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
14589 The Good Girls Sonia Faleiro 2021 Indian English
14589 The Rope Alex Tresniowski 2021 Unknown English
14589 Two Truths And A Lie Ellen McGarrahan 2021 Unknown English
14599 Abundance Peter Diamandis 2012 American English
14599 The Signal And The Noise Nate Silver 2012 American English
14599 Interventions Kofi Annan 2012 Ghanaian English
14599 The World Until Yesterday Jared Diamond 2012 American English
14599 Sustainable Materials Julian M. Allwood 2012 British English
14599 The Cost Of Hope Amanda Bennett 2012 American English
14599 A World Class Education Vivien Stewart 2012 American English
14599 One Billion Hungry Gordon Conway 2012 British English
14599 The Art Of Being Unreasonable Eli Broad 2012 American English
14599 Tap Dancing To Work Carol J. Loomis 2012 American English
14599 The Hairdresser Of Harare Tendai Huchu 2010 Zimbabwean English
14599 Running The Rift Naomi Benaron 2010 American English
14599 Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff 2008 American English
14620 City Of Girls Elizabeth Gilbert 2019 American English
14629 Five Steps To Happy Ella Dove 2019 British English
14630 How Asia Works Joe Studwell 2013 British English
14630 Harvesting The Biosphere Vaclav Smil 2013 Czech English
14630 Should We Eat Meat? Vaclav Smil 2013 Czech English
14630 Making The Modern World Vaclav Smil 2013 Canadian English
14630 Poor Numbers Morten Jerven 2013 Norwegian English
14630 The Bet Paul Sabin 2013 American English
14630 Dad Is Fat Jim Gaffigan 2013 American English
14630 China Along The Yellow River Cao Jinqing 2000 Chinese Chinese
14642 Somos Luces Abismales Carolina Sanin 2018 Colombian Spanish
14645 Love And Sleep Sean O'Reilly 2002 Unknown Unknown
14650 How Not To Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg 2014 American English
14650 Stress Test Timothy F. Geithner 2014 American English
14650 Reinventing American Health Care Ezekiel J. Emanuel 2014 American English
14650 The Myth Of The Strong Leader Archie Brown 2014 British English
14649 Wetlands Charlotte Roche 2008 German German
14650 Tadanori Yokoo Daido Moriyama 2006 Japanese Japanese
14667 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson 2010 British English
14671 Lightlark Alex Aster 2022 American English
14675 An Orphan World Giuseppe Caputo 2019 Colombian Spanish
14675 Lay Them To Rest Laurah Norton 2023 Unknown English
14680 Becoming Steve Jobs Brent Schlender 2015 American English
14680 Thing Explainer Randall Munroe 2015 American English
14680 A Full Life Jimmy Carter 2015 American English
14680 Epic Measures Jeremy N. Smith 2015 American English
14680 The Vital Question Nick Lane 2015 British English
14680 Being Nixon Evan Thomas 2015 American English
14680 Letters To A Young Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa 2002 Peruvian Spanish
14680 Utopia For Realists Rutger Bregman 2014 Dutch
14680 Teenage Jon Savage 2007 British English
14694 The Parts Keith Ridgway 2003 Irish English
14698 Late To The Ball Gerald Marzorati 2016 American English
14698 The Tyranny Of Experts William Russell Easterly 2014 American English
14698 The Age Of American Unreason Susan Jacoby 2008 American English
14698 The Bright Continent Dayo Olopade 2014 Unknown English
14698 Radiance Of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah 2014 American English
14698 Mushotoku Mind Taisen Deshimaru 2012 Japanese English
14713 Faebound Saara El-Arifi 2024 Unknown English
14732 Measure What Matters John Doerr 2017 American English
14732 Destined For War Graham Allison 2017 American English
14732 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 2017 American English
14732 Energy And Civilization Vaclav Smil 2017 Czech English
14732 Believe Me Eddie Izzard 2017 British English
14732 Capitalism Without Capital Jonathan Haskel 2017 British English
14732 The Looting Machine Tom Burgis 2015 British English
14732 The Death Of Rex Nhongo C. B. George 2015 Unknown English
14732 Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem 2013 American English
14834 Blitzscaling Reid Hoffman 2018 American English
14834 21 Lessons For The 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2018 Israeli English
14834 Billion Dollar Whale Tom Wright, Bradley Hope 2018 American English
14834 Leadership Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 American English
14834 The Book Of Why Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie 2018 American English
14834 Plagues And The Paradox Of Progress Thomas J. Bollyky 2018 American English
14834 The Future Of Capitalism Paul Collier 2018 British English
14834 Origin Story David Christian 2018 American English
14834 Everything Happens For A Reason Kate Bowler 2018 American English
14834 The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger 2018 American English
14834 Outbreak Culture Pardis Sabeti 2018 American English
14834 Nine Pints Rose George 2018 British English
14834 Identity Francis Fukuyama 2018 American English
14834 Army Of None Paul Scharre 2018 American English
14834 Presidents Of War Michael Beschloss 2018 American English
14834 Railroader Howard Green 2018 Canadian English
14860 Furies Of Calderon Jim Butcher 2004 American English
14925 Johann Holtrop Rainald Goetz 2012 German German
14986 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
14986 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
14986 The Hemingses of Monticello Annette Gordon-Reed 2008 American English
14986 A Nation under Our Feet Steven Hahn 2003 American English
14986 The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand 2001 American English
14986 Let's Talk About Love Carl Wilson 2007 Canadian English
14986 Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus John Gray 2024 American English
14986 Payback Margaret Atwood 2008 Canadian English
14986 The Ghost Robert Harris 2007 British English
14986 If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor 2002 British English
14986 The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie 2008 British English
14986 My Father and other Working-Class Football Heroes Gary Imlac 2005 British English
14986 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Wells Tower 2009 American English
14986 Say You’re One of Them Uwem Akpan 2008 Nigerian English
14986 Born to Run Chris McDougall 2009 American English
14986 The Fiery Trial Eric Foner 2010 American English
14986 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
14986 Binocular Vision Edith Pearlman 2011 American English
14986 The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell 2010 British English
14986 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
14986 The Wordy Shipmates Sarah Vowell 2008 American English
14986 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne 2006 Irish English
14986 Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi 2016 American English
14986 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 2014 British English
14986 This House of Grief Helen Garner 2014 Australian English
14986 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli 2015 Italian Italian
14986 The Infatuations Javier Marias 2011 Spanish Spanish
14986 Notes on a Scandal Zoë Heller 2003 British English
14986 The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson 2009 British English
14986 Adults in the Room Yanis Varoufakis 2017 Greek English
14986 Blood in the Water Heather Ann Thompson 2016 American English
14986 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 2016 Cameroonian English
14986 Call Me Zebra Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 2018 American English
14986 Sea Monsters Chloe Aridjis 2019 British English
14986 Lila Marilynne Robinson 2014 American English
14986 Everything Inside Edwidge Danticat 2019 Haitian English
14986 Passage Connie Willis 2001 American English
14986 Ilium Dan Simmons 2003 American English