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
14826 The Turning Wheel Stuart Cloete 1937 South African English
14899 When Rain Clouds Gather Bessie Head 1968 Botswana English
14985 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Wells Tower 2009 American English
14985 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14985 The Children's Bach Helen Garner 1984 Australian English
14985 Clybourne Park Bruce Norris 2010 American English
14985 Pyramids Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
14985 Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way To Deal With Change In Your Work And In Your Life... Spencer Johnson 1998 American English
14985 Rosarita Anita Desai 2024 Unknown English
14985 The End Of Drum Time Hanna Pylväinen 2023 Unknown English
15607 The Old Capital Chu Tʽien-hsin 1996 Chinese Chinese
15615 The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1922 British English
15640 舊址 Li Rui 1998 Chinese Chinese
15657 Certain People Of Importance Kathleen Thompson Norris 1922 American English
15674 The Middle Of The Road Philip Gibbs 1923 British English
15685 Lucky Worries About His Country Chang Ta-chun 2001 Chinese Chinese
15837 The Issa Valley Czesław Miłosz 1955 Polish Polish
15812 Fielding's Folly Frances Parkinson Keyes 1940 American English
15875 The Death Of The Past J. H. Plumb 1969 British English
15864 The Setting Sun Osamu Dazai 1947 Japanese Japanese
15916 One Man's Meat E. B. White 1942 American English
15916 The Flint Anchor Sylvia Townsend Warner 1954 British English
15916 The Sheltered Life Ellen Glasgow 1932 American English
15916 Fourteenth Of October Bryher 1952 British English
15916 Bedford Village Hervey Allen 1944 American English
15916 Citizen Tom Paine Howard Fast 1943 American English
15916 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15916 Marching On James Boyd 1927 American English
15916 House Divided Ben Ames Williams 1947 American English
15916 So Red The Rose Stark Young 1934 American English
15916 Children Of God Vardis Fisher 1939 American English
15916 Brain Wave Poul Anderson 1954 American English
16550 Akenfield Ronald Blythe 1969 American English
16614 Profiles Of The Future Arthur C. Clarke 1962 British English
16550 Roman Wall Bryher 1954 British English
17163 Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin 1995 American English
17163 The Chip Chip Gatherers Shiva Naipaul 1973 Trinidadian English
17163 Hopeful Monsters Nicholas Mosley 1990 British English
17163 Kaaterskill Falls Allegra Goodman 1998 American English
17163 The Bronc People William Eastlake 1958 American English
17163 The Water Is Wide Pat Conroy 1972 American English
17163 Coming into the Country John McPhee 1977 American English
17163 Whoredom in Kimmage Rosemary Mahoney 1993 American English
17163 The Wine of Astonishment Earl Lovelace 1982 Trinidadian English
17163 The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg Deborah Eisenberg 2010 American English
17163 The New Animals Pip Adam 2017 New Zealander English
17163 The Idea Of Perfection Kate Grenville 1999 Australian English
17163 Tales From Bective Bridge Mary Lavin 1942 Irish English
17163 The Ice Saints Frank Tuohy 1974 British English
17163 The Other Wind Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 American English
17163 The Dancers At The End Of Time Michael Moorcock 1972 British English
17163 Family And Friends Anita Brookner 1985 British English
17163 The Flick Annie Baker 2014 American English
17163 Anna In The Tropics Nilo Cruz 2003 American English
16925 Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll Ray Lawler 1955 Australian English
17163 Dancing At Lughnasa Brian Friel 1990 Irish English
17163 Pacific Tom Drury 2013 American English
17163 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee 2015 American English
17163 The Best Of Albert Wendt’s Short Stories Albert Wendt 1999 New Zealand English
17163 How Buildings Learn Stewart Brand 1994 American English
17163 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
17163 Voices Of The Old Sea Norman Lewis 1984 British English
17163 Dakota Kathleen Norris 1993 American English
17163 Merci Suárez Changes Gears Meg Medina 2018 Mexican-American English
17163 The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald 1978 British English
17163 The Long Way Back Fouad Al-Takarli 1980 Iraqi Arabic
17163 No One Sleeps In Alexandria Ibrahim Abdel Meguid 1996 Egyptian Arabic
17163 Orbits of the East Nabil Suleiman 1993 Syrian Unknown
17163 دار المتعة Dar El Mit3a Walid Ikhlassi 1997 Syrian Arabic
17163 Death In Beirut Tawfiq Yousef Awad 1973 Lebanese Arabic
17163 Recognition Ali Abu Al-Rish Emirati Unknown
17163 The Heron Ibrahim Aslan 1983 Egyptian Arabic
17163 The Game Of Forgetting Mohammed Berrada 1987 Moroccan Arabic
17163 Winter Wind Mubarak Al-Rabih 1977 Moroccan Unknown
17163 Return To Dar Al Basha Ḥasan Naṣr 1994 Tunisian Unknown
17163 The Windy City Moussa Ould Ebnou 1998 Unknown Unknown
17163 Wind From The South Abdelhamid Ben Haddouka 1971 Algerian Unknown
17163 Sana’a Mohammed Abdul Wali 2005 Yemeni Unknown
17163 Les 1001 années de la nostalgie Rachid Boudjedra 1997 Algerian French
17163 Ras Beirut Yasin Rifa’ieh 1987 Unknown Unknown
17163 Eye Of The Sun Khalifa Hussein Mustapha 1999 Lebanese Unknown
17163 The Sleepwalkers Sa’ad Makkawi Egyptian Unknown
17163 1952 Jamil Atiyah Ibrahim 1990 Unknown Unknown
17163 Essential Pillars Elias Farkouh 2002 Jordanian Unknown
17163 Al Wasmiya Abdel-aziz Mishri Unknown Unknown
17163 Sound, Water And Fire Abdulla Khalifa 1995 Unknown Unknown
17163 Fools Crow James Welch 1986 American English
17064 Friendly Persuasion Jessamyn West 1945 American English
16888 Coming Up For Air George Orwell 1939 British English
17163 Chocolat Joanne Harris 1999 British English
17163 My Brother Jack George Johnston 1964 Australian English
17163 Pandaemonium Humphrey Jennings 1985 British English
17163 The Impersonators Jessica Anderson 1980 Australian English
17163 Rites Of Spring Modris Eksteins 1989 Canadian English
17163 Owen Kevin Henkes 1993 American English
17163 A Modern Family Helga Flatland 2017 Norwegian Norwegian
17163 The Cavemen Chronicle Mihkel Mutt 2012 Estonian Estonian
17163 Record Of A Spaceborn Few Becky Chambers 2018 American English
17163 Messenger Lois Lowry 2004 American English
17163 A Gathering Of Days Joan W. Blos 1979 American English
17163 Library Lion Michelle Knudsen 2006 American English
17163 Third Wave Alvin Toffler 1980 American English
17163 جای خالی سلوچ Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 1979 Iranian Persian
17163 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17163 Turtle Diary Russell Hoban 1975 British English
17163 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17163 The Thing About Luck Cynthia Kadohata 2013 American English
16795 Schoolgirl Osamu Dazai 1939 Japanese Japanese
17067 Bambi Felix Salten 1923 Austrian German
17163 Same As Ever Morgan Housel 2023 American English
17163 Audacious Hope Indrajit Roy Unknown English
17163 Tokyo Express Taiyō Matsumoto Unknown Unknown
17163 Time Song Julia Blackburn 2019 British English
17163 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17163 The Wake Paul Kingsnorth 2014 British English
17163 Janesville Amy Goldstein Unknown Unknown
17163 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
17163 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17163 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17163 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French