The Greatest Books of All Time Set in China

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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
14389 The End Of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs 2005 American English
14429 A Small Town Called Hibiscus Gu Hua 1983 Chinese Chinese
14433 Taiwanese Trilogy Chung Chao-cheng 1984 Taiwanese Chinese
14457 The Post American World Fareed Zakaria 2008 American English
14487 The Jiling Chronicles Li Yung-p'ing 1986 Chinese Unknown
14495 Farewell To My Concubine Lilian Lee 1985 Chinese Chinese
14497 The Lure Of The Gangdise Mountains Ma Yuan 1985 Chinese Unknown
14498 Super Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt 2009 American English
14519 Prime Movers Of Globalization Vaclav Smil 2010 Canadian English
14518 Dogshit Food Liu Heng 1986 Chinese Unknown
14550 Turbulence Jia Pingwa 1987 Chinese Chinese
14552 The Ancient Ship Zhang Wei 1987 Chinese Chinese
14553 Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation Of China Ezra F. Vogel 2011 American English
14598 The Cost Of Hope Amanda Bennett 2012 American English
14617 The Story Of Hay Bo Yi Shu 1988 Chinese Unknown
14618 Ten years and Ten Cases of Hysteria Lin Jinlan 1988 Chinese Unknown
14629 China Along The Yellow River Cao Jinqing 2000 Chinese Chinese
14629 The Gutenberg Galaxy Marshall McLuhan 1962 Canadian English
14663 Yellow Peril Wang Lixiong 1991 Chinese Chinese
14664 Raise The Red Lantern Su Tong 1990 Chinese Chinese
14665 Yongzheng Emperor Eryue He 1990 Chinese Chinese
14678 Zeng Guofan Tang Haoming 1992 Chinese Chinese
14676 Men Of The Old Stone Age Henry Fairfield Osborn 1915 American English
14708 White Deer Plain Chen Zhongshi 1993 Chinese Chinese
14730 Destined For War Graham Allison 2017 American English
14780 The Peony Pavilion Tang Xianzu 1598 Chinese Chinese
14788 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
14848 The True Believer Eric Hoffer 1951 American English
14831 The Perfect Weapon David E. Sanger 2018 American English
14852 City Of The Queen Shin Shu-ching 1994 Chinese Chinese
14878 Tai Pan James Clavell 1966 British English
14936 Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1919 American English
14984 Red Memory Tania Branigan 2023 Chinese English
14984 Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 2023 American English
14984 Into The Silence Wade Davis 2011 Canadian English
14984 Mao's Great Famine Frank Dikötter 2010 Chinese English
14984 Salt Mark Kurlansky 2002 American English
14984 Lady Tan’s Circle Of Women Lisa See 2023 Unknown English
14984 The History Of Bees Maja Lunde 2015 Norwegian Norwegian
15628 Messer Marco Polo Donn Byrne 1921 American English
15634 舊址 Li Rui 1998 Chinese Chinese
15649 Hu Xueyan Gao Yang 2007 Chinese Chinese
15661 Oculus Sally Wen Mao 2019 American English
15669 The Love Story Of A Young Monk Wang Zengqi 2011 Chinese Chinese
15810 The Family Nina Fedorova 1940 Unknown English
15899 Adventures Of Sanmao The Orphan Zhang Leping 1935 Chinese Chinese
15899 Red Star Over China Edgar Snow 1937 American English
15899 Dawn Blossoms Plucked At Dusk Lu Xun 1928 Chinese Chinese
15899 Chu Yuan Guo Moruo 1942 Chinese Chinese
15899 The Chinese Maze Murders Robert Van Gulik 1957 Dutch English
15899 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15876 Myths To Live By Joseph Campbell 1972 American English
15899 None Dare Call It Treason John A. Stormer 1964 American English
15874 The Earth Is The Lord's Taylor Caldwell 1940 American English
16562 K2 The Savage Mountain Charles Houston, Robert Bates 1954 American English
16614 Fanshen William Hinton 1966 American English
16748 The World Crisis Winston Churchill 1923 British English
16637 Kleine Weltgeschichte Der Philosophie Hans Joachim Störig 1950 German German
17120 Reflections from Captivity Ho Chi Minn 1965 Vietnamese Vietnamese
