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
17131 Spare Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex 2023 British English
17131 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian
17131 Professing Criticism John Guillory 2023 American English
17131 Wade In The Water Nyani Nkrumah 2023 Unknown English
17131 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17131 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17131 Chrome Valley Mahogany L. Browne 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Deadline Jill Lepore 2023 American English
17131 Ghost Music An Yu 2022 Unknown English
17131 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 Unknown English
17131 Holding Pattern Jenny Xie 2023 Unknown English
17131 Holler, Child Latoya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17131 How Not To Kill Yourself Clancy Martin 2023 American English
17131 I Am Still With You Emmanuel Iduma 2023 Nigerian English
17131 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English
17131 Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go Cleo Qian 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Male Gazed Manuel Betancourt 2023 Unknown English
17131 Mott Street Ava Chin 2023 Unknown English
17131 None Of The Above Travis Alabanza 2022 Unknown English
17131 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17131 Owner Of A Lonely Heart Beth Nguyen 2023 Unknown English
17131 Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 2023 Unknown English
17131 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17131 Thin Skin Jenn Shapland 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Three Of Us Ore Agbaje‑Williams 2023 Unknown English
17131 To Free The Captives Tracy K. Smith 2023 Unknown English
17131 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2021 French English
17131 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2021 French French
17131 Couplets Maggie Millner 2023 Unknown English
17131 Flee North Scott Shane 2023 Unknown English
17131 Good Girls Hadley Freeman 2023 British English
17131 The Lost Wife Susanna Moore 2023 American English
17131 An Ordinary Man Richard Norton Smith 2023 Unknown English
17131 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Two Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
17131 No One Will Come Back For Us Premee Mohamed 2023 Canadian English
17131 The Strange Nathan Ballingrud 2023 American English
17131 Critical Mass Daniel Suarez 2023 American English
17131 Fixit Joe Ide 2023 American English
17131 The Kind Worth Saving Peter Swanson 2023 American English
17131 The Murder Of Mr. Wickham Claudia Gray 2022 Unknown English
17131 The Lock Up John Banville 2023 Irish English
17131 My Men Victoria Kielland 2023 Unknown Norwegian
17131 Prom Mom Laura Lippman 2023 American English
17131 The Many Assassinations Of Samir, The Seller Of Dreams Daniel Nayeri 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Magicians Blexbolex, Karin Snelson 2022 Unknown French
17131 Bunny & Tree Balint Zsako 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Tree And The River Aaron Becker 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Shade Tree Suzy Lee, Helen Mixter 2023 Unknown English
17131 Do You Remember? Sydney Smith 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Search For The Giant Arctic Jellyfish Chloe Savage 2022 Unknown English
17131 Discovering Life’s Story Joy Hakim 2023 American English
17131 The Bathysphere Book Brad Fox 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17131 Barbara Isn’t Dying Alina Bronsky 2021 German German
17131 Confidence Rafael Frumkin 2023 Unknown English
17131 Dayswork Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel 2023 Unknown English
17131 Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain 2023 Unknown English
17131 A Haunting On The Hill Elizabeth Hand 2023 American English
17131 I Will Greet The Sun Again Khashayar J. Khabushani 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Madstone Elizabeth Crook 2023 American English
17131 My Father’s House Joseph O’Connor 2023 Irish English
17131 My Name Is Iris Brando Skyhorse 2023 American English
17131 No One Prayed Over Their Graves Khaled Khalifa 2019 Syrian Arabic
17131 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Sunset Crowd Karin Tanabe 2023 Unknown English
17131 Up With The Sun Thomas Mallon 2023 American English
17131 Vintage Contemporaries Dan Kois 2014 Unknown English
17131 Althea Sally H. Jacobs 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Big Break Ben Terris 2023 Unknown English
17131 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17131 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17131 The Critic’s Daughter Priscilla Gilman 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17131 Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You Lucinda Williams 2023 American English
17131 George Frieda Hughes 2023 British English
17131 Gun Country Andrew C. McKevitt 2023 Unknown English
17131 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17131 Leg Greg Marshall 2023 Unknown English
17131 Lou Reed Will Hermes 2023 Unknown English
17131 Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2023 Unknown English
17131 Of Time And Turtles Sy Montgomery 2023 American English
17131 The People’s Hospital Ricardo Nuila 2023 Unknown English
17131 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Red Hotel Alan Philps 2019 Unknown English
17131 Saying It Loud Mark Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff 2023 American English
17131 Starkweather Harry N. MacLean 2023 Unknown English
17131 Ufo Garrett M. Graff 2023 Unknown English
17131 Under The Eye Of Power Colin Dickey 2023 American English
17131 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17131 Without Children Peggy O’Donnell Heffington 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
17131 Sparks Ian Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17131 Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg 2023 Danish English
17131 The Fiscal Theory Of The Price Level John Cochrane 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Geek Way Andrew McAfee 2023 American English
17131 Material World Ed Conway 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani, James White 2023 Unknown English
17131 Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17131 Hitler, Stalin, Mum And Dad Daniel Finkelstein 2023 British English
17131 Ian Fleming Nicholas Shakespeare 2023 Unknown English
17131 Into The Amazon Larry Rohter 2017 Unknown English
17131 J.L. Austin M.W. Rowe 2004 Unknown English
17131 Milton Friedman Jennifer Burns 2023 Unknown English
17131 Monet Jackie Wullschläger 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
17131 Emperor Of Rome Mary Beard 2023 British English
17131 In Her Nature Rachel Hewitt 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Lumumba Plot Stuart Reid 2023 Unknown English
17131 On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock 2023 Unknown English
17131 Gradual Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox 2022 Unknown English
17131 High Caucasus Tom Parfitt 2023 Unknown English
17131 Pandora’s Box Peter Biskind 2004 Unknown English
17131 Sailing Alone Richard King 2023 Unknown English
17131 Time To Think Hannah Barnes 2023 Unknown English
17131 Mefisto Kulübü Tess Gerritsen 2006 American English
17131 Günahkar Tess Gerritsen 2003 American English
17131 Siliniş Tess Gerritsen 2005 American English
17131 Read People Like A Book Patrick King 2020 Unknown English