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
2418 A Mathematician's Apology G. H. Hardy 1940 British English
2828 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
2882 Physics And Beyond Werner Heisenberg 1971 German German
2966 Kane and Abel Jeffrey Archer 1979 British English
3619 Porterhouse Blue Tom Sharpe 1974 British English
3638 Architecture Walter Gropius 1935 German German
4686 Christianity And Culture T. S. Eliot 1939 British English
5267 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami 2007 Japanese Japanese
6219 Justice Michael J. Sandel 2007 American English
6475 Case Histories Kate Atkinson 2004 British English
6766 The Bay Psalm Book Stephen Daye 1640 American English
6832 Rights Talk Mary Ann Glendon 1991 American English
8306 A Life In The Twentieth Century Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 2000 American English
8418 The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester 2008 British English
8868 Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry 2018 American English
9138 Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young 2016 New Zealand English
9143 Physics In My Generation Max Born 1968 German English
9188 The Undoing Project Michael M. Lewis 2016 American English
9311 Hamlet On The Holodeck Janet H. Murray 1997 American English
9650 The Memory Chalet Tony Judt 2010 British English
9883 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
10067 The Mirror & The Light Hilary Mantel 2020 British English
10114 The Taming of Chance Ian Hacking 1990 Canadian English
10185 The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud 2013 American English
10189 Katabasis R. F. Kuang 2025 Unknown English
10448 The Tangled Tree David Quammen 2018 American English
10541 The Character Of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman 1965 American English
10714 The Exceptions Kate Zernike 2023 American English
10839 Who Controls The Internet? Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith 2006 American English
10911 Common As Air Lewis Hyde 2010 American English
11579 Family Pictures Sue Miller 1986 American English
11618 A Border Passage Leila Ahmed 1999 Unknown English
11660 With A Daughter's Eye Mary Catherine Bateson 1984 American English
11840 Broad Band Claire Evans 2018 Unknown English
11871 Weapons Of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 2016 American English
11922 A People's History Of Computing In The United States Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 American English
11939 Charles W. Eliot Henry James 1909 American Unknown
11939 The Thought and Character of William James Ralph Barton Perry 1935 American English
12159 At Seventy May Sarton 1984 American English
12482 The Sisters Of Sinai Janet Soskice 2009 Unknown English
12502 Signature In The Cell Stephen C. Meyer 2009 American English
13337 Caleb's Crossing Geraldine Brooks 2011 Australian English
13596 Strangers And Brothers C. P. Snow 1940 British English
14398 Writers & Lovers Lily King 2020 American English
14553 For The Love Of Physics Walter Lewin 2011 American English
14983 The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand 2001 American English
14983 Wittgenstein Jr. Lars Iyer 2014 British English
15792 Collected Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
15897 Science and the Modern World Alfred North Whitehead 1925 British English
15897 Holmes Laski Letters Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 1953 American English
15897 Period Piece Gwen Raverat 1952 British English
17117 The Masters In Sequence C. P. Snow 1951 British English
17117 The Inflationary Universe Alan Guth 1997 American English
17117 Objectivity And Cultural Divergence Stuart C. Brown 1984 Unknown Unknown
17117 The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot Lyndall Gordon 1998 British English
17117 Isaac Newton James Gleick 2003 American English
17117 The Neptune File Tom Standage 2000 British English
17117 1776 David McCullough 2005 American English
17117 The Food Lab J. Kenji López-Alt 2015 American English
17117 Free To Learn Peter O. Gray 2013 American English
17117 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God Rebecca Goldstein 2010 American English
17117 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2007 American English
16827 Principles Of Economics Alfred Marshall 1890 British English
17117 The Dante Club Matthew Pearl 2003 American English
17117 The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 2001 Unknown English
17117 The Women Are Up To Something Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb 2022 Unknown English
17117 The Glass Universe Dava Sobel 2016 American English
17117 Death In A Tenured Position Amanda Cross 1981 American English
17117 An Unsuitable Job For A Woman P. D. James 1972 British English
17117 Lessons Ian McEwan 2022 British English
17117 Stuart Alexander Masters 2005 British English
17117 Lifespan David A. Sinclair 2019 Australian English
17117 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17117 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17117 Dan Brown Omnibus Dan Brown 2004 American English
17117 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17117 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17117 The Man From The Future Ananyo Bhattacharya 2021 Unknown English
17117 For Blood And Money Nathan Vardi 2023 Unknown English
17117 The Diary Of Alice James Alice James 1982 American English
17117 The Price Of Peace Zachary D. Carter 2020 American English
17117 The New Geography Of Jobs Enrico Moretti 2012 American English
17117 Lessons In Disaster Gordon M. Goldstein 2008 American English
17117 Fdr Jean Edward Smith 2007 American English
17117 Loner Teddy Wayne 2016 American English