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
17164 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17164 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17164 Christmas Days Jeanette Winterson 2016 British English
17164 White Egrets Derek Walcott 2010 Saint Lucian English
17164 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
17164 The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore 2008 American English
17164 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17164 The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer 2005 American English
17164 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17164 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
17164 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17164 Delilah Green Doesn't Care Ashley Herring Blake 2022 American English
17164 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17164 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17164 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17164 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17164 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17164 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17164 The Woman Who Read Too Much Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 2015 Unknown English
17164 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17164 Better Than War Siamak Vossoughi 2015 Unknown English
17164 Song Of A Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2018 American English
17164 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17164 The Last Days Of Cafe Leila Donia Bijan 2017 Unknown English
17164 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17164 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17164 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17164 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17164 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17164 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17164 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17164 Equal Of The Sun Anita Amirrezvani 2012 Unknown English
17164 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17164 Fresh Water For Flowers Valerie Perrin 2018 French French
17164 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17164 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17164 Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen 2020 American English
17164 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17164 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
17164 Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen 2013 American English
17164 The Man Who Saved The Union H.W. Brands 2012 American English
17164 Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch 2019 Canadian English
17164 Fire And Blood George R. R. Martin 2018 American English
17164 The Fall Of Gondolin J. R. R. Tolkien 2018 British English
17164 Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You Marcus Chown 2007 British English
17164 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17164 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17164 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17164 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann 2011 American English
17164 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17164 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17164 The Short Drop Matthew FitzSimmons 2015 American English
17164 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
17164 The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth 2011 British English
17164 The Elements Of Eloquence Mark Forsyth 2013 British English
17164 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
17164 D.Gray Man, Vol. 1 Katsura Hoshino 2004 Japanese Japanese
17164 By The Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle 2024 Unknown English
17164 Mother Of Learning Domagoj Kurmaić 2011 Unknown English
17164 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17164 Percy Jackson And The Olympians Boxed Set Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17164 The Icebound Land John Flanagan 2005 Australian English
17164 The Black Circle Patrick Carman 2009 American English
17164 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17164 Beyond The Grave Jude Watson 2009 American English
17164 The Sword Thief Peter Lerangis 2009 American English
17164 The Emperor Of Nihon Ja John Flanagan 2010 Australian English
17164 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17164 Teresa Degli Oracoli Cecconi 2020 Unknown Italian
17164 Siilo Hugh Howey 2011 American English
17164 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
17164 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17164 No One Writes Back Jang Jin-sung 2013 Unknown Korean
17164 A Small Corner Of Hell Anna Politkovskaya 2003 Russian Russian
17164 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17164 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
17164 Dreyer's English Eileen Dreyer 2019 Unknown English
17164 In Europe Geert Mak 2004 Dutch Dutch
17164 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17164 The Mood Cure Julia Ross 2002 Unknown English
17164 The Third Man And Other Stories Graham Greene 2011 British English
17164 Whoops! John Lanchester 2009 British English
17164 Family Values Wendy Cope 2011 British English
17164 Ghosts Unknown 2017 Unknown English
17164 Enron Lucy Prebble 2009 British English
17164 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17164 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill 2000 American English
17164 The Kitchen Diaries, Volume I + Ii Nigel Slater 2005 British English
17164 Thai Food David Thompson 2002 Australian English
17164 Judgement Of Paris George Taber 2005 American English
17164 The Austerity Olympics Janie Hamilton 2009 Unknown English
17164 Damnation Spring Ash Davidson 2021 American English
17164 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17164 Mass Effect Drew Karpyshyn 2010 Canadian English
17164 Raising Men Davis, Eric, Santorelli, Dina 2016 Unknown English
17164 Lost In Time A.G. Riddle 2022 American English
17164 The First Rebel Neil Swanson 2009 American English
17164 The Literature Express Lasha Bugadze 2009 Georgian Georgian
17164 Requiem For The Living Alan Cherchesov 2005 Unknown Russian
17164 The Orphan Sky Ella Leya 2015 Unknown English
17164 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17164 The Legacy Of Lost Things Aida Zilalian 2016 Unknown English
17164 The Fourth Man Robert Baer 2022 American English
17164 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
17164 Thanks A Thousand A. J. Jacobs 2018 American English
17164 True Believer Jack Carr 2019 American English
17164 Code Red Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills 2023 American English
17164 The Old Lion Jeff Shaara 2023 American English
17164 Spies In The Family Eva Dillon 2017 Unknown English
17164 The Spy In Moscow Station Eric Haseltine 2019 Unknown English
17164 Stalking The Red Bear Peter Sasgen 2009 Unknown English
17164 Moshi Moshi Banana Yoshimoto 2010 Japanese Japanese
17164 The River Has Roots Amal El Mohtar 2025 Unknown Unknown
17164 The Foxhole Court Nora Sakavic 2013 American English
17164 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, Vol. 1 Singshong 2018 Korean Korean
17164 Crier's War Francisco J. Varela 2019 Unknown English
17164 The Simple Path To Wealth J.L. Collins 2016 American English
17164 The Abstainer Ian McGuire 2020 British English
17164 The Last Language Jennifer duBois 2023 Unknown English
17164 The Upstairs Delicatessen Dwight Garner 2023 American English