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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6982 | American Prison | Shane Bauer | 2018 | American | English | |
| 6984 | Sleeping It Off in Rapid City | August Kleinzahler | 2008 | American | English | |
| 6984 | Fine Just the Way It Is | Annie Proulx | 2008 | American | English | |
| 6983 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | 2021 | American | English | |
| 6986 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood | 2019 | Canadian | English | |
| 6987 | Just Listen | Sarah Dessen | 2006 | American | English | |
| 6987 | Lord Perfect | Loretta Chase | 2006 | American | English | |
| 6991 | The Employees | Olga Ravn | 2018 | Danish | Danish | |
| 7000 | The Gray Man | Mark Greaney | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7001 | Collected Poems | Jack Gilbert | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7007 | Tyll | Daniel Kehlmann | 2017 | German | German | |
| 7008 | Gente Que Se Fue | David Gistau | 2010 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 7009 | The Trial Of The Cannibal Dog | Anne Salmond | 2003 | New Zealand | English | |
| 7011 | Ancestral Shadows | Russell Kirk | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7011 | The Free Sea | Hugo Grotius | 2004 | Dutch | Latin | |
| 7011 | Green Tea | Sheridan Le Fanu | 2004 | Irish | English | |
| 7015 | Trieste | Daša Drndić | 2007 | Croatian | Croatian | |
| 7020 | Albert Murray | Albert Murray | 2016 | American | Unknown | |
| 7021 | The Girl On The Train | Paula Hawkins | 2015 | British | English | |
| 7025 | Precarious Life | Judith Butler | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7025 | The Fabric Of The Cosmos | Brian Greene | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7027 | In The Garden Of Beasts | Erik Larson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7028 | Going Clear | Lawrence Wright | 2013 | American | English | |
| 7037 | Bright Shiny Morning | James Frey | 2008 | American | English | |
| 7042 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Simon Armitage | 2007 | British | Middle english | |
| 7046 | The Children's Crusade | Florina Ilis | 2005 | Romanian | Romanian | |
| 7048 | Personality | Andrew O'Hagan | 2003 | Scottish | English | |
| 7050 | The Changeling | Victor LaValle | 2017 | American | English | |
| 7048 | The King Of Torts | John Grisham | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7051 | The Sisters Brothers | Patrick DeWitt | 2011 | Canadian | English | |
| 7052 | A Summer To Remember | Mary Balogh | 2002 | British | English | |
| 7054 | Chain Gang All Stars | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7062 | Then We Came To The End | Joshua Ferris | 2007 | American | English | |
| 7063 | Nightcrawling | Leila Mottley | 2022 | American | English | |
| 7071 | E=Mc2 | David Bodanis | 2000 | British | English | |
| 7075 | The Glorious Heresies | Lisa McInerney | 2015 | Irish | English | |
| 7077 | Autumn In The Heavenly Kingdom | Stephen R. Platt | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7080 | The Blazing World | Siri Hustvedt | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7079 | A Court Of Mist And Fury | Sarah J. Maas | 2016 | American | English | |
| 7081 | Hermina | Sami Tchak | 2003 | French | French | |
| 7084 | Shape Shifter | Hone Tuwhare | 2003 | New Zealand | English | |
| 7086 | Klotsvog | Margarita Khemlin | 2009 | Russian | Russian | |
| 7086 | A Short Border Handbook | Gazmend Kapllani | 2009 | Greek | Albanian | |
| 7086 | There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby | Ludmila Petrushevskaya | 2009 | Russian | Russian | |
| 7094 | The Color Of Law | Richard Rothstein | 2017 | American | English | |
| 7099 | The Dutch House | Ann Patchett | 2019 | American | English | |
| 7102 | Nevada | Imogen Binnie | 2013 | American | English | |
| 7103 | Get In Trouble | Kelly Link | 2015 | American | English | |
| 7104 | Māori | Michael King | 2003 | New Zealand | English | |
| 7105 | Brother, I'm Dying | Edwidge Danticat | 2007 | Haitian | English | |
| 7108 | The Children Of The Dead | Elfriede Jelinek | 2024 | Austrian | German | |
| 7115 | Seven Years | Peter Stamm | 2009 | Swiss | German | |
| 7119 | The Optic Nerve | Maria Gainza | 2015 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 7122 | Generation Kill | Evan Wright | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7122 | Why We Love | Helen Fisher | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7122 | 127 Hours | Aaron Ralston | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7127 | Blanche Passes Go | Barbara Neely | 2000 | American | English | |
| 7127 | The Redbreast | Jo Nesbø | 2000 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 7130 | Beauty Is A Wound | Eka Kurniawan | 2002 | Indonesian | Indonesian | |
