The Greatest Coming Of Age, Drama, and Fiction Books Since 2000
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 488 '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.
Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
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196 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 | British | English | |
210 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | 2000 | American | English | |
361 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2002 | American | English | |
551 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | 2011 | Italian | Italian | |
553 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 | Afghan | English | |
624 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 2005 | Australian | English | |
697 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | 2004 | British | English | |
784 | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2003 | American | English | |
863 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 2013 | American | English | |
1051 | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward | 2017 | American | English | |
1112 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 2002 | American | English | |
1190 | Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | 2011 | American | English | |
1195 | The Round House | Louise Erdrich | 2012 | American | English | |
1233 | Normal People | Sally Rooney | 2018 | American | English | |
1541 | Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware | 2000 | American | English | |
1817 | Brooklyn | Colm Toibin | 2009 | Irish | English | |
1818 | A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | 2015 | American | English | |
1958 | Empire Falls | Richard Russo | 2001 | American | English | |
2070 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | 2011 | British | English | |
2140 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 2012 | American | English | |
2377 | Home | Marilynne Robinson | 2008 | American | English | |
2592 | Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | 2022 | American | English | |
2608 | Mother's Milk | Edward St Aubyn | 2005 | British | English | |
2674 | The Neapolitan Novels | Elena Ferrante | 2011 | Italian | Italian | |
2698 | Lost Children Archive | Valeria Luiselli | 2019 | Mexican | English | |
2811 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 2007 | Afghan | English | |
2925 | Out Stealing Horses | Per Petterson | 2003 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
3179 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | 2017 | American | English | |
3379 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah | 2015 | American | English | |
3622 | Deacon King Kong | James McBride | 2020 | American | English | |
3703 | Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | 2019 | British | English | |
3846 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 2009 | American | English | |
4243 | Netherland | Joseph O'Neill | 2008 | Irish | English | |
4298 | All My Puny Sorrows | Miriam Toews | 2014 | Canadian | English | |
4398 | Indian Horse | Richard Wagamese | 2012 | Canadian | English | |
4481 | Brick Lane | Monica Ali | 2003 | British | English | |
4488 | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | 2013 | American | English | |
4536 | Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 2003 | Nigerian | English | |
4551 | We The Animals | Justin Torres | 2011 | American | English | |
4552 | Everything I Never Told You | Celeste Ng | 2014 | American | English | |
4563 | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 2003 | Australian | English | |
4815 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander | 2014 | American | English | |
5294 | Chanda's Secrets | Allan Stratton | 2004 | Canadian | English | |
5338 | The Death of Vivek Oji | Akwaeke Emezi | 2020 | Nigerian | English | |
5765 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | 2005 | American | English | |
5832 | Winter's Bone | Daniel Woodrell | 2006 | American | English | |
5879 | Eat the Document | Dana Spiotta | 2006 | American | English | |
6026 | The Bone Clocks | David Mitchell | 2014 | British | English | |
6330 | Preparation for the Next Life | Atticus Lish | 2014 | American | English | |
6424 | Blankets | Craig Thompson | 2003 | American | English | |
6443 | Seven Years | Peter Stamm | 2009 | Swiss | German | |
6461 | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart | 2020 | Scottish | English | |
6559 | Carry Me Down | M. J. Hyland | 2006 | Australian | English | |
6559 | American Rust | Philipp Meyer | 2009 | American | English | |
6732 | The Wrath & The Dawn | Renée Ahdieh | 2015 | American | English | |
6983 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | 2017 | American | English | |
7022 | Ten Thousand Saints | Eleanor Henderson | 2011 | American | English | |
7261 | The Association Of Small Bombs | Karan Mahajan | 2016 | Indian | English | |
7314 | Trust Exercise | Susan Choi | 2019 | American | English | |
7652 | Dear Martin | Nic Stone | 2017 | American | English | |
7813 | The Half Brother | Lars Saabye Christensen | 2001 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
8274 | The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | 2008 | American | English | |
8333 | Allegedly | Tiffany D. Jackson | 2017 | American | English | |
8333 | American Street | Ibi Zoboi | 2017 | American | English | |
8419 | Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue | 2016 | Cameroonian | English | |
9113 | The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta | 2019 | British | English | |
9220 | Auē | Becky Manawatu | 2019 | New Zealander | English | |
9220 | Stonedogs | Craig Marriner | 2002 | New Zealander | English | |
9516 | Betty | Tiffany McDaniel | 2020 | American | English | |
9933 | Golden Child | Claire Adam | 2019 | Trinidadian | English | |
10624 | 18% Gray | Zachary Karabashliev | 2008 | Bulgarian | Bulgarian | |
10778 | San Remo Drive | Leslie Epstein | 2003 | American | English | |
10804 | Three Junes | Julia Glass | 2002 | American | English | |
10855 | Boy, Snow, Bird | Helen Oyeyemi | 2014 | British | English | |
10967 | Mr. Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Koran | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | 2001 | French | French | |
11184 | LaRose | Louise Erdrich | 2016 | American | English | |
11278 | Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | 2016 | American | English | |
11348 | Crank | Ellen Hopkins | 2004 | American | English | |
11358 | Ttyl | Lauren Myracle | 2004 | American | English | |
11651 | Delicious Foods | James Hannaham | 2015 | American | English | |
11630 | Lila | Marilynne Robinson | 2014 | American | English | |
12034 | Heroine | Mindy McGinnis | 2019 | American | English | |
12163 | I Loved You More | Tom Spanbauer | 2014 | American | English | |
12280 | Q & A | Vikas Swarup | 2005 | Indian | English | |
12470 | Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo | 2019 | American | English | |
12491 | Jade Legacy | Fonda Lee | 2021 | American | English | |
12508 | Mars Room | Rachel Kushner | 2018 | American | English | |
12936 | A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing | Eimear McBride | 2013 | Irish | English | |
13255 | The History Boys | Alan Bennett | 2004 | British | English | |
13255 | Jade War | Fonda Lee | 2019 | Canadian | English | |
14371 | The Glorious Heresies | Lisa McInerney | 2015 | Irish | English | |
14371 | Nightcrawling | Leila Mottley | 2022 | American | English | |
14371 | 4000 Miles | Amy Herzog | 2011 | American | English | |
14371 | The Wolves | Sarah DeLappe | 2016 | American | English | |
14371 | Queenie | Candice Carty-Williams | 2019 | British | English | |
14371 | Riot Baby | Tochi Onyebuchi | 2020 | American | English | |
14371 | Dare Me | Megan Abbott | 2012 | American | English | |
14371 | I'll Be Right There | Kyung-sook Shin | 2010 | South Korean | Korean | |
14371 | The End Of Loneliness | Benedict Wells | 2016 | German | German |