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
17172 The Secret War Of Julia Child Diana R. Chambers 2024 Unknown English
17172 The Murder Of Mr. Ma John Shen Yen Nee, SJ Rozan 2024 Unknown English
17172 Feeding Ghosts Tessa Hulls 2024 Unknown English
17172 The Struggle For Taiwan Sulmaan Khan 2024 Unknown English
17172 Autocracy, Inc. Anne Applebaum 2024 Unknown English
17172 The Dragon Roars Back Suisheng Zhao 2024 Unknown English
17172 The Jade Peony Wayson Choy 1995 Canadian English
17172 The Lexus And The Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman 1999 American English
17172 The Revolt Of The Public And The Crisis Of Authority In The New Millennium Martin Gurri 2014 Unknown English
17172 Shanghailanders Juli Min 2024 Unknown English
17172 Sidetracks Bei Dao 2024 Chinese Chinese
17172 There And Back: Diaries 1999 2009 Michael Palin 2024 British English
17172 Revolutionary Becomings Ying Qian 2024 Unknown English
17075 Tales From The Arabian Nights Andrew Lang 1898 Multiple English
17172 The Way Of Zen Alan Watts 1989 British English
17172 The Silk Roads Peter Frankopan 2015 British English
17172 The 33 Strategies Of War New Edition By Robert Greene Paperback Robert Greene 2006 American English
17172 Poverty And Famines Amartya Sen 1981 Indian English
17172 Deadly Quiet City Murong Xuecun 2021 Chinese Chinese
17172 The Sports Gene David Epstein 2013 American English
17172 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17172 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17172 Green Island Shawna Yang Ryan 2016 Unknown English
17172 The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See 2017 American English
16814 Imperial Woman Pearl S. Buck 1956 American English
17172 Sounds Like Titanic Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 2019 American English
17172 The Postmortal Drew Magary 2011 American English
17172 The Chinese Machiavelli Dennis Bloodworth 1976 Chinese English
17172 Mountain Of Fame John E. Wills Jr. 1992 Chinese English
17172 Readings In Classical Chinese Philosophy Philip J. Ivanhoe, Bryan W. Van Norden 2001 Chinese English
17172 Confucian Moral Self Cultivation Philip J. Ivanhoe 1993 Chinese English
17172 The Philosophy Of The Daodejing Hans-Georg Moeller 2006 Chinese English
17172 Finding Them Gone Red Pine 2015 Chinese English
17172 The Tragedy Of Liberation Frank Dikötter 2013 Chinese English
17172 The Cultural Revolution Frank Dikötter 2016 Chinese English
17172 Readings In Later Chinese Philosophy Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden 2014 Chinese English
17172 Neo Confucianism Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald 2017 Chinese English
17172 The Chinese Computer Thomas S. Mullaney 2024 Unknown English
17172 Last Chance To See Douglas Adams 1989 British English
17172 Our Final Warning Mark Lynas 2020 British English
17172 Four Treasures Of The Sky Jenny Tinghui Zhang 2022 Unknown English
17172 Big Game, Small World Alexander Wolff 2002 Unknown English
17172 Free Speech Jacob Mchangama 2024 Unknown English
17172 The Wages Of Destruction Adam Tooze 2006 British English
16933 The Collected Songs Of Cold Mountain Hanshan -800 Chinese Classical chinese
17068 The Great Wall Of China Franz Kafka 1931 Austrian German
17172 On Fire Naomi Klein 2019 Canadian English
17172 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17172 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17172 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17172 Be Water, My Friend Shannon Lee 2020 Unknown English
17170 O Livro Das 1001 Noites; Volume 2 Of 7 Unknown -800 Multiple Arabic
17172 Nexus Ramez Naam 2012 American English
17172 The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations David S. Landes 1998 American English
17172 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
16841 The Biography Of Ying Ying Yuan Zhen 820 Chinese Classical chinese
17172 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17172 Lon Po Po Ed Young 1989 American English
