The Greatest Books of All Time on Change

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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
6601 Collected Stories Elizabeth Bowen 1980 Irish English
6604 Pavilion Of Women Pearl S. Buck 1946 American English
6670 Future Shock Alvin Toffler 1980 American English
6735 The Women On The Island Ho Ahn Thai 1991 Vietnamese Vietnamese
6747 Sturmzeit Charlotte Link 1990 German German
6915 Other Fires Maxim Gorky 1900 Russian Unknown
7177 The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar Syl Cheney-Choker 1990 Sierra Leonean English
7205 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7215 Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow 1935 American English
7215 Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead Barbara Comyns 1954 British English
7215 The Years Virginia Woolf 1937 British English
7215 The Road To The City Natalia Ginzburg 1942 Italian Italian
7592 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7611 The Short Stories Katherine Mansfield 1945 New Zealander English
7651 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7662 East Wind Pearl S. Buck 1930 American English
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7831 Ein Mann Im Haus Ulla Hahn 1996 German German
7849 The Birth House Ami McKay 2006 Canadian English
7907 That Deadman Dance Kim Scott 2010 Australian English
8001 La Visita En El Tiempo Arturo Uslar Pietri 1990 Venezuelan Spanish
8105 Islanders Helen R. Hull 1927 American English
8105 Memorias De Mama Blanca Teresa de la Parra 1929 Venezuelan Spanish
8105 Virginia Ellen Glasgow 1913 American English
8142 Simple Stories Ingo Schulze 1998 German German
8334 The Light Years Elizabeth Jane Howard 1990 British English
8349 China Road Rob Gifford 2007 British English
8471 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
8471 Ceremony In Lone Tree Wright Morris 1960 American English
8562 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8669 How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 1996 American English
8747 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
8824 Photographs Eudora Welty 1971 American English
8867 African Stories Doris May Lessing 1964 British English
8867 For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964 American English
8899 Vendor Of Sweets R. K. Narayan 1967 Indian English
8932 Storm In The Village Miss Read 1958 British English
9055 The Late George Apley John P. Marquand 1937 American English
9071 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9227 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9326 Sylvanus Now Donna Morrissey 2004 Canadian English
9695 I Heard The Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven 1967 Canadian English
9741 A Fanatic Heart Edna O'Brien 1974 Irish English
10067 Verdes Valles, Colinas Rojas Ramiro Pinilla 2004 Spanish Spanish
10108 The Man Who Spoke Snakish Andrus Kivirähk 2007 Estonian Estonian
10110 Blackberry Winter Margaret Mead 1972 American English
10126 El Tiempo De Las Mujeres Ignacio Martínez de Pisón 2003 Spanish Spanish
10154 So Big Edna Ferber 1924 American English
10165 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10211 Hjortronlandet Sara Lidman 1955 Swedish Swedish
10402 Nice Big American Baby Judy Budnitz 2005 American English
10408 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
10450 We Don’t Know Ourselves Fintan O'Toole 2021 Irish English
10450 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
10495 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10586 Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton 1934 British English
10814 Firelight and Woodsmoke Claude Michelet 1979 French French
10880 Kampung Boy Lat 1979 Malaysian Malay
10905 A Small Country Sian James 1979 British English
10977 Or Else, The Lightning God And Other Stories Catherine Lim 1980 Singaporean English
11001 Friend Of My Youth Alice Munro 1990 Canadian English
11080 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11184 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11199 The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama 2006 American English
11273 Seasons On Earth Kenneth Koch 1987 American English
11362 The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson Unknown Unknown
11451 Early Autumn Louis Bromfield 1926 American English
11451 Years of Grace Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930 American English
11570 The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1837 British English
11579 The Devil Is Loose Antonine Maillet 1986 Canadian French
11660 A Machine That Would Go Of Itself Michael Kammen 1987 American English
11660 Out Of India Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1995 Indian English
11930 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
12083 Composing A Life Mary Catherine Bateson 1989 American English
12131 The House Of The Mosque Kader Abdolah 2005 Dutch Dutch
12258 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12401 The Future Homemakers Of America Laurie Graham 2001 British English
12513 A Bag Of Stories Edla Van Steen 1991 Brazilian Portuguese
12586 Jim The Boy Tony Earley 2000 American English
12746 Ripples Across Stagnant Water Li Jieren 1935 Chinese Chinese
13235 The Cazalet Chronicles Elizabeth Jane Howard 1988 British English
13306 Lotus Creek Sun Li 1950 Chinese Unknown
13309 Threshold Of Spring Rou Shi 1932 Chinese Chinese
13311 地之子 Tai Jingnong 1948 Chinese Unknown
13315 Records Of Orchard City Shi Tuo 1946 Chinese Chinese
13334 Change We Can Believe In Barack Obama 2008 American English
13359 All The Emperor’s Horses David Kidd 1960 American English
13359 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1819 American English
13518 Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 1962 American English
13528 Sugar Street Naguib Mahfouz 1957 Egyptian Arabic
13587 Spring Snow Yukio Mishima 1969 Japanese Japanese
13711 The Aerodrome Rex Warner 1941 British English
13759 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13801 The Blue And The Black Wang Lan 1963 Chinese Unknown
13817 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
13817 The Forests Of Norbio Giuseppe Dessì 1965 Italian Italian
13817 La Miglior Vita Fulvio Tomizza 1977 Italian Italian
13817 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13817 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13817 Story Of My People Edoardo Nesi 2011 Italian Italian
14001 A Chronicle Of Ancient Sunlight Henry Williamson 1951 British English
14009 Family Catastrophe Wang Wen-hsin 1973 Chinese Chinese
14047 Emergent Strategy adrienne maree brown 2017 American English
14107 Sa Aking Henerasyon Kerima Lorena Tariman Filipino Filipino
14165 The Whirlwind Chiang Kuei 1977 Chinese Unknown
14168 This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel 2017 American English
14347 Plains Song Wright Morris 1980 American English
14385 The Deliverance Ellen Glasgow 1904 American English
14433 Taiwanese Trilogy Chung Chao-cheng 1984 Taiwanese Chinese
14480 The Banyan Tree Christopher Nolan 1999 Irish English
14552 The Ancient Ship Zhang Wei 1987 Chinese Chinese
14649 Searching for Caleb Anne Tyler 1975 American English
14679 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
14708 White Deer Plain Chen Zhongshi 1993 Chinese Chinese
14730 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 2017 American English
14755 Physics Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
14730 Farewell Companions James Plunkett 1977 Irish English
14788 Mr. Popper's Penguins Florence and Richard Atwater 1938 American English
14820 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
14827 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian