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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17169 | A Volga Tale | Guzel Yakhina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17169 | Artificial | Amy Kurzweil | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Omega Farm | Martha McPhee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Pandora’s Box | Peter Biskind | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | A City On Mars | Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Pensive Citadel | Victor Brombert | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | Crossings | Ben Goldfarb | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Body Of The Soul | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17169 | The Lies Of The Land | Steven Conn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | American Poly | Christopher M. Gleason | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | This Is Salvaged | Vauhini Vara | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Wound | Oksana Vasyakina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17169 | The Boy From Kyiv | Marina Harss | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | This Country | Navied Mahdavian | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | This Won’t Help | Eli Grober | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Genius Of Their Age | S. Frederick Starr | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Black Friend | Ziwe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Our Hideous Progeny | C. E. McGill | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Blood In The Machine | Brian Merchant | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Burning Of The World | Scott W. Berg | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | Emperor Of Rome | Mary Beard | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17169 | Pet | Catherine Chidgey | 2023 | New Zealand | English | |
| 17169 | A Man Of Two Faces | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | American Visions | Edward L. Ayers | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | I Must Be Dreaming | Roz Chast | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | Revolutionary Spring | Christopher Clark | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17169 | The Upstairs Delicatessen | Dwight Garner | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | Fire In The Canyon | Daniel Gumbiner | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts | Gregg Hecimovich | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Ladies’ Lunch | Lore Segal | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | The English Experience | Julie Schumacher | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | The Hive And The Honey | Paul Yoon | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | American Gun | Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Reproduction | Louisa Hall | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Unsettled | Ayana Mathis | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | How To Be | Adam Nicolson | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17169 | The End Of Eden | Adam Welz | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Wren, The Wren | Anne Enright | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17169 | How To Say Babylon | Safiya Sinclair | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Civic Bargain | Brook Manville, Josiah Ober | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | A Flat Place | Noreen Masud | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Live To See The Day | Nikhil Goyal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Paris Notebooks | Mavis Gallant | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17169 | Sparks | Ian Johnson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Loved And Missed | Susie Boyt | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17169 | The Glint Of Light | Clarence Major | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | The Pole | J. M. Coetzee | 2023 | South African | English | |
| 17169 | Glossy | Marisa Meltzer | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Pockets | Hannah Carlson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | India’s Techade | Nalin Mehta | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Console | Colin Channer | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | The Rigor Of Angels | William Egginton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Digital Empires | Anu Bradford | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Emergency | Kathleen Alcott | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Women Of Now | Katherine Turk | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Caretaker | Ron Rash | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | Up Home | Ruth J. Simmons | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Betty Friedan | Rachel Shteir | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Cosmic Scholar | John Szwed | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Young Queens | Leah Redmond Chang | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Anansi’s Gold | Yepoka Yeebo | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Wednesday’s Child | Yiyun Li | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | The Suicide Museum | Ariel Dorfman | 2023 | Chilean | English | |
| 17169 | Beyond The Door Of No Return | David Diop | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17169 | Unreliable Narrator | Aparna Nancherla | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | I’m A Fan | Sheena Patel | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Dragon Palace | Hiromi Kawakami | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17169 | The Details | Ia Genberg | 2023 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17169 | Some Unfinished Chaos | Arthur Krystal | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | 24 7 Politics | Kathryn Cramer Brownell | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | A Word Or Two Before I Go | Arthur Krystal | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | Witness | Jamel Brinkley | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | Father And Son | Jonathan Raban | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17169 | The Marriage Question | Clare Carlisle | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Philosopher Of Palo Alto | John Tinnell | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | My Husband | Maud Ventura | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17169 | The Great White Bard | Farah Karim‑Cooper | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | All Souls | Saskia Hamilton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Why The Bible Began | Jacob L. Wright | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | This Is Wildfire | Nick Mott, Justin Angle | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Terrace Story | Hilary Leichter | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Hangman | Maya Binyam | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Deadline | Jill Lepore | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | Temple Folk | Aaliyah Bilal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Brave The Wild River | Melissa L. Sevigny | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Disruptions | Steven Millhauser | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17169 | The Plague | Jacqueline Rose | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17169 | The Peacock And The Sparrow | I. S. Berry | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Schoenberg | Harvey Sachs | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa | Stephen Buoro | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Ferguson Report | Nicole Sealey | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | My Stupid Intentions | Bernardo Zannoni | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17169 | Still Born | Guadalupe Nettel | 2023 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17169 | August Wilson | Patti Hartigan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Information Desk | Robyn Schiff | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | War And Punishment | Mikhail Zygar | 2023 | Unknown | Russian | |
| 17169 | Last Of The Lions | Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | You, Bleeding Childhood | Michele Mari | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17169 | The Migrant Chef | Laura Tillman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | The Centre | Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | A Most Tolerant Little Town | Rachel Louise Martin | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | The Parrot And The Igloo | David Lipsky | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | Dykette | Jenny Fran Davis | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Ultra‑Processed People | Chris van Tulleken | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17169 | Retrospective | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | 2023 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 17169 | Last Call At Coogan’s | Jon Michaud | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Rhythm Man | Stephanie Stein Crease | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Grand Delusion | Steven Simon | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17169 | Fire Rush | Jacqueline Crooks | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Eight Bears | Gloria Dickie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | Ninth Building | Zou Jingzhi | 2023 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17169 | Thunderclap | Laura Cumming | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17169 | How To Love Your Daughter | Hila Blum | 2023 | Unknown | Hebrew | |
| 17169 | So To Speak | Terrance Hayes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17169 | Snow Road Station | Elizabeth Hay | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17169 | Elsewhere | Yan Ge | 2023 | Chinese | English | |
| 17169 | A Madman’s Will | Gregory May | 2023 | Unknown | English |