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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10702 | I Regret Almost Everything | Keith McNally | 2025 | British | English | |
| 10705 | Bring The House Down | Charlotte Runcie | 2025 | Scottish | English | |
| 10716 | The Beast In The Clouds | Nathalia Holt | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10723 | Dominion | Calvin Baker | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10723 | Seminary Boy | John Cornwell | 2006 | British | English | |
| 10723 | Rampart Street | David Fulmer | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10723 | The Amalgamation Polka | Stephen Wright | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10723 | The Teahouse Fire | Ellis Avery | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10730 | Big Swiss | Jen Beagin | 2023 | American | English | |
| 10728 | Dirt Poor Islanders | Winnie Dunn | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 10728 | Black Butterflies | Priscilla Morris | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 10736 | Truth And Truthfulness | Bernard Williams | 2002 | British | English | |
| 10744 | The Frugal Superpower | Michael Mandelbaum | 2010 | American | English | |
| 10744 | Farm Hands | Tom Rivers | 2012 | American | English | |
| 10744 | A Dog's Purpose | W. Bruce Cameron | 2010 | American | English | |
| 10740 | Imagine Me Gone | Adam Haslett | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10748 | The Moor's Account | Laila Lalami | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10759 | A Moonless, Starless Sky | Alexis Okeowo | 2017 | American | English | |
| 10759 | Notes On A Foreign Country | Suzy Hansen | 2017 | American | English | |
| 10762 | The Banished Immortal | Ha Jin | 2019 | American | English | |
| 10763 | Communion | bell hooks | 2002 | American | English | |
| 10764 | A Darker Shade Of Magic | V. E. Schwab | 2015 | American | English | |
| 10770 | Halfway Home | Reuben Jonathan Miller | 2021 | American | English | |
| 10770 | Career And Family | Claudia Goldin | 2021 | American | English | |
| 10770 | Not One Inch | M. E. Sarotte | 2021 | American | English | |
| 10776 | Sandalwood Death | Yan Mo | 2001 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 10775 | Female Chauvinist Pigs | Ariel Levy | 2005 | American | English | |
| 10779 | An Island Princess Starts A Scandal | Adriana Herrera | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10785 | The First Tycoon | T. J. Stiles | 2009 | American | English | |
| 10785 | Washington | Ron Chernow | 2010 | American | English | |
| 10785 | The New Negro | Jeffrey C. Stewart | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10785 | The Dead Are Arising | Les Payne | 2020 | American | English | |
| 10782 | Cassandra Speaks | Elizabeth Lesser | 2020 | American | English | |
| 10782 | Grown Ups | Marian Keyes | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 10782 | Burnt Sugar | Avni Doshi | 2020 | Indian | English | |
| 10791 | Jane Sexes It Up | Merri Lisa Johnson | 2002 | Unknown | English | |
| 10792 | Lilas Rouge | Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker | 2012 | Unknown | French | |
| 10794 | Code Talker | Joseph Bruchac | 2005 | American | English | |
| 10794 | Elsewhere | Gabrielle Zevin | 2005 | American | English | |
| 10794 | Cross Country | Robert Sullivan | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10799 | Kin | Miljenko Jergović | 2013 | Croatian | Croatian | |
| 10800 | The Angel Of Pain | Brian Stableford | 2009 | British | English | |
| 10800 | Off With Their Heads! | Maria Tatar | 2013 | American | English | |
| 10800 | Circe's Island | Eden Phillpotts | 2012 | British | English | |
| 10806 | La Montagne | Jean-Noël Pancrazi | 2012 | French | French | |
| 10808 | Laurinda | Alice Pung | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 10808 | The Gypsy Goddess | Meena Kandasamy | 2014 | Indian | English | |
| 10807 | The Summer House | Masashi Matsuie | 2012 | Japanese | English | |
| 10812 | Dodgers | Bill Beverly | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10814 | Life In Code | Ellen Ullman | 2017 | American | English | |
| 10818 | An Untamed State | Roxane Gay | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10819 | Skeleton Key | Anthony Horowitz | 2002 | British | English | |
| 10820 | Pym | Mat Johnson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 10821 | Salt To The Sea | Ruta Sepetys | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10821 | Scythe | Neal Shusterman | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10824 | Touching Feeling | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | 2003 | American | English | |
| 10833 | The Silent Wife | Kerry Fisher | 2017 | British | English | |
| 10825 | This Bridge We Call Home | Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating | 2002 | Multiple | English | |
| 10834 | Border | Kapka Kassabova | 2017 | Bulgarian | English | |
