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
8260 Diccionario Sánscrito Español Oscar Pujol 2011 Spanish Spanish
8260 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8267 A Caribbean Heiress In Paris Adriana Herrera 2022 American English
8267 Before I Let Go Kennedy Ryan 2022 American English
8267 Honey And Spice Bolu Babalola 2022 British English
8267 The Dead Romantics Ashley Poston 2022 American English
8267 That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon Kimberly Lemming 2022 American English
8267 You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty Akwaeke Emezi 2022 Nigerian English
8267 The Bodyguard Katherine Center 2022 American English
8263 Rosie Carpe & Hilda Marie NDiaye 2001 French French
8276 Love And Summer William Trevor 2009 Irish English
8278 The Authoritarian Dynamic Karen Stenner 2005 American English
8277 Solace Belinda McKeon 2011 Irish English
8284 Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon 2002 Bosnian English
8284 The Other Side Of Desire Daniel Bergner 2009 American English
8286 The Last Days Of Old Beijing Michael Meyer 2008 Unknown English
8290 Feminism Is For Everybody bell hooks 2000 American English
8289 They Will Drown In Their Mother’s Tears Johannes Anyuru 2017 Swedish Swedish
8296 Alec: The Years Have Pants Eddie Campbell 2008 British English
8298 Empire Of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 American English
8297 Kokuhaku Kō Machida 2005 Japanese Japanese
8300 Lizard Tails Juan Marsé 2004 Spanish Spanish
8302 The Secret Life Of Bees Sue Monk Kidd 2001 American English
8303 Celý život Jan Zábrana 2001 Czech Czech
8304 The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec Fred Vargas 2011 French French
8307 A Life In The Twentieth Century Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 2000 American English
8308 How The Light Gets In M. J. Hyland 2003 Australian English
8310 Nixonland Rick Perlstein 2008 American English
8311 A Marriage At Sea Sophie Elmhirst 2024 British English
8314 The Bottoms Joe R. Lansdale 2000 American English
8314 Last Seen In Massilia Steven Saylor 2000 American English
8317 Moon Called Patricia Briggs 2006 Unknown English
8318 The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart 2007 American English
8321 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8325 The Night Sessions Ken MacLeod 2008 Scottish English
8325 Lush Life Richard Price 2008 American English
8322 Dream Of Ding Village Yan Lianke 2006 Chinese Chinese
8327 This All Happened Michael Winter 2000 Canadian English
8330 Shōwa No Geki Kazuo Kasahara 2002 Japanese Unknown
8334 Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin 2006 American English
8345 Swing Time Zadie Smith 2016 British English
8349 This Cold Heaven Gretel Ehrlich 2001 American English
8350 China Road Rob Gifford 2007 British English
8353 Cinderella’s Sisters Dorothy Ko 2006 Unknown English
8352 River Thieves Michael Crummey 2001 Canadian English
8355 Chanda's Secrets Allan Stratton 2004 Canadian English
8357 Redeployment Phil Klay 2014 American English
8370 According To Queeney Beryl Bainbridge 2001 British English
8370 The Lecturer's Tale James Hynes 2001 American English
8372 Shanghai Style Lynn Pan 2008 Unknown English
8374 Jiryoku To Jūryoku No Hakken Yoshitaka Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Unknown
8376 Beautiful Disaster Jamie McGuire 2011 American English
8376 The Perfect Play Jaci Burton 2011 American English
8376 Never A Gentleman Eileen Dreyer 2011 Unknown English
8376 Belong To Me Shayla Black 2011 American English
8380 Towards Another Summer Janet Frame 2007 New Zealander English
8381 American War Omar El Akkad 2017 Canadian English
8384 A Seditious Affair KJ Charles 2015 British English
8386 The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 2012 American English
8387 Our Souls At Night Kent Haruf 2015 American English
8392 de Kooning Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan 2004 American English
8393 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
8395 Audition Katie Kitamura 2025 Unknown English
8396 The Stag's Leap Sharon Olds 2012 American English
8400 Graceling Kristin Cashore 2008 American English
8403 The Art Of Losing Alice Zeniter 2017 French French
8401 About The Author John Colapinto 2001 American English
8410 Lost In A Good Book Jasper Fforde 2002 British English
8410 City Of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007 American English
8410 Her Royal Spyness Rhys Bowen 2007 British English
8413 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
8419 Mao’s Last Revolution Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals 2007 Unknown English
8418 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad 2025 Unknown English
8421 The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester 2008 British English
8423 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8424 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms N. K. Jemisin 2010 American English
8426 Sad Tiger Neige Sinno 2023 Unknown French
8427 She Said Jodi Kantor 2019 American English
8429 Those Across The River Christopher Buehlman 2011 American English
8430 All Fours Miranda July 2024 American English
8430 Heart The Lover Lily King 2025 Unknown English
8432 The Gentleman In Black James Dalton 2009 Unknown Unknown
8434 Arc of Justice Kevin Boyle 2004 American English
8434 Shadow Divers Robert Kurson 2004 American English
8438 The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi 2020 Nigerian English
8441 Faithful Place Tana French 2010 Irish English
8440 Heaven And Hell Jón Kalman Stefánsson 2007 Icelandic Icelandic
8442 Diaries 1959 1971 Alejandra Pizarnik 2003 Argentinian Spanish
8442 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
8456 Penpal Dathan Kahn Auerbach 2012 American English
8444 The Natashas Yelena Moskovich 2016 Russian English
8444 The Diary Of A Gulag Prison Guard 1935 6 Ivan Chistyakov 2016 Russian Russian
8444 The Harvest Of Chronos Mojca Kumerdej 2016 Slovenian Slovenian
8444 Panorama Dušan Šarotar 2016 Slovenian Slovene
8444 Die Dunkle Seite Des Mondes Martin Suter 2000 Swiss German
8444 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8444 The Interim Wolfgang Hilbig 2000 German German
8444 Trilogie Des Mittelalters Dieter Kühn 2000 German German
8444 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8444 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8444 Der Geliebte Der Mutter Urs Widmer 2000 Swiss German
8457 March John Lewis 2013 American English
8458 The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander 2015 American English
8460 Headshot Rita Bullwinkel 2024 Unknown English
8461 The Age Of Openness Frank Dikötter 2008 Unknown English
8465 The Successor Ismail Kadare 2003 Albanian Albanian
8465 La Dama Número Trece José Carlos Somoza 2003 Spanish Spanish
8465 The Fiddler In The Subway Gene Weingarten 2010 American English
8465 Griftopia Matt Taibbi 2010 American English
8465 The Poisoner's Handbook Deborah Blum 2010 American English
8465 Being Wrong Kathryn Schulz 2010 American English
8465 The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010 American English
8490 The Book Of My Lives Aleksandar Hemon 2013 American English
8489 The Dry Jane Harper 2016 Australian English
8488 Public Passions Eugenia Lean 2007 Unknown English
8491 Underland Robert Macfarlane 2019 British English
8495 Margaret The First Danielle Dutton 2016 American English
8496 Atarashii Chūsei Akihiko Tanaka 2003 Japanese Unknown
8496 Transcritique Kojin Karatani 2003 Japanese Japanese
8502 Collected Poems Jane Kenyon 2005 American English