The Greatest Books Since 2000

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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
8261 Diccionario Sánscrito Español Oscar Pujol 2011 Spanish Spanish
8261 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8268 A Caribbean Heiress In Paris Adriana Herrera 2022 American English
8268 Before I Let Go Kennedy Ryan 2022 American English
8268 Honey And Spice Bolu Babalola 2022 British English
8268 The Dead Romantics Ashley Poston 2022 American English
8268 That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon Kimberly Lemming 2022 American English
8268 You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty Akwaeke Emezi 2022 Nigerian English
8268 The Bodyguard Katherine Center 2022 American English
8264 Rosie Carpe & Hilda Marie NDiaye 2001 French French
8277 Love And Summer William Trevor 2009 Irish English
8279 The Authoritarian Dynamic Karen Stenner 2005 American English
8278 Solace Belinda McKeon 2011 Irish English
8285 Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon 2002 Bosnian English
8285 The Other Side Of Desire Daniel Bergner 2009 American English
8287 The Last Days Of Old Beijing Michael Meyer 2008 Unknown English
8291 Feminism Is For Everybody bell hooks 2000 American English
8290 They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears Johannes Anyuru 2017 Swedish Swedish
8297 Alec: The Years Have Pants Eddie Campbell 2008 British English
8299 Empire Of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 American English
8298 Kokuhaku Kō Machida 2005 Japanese Japanese
8301 Lizard Tails Juan Marsé 2004 Spanish Spanish
8303 The Secret Life Of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 2001 American English
8304 Celý život Jan Zábrana 2001 Czech Czech
8305 The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec Fred Vargas 2011 French French
8308 A Life In The Twentieth Century Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 2000 American English
8309 How The Light Gets In M. J. Hyland 2003 Australian English
8311 Nixonland Rick Perlstein 2008 American English
8312 A Marriage At Sea Sophie Elmhirst 2024 British English
8315 The Bottoms Joe R. Lansdale 2000 American English
8315 Last Seen In Massilia Steven Saylor 2000 American English
8318 Moon Called Patricia Briggs 2006 Unknown English
8319 The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart 2007 American English
8322 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8326 The Night Sessions Ken MacLeod 2008 Scottish English
8326 Lush Life Richard Price 2008 American English
8323 Dream Of Ding Village Yan Lianke 2006 Chinese Chinese
8328 This All Happened Michael Winter 2000 Canadian English
8331 Shōwa No Geki Kazuo Kasahara 2002 Japanese Unknown
8335 Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin 2006 American English
8346 Swing Time Zadie Smith 2016 British English
8350 This Cold Heaven Gretel Ehrlich 2001 American English
8351 China Road Rob Gifford 2007 British English
8354 Cinderella’s Sisters Dorothy Ko 2006 Unknown English
8353 River Thieves Michael Crummey 2001 Canadian English
8356 Chanda's Secrets Allan Stratton 2004 Canadian English
8358 Redeployment Phil Klay 2014 American English
8371 According To Queeney Beryl Bainbridge 2001 British English
8371 The Lecturer's Tale James Hynes 2001 American English
8373 Shanghai Style Lynn Pan 2008 Unknown English
8375 Jiryoku To Jūryoku No Hakken Yoshitaka Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Unknown
8377 Beautiful Disaster Jamie McGuire 2011 American English
8377 The Perfect Play Jaci Burton 2011 American English
8377 Never A Gentleman Eileen Dreyer 2011 Unknown English
8377 Belong To Me Shayla Black 2011 American English
8381 Towards Another Summer Janet Frame 2007 New Zealander English
8382 American War Omar El Akkad 2017 Canadian English
8385 A Seditious Affair KJ Charles 2015 British English
8387 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
8388 Our Souls At Night Kent Haruf 2015 American English
8393 de Kooning Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan 2004 American English
8394 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
8396 Audition Katie Kitamura 2025 Unknown English
8397 The Stag's Leap Sharon Olds 2012 American English
8401 Graceling Kristin Cashore 2008 American English
8404 The Art Of Losing Alice Zeniter 2017 French French
8402 About The Author John Colapinto 2001 American English
8411 Lost In A Good Book Jasper Fforde 2002 British English
8411 City Of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007 American English
8411 Her Royal Spyness Rhys Bowen 2007 British English
8414 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
8420 Mao’s Last Revolution Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals 2007 Unknown English
8419 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad 2025 Unknown English
8422 The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester 2008 British English
8424 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8425 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin 2010 American English
8427 Sad Tiger Neige Sinno 2023 Unknown French
8428 She Said Jodi Kantor 2019 American English
8430 Those Across The River Christopher Buehlman 2011 American English
8431 All Fours Miranda July 2024 American English
8431 Heart The Lover Lily King 2025 Unknown English
8433 The Gentleman In Black James Dalton 2009 Unknown Unknown
8435 Arc of Justice Kevin Boyle 2004 American English
8435 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson 2004 American English
8439 The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi 2020 Nigerian English
8442 Faithful Place Tana French 2010 Irish English
8441 Heaven And Hell Jón Kalman Stefánsson 2007 Icelandic Icelandic
8443 Diaries 1959 1971 Alejandra Pizarnik 2003 Argentinian Spanish
8443 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
8457 Penpal Dathan Kahn Auerbach 2012 American English
8445 The Natashas Yelena Moskovich 2016 Russian English
8445 The Diary Of A Gulag Prison Guard 1935 6 Ivan Chistyakov 2016 Russian Russian
8445 The Harvest Of Chronos Mojca Kumerdej 2016 Slovenian Slovenian
8445 Panorama Dušan Šarotar 2016 Slovenian Slovene
8445 Die Dunkle Seite Des Mondes Martin Suter 2000 Swiss German
8445 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8445 The Interim Wolfgang Hilbig 2000 German German
8445 Trilogie Des Mittelalters Dieter Kühn 2000 German German
8445 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8445 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8445 Der Geliebte Der Mutter Urs Widmer 2000 Swiss German
8458 March John Lewis 2013 American English
8459 The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander 2015 American English
8461 Headshot Rita Bullwinkel 2024 Unknown English
8462 The Age Of Openness Frank Dikötter 2008 Unknown English
8466 The Successor Ismail Kadare 2003 Albanian Albanian
8466 La Dama Número Trece José Carlos Somoza 2003 Spanish Spanish
8466 The Fiddler In The Subway Gene Weingarten 2010 American English
8466 Griftopia Matt Taibbi 2010 American English
8466 The Poisoner's Handbook Deborah Blum 2010 American English
8466 Being Wrong Kathryn Schulz 2010 American English
8466 The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010 American English
8491 The Book Of My Lives Aleksandar Hemon 2013 American English
8490 The Dry Jane Harper 2016 Australian English
8489 Public Passions Eugenia Lean 2007 Unknown English
8492 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
8496 Margaret The First Danielle Dutton 2016 American English
8497 Atarashii Chūsei Akihiko Tanaka 2003 Japanese Unknown
8497 Transcritique Kojin Karatani 2003 Japanese Japanese
8503 Collected Poems Jane Kenyon 2005 American English