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 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English
17150 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17150 The World And All That It Holds Aleksandar Hemon 2023 Bosnian English
17150 Karl Marx Francis Wheen 1999 British English
17150 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
17150 The Wrong End Of The Telescope Rabih Alameddine 2021 American English
17150 Devil House John Darnielle 2022 American English
17150 Thought To Exist In The Wild Derrick Jensen 2007 American English
17150 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17150 The Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig 2012 American English
17150 The Road To Unfreedom Timothy Snyder 2018 American English
17150 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17150 Audience Of One James Poniewozik 2019 American English
17150 King Of The World David Remnick 1998 American English
17150 Hollow Kingdom Bill Buxton 2019 Unknown English
17150 Rabbit Cake Annie Hartnett 2017 American English
17150 My Father, The Pornographer Andrew J. Offutt 2016 American English
17150 The Red Parts Maggie Nelson 2007 American English
17150 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17150 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17150 Christmas Days Jeanette Winterson 2016 British English
17150 White Egrets Derek Walcott 2010 Saint Lucian English
17150 Entered From The Sun George Garrett 1990 American English
17150 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
17150 The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore 2008 American English
17150 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17150 The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer 2005 American English
17150 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17150 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
17150 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17150 Delilah Green Doesn't Care Ashley Herring Blake 2022 American English
17150 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17150 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17150 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17150 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17150 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17150 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17150 The Woman Who Read Too Much Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 2015 Unknown English
17150 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17150 Better Than War Siamak Vossoughi 2015 Unknown English
17150 Song Of A Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2018 American English
17150 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17150 The Last Days Of Cafe Leila Donia Bijan 2017 Unknown English
17150 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17150 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17150 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17150 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17150 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17150 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17150 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17150 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17150 Equal Of The Sun Anita Amirrezvani 2012 Unknown English
17150 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17150 Fresh Water For Flowers Valerie Perrin 2018 French French
17150 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17150 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17150 Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen 2020 American English
17150 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17150 Churchill Martin Gilbert 1991 British English
17150 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
17150 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
17150 Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen 2013 American English
17150 Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank 1990 American English
17150 The Man Who Saved The Union H.W. Brands 2012 American English
17150 Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch 2019 Canadian English
17150 The Fall Of Gondolin J. R. R. Tolkien 2018 British English
17150 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17150 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17150 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17150 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17150 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann 2011 American English
17150 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17150 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17150 Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Vol. 4 Hayao Miyazaki 1990 Japanese Japanese
17150 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17150 The Short Drop Matthew FitzSimmons 2015 American English
17150 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
17150 The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth 2011 British English
17150 The Elements Of Eloquence Mark Forsyth 2013 British English
17150 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
17150 D.Gray Man, Vol. 1 Katsura Hoshino 2004 Japanese Japanese
17150 By The Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle 2024 Unknown English
17150 Mother Of Learning Domagoj Kurmaić 2011 Unknown English
17150 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17150 Percy Jackson And The Olympians Boxed Set Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17150 The Black Circle Patrick Carman 2009 American English
17150 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17150 Beyond The Grave Jude Watson 2009 American English
17150 The Sword Thief Peter Lerangis 2009 American English
17150 The Emperor Of Nihon Ja John Flanagan 2010 Australian English
17150 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17150 Teresa Degli Oracoli Cecconi 2020 Unknown Italian
17150 Siilo Hugh Howey 2011 American English
17150 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
17150 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17150 Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 1995 Italian Italian
17150 No One Writes Back Jang Jin-sung 2013 Unknown Korean
17150 A Small Corner Of Hell Anna Politkovskaya 2003 Russian Russian
17150 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17150 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
17150 Dreyer's English Eileen Dreyer 2019 Unknown English
17150 In Europe Geert Mak 2004 Dutch Dutch
17150 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17150 Essays Critical And Clinical Gilles Deleuze 1993 French French
17150 The Mood Cure Julia Ross 2002 Unknown English
17150 The Third Man And Other Stories Graham Greene 2011 British English
17150 Los Alamos Joseph Kanon 1997 American English
17150 Whoops! John Lanchester 2009 British English
17150 Family Values Wendy Cope 2011 British English
17150 The Man With Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1992 British English
17150 Ghosts Unknown 2017 Unknown English
17150 Enron Lucy Prebble 2009 British English
17150 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17150 How To Eat Nigella Lawson 1998 British English
17150 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill 2000 American English
17150 The Kitchen Diaries, Volume I + Ii Nigel Slater 2005 British English
17150 Thai Food David Thompson 2002 Australian English
17150 Judgement Of Paris George Taber 2005 American English
17150 Addicted Tony Adams 1998 British English
17150 It's Not About The Bike Lance Armstrong 1999 American English