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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7636 | Soulless | Gail Carriger | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7639 | The Sermon On The Fall Of Rome | Jerome Ferrari | 2012 | French | French | |
| 7643 | The Hungry Tide | Amitav Ghosh | 2004 | Indian | English | |
| 7645 | All About Love | bell hooks | 2000 | American | English | |
| 7647 | Hitch 22 | Christopher Hitchens | 2010 | British | English | |
| 7649 | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr | 2021 | American | English | |
| 7652 | Wave | Suzy Lee | 2008 | Unknown | English | |
| 7666 | The Age Of Wonder | Richard Holmes | 2008 | British | English | |
| 7665 | Victory City | Salman Rushdie | 2023 | British | English | |
| 7667 | The Wild Places | Robert Macfarlane | 2007 | British | English | |
| 7669 | Julián Is A Mermaid | Jessica Love | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7668 | Soldier Sailor | Claire Kilroy | 2024 | Irish | Unknown | |
| 7671 | The One And Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7671 | Shadow And Bone | Leigh Bardugo | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7671 | 14 | Peter Clines | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7671 | Cinder | Marissa Meyer | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7671 | The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7678 | The Netanyahus | Joshua Cohen | 2021 | American | English | |
| 7679 | Master Slave Husband Wife | Ilyon Woo | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 7683 | Looking for Alaska | John Green | 2005 | American | English | |
| 7684 | Among Others | Jo Walton | 2011 | British | English | |
| 7684 | A Master of Djinn | P. Djèlí Clark | 2021 | American | English | |
| 7687 | The Rest is Noise | Alex Ross | 2007 | American | English | |
| 7689 | Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton | 2023 | New Zealand | English | |
| 7691 | Quiet Flows The Una | Faruk Šehić | 2011 | Bosnian | Bosnian | |
| 7697 | The Ruins | Scott Smith | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7696 | It Happened One Autumn | Lisa Kleypas | 2005 | American | English | |
| 7700 | Tirza | Arnon Grunberg | 2006 | Dutch | Dutch | |
| 7701 | The Buffalo Hunter Hunter | Stephen Graham Jones | 2025 | American | English | |
| 7702 | Beatlebone | Kevin Barry | 2015 | Irish | English | |
| 7705 | Poverty, By America | Matthew Desmond | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7708 | Moral Hazard | Kate Jennings | 2002 | Australian | English | |
| 7722 | Unnatural Selection | Mara Hvistendahl | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7725 | A Worldly Country | John Ashbery | 2007 | American | English | |
| 7725 | Stupidity | Rafael Spregelburd | 2007 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 7731 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7734 | Stag Dance | Torrey Peters | 2025 | American | English | |
| 7736 | The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel | Amy Hempel | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7737 | Becoming Madame Mao | Anchee Min | 2000 | American | English | |
| 7738 | No Turning Back | Rania Abouzeid | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 7740 | The Ice Princess | Camilla Läckberg | 2003 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 7742 | Flesh | David Szalay | 2025 | British | English | |
| 7746 | Lifted | Bill Manhire | 2006 | New Zealand | English | |
| 7750 | Critical Mass | Philip Ball | 2004 | British | English | |
| 7751 | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff | 2019 | American | English | |
| 7754 | Infidel | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 2007 | Dutch | English | |
| 7753 | Mr. Fox | Helen Oyeyemi | 2011 | British | English | |
| 7756 | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart | 2020 | Scottish | English | |
| 7760 | Black Leopard, Red Wolf | Marlon James | 2019 | Jamaican | English | |
| 7759 | Tatty | Christine Dwyer Hickey | 2004 | Irish | English | |
| 7761 | Butterfly Swords | Jeannie Lin | 2010 | Unknown | English | |
| 7763 | Too Much Happiness | Alice Munro | 2009 | Canadian | English | |
| 7778 | The Cold Moon | Jeffrey Deaver | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7765 | Mating In Captivity | Esther Perel | 2006 | Belgian | English | |
| 7765 | This Is Your Brain On Music | Daniel J. Levitin | 2006 | Canadian | English | |
| 7765 | Underground | Haruki Murakami | 2006 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 7780 | The Pairing | Casey McQuiston | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7783 | My Friends | Hisham Matar | 2024 | British | Unknown | |
| 7786 | Lessons In Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus | 2022 | American | English | |
