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
6603 Collected Stories Elizabeth Bowen 1980 Irish English
6606 Pavilion Of Women Pearl S. Buck 1946 American English
6671 Future Shock Alvin Toffler 1980 American English
6736 The Women On The Island Ho Ahn Thai 1991 Vietnamese Vietnamese
6748 Sturmzeit Charlotte Link 1990 German German
6915 Other Fires Maxim Gorky 1900 Russian Unknown
7178 The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar Syl Cheney-Choker 1990 Sierra Leonean English
7206 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7216 Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow 1935 American English
7216 Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead Barbara Comyns 1954 British English
7216 The Years Virginia Woolf 1937 British English
7216 The Road To The City Natalia Ginzburg 1942 Italian Italian
7593 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7612 The Short Stories Katherine Mansfield 1945 New Zealander English
7652 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7663 East Wind Pearl S. Buck 1930 American English
7692 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7832 Ein Mann Im Haus Ulla Hahn 1996 German German
7850 The Birth House Ami McKay 2006 Canadian English
7908 That Deadman Dance Kim Scott 2010 Australian English
8002 La Visita En El Tiempo Arturo Uslar Pietri 1990 Venezuelan Spanish
8107 Islanders Helen R. Hull 1927 American English
8107 Memorias De Mama Blanca Teresa de la Parra 1929 Venezuelan Spanish
8107 Virginia Ellen Glasgow 1913 American English
8144 Simple Stories Ingo Schulze 1998 German German
8336 The Light Years Elizabeth Jane Howard 1990 British English
8351 China Road Rob Gifford 2007 British English
8473 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
8473 Ceremony In Lone Tree Wright Morris 1960 American English
8564 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8671 How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 1996 American English
8750 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
8827 Photographs Eudora Welty 1971 American English
8869 African Stories Doris May Lessing 1964 British English
8869 For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964 American English
8901 Vendor Of Sweets R. K. Narayan 1967 Indian English
8934 Storm In The Village Miss Read 1958 British English
9057 The Late George Apley John P. Marquand 1937 American English
9073 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9228 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9328 Sylvanus Now Donna Morrissey 2004 Canadian English
9698 I Heard The Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven 1967 Canadian English
9744 A Fanatic Heart Edna O'Brien 1974 Irish English
10072 Verdes Valles, Colinas Rojas Ramiro Pinilla 2004 Spanish Spanish
10113 The Man Who Spoke Snakish Andrus Kivirähk 2007 Estonian Estonian
10115 Blackberry Winter Margaret Mead 1972 American English
10130 El Tiempo De Las Mujeres Ignacio Martínez de Pisón 2003 Spanish Spanish
10158 So Big Edna Ferber 1924 American English
10169 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10216 Hjortronlandet Sara Lidman 1955 Swedish Swedish
10406 Nice Big American Baby Judy Budnitz 2005 American English
10412 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
10454 We Don’t Know Ourselves Fintan O'Toole 2021 Irish English
10454 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
10499 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10590 Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton 1934 British English
10819 Firelight and Woodsmoke Claude Michelet 1979 French French
10885 Kampung Boy Lat 1979 Malaysian Malay
10910 A Small Country Sian James 1979 British English
10982 Or Else, The Lightning God And Other Stories Catherine Lim 1980 Singaporean English
11006 Friend Of My Youth Alice Munro 1990 Canadian English
11085 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11189 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11204 The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama 2006 American English
11278 Seasons On Earth Kenneth Koch 1987 American English
11366 The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson Unknown Unknown
11455 Early Autumn Louis Bromfield 1926 American English
11455 Years of Grace Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930 American English
11571 The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1837 British English
11582 The Devil Is Loose Antonine Maillet 1986 Canadian French
11663 A Machine That Would Go Of Itself Michael Kammen 1987 American English
11663 Out Of India Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1995 Indian English
11932 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
12084 Composing A Life Mary Catherine Bateson 1989 American English
12132 The House Of The Mosque Kader Abdolah 2005 Dutch Dutch
12259 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12403 The Future Homemakers Of America Laurie Graham 2001 British English
12515 A Bag Of Stories Edla Van Steen 1991 Brazilian Portuguese
12588 Jim The Boy Tony Earley 2000 American English
12748 Ripples Across Stagnant Water Li Jieren 1935 Chinese Chinese
13238 The Cazalet Chronicles Elizabeth Jane Howard 1988 British English
13309 Lotus Creek Sun Li 1950 Chinese Unknown
13312 Threshold Of Spring Rou Shi 1932 Chinese Chinese
13314 地之子 Tai Jingnong 1948 Chinese Unknown
13318 Records Of Orchard City Shi Tuo 1946 Chinese Chinese
13337 Change We Can Believe In Barack Obama 2008 American English
13362 All The Emperor’s Horses David Kidd 1960 American English
13362 Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 1819 American English
13520 Travels with Charley John Steinbeck 1962 American English
13529 Sugar Street Naguib Mahfouz 1957 Egyptian Arabic
13588 Spring Snow Yukio Mishima 1969 Japanese Japanese
13712 The Aerodrome Rex Warner 1941 British English
13760 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13802 The Blue And The Black Wang Lan 1963 Chinese Unknown
13818 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
13818 The Forests Of Norbio Giuseppe Dessì 1965 Italian Italian
13818 La Miglior Vita Fulvio Tomizza 1977 Italian Italian
13818 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13818 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
14348 Plains Song Wright Morris 1980 American English
14386 The Deliverance Ellen Glasgow 1904 American English
14434 Taiwanese Trilogy Chung Chao-cheng 1984 Taiwanese Chinese
14481 The Banyan Tree Christopher Nolan 1999 Irish English
14553 The Ancient Ship Zhang Wei 1987 Chinese Chinese
14650 Searching for Caleb Anne Tyler 1975 American English
14680 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
14709 White Deer Plain Chen Zhongshi 1993 Chinese Chinese
14732 Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 2017 American English
14755 Physics Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
14732 Farewell Companions James Plunkett 1977 Irish English
14817 The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 1971 American English
14788 Mr. Popper's Penguins Florence and Richard Atwater 1938 American English
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian