The Greatest Books of All Time Set in American

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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
12153 Red Scare Clay Risen 2025 American English
12186 The Rest Of Our Lives Benjamin Markovits 2025 American English
12233 The Killing Fields Of East New York Stacy Horn 2025 American English
12258 Quiet Odyssey Mary Paik Lee 1990 Korean American English
12258 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12324 Outerbridge Reach Robert Stone 1992 American English
12324 Lincoln David Herbert Donald 1995 American English
12324 The Life Of Nelson A. Rockefeller Cary Reich 1996 American English
12323 Your Name Here Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff 2025 American English
12394 Helen Of Nowhere Makenna Goodman 2025 American English
12429 Born In Flames Bench Ansfield 2025 Unknown English
12432 The Gods Of New York Jonathan Mahler 2025 American English
12513 The Loom And Other Stories R. A. Sasaki 1991 American English
12513 Typical American Gish Jen 1991 American English
12586 How All This Started Pete Fromm 2000 American English
12586 Jim The Boy Tony Earley 2000 American English
12609 If You Love It, Let It Kill You Hannah Pittard 2025 American English
12800 Bright Circle Randall Fuller 2025 Unknown English
12806 False Dawn George Selgin 2025 American English
12825 The Last Manager John Miller 2025 Unknown English
12832 I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen And Licked Out All The Pots Susan Straight 1992 American English
12832 Fortunate Lives Robb Forman Dew 1992 American English
12832 Killing Color Charlotte W. Sherman 1992 American English
12832 Little Altars Everywhere Rebecca Wells 1992 American English
12832 Margins Terri de la Peña 1992 American English
12832 Still Loved By The Sun Migael Scherer 1992 American English
12832 Taste Of Power Elaine Brown 1992 American English
12865 Hollow Spaces Victor Suthammanont 2025 Unknown English
12877 The Spinach King John Seabrook 2025 American English
12890 Zbig Edward Luce 2025 British English
12895 The Mission Tim Weiner 2025 American English
12926 God And Sex Jon Raymond 2025 American English
12996 Gemini Jeffrey Kluger 2025 American English
13059 Fonseca Jessica Francis Kane 2025 American English
13109 Taking Manhattan Russell Shorto 2025 American English
13266 Bone Fae Myenne Ng 1993 American English
13266 Ganado Red Susan Lowell 1993 American English
13359 First Love And Other Sorrows Harold Brodkey 1957 American English
13359 The Unpossessed Tess Slesinger 1934 American English
13359 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1819 American English
13511 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13531 Born To Run Bruce Springsteen 2016 American English
13574 The Sound Of The City Charlie Gillett 1970 British English
13759 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13878 Love Me Back Merritt Tierce 2014 American English
13885 Essential Pleasures Robert Pinsky 2009 American English
13885 Louisa May Alcott Harriet Reisen 2009 Unknown English
13971 Book Of Mutter Kate Zambreno 2017 American English
14025 Ardency Kevin Young 2011 American English
14065 Thomas Jefferson Thomas S. Kidd 2022 Unknown English
14172 The Human Comedy William Saroyan 1943 American English
14232 Women in Their Beds Gina Berriault 1996 American English
14232 The Boys In The Boat Daniel James Brown 2013 American English
14232 This Is How You Lose Her Junot Diaz 2012 American English
14553 Love And Death In The American Novel Leslie Fiedler 1960 American English
14598 Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff 2008 American English
14775 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
14779 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
14822 The Face Of War Martha Gellhorn 1959 American English
14984 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 2016 Cameroonian English
14967 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
14984 A False Spring Pat Jordan 1975 American English
14984 Cheri Jo Ann Beard 2023 Unknown English
14968 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14984 The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald 1976 American English
15636 Honor Thy Father Gay Talese 1971 American English
15661 The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway 1972 American English
15757 Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 American English
15770 Run To Daylight Vince Lombardi 1963 American English
15759 The Best Of Everything Rona Jaffe 1958 American English
15769 King's Row Henry Bellamann 1940 American English
15768 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
15779 Deep Summer Gwen Bristow 1937 American English
15866 Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1886 American English
15898 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15898 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
15898 The Forest And The Fort Hervey Allen 1943 American English
15898 Bedford Village Hervey Allen 1944 American English
15898 In The Hands Of The Senecas Walter D. Edmonds 1950 American English
15898 Roanoke Hundred Inglis Fletcher 1948 American English
15898 Richard Caqrvel Winston Churchill 1899 American English
15898 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
15898 Drums Along The Mohawk Walter D. Edmonds 1936 American English
15898 Conceived In Liberty Howard Fast 1945 American English
15898 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
15898 Trumpet To Arms Bruce Lancaster 1944 Unknown English
15898 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker S. Weir Mitchell 1896 American English
15898 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15898 Rabble In Arms Kenneth Roberts 1933 American English
15898 The Unconquered Ben Ames Williams 1953 American English
15898 Marching On James Boyd 1927 American English
15898 The Bugles Blow No More Clifford Dowdey 1942 American English
15898 Long Remember MacKinlay Kantor 1934 American English
15898 House Divided Ben Ames Williams 1947 American English
15898 So Red The Rose Stark Young 1934 American English
15898 Cimarron Edna Ferber 1929 American English
15898 The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 1946 American English
15898 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
15897 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16718 Life With Father Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse 1939 American English
17120 An American Childhood Annie Dillard 1987 American English
17120 Directed By Desire June Jordan 2005 American English
17120 Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros 1991 American English
17120 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17120 Son Of The Morning Star Evan S. Connell 1984 American English
17120 At Canaan's Edge Taylor Branch 2006 American English
17120 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
16969 Black Majority Peter H. Wood 1974 American English
17120 Manchild In The Promised Land Claude Brown 1965 American English
17120 'Tis Frank McCourt 1999 American English
17120 North Dallas Forty Peter Gent 1973 American English
17120 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17120 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17120 The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 2010 American English
17120 The New York Game Kevin Baker 2024 American English
17120 Big Jim And The White Boy David Walker 2024 Unknown English
17120 Dă∙C Biê∙T Eric Nguyen 2024 Unknown Unknown
17120 Three Month Fever Gary Indiana 1999 American English
17120 The Limits Nell Freudenberger 2024 American English
17120 On The Tobacco Coast Christopher Tilghman 2024 Unknown English