 Norwegian Norwegian
5409 Last Days of Summer Steve Kluger 1998 American English