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
12154 Red Scare Clay Risen 2025 American English
12187 The Rest Of Our Lives Benjamin Markovits 2025 American English
12234 The Killing Fields Of East New York Stacy Horn 2025 American English
12259 Quiet Odyssey Mary Paik Lee 1990 Korean American English
12259 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12326 Outerbridge Reach Robert Stone 1992 American English
12326 Lincoln David Herbert Donald 1995 American English
12326 The Life Of Nelson A. Rockefeller Cary Reich 1996 American English
12325 Your Name Here Helen DeWitt, Ilya Gridneff 2025 American English
12396 Helen Of Nowhere Makenna Goodman 2025 American English
12431 Born In Flames Bench Ansfield 2025 Unknown English
12434 The Gods Of New York Jonathan Mahler 2025 American English
12515 The Loom And Other Stories R. A. Sasaki 1991 American English
12515 Typical American Gish Jen 1991 American English
12588 How All This Started Pete Fromm 2000 American English
12588 Jim The Boy Tony Earley 2000 American English
12611 If You Love It, Let It Kill You Hannah Pittard 2025 American English
12802 Bright Circle Randall Fuller 2025 Unknown English
12808 False Dawn George Selgin 2025 American English
12827 The Last Manager John Miller 2025 Unknown English
12834 I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen And Licked Out All The Pots Susan Straight 1992 American English
12834 Fortunate Lives Robb Forman Dew 1992 American English
12834 Killing Color Charlotte W. Sherman 1992 American English
12834 Little Altars Everywhere Rebecca Wells 1992 American English
12834 Margins Terri de la Peña 1992 American English
12834 Still Loved By The Sun Migael Scherer 1992 American English
12834 Taste Of Power Elaine Brown 1992 American English
12867 Hollow Spaces Victor Suthammanont 2025 Unknown English
12879 The Spinach King John Seabrook 2025 American English
12892 Zbig Edward Luce 2025 British English
12897 The Mission Tim Weiner 2025 American English
12929 God And Sex Jon Raymond 2025 American English
12999 Gemini Jeffrey Kluger 2025 American English
13062 Fonseca Jessica Francis Kane 2025 American English
13112 Taking Manhattan Russell Shorto 2025 American English
13269 Bone Fae Myenne Ng 1993 American English
13269 Ganado Red Susan Lowell 1993 American English
13362 First Love And Other Sorrows Harold Brodkey 1957 American English
13362 The Unpossessed Tess Slesinger 1934 American English
13362 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1819 American English
13513 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13532 Born To Run Bruce Springsteen 2016 American English
13575 The Sound Of The City Charlie Gillett 1970 British English
13760 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13879 Love Me Back Merritt Tierce 2014 American English
13886 Essential Pleasures Robert Pinsky 2009 American English
13886 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
14554 Love And Death In The American Novel Leslie Fiedler 1960 American English
14599 Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff 2008 American English
14770 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
14778 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1912 American English
14822 The Face Of War Martha Gellhorn 1959 American English
14986 Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 2016 Cameroonian English
14969 Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill 1928 American English
14986 A False Spring Pat Jordan 1975 American English
14986 Cheri Jo Ann Beard 2023 Unknown English
14968 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14986 The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald 1976 American English
15645 Honor Thy Father Gay Talese 1971 American English
15670 The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway 1972 American English
15771 Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 American English
15766 King's Row Henry Bellamann 1940 American English
15765 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
15775 Deep Summer Gwen Bristow 1937 American English
15791 Run To Daylight Vince Lombardi 1963 American English
15781 The Best Of Everything Rona Jaffe 1958 American English
15886 Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1886 American English
15919 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15919 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
15919 The Forest And The Fort Hervey Allen 1943 American English
15919 Bedford Village Hervey Allen 1944 American English
15919 In The Hands Of The Senecas Walter D. Edmonds 1950 American English
15919 Roanoke Hundred Inglis Fletcher 1948 American English
15919 Richard Caqrvel Winston Churchill 1899 American English
15919 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
15919 Drums Along The Mohawk Walter D. Edmonds 1936 American English
15919 Conceived In Liberty Howard Fast 1945 American English
15919 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
15919 Trumpet To Arms Bruce Lancaster 1944 Unknown English
15919 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker S. Weir Mitchell 1896 American English
15919 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15919 Rabble In Arms Kenneth Roberts 1933 American English
15919 The Unconquered Ben Ames Williams 1953 American English
15919 Marching On James Boyd 1927 American English
15919 The Bugles Blow No More Clifford Dowdey 1942 American English
15919 Long Remember MacKinlay Kantor 1934 American English
15919 House Divided Ben Ames Williams 1947 American English
15919 So Red The Rose Stark Young 1934 American English
15919 Cimarron Edna Ferber 1929 American English
15919 The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing 1946 American English
15919 A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain 1880 American English
15914 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16609 My Theodosia Anya Seton 1941 American English
16765 Life With Father Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse 1939 American English
17171 An American Childhood Annie Dillard 1987 American English
17171 Directed By Desire June Jordan 2005 American English
17171 Woman Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros 1991 American English
17171 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17171 Son Of The Morning Star Evan S. Connell 1984 American English
17171 At Canaan's Edge Taylor Branch 2006 American English
17171 Lost Memory Of Skin Russell Banks 2011 American English
16967 Black Majority Peter H. Wood 1974 American English
17171 Manchild In The Promised Land Claude Brown 1965 American English
17171 'Tis Frank McCourt 1999 American English
17171 North Dallas Forty Peter Gent 1973 American English
17171 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17171 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17171 The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 2010 American English
17171 The New York Game Kevin Baker 2024 American English
17171 Big Jim And The White Boy David Walker 2024 Unknown English
17171 Dă∙C Biê∙T Eric Nguyen 2024 Unknown Unknown
17171 Three Month Fever Gary Indiana 1999 American English
17171 The Limits Nell Freudenberger 2024 American English