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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17150 | Winter In Sokcho | Elisa Shua Dusapin | 2016 | French | French | |
| 17150 | Sarah Kane | Sarah Kane | 2001 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Cartoons | Kit Schluter | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17150 | The Brothers K | David James Duncan | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17150 | In Memoriam | Alice Winn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead | Emily R. Austin | 2021 | Canadian | English | |
| 17150 | Tales From Watership Down | Richard Adams | 1996 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Radio Silence | Alice Oseman | 2016 | British | English | |
| 17150 | The Book Of Goose | Yiyun Li | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Autoportrait | Édouard Levé | 2005 | French | French | |
| 17150 | Please Kill Me | Legs McNeil | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Margery Kempe | Robert Glück | 1994 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | M Train | Patti Smith | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Everything I Know About Love | Dolly Alderton | 2018 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Silver Nitrate | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 2023 | Mexican | English | |
| 17150 | A Deadly Education | Naomi Novik | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Fruit | Brian Francis | 2004 | Canadian | English | |
| 17150 | Small Worlds | Caleb Azumah Nelson | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17150 | After Dark | Haruki Murakami | 2004 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17150 | Paradise Rot | Jenny Hval | 2009 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17150 | Shy | Max Porter | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17150 | The Disaster Artist | Greg Sestero | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Boy Parts | Eliza Clark | 2020 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Open Water | Caleb Azumah Nelson | 2021 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Room To Dream | David Lynch | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Gender Queer | Maia Kobabe | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17150 | The City Of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Storm Boy | Colin Thiele | 1999 | Australian | English | |
| 17150 | Piercing | Ryū Murakami | 1994 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17150 | Selected Stories Of Andre Dubus | Andre Dubus | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Elena Knows | Claudia Piñeiro | 2007 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 17150 | Brokeback Mountain | Annie Proulx | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Still Life | Sarah Winman | 2021 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Death In Her Hands | Ottessa Moshfegh | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Panenka | Rónán Hession | 2021 | Irish | English | |
| 17150 | Interior Chinatown | Charles Yu | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Gates Of Fire | Steven Pressfield | 1998 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Darth Plagueis | James Luceno | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Reasons To Stay Alive | Matt Haig | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Griffin & Sabine | Nick Bantock | 1991 | British | English | |
| 17150 | One Of Us Is Lying | Karen M. McManus | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Invincible | Robert Kirkman | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Astro City, Vol. 1 | Kurt Busiek | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Batman | Jeph Loeb | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17150 | We3 | Grant Morrison | 2004 | British | English | |
| 17150 | The Collected Essex County | Jeff Lemire | 2009 | Canadian | English | |
| 17150 | Astonishing X Men, Vol. 1 | Joss Whedon | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 | Hiromu Arakawa | 2001 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17150 | Marvels | Kurt Busiek | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17150 | All Star Superman, Vol. 1 | Grant Morrison | 2006 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Death | Neil Gaiman | 1993 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Kingdom Come | Mark Waid | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Death Note, Vol. 1 | Tsugumi Ohba | 2003 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17150 | Days Gone Bye | Robert Kirkman | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Edinburgh | Alexander Chee | 2001 | American | English | |
| 17150 | To Paradise | Hanya Yanagihara | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Let It Snow | John Green | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Rise Of The Evening Star | Brandon Mull | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Mockingbird | Kathryn Erskine | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17150 | El Viento Conoce Mi Nombre / The Wind Knows My Name | Isabel Allende | 2023 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 17150 | Assassination Vacation | Sarah Vowell | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Unfamiliar Fishes | Sarah Vowell | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17150 | The Gift Of Asher Lev | Chaim Potok | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17150 | How Big Things Get Done | Bent Flyvbjerg | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The 4 Hour Body | Timothy Ferriss | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17150 | A Winter's Promise | Christelle Dabos | 2013 | French | French | |
| 17150 | Harry Potter Boxset | J. K. Rowling | 1997 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Bloody Jack | L.A. Meyer | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17150 | The Good Neighbor | Maxwell King | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17150 | The Last Black Unicorn | Tiffany Haddish | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Still Me | Jojo Moyes | 1998 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Moby Dick | Will Eisner | 1998 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17150 | Where Rainbows End | Cecelia Ahern | 2004 | Irish | English | |
| 17150 | The Winter Queen | Boris Akunin | 1998 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17150 | The Motorcycle Diaries | Che Guevara | 1993 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 17150 | Cairn | Kathleen Jamie | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17150 | Cold Kitchen | Caroline Eden | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Storm Pegs | Jen Hadfield | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17150 | The Amendments | Niamh Mulvey | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | And The Roots Of Rhythm Remain | Joe Boyd | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Your Own Dark Shadow | Jack Fennell | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The Racket | Conor Niland, Gavin Cooney | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Obsessed | Johnny Sexton | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | States Of Play | Miguel Delaney | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | My Story | Joe Canning, Vincent Hogan | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The Hidden Victims | Cormac Ó Gráda | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Old Romantics | Maggie Armstrong | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Openings | Lucy Caldwell | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | All The Good Things You Deserve | Elaine Feeney | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Hotel Lux | Maurice Casey | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Ghosts Of A Family | Edward Burke | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The Party Is Always Right | Aidan Beatty | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Red Menace | Joe Thomas | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Scattered | Aamna Mohdin | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Blessings | Chukwuebuka Ibeh | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17150 | The Irish In The Resistance | Clodagh Finn, John Morgan | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Solstice | Jen Breach | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Fia And The Last Snow Deer | Eilish Fisher | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The History Of Information | Chris Haughton | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Tales From Muggleswick Wood | Vicky Cowie | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | My Dear Kabul | Afghan women’s writing group | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17150 | Our London Lives | Christine Dwyer Hickey | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Quickly, While They Still Have Horses | Jan Carson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | In Writing | Hattie Crisell | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The Spoiled Heart | Sunjeev Sahota | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Two Hours | Alba Arikha | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Crooked Seeds | Karen Jennings | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Fathers And Fugitives | SJ Naudé | 2024 | Unknown | Afrikaans | |
| 17150 | Glasgow Boys | Margaret McDonald | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The Glass Girl | Kathleen Glasgow | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17150 | Us In The Before And After | Jenny Valentine | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17150 | When The World Tips Over | Jandy Nelson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | The Things We Leave Behind | Claire Furniss | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Songlight | Moira Buffini | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17150 | Hagstone | Sinéad Gleeson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | Hereafter | Vona Groarke | 2022 | Irish | English | |
| 17150 | Woman Of Winter | Vona Groarke | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 17150 | Foreign Tongues | Phyllis Gaffney | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17150 | What | John Cooper Clarke | 2012 | British | English | |
| 17150 | The Problem With Solutions | Julie Guthman | 2024 | Unknown | English |