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
17165 Life On Delay John Hendrickson 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Devil’s Element Dan Egan 2023 Unknown English
17165 Brooklyn’s Last Secret Leslie Stein 2023 Unknown English
17165 I Have Some Questions For You Rebecca Makkai 2023 American English
17165 Evil Flowers Gunnhild Øyehaug 2023 Norwegian Norwegian
17165 Three Roads Back Robert D. Richardson 2023 Unknown English
17165 Cobalt Red Siddharth Kara 2023 Unknown English
17165 Daughter In Exile Bisi Adjapon 2023 Unknown English
17165 Oscar Wars Michael Schulman 2023 Unknown English
17165 This Other Eden Paul Harding 2023 American English
17165 The Wife Of Bath Marion Turner 2023 Unknown English
17165 When The News Broke Heather Hendershot 2023 Unknown English
17165 After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz 2023 Unknown English
17165 Why You’ll Never Find The One Sarah Akinterinwa 2023 Unknown English
17165 Skull Water Heinz Insu Fenkl 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Wandering Mind Jamie Kreiner 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Sense Of Wonder Matthew Salesses 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Guest Lecture Martin Riker 2023 Unknown English
17165 The New Life Tom Crewe 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Scythian Empire Christopher I. Beckwith 2023 Unknown English
17165 Pirate Enlightenment David Graeber 2023 Unknown English
17165 Spare Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex 2023 British English
17165 Forbidden Notebook Alba de Céspedes 2023 Italian Italian
17165 Professing Criticism John Guillory 2023 American English
17165 Wade In The Water Nyani Nkrumah 2023 Unknown English
17165 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17165 All Souls Saskia Hamilton 2023 Unknown English
17165 Chrome Valley Mahogany L. Browne 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Deadline Jill Lepore 2023 American English
17165 Ghost Music An Yu 2022 Unknown English
17165 The Hive And The Honey Paul Yoon 2023 Unknown English
17165 Holding Pattern Jenny Xie 2023 Unknown English
17165 Holler, Child Latoya Watkins 2023 Unknown English
17165 How Not To Kill Yourself Clancy Martin 2023 American English
17165 I Am Still With You Emmanuel Iduma 2023 Nigerian English
17165 I Do Everything I’m Told Megan Fernandes 2023 Unknown English
17165 Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go Cleo Qian 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Male Gazed Manuel Betancourt 2023 Unknown English
17165 Mott Street Ava Chin 2023 Unknown English
17165 None Of The Above Travis Alabanza 2022 Unknown English
17165 Nothing Special Nicole Flattery 2023 Irish English
17165 Owner Of A Lonely Heart Beth Nguyen 2023 Unknown English
17165 Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 2023 Unknown English
17165 Terrace Story Hilary Leichter 2023 Unknown English
17165 Thin Skin Jenn Shapland 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Three Of Us Ore Agbaje‑Williams 2023 Unknown English
17165 To Free The Captives Tracy K. Smith 2023 Unknown English
17165 Vengeance Is Mine Marie NDiaye 2021 French English
17165 Beyond The Door Of No Return David Diop 2021 French French
17165 Couplets Maggie Millner 2023 Unknown English
17165 Flee North Scott Shane 2023 Unknown English
17165 Good Girls Hadley Freeman 2023 British English
17165 The Lost Wife Susanna Moore 2023 American English
17165 An Ordinary Man Richard Norton Smith 2023 Unknown English
17165 Palestine 1936 Oren Kessler 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Two Parent Privilege Melissa S. Kearney 2023 Unknown English
17165 No One Will Come Back For Us Premee Mohamed 2023 Canadian English
17165 The Strange Nathan Ballingrud 2023 American English
17165 Fixit Joe Ide 2023 American English
17165 The Kind Worth Saving Peter Swanson 2023 American English
17165 The Murder Of Mr. Wickham Claudia Gray 2022 Unknown English
17165 The Lock Up John Banville 2023 Irish English
17165 My Men Victoria Kielland 2023 Unknown Norwegian
17165 Prom Mom Laura Lippman 2023 American English
17165 The Many Assassinations Of Samir, The Seller Of Dreams Daniel Nayeri 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Magicians Blexbolex, Karin Snelson 2022 Unknown French
17165 Bunny & Tree Balint Zsako 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Tree And The River Aaron Becker 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Shade Tree Suzy Lee, Helen Mixter 2023 Unknown English
17165 Do You Remember? Sydney Smith 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Search For The Giant Arctic Jellyfish Chloe Savage 2022 Unknown English
17165 Discovering Life’s Story Joy Hakim 2023 American English
17165 The Bathysphere Book Brad Fox 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts Gregg Hecimovich 2023 Unknown English
17165 Barbara Isn’t Dying Alina Bronsky 2021 German German
17165 Confidence Rafael Frumkin 2023 Unknown English
17165 Dayswork Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel 2023 Unknown English
17165 Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain 2023 Unknown English
17165 A Haunting On The Hill Elizabeth Hand 2023 American English
17165 I Will Greet The Sun Again Khashayar J. Khabushani 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Madstone Elizabeth Crook 2023 American English
17165 My Father’s House Joseph O’Connor 2023 Irish English
17165 My Name Is Iris Brando Skyhorse 2023 American English
17165 No One Prayed Over Their Graves Khaled Khalifa 2019 Syrian Arabic
17165 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Sunset Crowd Karin Tanabe 2023 Unknown English
17165 Up With The Sun Thomas Mallon 2023 American English
17165 Vintage Contemporaries Dan Kois 2014 Unknown English
17165 Althea Sally H. Jacobs 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Big Break Ben Terris 2023 Unknown English
17165 Collision Of Power Martin Baron 2023 Unknown English
17165 Correction Ben Austen 2023 Unknown Unknown
17165 The Critic’s Daughter Priscilla Gilman 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17165 Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You Lucinda Williams 2023 American English
17165 George Frieda Hughes 2023 British English
17165 Gun Country Andrew C. McKevitt 2023 Unknown English
17165 An Inconvenient Cop Edwin Raymond, Jon Sternfeld 2023 Unknown English
17165 Leg Greg Marshall 2023 Unknown English
17165 Lou Reed Will Hermes 2023 Unknown English
17165 Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2023 Unknown English
17165 Of Time And Turtles Sy Montgomery 2023 American English
17165 The People’s Hospital Ricardo Nuila 2023 Unknown English
17165 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Red Hotel Alan Philps 2019 Unknown English
17165 Saying It Loud Mark Whitaker 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff 2023 American English
17165 Starkweather Harry N. MacLean 2023 Unknown English
17165 Ufo Garrett M. Graff 2023 Unknown English
17165 Under The Eye Of Power Colin Dickey 2023 American English
17165 Winnie And Nelson Jonny Steinberg 2023 Unknown English
17165 Without Children Peggy O’Donnell Heffington 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Wounded World Chad L. Williams 2023 Unknown English
17165 Sparks Ian Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17165 Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg 2023 Danish English
17165 The Fiscal Theory Of The Price Level John Cochrane 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Geek Way Andrew McAfee 2023 American English
17165 Material World Ed Conway 2023 Unknown English
17165 The Missing Billionaires Victor Haghani, James White 2023 Unknown English
17165 Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson 2023 Unknown English