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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17126 | The Tie That Binds | Kent Haruf | 1984 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Babe | Robert Creamer | 1974 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Game They Played | Stanley Cohen | 1977 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | The Unforgettable Season | Gordon H. Fleming | 1981 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Only A Game | Robert Daley | 1967 | American | English | |
| 17126 | No Cheering In The Press Box | Jerome Holtzman | 1974 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Winthrop Woman | Anya Seton | 1958 | American | English | |
| 16938 | The Big Rock Candy Mountain | Wallace Stegner | 1943 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption | Stephen King | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Expendable Man | Dorothy B. Hughes | 1963 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Claudette Colvin | Phillip Hoose | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Winter Count | Barry Lopez | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Let Me Tell You What I Mean | Joan Didion | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Dog Songs | Mary Oliver | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Beautiful Struggle | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories | Joyce Carol Oates | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Bartender's Tale | Ivan Doig | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Red Parts | Maggie Nelson | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17126 | You Don't Have To Say You Love Me | Sherman Alexie | 2017 | American | English | |
| 16832 | The Frontiersmen | Allan W. Eckert | 1967 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Brief Encounters With The Enemy | Saïd Sayrafiezadeh | 2013 | American | English | |
| 17126 | A God Against The Gods | Allen Drury | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Toward The Morning | Hervey Allen | 1978 | American | English | |
| 17126 | O Beulah Land | Mary Lee Settle | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The First Rebel | Neil Swanson | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Carolinians | Jane Barry | 1959 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Liberty Tavern | Thomas Fleming | 1976 | American | English | |
| 16776 | Hannah Fowler | Janice Giles | 1956 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Guns Of Burgoyne | Bruce Lancaster | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Beulah Land | Harold Davis | 1973 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Know Nothing | Mary Lee Settle | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Elkhorn Tavern | Douglas C. Jones | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Falling Hills | Perry Lentz | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Three Days | Don Robertson | 1959 | American | English | |
| 17126 | By Antietam Creek | Don Robertson | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Time Of The Gringo | Elliott Arnold | 1970 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Taos | Irwin Blacker | 1959 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | A Distanr Trumpet | Paul Horgan | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Inside The Cia | Ronald Kessler | 1992 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Night Watch | Jayne Anne Phillips | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17126 | The Caretaker | Ron Rash | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The House Is On Fire | Rachel Beanland | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Impossible People | Julia Wertz | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17126 | An Ordinary Man | Richard Norton Smith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Dayswork | Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | The Madstone | Elizabeth Crook | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Straw Dogs Of The Universe | Ye Chun | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Milton Friedman | Jennifer Burns | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Popular Mechanics | Raymond Carver | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Good Life | Jay McInerney | 2006 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Colossus | Niall Ferguson | 2004 | British | English | |
| 17126 | God's Grace | Bernard Malamud | 1982 | American | English | |
| 17126 | How Like An Angel | Margaret Millar | 1962 | Canadian | English | |
| 17126 | The Nephew | James Purdy | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The People Trap | Robert Sheckley | 1968 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Wildlife | Richard Ford | 1990 | American | English | |
| 16858 | Barn Burning | William Faulkner | 1939 | American | English | |
| 17126 | James Dean | Paul Alexander | 1994 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Lancelot | Walker Percy | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Words By Heart | Ouida Sebestyen | 1979 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Maya Angelou | Maya Angelou | 1994 | American | Unknown | |
| 17126 | Die Kunst Des Verschwindens. | Jim Dodge | 1990 | Unknown | German | |
| 17126 | A Chance Meeting | Cohen, Rachel | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17061 | A Horseman In The Sky | Ambrose Bierce | 1898 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17087 | A Farewell To Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | American | English | |
| 16805 | My Theodosia | Anya Seton | 1941 | American | English |