17120 Everest Thomas Hornbein 1965 American English
17120 The Crystal Horizon Reinhold Messner 1989 Italian German
17120 Something Like A House Sid Smith 2001 British English
17120 The Cult Of Emptiness The Western Discovery Of Buddhist Thought And The Invention Of Oriental Philosophy Urs App 2012 Swiss English
17120 The Great Divergence Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 American English
17120 The Other Shore Xingjian Gao 1986 Chinese Chinese
17120 The Adventures Of Ibn Battuta Ross E. Dunn 1986 American English
17120 Hermit Of Peking Hugh Trevor-Roper 1976 British English
17120 Swallowing Clouds Anthony Zee 1990 American English
17120 The Mongol Empire Peter Ludwig Brent 1976 British English
17120 My Favourite Wife Tony Parsons 2008 British English
17120 My Year Abroad Chang-rae Lee 2021 American English
17120 Stick Out Your Tongue Ma Jian 1987 Chinese Chinese
17120 Please Don’t Call Me Human Wang Shuo 1991 Chinese Chinese
17120 Ocean Of Words Ha Jin 1996 American English
17120 Once Upon A Time In The East Xiaolu Guo 2017 British English
17120 Beijing Coma Ma Jian 2008 Chinese Chinese
17120 Frog Yan Mo 2009 Chinese Chinese
17120 Wolf Totem Jiang Rong 2004 Chinese Chinese
17120 Leave Me Alone Murong Xuecun 2002 Chinese Chinese
17120 The Flowers Of War Yan Geling 2006 Chinese Chinese
17120 Happy Dreams Jia Pingwa 2007 Chinese Chinese
17120 The Fat Years Chan Koonchung 2009 Chinese Chinese
17120 Lotus Lijia Zhang 2017 Chinese English
17120 In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson Bette Bao Lord 1984 American English
16848 A Little History Of The World E. H. Gombrich 1936 Austrian German
17120 Five Decembers James Kestrel 2021 American English
17120 Taiwan Travelogue Shuang-zi Yang Unknown Unknown
17120 A History Of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 Mircea Eliade 1976 Romanian French
17120 How The World Became Rich Mark Koyama 2022 British English
17120 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17120 The Bear And The Dragon Tom Clancy 2000 American English
17120 The Bourne Supremacy Robert Ludlum 1986 American English
17120 Prisoners Of Geography Tim Marshall 2015 British English
17120 Never Ken Follett 2021 British English
17120 The Discoverers Daniel J. Boorstin 1983 American English
17120 The Lotus Palace Jeannie Lin 2013 American English
17120 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17120 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17120 Art History Marilyn Stokstad 1995 American English
17120 The Third Reich Michael Burleigh 2000 British English
17120 Atrocities Matthew White 2011 Unknown English
17120 Whole Earth Discipline Stewart Brand 2009 American English
17120 Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out Yan Mo 2006 Chinese Chinese
17120 Atlas Of An Anxious Man Christoph Ransmayr 2016 Austrian German
17120 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg 2022 Swedish English
17120 Margaret Thatcher Charles Moore 2013 British English
17120 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17120 The Endtimes Of Human Rights Stephen Hopgood 2013 British English
17120 Bonk Mary Roach 2008 American English
17120 Spook Mary Roach 2005 American English
17120 The Wandering Earth Cixin Liu 2013 Chinese Chinese
17120 Drawdown Paul Hawken 2017 American English
17120 The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins 2020 American English
17120 Chop Fry Watch Learn Michelle T. King 2024 Unknown English
17120 Connie Connie Chung 2024 Unknown English
17120 Private Revolutions Yuan Yang 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Return Of Great Powers Jim Sciutto 2024 American English
17120 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17120 The Secret War Of Julia Child Diana R. Chambers 2024 Unknown English
17120 The Murder Of Mr. Ma John Shen Yen Nee, SJ Rozan 2024 Unknown English