17172 Starry River Of The Sky Grace Lin 2012 American English
17172 The World And All That It Holds Aleksandar Hemon 2023 Bosnian English
17172 The History Of The Medieval World Susan Wise Bauer 2010 American English
17172 Atlas Obscura Joshua Foer 2016 American English
17139 The Age Of Revolution, 1789 1848 Eric Hobsbawm 1962 British English
17172 An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger 2007 American English
16910 A History Of Civilizations Fernand Braudel 1963 French French
17172 An Insular Possession Timothy Mo 1986 British English
17172 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17172 The Court Of The Lion Eleanor Cooney, Daniel Altieri 1988 Unknown English
17172 Deception Eleanor Cooney, Daniel Altieri 1993 Unknown English
17172 Dynasty Robert S. Elegant 1977 American English
17172 Manchu Robert S. Elegant 1980 American English
17172 Mandarin Robert S. Elegant 1983 American English
17172 From A Far Land Robert S. Elegant 1986 Unknown English
17172 Peking Anthony Grey 1988 British English
17172 The Chinese Emperor Jean Levi 1985 French French
17172 The Dream Of Confucius Jean Levi 1989 French French
17172 Ming Robert B. Oxnam 1995 Unknown English
17172 Sea Power Admiral James Stavridis 2017 American English
17172 Blind Man's Bluff Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Drew 1998 American English
17172 Worn Sofi Thanhauser 2022 Unknown English
17172 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Fund Rob Copeland 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Genius Of Their Age S. Frederick Starr 2023 Unknown English
17172 Digital Empires Anu Bradford 2023 Unknown English
17172 Eight Bears Gloria Dickie 2023 Unknown English
17172 Ninth Building Zou Jingzhi 2023 Chinese Chinese
17172 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2023 British English
17172 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17172 A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs Gulchehra Hoja 2023 Unknown English
17172 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2023 French French
17172 The Scythian Empire Christopher I. Beckwith 2023 Unknown English
17172 Ghost Music An Yu 2022 Unknown English
17172 Mott Street Ava Chin 2023 Unknown English
17172 Straw Dogs Of The Universe Ye Chun 2023 Unknown English
17172 Sparks Ian Johnson 2023 Unknown English
17172 The 48 Laws Of Power robert green 1998 Unknown English
17172 Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne 1992 American English
17172 A History Of Warfare John Keegan 1993 British English
17172 Chinese Shadows Simon Leys 1974 Belgian French
17172 Colossus Niall Ferguson 2004 British English
17172 Destinations Jan Morris 1980 British English
17172 Video Night In Kathmandu And Other Reports From The Not So Far East Pico Iyer 1988 British English
17172 The Women's History Of The World Rosalind Miles 1988 British English
17172 Zero Zero Zero Roberto Saviano 2013 Italian Italian
17172 The Climate Crisis And The Global Green New Deal Noam Chomsky 2020 American English
16904 1001 Arabian Nights Anonymous -800 Multiple Arabic
17172 Secret History Of The Mongols Paul Kahn 1984 Unknown English
17172 Homesick Jean Fritz 1982 American English
17172 Romance Of The Western Chamber Wang Shifu 1200 Chinese Chinese
17172 In The Deserts Of This Earth Uwe George 1983 German German
17172 Selected Poems Su Tung–p’o Chinese Chinese
17172 Bright Fear Mary Jean Chan 2023 Unknown English
17172 The Nirvana Express Mick Brown 2023 Unknown English
17172 Land Of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen 2021 American English
17172 Is Science Western In Origin? C.K. Raju Indian English
17172 The Magpie At Night Li Qingzhao Chinese Chinese
17172 The Windup Bird Chronicle haruki murakami 1994 Japanese Japanese
17172 Remembrance Of Earth's Past Liu Cixin 2012 Chinese Chinese
17172 Three Body Problem Boxed Set Liu Cixin 2006 Chinese Chinese
17172 The New Climate War Michael Mann 2021 American English