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
17171 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17171 Audience Of One James Poniewozik 2019 American English
17171 Hollow Kingdom Bill Buxton 2019 Unknown English
17171 Rabbit Cake Annie Hartnett 2017 American English
17171 My Father, The Pornographer Andrew J. Offutt 2016 American English
17171 The Red Parts Maggie Nelson 2007 American English
17171 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17171 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17171 Christmas Days Jeanette Winterson 2016 British English
17171 White Egrets Derek Walcott 2010 Saint Lucian English
17171 The Ecological Thought Timothy Morton 2010 British English
17171 The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore 2008 American English
17171 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17171 The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer 2005 American English
17171 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17171 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
17171 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17171 Delilah Green Doesn't Care Ashley Herring Blake 2022 American English
17171 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17171 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17171 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17171 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17171 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17171 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17171 The Woman Who Read Too Much Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 2015 Unknown English
17171 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17171 Better Than War Siamak Vossoughi 2015 Unknown English
17171 Song Of A Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2018 American English
17171 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17171 The Last Days Of Cafe Leila Donia Bijan 2017 Unknown English
17171 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17171 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17171 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17171 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17171 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17171 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17171 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17171 Equal Of The Sun Anita Amirrezvani 2012 Unknown English
17171 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17171 Fresh Water For Flowers Valerie Perrin 2018 French French
17171 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17171 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17171 Squeeze Me Carl Hiaasen 2020 American English
17171 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17171 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
17171 Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen 2013 American English
17171 The Man Who Saved The Union H.W. Brands 2012 American English
17171 Because Internet Gretchen McCulloch 2019 Canadian English
17171 Fire And Blood George R. R. Martin 2018 American English
17171 The Fall Of Gondolin J. R. R. Tolkien 2018 British English
17171 Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You Marcus Chown 2007 British English
17171 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17171 The Romanovs Simon Sebag Montefiore 2016 British English
17171 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17171 The Unwanteds Lisa McMann 2011 American English
17171 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17171 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17171 The Short Drop Matthew FitzSimmons 2015 American English
17171 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
17171 The Etymologicon Mark Forsyth 2011 British English
17171 The Elements Of Eloquence Mark Forsyth 2013 British English
17171 Just One Damned Thing After Another Jodi Taylor 2013 British English
17171 D.Gray Man, Vol. 1 Katsura Hoshino 2004 Japanese Japanese
17171 By The Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle 2024 Unknown English
17171 Mother Of Learning Domagoj Kurmaić 2011 Unknown English
17171 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17171 Percy Jackson And The Olympians Boxed Set Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17171 The Icebound Land John Flanagan 2005 Australian English
17171 The Black Circle Patrick Carman 2009 American English
17171 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17171 Beyond The Grave Jude Watson 2009 American English
17171 The Sword Thief Peter Lerangis 2009 American English
17171 The Emperor Of Nihon Ja John Flanagan 2010 Australian English
17171 One False Note Gordon Korman 2024 Canadian English
17171 Teresa Degli Oracoli Cecconi 2020 Unknown Italian
17171 Siilo Hugh Howey 2011 American English
17171 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
17171 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17171 No One Writes Back Jang Jin-sung 2013 Unknown Korean
17171 A Small Corner Of Hell Anna Politkovskaya 2003 Russian Russian
17171 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17171 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
17171 Dreyer's English Eileen Dreyer 2019 Unknown English
17171 In Europe Geert Mak 2004 Dutch Dutch
17171 Intelligence And Spirit Reza Negarestani 2018 Unknown English
17171 The Mood Cure Julia Ross 2002 Unknown English
17171 The Third Man And Other Stories Graham Greene 2011 British English
17171 Whoops! John Lanchester 2009 British English
17171 Family Values Wendy Cope 2011 British English
17171 Ghosts Unknown 2017 Unknown English
17171 Enron Lucy Prebble 2009 British English
17171 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17171 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill 2000 American English
17171 The Kitchen Diaries, Volume I + Ii Nigel Slater 2005 British English
17171 Thai Food David Thompson 2002 Australian English
17171 Judgement Of Paris George Taber 2005 American English
17171 The Austerity Olympics Janie Hamilton 2009 Unknown English
17171 Damnation Spring Ash Davidson 2021 American English
17171 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17171 Mass Effect Drew Karpyshyn 2010 Canadian English
17171 Raising Men Davis, Eric, Santorelli, Dina 2016 Unknown English
17171 Lost In Time A.G. Riddle 2022 American English
17171 The First Rebel Neil Swanson 2009 American English
17171 The Literature Express Lasha Bugadze 2009 Georgian Georgian
17171 Requiem For The Living Alan Cherchesov 2005 Unknown Russian
17171 The Orphan Sky Ella Leya 2015 Unknown English
17171 Dagny, Or A Love Feast Zurab Karumidze 2014 Georgian English
17171 The Legacy Of Lost Things Aida Zilalian 2016 Unknown English
17171 The Fourth Man Robert Baer 2022 American English
17171 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
17171 Thanks A Thousand A. J. Jacobs 2018 American English
17171 True Believer Jack Carr 2019 American English
17171 Code Red Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills 2023 American English
17171 The Old Lion Jeff Shaara 2023 American English
17171 Spies In The Family Eva Dillon 2017 Unknown English
17171 The Spy In Moscow Station Eric Haseltine 2019 Unknown English
17171 Stalking The Red Bear Peter Sasgen 2009 Unknown English
17171 Moshi Moshi Banana Yoshimoto 2010 Japanese Japanese
17171 The River Has Roots Amal El Mohtar 2025 Unknown Unknown
17171 The Foxhole Court Nora Sakavic 2013 American English