The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Cambridge

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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
304 The Double Helix James D. Watson 1968 American English
1009 Love Story Eric Segal 1970 American English
1018 Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton 1687 British Latin
1129 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
1706 The Principia Mathematica Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell 1910 British English
2420 A Mathematician's Apology G. H. Hardy 1940 British English
2830 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
2884 Physics And Beyond Werner Heisenberg 1971 German German
2968 Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 1979 British English
3619 Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe 1974 British English
3638 Architecture Walter Gropius 1935 German German
4688 Christianity And Culture T. S. Eliot 1939 British English
5269 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami 2007 Japanese Japanese
6223 Justice Michael J. Sandel 2007 American English
6477 Case Histories Kate Atkinson 2004 British English
6767 The Bay Psalm Book Stephen Daye 1640 American English
6832 Rights Talk Mary Ann Glendon 1991 American English
8308 A Life In The Twentieth Century Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 2000 American English
8422 The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester 2008 British English
8872 Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry 2018 American English
9143 Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young 2016 New Zealand English
9148 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9192 The Undoing Project Michael M. Lewis 2016 American English
9316 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9653 The Memory Chalet Tony Judt 2010 British English
9886 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
10072 The Mirror & The Light Hilary Mantel 2020 British English
10119 The Taming of Chance Ian Hacking 1990 Canadian English
10190 The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud 2013 American English
10194 Katabasis R. F. Kuang 2025 Unknown English
10453 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10547 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
10720 The Exceptions Kate Zernike 2023 American English
10845 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
10917 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
11581 Family Pictures Sue Miller 1986 American English
11620 A Border Passage Leila Ahmed 1999 Unknown English
11662 With A Daughter's Eye Mary Catherine Bateson 1984 American English
11841 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11872 Weapons Of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 2016 American English
11923 A People's History Of Computing In The United States Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 American English
11940 Charles W. Eliot Henry James 1909 American Unknown
11940 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry 1935 American English
12160 At Seventy May Sarton 1984 American English
12484 The Sisters Of Sinai Janet Soskice 2009 Unknown English
12504 Signature In The Cell Stephen C. Meyer 2009 American English
13340 Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks 2011 Australian English
13597 Strangers And Brothers C. P. Snow 1940 British English
14399 Writers & Lovers Lily King 2020 American English
14554 For The Love Of Physics Walter Lewin 2011 American English
14985 The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand 2001 American English
14985 Wittgenstein Jr. Lars Iyer 2014 British English
15808 Collected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
15915 Science and the Modern World Alfred North Whitehead 1925 British English
15915 Holmes Laski Letters Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1953 American English
15915 Period Piece Gwen Raverat 1952 British English
17161 The Masters In Sequence C. P. Snow 1951 British English
17161 The Inflationary Universe Alan Guth 1997 American English
17161 Objectivity And Cultural Divergence Stuart C. Brown 1984 Unknown Unknown
17161 The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot Lyndall Gordon 1998 British English
17161 Isaac Newton James Gleick 2003 American English
17161 The Neptune File Tom Standage 2000 British English
17161 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17161 The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt 2015 American English
17161 Free To Learn Peter O. Gray 2013 American English
17161 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God Rebecca Goldstein 2010 American English
17161 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2007 American English
16868 Principles Of Economics Alfred Marshall 1890 British English
17161 The Dante Club Matthew Pearl 2003 American English
17161 The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 2001 Unknown English
17161 The Women Are Up To Something Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb 2022 Unknown English
17161 The Glass Universe Dava Sobel 2016 American English
17161 Death In A Tenured Position Amanda Cross 1981 American English
17161 An Unsuitable Job For A Woman P. D. James 1972 British English
17161 Lessons Ian McEwan 2022 British English
17161 Stuart Alexander Masters 2005 British English
17161 Lifespan David A. Sinclair 2019 Australian English
17161 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17161 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17161 Dan Brown Omnibus Dan Brown 2004 American English
17161 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17161 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17161 The Man From The Future Ananyo Bhattacharya 2021 Unknown English
17161 For Blood And Money Nathan Vardi 2023 Unknown English
17161 The Diary Of Alice James Alice James 1982 American English
17161 The Price Of Peace Zachary D. Carter 2020 American English
17161 The New Geography Of Jobs Enrico Moretti 2012 American English
17161 Lessons In Disaster Gordon M. Goldstein 2008 American English
17161 Fdr Jean Edward Smith 2007 American English
17161 Loner Teddy Wayne 2016 American English