| 7129 | Knife | Salman Rushdie | 2024 | British | English | |
| 7134 | Slow Man | J. M. Coetzee | 2005 | South African | English | |
| 7135 | To All The Boys I've Loved Before | Jenny Han | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7137 | Bury Your Dead | Louise Penny | 2010 | Canadian | English | |
| 7137 | The Plotters | Un-su Kim | 2010 | Korean | Korean | |
| 7141 | Jade City | Fonda Lee | 2017 | Chinese | English | |
| 7142 | Hello Beautiful | Ann Napolitano | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7148 | Atomic Habits | James Clear | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7149 | Magic In The Wind | Christine Feehan | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7149 | Tempting The Beast | Lora Leigh | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7154 | The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny | Kiran Desai | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 7157 | La Horde Du Contrevent | Alain Damasio | 2004 | French | French | |
| 7158 | The Wager | David Grann | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7160 | The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis | Manolis Anagnostakis | 2001 | Greek | Greek | |
| 7163 | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7166 | The Places In Between | Rory Stewart | 2004 | British | English | |
| 7174 | Wild | Cheryl Strayed | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7176 | The Asylum Seeker | Arnon Grunberg | 2003 | Dutch | Dutch | |
| 7179 | The Blue Tango | Eoin McNamee | 2001 | Irish | English | |
| 7183 | The Perils Of Pleasure | Julie Anne Long | 2008 | American | English | |
| 7183 | The Winter Rose | Jennifer Donnelly | 2008 | American | English | |
| 7188 | Pet | Akwaeke Emezi | 2019 | American | English | |
| 7191 | Heartstopper | Alice Oseman | 2018 | British | English | |
| 7193 | Jasper Jones | Craig Silvey | 2009 | Australian | English | |
| 7202 | Gb84 | David Peace | 2004 | British | English | |
| 7203 | The Surgeon | Tess Gerritsen | 2001 | American | English | |
| 7204 | Hounded | Kevin Hearne | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7205 | Voroshilovgrad | Serhiy Zhadan | 2010 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 7205 | Flight From The Ussr | Dato Turashvili | 2010 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 7205 | Animalinside | László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann | 2010 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 7211 | Boy Swallows Universe | Trent Dalton | 2018 | Australian | English | |
| 7213 | Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 7212 | Question 7 | Richard Flanagan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 7562 | Compass | Mathias Enard | 2015 | French | French | |
| 7563 | Enter Ghost | Isabella Hammad | 2023 | British | English | |
| 7565 | There's Always This Year | Hanif Abdurraqib | 2024 | American | English | |
| 7569 | Brain On Fire | Susannah Cahalan | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7569 | Mortality | Christopher Hitchens | 2012 | British | English | |
| 7580 | The Midnight Hour | Brenda Jackson | 2004 | American | English | |
| 7581 | Feed | Seanan McGuire | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7583 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 7584 | Verity | Colleen Hoover | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7585 | After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 7587 | Commonwealth | Ann Patchett | 2016 | American | English | |
| 7591 | The Women | Kristin Hannah | 2024 | American | English | |
| 7594 | The Reformatory | Tananarive Due | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7595 | Wealth And Power | Orville Schell, John Delury | 2013 | Chinese | English | |
| 7601 | Code Name Verity | Elizabeth Wein | 2012 | British | English | |
| 7602 | The Beginning Of Infinity | David Deutsch | 2011 | British | English | |
| 7615 | Don't Get Too Comfortable | David Rakoff | 2005 | Canadian | English | |
| 7615 | Everything Bad Is Good For You | Steven Johnson | 2005 | American | English | |
| 7621 | Dropbear | Evelyn Araluen | 2021 | Australian | English | |
| 7622 | The Little Red Chairs | Edna O'Brien | 2015 | Irish | English | |
| 7625 | Caietul Albastru | Nicolae Balotă | 2007 | Romanian | Romanian | |
| 7626 | Whale | Cheon Myeong-kwan | 2004 | Korean | Korean | |
| 7628 | The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett | 2003 | British | English | |
| 7631 | Telephone | Percival Everett | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7632 | When The Clock Broke | John Ganz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7633 | The Golden Road | William Dalrymple | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7634 | The Big Music | Kirsty Gunn | 2012 | New Zealander | English | |
| 7636 | Angels' Blood | Nalini Singh | 2009 | New Zealander | English |