The Greatest Ukrainian Books of All Time
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 465 '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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 903 | Odessa Stories | Isaac Babel | 1923 | Ukrainian | Russian | |
| 1953 | On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs | Olha Kobylianska | 1909 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 2268 | The Mysterious Portrait | Nikolai Gogol | 1835 | Ukrainian | Russian | |
| 2272 | The Cathedral | Oles Honchar | 1968 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 2291 | The Old World Landowners | Nikolai Gogol | 1835 | Ukrainian | Russian | |
| 2657 | Cataract | Mykhaylo Osadchy | 1976 | Ukrainian | Unknown | |
| 3061 | The Moscoviad | Yuri Andrukhovych | 1993 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 3256 | Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex | Oksana Zabuzhko | 1996 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 3895 | Dancing In Odessa | Ilya Kaminsky | 2004 | Ukrainian | English | |
| 4636 | Voroshilovgrad | Serhiy Zhadan | 2010 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 5292 | Carbide | Andriy Lyubka | 2014 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 6278 | Life Went On Anyway | Oleg Sentsov | 2019 | Ukrainian | Russian | |
| 6801 | Death And The Penguin | Andrey Kurkov | 1996 | Ukrainian | Russian | |
| 7898 | Maybe Esther | Katja Petrowskaja | 2014 | Ukrainian | German | |
| 8475 | The Gates Of Europe | Serhii Plokhy | 2015 | Ukrainian | English | |
| 9639 | The Ukraine | Artem Chapeye | 2024 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 10293 | The Orphanage | Serhiy Zhadan | 2017 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | |
| 12643 | Chernobyl | Serhii Plokhy | 2018 | Ukrainian | English | |
| 13983 | Бездна голодных глаз | H. L. Oldie | 1993 | Ukrainian | Russian |