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
15616 A Thousand Brains Jeff Hawkins 2021 American English
15616 How To Avoid A Climate Disaster Bill Gates 2021 American English
15616 Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky 2008 American English
15638 Planet Magnon Leif Randt 2015 German German
15642 How The World Really Works Vaclav Smil 2022 Canadian English
15642 Surrender Bono 2022 Irish English
15642 The Boatbuilder Daniel Gumbiner 2018 American English
15642 Stray City Chelsey Johnson 2018 American English
15655 Hu Xueyan Gao Yang 2007 Chinese Chinese
15667 Do Not Disturb Michela Wrong 2021 British English
15667 Born In Blackness Howard W. French 2021 American English
15667 In The Valleys Of The Noble Beyond John Zada 2019 Unknown English
15667 Oculus Sally Wen Mao 2019 American English
15667 Look How Happy I'm Making You Polly Rosenwaike 2019 Unknown English
15675 The Love Story Of A Young Monk Wang Zengqi 2011 Chinese Chinese
15684 Silent Island Su Wei-chen 2021 Chinese Unknown
15685 Lucky Worries About His Country Chang Ta-chun 2001 Chinese Chinese
15686 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
15686 The Hainish Novels And Stories Ursula K. Le Guin 2017 American English
15686 Волонтёры Челкеля Andrey Valentinov 2009 Russian Russian
15686 Temnaya Zvezda Hroniki Artsii Vera Kamsha 2009 Russian Russian
15686 A Spell Of Good Things Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ 2023 Nigerian English
15686 River Spirit Leila Aboulela 2023 Sudanese English
15686 The Whitewashed Tombs Kwei Quartey 2023 Ghanaian English
15715 Kingdom Of The Wicked Kerri Maniscalco 2020 American English
15715 A Song Of Wraiths And Ruin Roseanne A. Brown 2020 Unknown English
15717 King Of Battle And Blood Scarlett St. Clair 2021 Unknown English
15721 Immortal Longings Chloe Gong 2023 Unknown English
15721 What The River Knows Isabel Ibañez 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Caprices Sabina Murray 2002 American English
17163 The Great Man Kate Christensen 2007 American English
17163 Schott's Original Miscellany Ben Schott 2002 British English
17163 Newjack Ted Conover 2000 American English
17163 Double Fold Nicholson Baker 2001 American English
17163 Sons of Mississippi Paul Hendrickson 2003 American English
17163 The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 2003 British English
17163 Rough Crossings Simon Schama 2005 British English
17163 Medical Apartheid Harriet A. Washington 2007 American English
17163 The Worst Hard Time Timothy Egan 2006 American English
17163 Legacy of Ashes Tim Weiner 2007 American English
17163 The Race Beat Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff 2006 American English
17163 An Army at Dawn Rick Atkinson 2002 American English
17163 Blue Like Jazz Donald Miller 2003 American English
17163 Killing Yourself to Live Chuck Klosterman 2005 American English
17163 Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers Robert Bringhurst 2000 Canadian English
17163 Thursbitch Alan Garner 2003 British English
17163 Wolf Brother Michelle Paver 2004 British English
17163 Fleshmarket Close Ian Rankin 2004 Scottish English
17163 Moondust Andrew Smith 2005 British English
17163 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
17163 Peeling the Onion Günter Grass 2006 German German
17163 The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson 2000 British English
17163 England in Particular Sue Clifford, Angela King 2006 British English
17163 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
17163 Born Yesterday Gordon Burn 2008 British English
17163 Fatal Purity Ruth Scurr 2006 British English
17163 District and Circle Seamus Heaney 2006 Irish English
17163 The Carhullan Army Sarah Hall 2007 British English
17163 The Lost Leader Mick Imlah 2008 British English
17163 The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005 American English
17163 English Passengers Matthew Kneale 2000 British English
17163 Twelve Bar Blues Patrick Neate 2001 British English
17163 Restless William Boyd 2006 British English
17163 Samuel Pepys Claire Tomalin 2002 British English
17163 The Tenderness of Wolves Stef Penney 2006 British English
17163 Comfort Me with Apples Ruth Reichl 2001 American English
17163 America John Stewart 2004 American English
17163 Embers of War Fredrik Logevall 2012 American English
17163 Liberty's Exiles Maya Jasanoff 2011 American English
17163 The Epicure's Lament Kate Christensen 2004 American English
17163 Savages Don Winslow 2010 American English
17163 Pure Andrew Miller 2011 British English
17163 Snobbery Joseph Epstein 2002 American English
17163 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
17163 Our Band Could Be Your Life Michael Azerrad 2001 American English
17163 An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore 2006 American English
17163 War Dances Sherman Alexie 2009 American English
17163 The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg Deborah Eisenberg 2010 American English
17163 Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2012 American English
17163 Delicious Foods James Hannaham 2015 American English
17163 Die andere Bildung. Was man von den Naturwissenschaften wissen sollte Ernst Peter Fischer 2001 German German
17163 Crusade and Jihad Bassam Tibi 2017 German English
17163 Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching Mychal Denzel Smith 2016 American English
17163 I Loved You More Tom Spanbauer 2014 American English
17163 The Invented Part Rodrigo Fresán 2014 Argentinian Spanish
17163 War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 2002 American English
17163 Levels of Life Julian Barnes 2013 British English
17163 Human Chain Seamus Heaney 2010 Irish English
17163 Women & Power Mary Beard 2017 British English
17163 The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker 2018 British English
17163 Broken Glass Alain Mabanckou 2005 Congolese French
17163 Encounters at the Heart of the World Elizabeth A. Fenn 2014 American English
17163 Custer's Trials T. J. Stiles 2015 American English
17163 The Gulf Jack E. Davis 2017 American English
17163 Sweet Taste of Liberty W. Caleb McDaniel 2019 American English
17163 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation David Brion Davis 2014 American English
17163 The Evangelicals Frances FitzGerald 2017 American English
17163 Directorate S Steve Coll 2018 American English
17163 Island on Fire Tom Zoellner 2020 American English
17163 The Telling Ursula K. Le Guin 2000 American English
17163 Accelerando Charles Stross 2005 British English
17163 Boneshaker Cherie Priest 2009 American English
17163 Embassytown China Miéville 2011 British English
17163 The City in the Middle of the Night Charlie Jane Anders 2019 American English
17163 The Curse of Chalion Lois McMaster Bujold 2001 Japanese English
17163 Solstice Wood Patricia A. McKillip 2006 American English
17163 In the Night Garden Catherynne M. Valente 2006 American English
17163 In the Cities of Coin and Spice Catherynne M. Valente 2007 American English
17163 Flesh and Spirit Carol Berg 2007 American English
17163 Lifelode Jo Walton 2009 British English
17163 The Uncertain Places Lisa Goldstein 2011 American English
17163 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
17163 Kingfisher Patricia A. McKillip 2016 American English
17163 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
17163 Or What You Will Jo Walton 2020 British English
17163 Merlin Jane Yolen 2004 American English
17163 Aria of the Sea Dia Calhoun 2000 American English
17163 The Ropemaker Peter Dickinson 2001 British English
17163 Summerland Michael Chabon 2002 American English
17163 The Hollow Kingdom Clare B. Dunkle 2003 American English