| 10834 | Ants Among Elephants | Sujatha Gidla | 2017 | American | English | |
| 10837 | Bleeding Edge | Thomas Pynchon | 2013 | American | English | |
| 10836 | Target Land | Svoboda Bachvarova | 2010 | Bulgarian | Unknown | |
| 10839 | I, Alex Cross | James Patterson | 2009 | American | English | |
| 10842 | Who Controls The Internet? | Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10840 | The End Of Days | Jenny Erpenbeck | 2012 | German | German | |
| 10844 | Shadowshaper | Daniel José Older | 2015 | American | English | |
| 10844 | The Wrath & The Dawn | Renée Ahdieh | 2015 | American | English | |
| 10852 | The Lie Tree | Frances Hardinge | 2015 | British | English | |
| 10861 | Wild Thing | Sue Prideaux | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10860 | Poukahangatus | Tayi Tibble | 2022 | New Zealand | English | |
| 10859 | Nova Antologia Poética | Vinícius De Moraes | 2003 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 10862 | A Century Of Ghost Stories | Richard Sugg | 2017 | British | English | |
| 10863 | The Broken King | Michael Thomas | 2017 | Unknown | English | |
| 10864 | Ancillary Sword | Ann Leckie | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10864 | City Of Stairs | Robert Jackson Bennett | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10866 | Mr. Splitfoot | Samantha Hunt | 2016 | American | English | |
| 10871 | Invisible Women | Caroline Criado Perez | 2019 | British | English | |
| 10867 | Copper Sun | Sharon M. Draper | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10867 | Tyrell | Coe Booth | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10867 | Down The Nile | Rosemary Mahoney | 2007 | American | English | |
| 10867 | Tokyo Fiancée | Amélie Nothomb | 2007 | Belgian | French | |
| 10872 | Darkly Dreaming Dexter | Jeff Lindsay | 2004 | American | English | |
| 10876 | West Girls | Laura Elizabeth Woollett | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10876 | Anam | André Dao | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10876 | The Vitals | Tracy Sorensen | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10876 | The Pole And Other Stories | J. M. Coetzee | 2023 | South African | English | |
| 10880 | Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave | Mariana Enriquez | 2013 | Argentine | Spanish | |
| 10885 | My Friends | Fredrik Backman | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10884 | Things We Never Got Over | Lucy Score | 2022 | American | English | |
| 10888 | Everything Is Tuberculosis | John Green | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 10889 | Brand New Ancients | Kae Tempest | 2013 | British | English | |
| 10891 | The Odd Woman And The City | Vivian Gornick | 2015 | American | English | |
| 10892 | You Could Make This Place Beautiful | Maggie Smith | 2023 | American | English | |
| 10892 | Roman Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10892 | Lola In The Mirror | Trent Dalton | 2023 | Australian | English | |
| 10895 | The Man With The Compound Eyes | Wu Ming-yi | 2011 | Taiwanese | Chinese | |
| 10897 | America’s Women | Gail Collins | 2003 | American | English | |
| 10901 | Rising Out Of Hatred | Eli Saslow | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10900 | The Hooligan's Return | Norman Manea | 2003 | Romanian | Romanian | |
| 10903 | Inside My Mother | Ali Cobby Eckermann | 2015 | Australian | English | |
| 10903 | The Drone Eats With Me | Atef Abu Saif | 2015 | Palestinian | English | |
| 10903 | Liveblog | Megan Boyle | 2015 | American | English | |
| 10901 | Before I Forget | Anne Pauly | 2019 | French | French | |
| 10908 | Grief | Andrew Holleran | 2022 | American | English | |
| 10908 | Samedi The Deafness | Jesse Ball | 2007 | American | English | |
| 10908 | The Last Novel | David Markson | 2007 | American | English | |
| 10913 | La Casa Del Padre | Justo Navarro | 2015 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 10915 | The Shining Girls | Lauren Beukes | 2013 | South African | English | |
| 10914 | Common As Air | Lewis Hyde | 2010 | American | English | |
| 10916 | Guerre Et Pluie | Velibor Čolić | 2014 | Unknown | French | |
| 10917 | The Economic Weapon | Nicholas Mulder | 2022 | American | English | |
| 10917 | Classified | David E. Bernstein | 2022 | American | English | |
| 10919 | Mark Twain | Ron Chernow | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10921 | Women Don’t Ask | Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever | 2003 | American | English | |
| 10931 | Consent To Kill | Vince Flynn | 2005 | American | English | |
| 10930 | Trilogy | Jon Fosse | 2014 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 10932 | Bodies Of Light | Jennifer Down | 2021 | Australian | English | |
| 10933 | Blowback | Brad Thor | 2005 | American | English | |
| 10934 | The Bone Key | Sarah Monette | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10937 | The Art Of Cruelty | Maggie Nelson | 2011 | American | English |