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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17131 | The Nature Book | Tom Comitta | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | For Blood And Money | Nathan Vardi | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Darkness Manifesto | Johan Eklöf, Elizabeth DeNoma | 2020 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17131 | Elixir | Theresa Levitt | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | In The Herbarium | Maura C. Flannery | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | On Earth As It Is On Television | Emily Jane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | A Second Chance For Yesterday | RA Sinn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Alfie & Me | Carl Safina | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Eat, Poop, Die | Joe Roman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Mind Of A Bee | Lars Chittka | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Ice | Amy Brady | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Building Science Graphics | Jen Christiansen | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | I Feel Love | Rachel Nuwer | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Same Dog | Robert Aickman | 2023 | British | Unknown | |
| 17131 | The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet | Vandana Singh | 2009 | Indian | English | |
| 17131 | The Sounds Of Life | Karen Bakker | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | A Half Built Garden | Ruthanna Emrys | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Astrotopia | Mary-Jane Rubenstein | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | My Murder | Katie Williams | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Emergency | Kathleen Alcott | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | To Name The Bigger Lie | Sarah Viren | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Beware The Woman | Megan Abbott | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | The Stolen Coast | Dwyer Murphy | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Mobility | Lydia Kiesling | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | Strega | Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel | 2020 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17131 | Obra Maestra | Juan Tallón | 2022 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 17131 | The Skull | Jon Klassen | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17131 | The Glow | Jessie Gaynor | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Fear Is Just A Word | Azam Ahmed | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Grand Tour | Elisa Gonzalez | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | I Love Russia | Elena Kostyuchenko | 2023 | Unknown | Russian | |
| 17131 | Judgment At Tokyo | Gary J. Bass | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | King | Jonathan Eig | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | The Lights | Ben Lerner | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Liliana’s Invincible Summer | Cristina Rivera Garza | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17131 | Master Slave Husband Wife | Ilyon Woo | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Ordinary Notes | Christina Sharpe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Rediscovery Of America | Ned Blackhawk | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | Roman Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | A Shining | Jon Fosse | 2023 | Norwegian | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Some People Need Killing | Patricia Evangelista | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Vengeance Is Mine | Marie NDiaye | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17131 | The Dictionary People | Sarah Ogilvie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | How To Build A Boat | Elaine Feeney | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Time’s Echo | Jeremy Eichler | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Wrong Way | Joanne McNeil | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | State Of Silence | Sam Lebovic | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Money Kings | Daniel Schulman | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | About Ed | Robert Gluck | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Fund | Rob Copeland | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17131 | Collision Of Power | Martin Baron | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Berry Pickers | Amanda Peters | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Manuscripts Club | Christopher de Hamel | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Correction | Ben Austen | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild | Mathias Énard | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17131 | Holler, Child | LaToya Watkins | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Yesterday | Tobias Becker | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Night Watch | Jayne Anne Phillips | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17131 | In The Shadow Of Quetzalcoatl | Merilee Grindle | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | The Book At War | Andrew Pettegree | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Foreign Bodies | Simon Schama | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17131 | Brooklyn Crime Novel | Jonathan Lethem | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | Earlier | Sasha Frere‑Jones | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Klan War | Fergus M. Bordewich | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Camille Pissarro | Anka Muhlstein | 2023 | Unknown | French | |
| 17131 | A History Of Fake Things On The Internet | Walter Scheirer | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Charlie Chaplin Vs. America | Scott Eyman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | The Love Of Singular Men | Victor Heringer | 2023 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17131 | Beyond The Wall | Katja Hoyer | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Naked In The Rideshare | Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Flee North | Scott Shane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Mapping The Darkness | Kenneth Miller | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | January | Sara Gallardo | 2023 | Argentine | Spanish | |
| 17131 | A Council Of Dolls | Mona Susan Power | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Long Form | Kate Briggs | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Lies And Sorcery | Elsa Morante | 2023 | Italian | Unknown | |
| 17131 | The Necessity Of Exile | Shaul Magid | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | A Haunting On The Hill | Elizabeth Hand | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | The House Of Doors | Tan Twan Eng | 2023 | Malaysian | English | |
| 17131 | Cross‑Stitch | Jazmina Barrera | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17131 | The Vulnerables | Sigrid Nunez | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Romney | McKay Coppins | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | The Dimensions Of A Cave | Greg Jackson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | How To Be Multiple | Helena de Bres | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Going Infinite | Michael Lewis | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | The Mysteries | Bill Watterson | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | The Chapter | Nicholas Dames | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Lumumba Plot | Stuart A. Reid | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | On Marriage | Devorah Baum | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Revolutionary Temper | Robert Darnton | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | What The Taliban Told Me | Ian Fritz | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Monica | Daniel Clowes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | The Two‑Parent Privilege | Melissa S. Kearney | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | A Volga Tale | Guzel Yakhina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17131 | Artificial | Amy Kurzweil | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Omega Farm | Martha McPhee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Pandora’s Box | Peter Biskind | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | A City On Mars | Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Pensive Citadel | Victor Brombert | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Crossings | Ben Goldfarb | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Body Of The Soul | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17131 | The Lies Of The Land | Steven Conn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | American Poly | Christopher M. Gleason | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | This Is Salvaged | Vauhini Vara | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Wound | Oksana Vasyakina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17131 | The Boy From Kyiv | Marina Harss | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | This Country | Navied Mahdavian | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | This Won’t Help | Eli Grober | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Genius Of Their Age | S. Frederick Starr | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Black Friend | Ziwe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Our Hideous Progeny | C. E. McGill | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | Blood In The Machine | Brian Merchant | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17131 | The Burning Of The World | Scott W. Berg | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17131 | Emperor Of Rome | Mary Beard | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17131 | Pet | Catherine Chidgey | 2023 | New Zealand | English | |
| 17131 | A Man Of Two Faces | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17131 | American Visions | Edward L. Ayers | 2023 | American | English |