| 7787 | Cold Enough For Snow | Jessica Au | 2022 | Australian | English | |
| 7798 | The Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7798 | Network Effect | Martha Wells | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7801 | Another Brooklyn | Jacqueline Woodson | 2016 | American | English | |
| 7804 | Havoc, In Its Third Year | Ronan Bennett | 2004 | Irish | English | |
| 7805 | First They Killed My Father | Loung Ung | 2000 | Cambodian | English | |
| 7806 | Lick | Kylie Scott | 2013 | Australian | English | |
| 7808 | Twilight of the Superheroes | Deborah Eisenberg | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7811 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | 2006 | French | French | |
| 7811 | The Blind Side of the Heart | Julia Franck | 2007 | German | German | |
| 7811 | Cain | José Saramago | 2009 | Portuguese | Portuguese | |
| 7811 | The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7811 | Shrill | Lindy West | 2016 | American | English | |
| 7831 | A Spare Life | Lidija Dimkovksa | 2012 | Macedonian | Macedonian | |
| 7836 | The Midnight Library | Matt Haig | 2020 | British | English | |
| 7837 | Sag Harbor | Colson Whitehead | 2009 | American | English | |
| 7838 | The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue | V. E. Schwab | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7844 | The Accidental | Ali Smith | 2005 | British | English | |
| 7845 | Kingdom Cons | Yuri Herrera | 2008 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 7849 | The Birth House | Ami McKay | 2006 | Canadian | English | |
| 7850 | Paula Spencer | Roddy Doyle | 2006 | Irish | English | |
| 7854 | Heart, Be At Peace | Donal Ryan | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7858 | Phantom Evil | Heather Graham Pozzessere | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7858 | The Scorpio Races | Maggie Stiefvater | 2011 | American | English | |
| 7869 | The Life Changing Magic Of Numbers | Bobby Seagull | 2019 | British | English | |
| 7871 | The Book Of Whispers | Varujan Vosganian | 2009 | Romanian | Romanian | |
| 7876 | Baumgartner | Paul Auster | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7877 | Blackout/All Clear | Connie Willis | 2010 | American | English | |
| 7880 | Safe Area | Joe Sacco | 2000 | American | English | |
| 7880 | 13 Hours | Deon Meyer | 2008 | South African | Afrikaans | |
| 7882 | Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 2020 | Mexican | English | |
| 7885 | Wifedom | Anna Funder | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 7889 | The Dog Star | Agneta Pleijel | 2023 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 7887 | The Courtesan's Daughter | Claudia Dain | 2007 | American | English | |
| 7887 | The Vampire Queen's Servant | Joey W. Hill | 2007 | American | English | |
| 7890 | Love | Toni Morrison | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7891 | Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7892 | Playing God | Glenn Colquhoun | 2002 | New Zealand | English | |
| 7894 | The Bone Clocks | David Mitchell | 2014 | British | English | |
| 7896 | Dangerous Laughter | Steven Millhauser | 2008 | American | English | |
| 7897 | The Night Watch | Sarah Waters | 2006 | British | English | |
| 7899 | Spreadeagle | Kevin Killian | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7899 | The Gentrification of the Mind | Sarah Schulman | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7899 | Capital | John Lanchester | 2012 | British | English | |
| 7902 | The House in the Cerulean Sea | Tj Klune | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7898 | The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7903 | Locking Up Our Own | James Forman | 2017 | American | English | |
| 7908 | The Lincoln Lawyer | Michael Connelly | 2005 | American | English | |
| 7907 | That Deadman Dance | Kim Scott | 2010 | Australian | English | |
| 7914 | Spring Flowers, Spring Frost | Ismail Kadare | 2000 | Albanian | Albanian | |
| 7914 | The Devil and Miss Prym | Paulo Coelho | 2000 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 7914 | Musicophilia | Oliver Sacks | 2007 | British | English | |
| 7914 | The Braindead Megaphone | George Saunders | 2007 | American | English | |
| 7914 | How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read | Pierre Bayard | 2007 | French | French | |
| 7909 | Bad Day In Blackrock | Kevin Power | 2008 | Irish | English | |
| 7919 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7919 | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7922 | Uprooted | Naomi Novik | 2015 | American | English | |
| 7921 | Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane | 2023 | American | English | |
| 7929 | Winterwood | Patrick McCabe | 2006 | Irish | English | |
| 7928 | Abundance | Ezra Klein | 2025 | American | English |