The Greatest Books of All Time on Alienation

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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
16722 The Colour Out Of Space H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
16786 A Moth To A Flame Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
16685 Der Spaziergang Robert Walser 1917 Swiss German
17162 In Memoriam to Identity Kathy Acker 1990 American English
17162 Adam's Breed Radclyffe Hall 1926 British English
17162 The Fifth Head Of Cerberus Gene Wolfe 1972 American English
17162 Interpreters Wole Soyinka 1965 Nigerian English
17162 Super Cannes J. G. Ballard 2000 British English
17162 The Other Shore Xingjian Gao 1986 Chinese Chinese
17162 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever James Tiptree Jr. 1990 American English
17162 The Woman Who Owned The Shadows Paula Gunn Allen 1983 American English
17162 The Cannibal Galaxy Cynthia Ozick 1983 American English
17162 Labor And Monopoly Capital Harry Braverman 1974 American English
17162 Secret Life Of Saeed The Pessoptimist Emile Habibi 1974 Palestinian Arabic
17162 Leave Me Alone Murong Xuecun 2002 Chinese Chinese
17162 The Acid House Irvine Welsh 1994 British English
17162 Mina Kim Sagwa 2008 Korean Korean
17097 The Great Wall Of China Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
17162 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17162 Great Expectations Kathy Acker 1989 American English
17162 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17162 Pulp Charles Bukowski 1994 American English
17072 The Wanderer Knut Hamsun 1917 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 My Heart Hemmed In Marie NDiaye 2007 French French
17162 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17162 People From Bloomington Budi Darma 1980 Indonesian Indonesian
16923 Notes From Underground & The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
17162 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
17162 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17162 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17162 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17162 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
16965 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17162 Kafka Gilles Deleuze 1975 French French
17162 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill 2000 American English
17049 Tujec / Kuga Albert Camus 1942 French French
17162 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
17162 Lament For Julia Susan Taubes 2023 Unknown English
17162 Hit Parade Of Tears Izumi Suzuki 2023 Japanese Japanese
17162 Mild Vertigo Mieko Kanai 1997 Japanese Japanese
17162 T. Singer Dag Solstad 1999 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 Die, My Love Ariana Harwicz 2012 Argentinian Spanish
16962 De Uitvreter / Titaantjes / Dichtertje / Mene Tekel Nescio 1918 Dutch Dutch
17162 Homage To The Lame Wolf Vasko Popa 1979 Serbian Serbo-croatian
17023 Aylak Adam Yusuf Atılgan 1959 Turkish Turkish
17162 Strangers And Sojourners Michael O'Brien 1997 Canadian English
17162 Popular Hits Of The Showa Era Ryū Murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17162 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Philip K. Dick American English
17162 Letters To Friends, Family, And Editors Franz Kafka German German
17162 L'écroulement De La Baliverna Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
17137 The Death Ivan Ilych And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1886 Russian Russian
17162 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17162 The Good Doctor Damon Galgut 2003 South African English
17162 All That Man Is Szalay, David 2016 British English
17162 La Boutique Del Mistero Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
17103 Oikeusjuttu Franz Kafka 1925 German German
17162 Todos Os Contos Clarice Lispector 2015 Brazilian Portuguese
17162 Петербургские повести Nikolai Gogol Russian Russian
17070 Rebellion Joseph Roth 1924 Austrian German