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
9624 Abisul Luminat Nicolae Balotă 2018 Romanian Unknown
9622 Curse Of The Narrows Laura Mac Donald 2005 Canadian English
9625 Suddenly In The Depth Of The Forest Amos Oz 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9628 Queenpin Megan Abbott 2007 American English
9627 This Hostel Life Melatu Uche Okorie 2018 Irish English
9643 Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila 2014 Congolese French
9645 All Your Perfects Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
9645 Josh And Hazel's Guide To Not Dating Christina Lauren 2018 American English
9647 Heart Lamp Banu Mushtaq 2024 Unknown English
9654 The Memory Chalet Tony Judt 2010 British English
9655 The Dinner Herman Koch 2009 Dutch Dutch
9656 The People's Republic Of Amnesia Louisa Lim 2014 Unknown English
9657 Terror Y Utopía Karl Schlögel 2018 German German
9658 Rachel, Monique… Sophie Calle 2012 French French
9660 F Letter Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse 2021 Russian Russian
9660 The King Of The Rattling Spirits Miha Mazzini 2021 Slovenian Slovenian
9673 Frozen Moment Camilla Ceder 2010 Swedish Swedish
9673 Blue Lightning Ann Cleeves 2010 British English
9673 Strange Shores Arnaldur Indriðason 2010 Icelandic Icelandic
9673 Heartstone C. J. Sansom 2010 British English
9660 Brehm's Life Of Animals Alfred Edmund Brehm 2015 German German
9660 The Silk Road Sven Hedin 2012 Swedish Swedish
9660 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9660 Schubumkehr Robert Menasse 2013 Austrian German
9660 De Architectura Vitruvius 2016 Roman Latin
9677 Easy Reading Cristina Morales 2018 Spanish Spanish
9681 Ordesa Manuel Vilas 2018 Spanish Spanish
9688 Leftover Women Leta Hong Fincher 2014 Unknown English
9696 The Wordhord Hana Videen 2021 Unknown English
9697 When Red Is Black Qiu Xiaolong 2004 Chinese English
9699 The Beautiful Country And The Middle Kingdom John Pomfret 2016 American English
9704 Extra Lives Tom Bissell 2010 American English
9700 The Information James Gleick 2011 American English
9702 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9702 The Black Tides Of Heaven Neon Yang 2017 Singaporean English
9712 Hell Divers Nicholas Sansbury Smith 2016 American English
9712 The Dispatcher John Scalzi 2016 American English
9712 Katherine Of Aragon Alison Weir 2016 British English
9712 Cake J. Bengtsson 2016 Unknown English
9716 Eros Is More Juan Antonio González Iglesias 2018 Spanish Spanish
9723 Someone You Can Build A Nest In John Wiswell 2024 Unknown English
9720 Inside Kenneth J. Harvey 2006 Canadian English
9729 The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski 2008 American English
9728 실격당한 자들을 위한 변론 김원영 2018 Korean Korean
9730 Gagner La Guerre Jean-Philippe Jaworski 2009 French French
9731 Wait Five Minutes Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins 2019 Unknown English
9733 The Hard Way Lee Child 2006 British English
9732 Una Novela China César Aira 2001 Argentinian Spanish
9734 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
9742 Crime Ferdinand Von Schirach 2009 German German
9743 The Fire Starters Jan Carson 2019 Irish English
9744 June Rain Jabbour Douaihy 2006 Lebanese Arabic
9755 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9757 Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter 2001 American English
9757 The Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander 2007 Israeli English
9757 The Dead Hand David Hoffman 2009 American English
9763 The Armies Evelio Rosero 2007 Colombian Spanish
9764 Show Them A Good Time Nicole Flattery 2019 Irish English
9766 Shadowplay Joseph O'Connor 2019 Irish English
9765 When The Earth Was Flat Raymond Fraser 2007 Canadian English
9769 Un Attieké Pour Elgass Tierno Monenembo 2021 French French
9770 The Narrow Land Christine Dwyer Hickey 2019 Irish English
9772 Animal Money Michael Cisco 2015 American English
9773 The Night Bookmobile Audrey Niffenegger 2010 American English
9773 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9775 Democracy For Realists Christopher H. Achen, Larry Bartels 2016 American English
9775 Racial Realignment Eric Schickler 2016 American English
9777 Women Talking Miriam Toews 2018 Canadian English
9781 A Ghost In The Throat Doireann Ní Ghríofa 2020 Irish English
9783 Seeing José Saramago 2004 Portuguese Portuguese
9784 The Romantic Agenda Claire Kann 2022 Unknown English
9784 Kiss Her Once For Me Alison Cochrun 2022 Unknown English
9784 Partners In Crime Alisha Rai 2022 Unknown English
9784 Chef’s Kiss TJ Alexander 2022 Unknown English
9784 Next To You Hannah Bonam-Young 2022 Unknown English
9784 Dead Collections Isaac Fellman 2022 Unknown English
9784 D'vaughn And Kris Plan A Wedding Chencia C. Higgins 2022 Unknown English
9784 The Undertaking Of Hart And Mercy Megan Bannen 2022 Unknown English
9792 The Friends Of Meager Fortune David Adams Richards 2006 Canadian English
9796 We Pierce Andrew Huebner 2002 American English
9799 Minion L. A. Banks 2003 American English
9802 No Friend But The Mountains Behrouz Boochani 2018 Unknown Persian
9802 Blak Work Alison Whittaker 2018 Australian English
9802 Axiomatic Maria Tumarkin 2018 Australian English
9802 The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton 2018 Australian English
9806 Long Way Down Jason Reynolds 2017 American English
9806 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
9808 The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin 2016 American English
9809 America, América Greg Grandin 2009 Unknown English
9810 The Childhood Of Jesus J. M. Coetzee 2013 South African English
9810 Journal Julie Delporte 2013 Unknown French
9812 The Custodian Of Paradise Wayne Johnston 2006 Canadian English
9820 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak 2009 Turkish Turkish
9821 The Way To Paradise Mario Vargas Llosa 2003 Peruvian Spanish
9822 The Precipice Toby Ord 2020 British English
9824 Alex Pierre Lemaitre 2011 French French
9824 The Frozen Dead Bernard Minier 2011 French French
9824 The Collini Case Ferdinand Von Schirach 2011 German German
9823 Mean Boy Lynn Coady 2006 Canadian English
9827 City Of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009 American English
9828 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9829 Tristano Dies Antonio Tabucchi 2004 Italian Italian
9832 Country Girl Edna O'Brien 2012 Irish English
9833 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 2008 Indian English
9835 The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley Hannah Tinti 2017 American English
9851 Entre Les Deux Il N’y A Rien Mathieu Riboulet 2006 French French
9853 Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim David Sedaris 2004 American English
9854 Exciting Times Naoise Dolan 2020 Irish English
9858 Wife Of The Gods Kwei Quartey 2009 Ghanaian English
9855 Afterlives Abdulrazak Gurnah 2020 British English
9885 The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice And Virtue Mackenzi Lee 2017 American English
9893 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
9893 Songs Of Kabir Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 2011 Indian Hindi
9895 Falling Is Like Flying Manon Uphoff 2019 Dutch Dutch
9899 Tokyo Prison Mari Akasaka 2012 Japanese Japanese
9900 My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness Kabi Nagata 2016 Japanese Japanese
9900 Modern Lovers Emma Straub 2016 American English
9905 A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine 2019 American English
9904 Trilobite! Richard Fortey 2000 British English
9903 디디의 우산 황정은 2019 Korean Korean