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
17150 Never Enough Judith Grisel 2019 Unknown English
17150 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
17150 Le Code De La Conscience Stanislas Dehaene 2014 French French
17150 Lost Connections Johann Hari 2018 British English
17150 Lifespan David A. Sinclair 2019 Australian English
17150 Beyond Bigger Leaner Stronger David Matthews 2014 Unknown English
17150 Ostatnie Historie Olga Tokarczuk 2004 Polish Polish
17150 Anna In W Grobowcach świata Olga Tokarczuk 2006 Polish Polish
17150 The Tales Of Beedle The Bard J. K. Rowling 2008 British English
17150 Madame Antoni Libera 1998 Polish Polish
17150 Dans Le Jardin De L'ogre Leïla Slimani 2014 French French
17150 Panna Nikt Tomek Tryzna 1994 Polish Polish
17150 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17150 The Great American Bus Ride Irma Kurtz 1993 Unknown English
17150 Exit Into History Eva Hoffman 1993 Unknown English
17150 Marshall Mcluhan Unbound Marshall McLuhan 2005 Canadian English
17150 The Singularity Is Near Ray Kurzweil 2005 American English
17150 What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly 2010 American English
17150 The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore 1999 British English
17150 The Humiliation Of Sinners Mary C. Mansfield 1995 Unknown English
17150 Our Man In Rome Catherine Fletcher 2012 Unknown English
17150 Benevolence And Betrayal Alexander Stille 1991 American English
17150 The Fall Of The Roman Empire Peter Heather 2005 British English
17150 From Airline Reservations To Sonic The Hedgehog Martin Campbell-Kelly 2003 British English
17150 Only The Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 1996 American English
17150 The Ultimate History Of Video Games Steven L. Kent 2001 American English
17150 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17150 At Home With André And Simone Weil Sylvie Weil 2009 Unknown French
17150 Kant Manfred Kuehn 2001 Unknown English
17150 Simone De Beauvoir Toril Moi 2008 Unknown English
17150 Frantz Fanon David Macey 2001 Unknown English
17150 Georges Perec David Bellos 1993 Unknown English
17150 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17150 India John Keay 2000 British English
17150 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17150 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17150 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
17150 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17150 A Concise History Of South India Noboru Karashima 2014 Unknown English
17150 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17150 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17150 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17150 Ancient Cities Of The Indus Valley Civilization Jonathan Mark Kenoyer 1998 Unknown English
17150 The Other Side Of Silence Urvashi Butalia 1998 Indian English
17150 Victory Colony, 1950 Bhaswati Ghosh 2020 Unknown English
17150 Midnight's Furies Nisid Hajari 2015 Unknown English
17150 The Pity Of Partition Ayesha Jalal 2013 English
17150 Partitions Amit Majmudar 2011 American English
17150 Green Island Shawna Yang Ryan 2016 Unknown English
17150 Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver 2018 American English
17150 Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come Jessica Pan 2019 Unknown English
17150 The Wolf Border Sarah Hall 2015 British English
17150 Change Of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008 American English
17150 The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See 2017 American English
17150 Why Orwell Matters Christopher Hitchens 2002 British English
17150 Von Hier Bis Zum Anfang Chris Whitaker 2021 British English
17150 Sag Den Wölfen, Ich Bin Zu Hause Carol Rifka Brunt 2012 American English
17150 Flowers Of Fire Hawon Jung 2023 Unknown English
17150 Gerta Tučková, Kateřina 2020 Czech Czech
17150 Sounds Like Titanic Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 2019 American English
17150 The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer 2010 American English
17150 The It Girl Ruth Ware 2022 British English
17150 The Family Chao Lan Samantha Chang 2022 American English
17150 The Turnout Megan Abbott 2021 American English
17150 Harrow Joy Williams 2021 American English
17150 Silverview John le Carré 2021 British English
17150 Our Kind Of Traitor John le Carré 2010 British English
17150 Franz Kafka's The Castle David Fishelson 1999 Unknown English
17150 Provinces Of Night William Gay 2000 American English
17150 The Chain Adrian McKinty 2019 Irish English
17150 The Parade Dave Eggers 2019 American English
17150 Waiting For Eden Elliot Ackerman 2018 American English
17150 4 3 2 1 Paul Auster 2017 American English
17150 The Cartel Don Winslow 2015 American English
17150 Harry Potter Series Box Set J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
17150 White Tears Hari Kunzru 2017 British English
17150 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17150 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
17150 Stone's Fall Iain Pears 2009 British English
17150 Gathering Blue Lois Lowry 2000 American English
17150 Children Of Memory Adrian Tchaikovsky 2022 British English
17150 Nona The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2022 New Zealand English
17150 System Collapse Martha Wells 2023 American English
17150 The Talk Darrin Bell 2023 American English
17150 Fugitive Telemetry Martha Wells 2021 American English
17150 Rogue Protocol Martha Wells 2018 American English
17150 Unmasking Autism Devon Price 2022 Unknown English
17150 House Of Suns Alastair Reynolds 2008 British English
17150 The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge 2007 Canadian English
17150 The Driftless Area Tom Drury 2006 American English
17150 Daemon Daniel Suarez 2006 American English
17150 Man Shy Frank Dalby Davison 2002 Australian English
17150 Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia Edward John Eyre 2004 Australian English
17150 The Green Book Mór Jókai 2003 Hungarian Hungarian
17150 The Infinite Plan Isabel Allende 1992 Chilean Spanish
17150 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 2017 Nigerian English
17150 Sulwe Lupita Nyong’o 2019 Unknown English
17150 The World That Made Mandela Luli Callinicos 2000 Unknown English
17150 Tomorrow Is Another Country Allister Sparks 1994 South African English
17150 A History Of South Africa Frank Welsh 1998 Unknown English
17150 The Anglo Boer War, 1899 1902 F. Pretorius 1999 Unknown English
17150 Portraits Of Power Mark Gevisser 1996 Unknown English
17150 New Babylon New Nineveh Charles Van Onselen 2011 Unknown English
17150 Cape Town E. Van Heyningen, Nigel Worden, Vivian Bickford-Smith 1998 Unknown English
17150 Midlands Jonny Steinberg 2002 South African English
17150 Three Letter Plague Jonny Steinberg 2008 South African English
17150 Welcome To Our Hillbrow Phaswane Mpe 2001 South African English
17150 A Place Called Vatmaar Andrew Henry Martin Scholtz 2000 South African English
17150 Moxyland Lauren Beukes 2008 South African English
17150 The New Century Of South African Poetry Michael Chapman 2002 South African English
17150 Inside & Out Jeremy Cronin 1999 South African English
17150 Transfer Ingrid de Kok 1997 Unknown English
17150 If I Could Sing Keorapetse Kgositsile 2002 South African English
17150 Mountain Of Fame John E. Wills Jr. 1992 Chinese English
17150 Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden 2001 Chinese English
17150 Confucian Moral Self Cultivation Philip J. Ivanhoe 1993 Chinese English
17150 The Philosophy Of The Daodejing Hans-Georg Moeller 2006 Chinese English
17150 Finding Them Gone Red Pine 2015 Chinese English
17150 The Tragedy Of Liberation Frank Dikötter 2013 Chinese English
17150 The Cultural Revolution Frank Dikötter 2016 Chinese English