The Greatest Books of All Time on Community

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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
2535 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
2585 Bokhandlaren som slutade bada Fritiof Nilsson Piraten 1937 Swedish Swedish
2594 Tales Of Hulan River Xiao Hong 1942 Chinese Chinese
2613 Book of Common Prayer Thomas Cranmer 1549 British English
2742 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2752 Dust Tracks on a Road Zora Neale Hurston 1942 American English
2784 North Of Boston Robert Frost 1914 American English
2801 Delta Wedding Eudora Welty 1946 American English
2816 The Golden Apples Eudora Welty 1949 American English
2831 A Contract With God Will Eisner 1978 American English
2838 Facing Mount Kenya Jomo Kenyatta 1938 Kenyan English
2867 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 1953 Polish Yiddish
2869 House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday 1968 American English
2898 Indigo Beverly Jenkins 1996 American English
2950 Redwall Brian Jacques 1986 British English
2988 Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan 1945 Canadian English
3015 Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissinger 1990 American English
3022 Whisky Galore Compton Mackenzie 1947 British English
3042 South Riding Winifred Holtby 1936 British English
3051 Centennial James A. Michener 1974 American English
3052 Our Town Thornton Wilder 1938 American English
3067 Montaillou Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 1975 French French
3104 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
3123 Carpentaria Alexis Wright 2006 Australian English
3135 Ake Wole Soyinka 1981 Nigerian English
3145 Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 1975 American English
3219 The Long Loneliness Dorothy Day 1952 American English
3233 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3278 Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell 1992 American English
3281 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3310 Cross Creek Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1942 American English
3324 Thomas of Reading, Or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West Thomas Deloney 1599 British English
3324 Broad and Alien is the World Ciro Alegría 1941 Peruvian Spanish
3324 The Harvesters Cesare Pavese 1941 Italian Unknown
3324 The Tin Flute Gabrielle Roy 1945 Canadian French
3324 A Day in Spring Ciril Kosmač 1953 Slovenian Slovene
3381 Der Laden Erwin Strittmatter 1983 German German
3439 The Needle's Eye Fanny Howe 1970 American English
3533 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3553 The Revolt Of The Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta 1973 American English
3559 Memoirs of a Peasant Boy Xosé Neira Vilas 1961 Spanish Galician
3574 Notes from No Man's Land Eula Biss 2009 American English
3608 Virgin River Robyn Carr 2007 American English
3610 Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell 2006 American English
3625 The Lost Salt Gift Of Blood Alistair MacLeod 1976 Canadian English
3638 The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1901 Belgian French
3638 On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs Olha Kobylianska 1909 Ukrainian Ukrainian
3638 Bicycle Thieves Luigi Bartolini 1946 Italian Italian
3638 Maya The Bee And Her Adventures Waldemar Bonsels 1912 German German
3638 Uli The Farmhand Jeremias Gotthelf 1841 Swiss German
3638 The People Of Seldwyla Gottfried Keller 1872 Swiss German
3638 So Tender Was Suleyken Siegfried Lenz 1955 German German
3638 Die Insel Felsenburg Johann Gottfried Schnabel 1731 German German
3804 The Ponder Heart Eudora Welty 1954 American English
3817 The Beach Alex Garland 1996 British English
3819 The Commitments Roddy Doyle 1987 Irish English
3827 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
3860 Tales of Amadou Koumba Birago Diop 1947 Togolese French
3860 The Wrath of the Ancestors Archibald Campbell Jordan 1940 South African English
3880 The River Between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1965 Kenyan English
3884 Mother London Michael Moorcock 1988 British English
3931 Mean Spirit Linda Hogan 1990 American English
3954 Η Αυλή των Θαυμάτων Iakovos Kambanellis 1962 Greek Greek
3954 The Complete Works Of Alexandros Papadiamantis Alexandros Papadiamantis 1952 Greek Greek
3954 Στου Χατζηφράγκου Kosmas Politis 1929 Greek Greek
3954 The End Of Our Small Town Dimitris Hatzis 1963 Greek Greek
4089 Love and Rockets Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez 1982 American English
4106 Wolfskin Hans Lebert 1960 Austrian German
4115 Brick Lane Monica Ali 2003 British English
4121 Voices In The Evening Natalia Ginzburg 1961 Italian Italian
4134 The Cathedral Oles Honchar 1968 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4141 Climbié Bernard Dadié 1956 French French
4174 Sandro of Chegem Fazil Iskander 1966 Russian Russian
4223 A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander 1977 American English
4233 Mariette In Ecstasy Ron Hansen 1991 American English
4299 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg 1987 American English
4301 The Fairy Gunmother Daniel Pennac 1987 French French
4310 Love On The Dole Walter Greenwood 1933 British English
4455 The City in History Lewis Mumford 1961 American English
4493 All The Little Live Things Wallace Stegner 1967 American English
4498 The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry 1977 American English
4572 The Taste Of Country Cooking Edna Lewis 1976 American English
4575 Moominvalley In November Tove Jansson 1970 Finnish Swedish
4597 Nora Webster Colm Toibin 2014 Irish English
4619 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
4634 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 1993 Irish English
4639 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 2001 American English
4646 Friday The Rabbi Slept Late Harry Kemelman 1964 American English
4720 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
4724 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
4801 Home to Harlem Claude McKay 1928 American English
4849 Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey Lillian Schiessel 1982 American English
4856 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith 1998 Scottish English
4857 Best of Simple Langston Hughes 1961 American English
4867 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4931 The Poorhouse Fair John Updike 1959 American English
4943 Ghettoside Jill Leovy 2015 American English
4945 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
5014 The Hungry Moon Ramsey Campbell 1986 British English
5030 Theophilus North Thornton Wilder 1973 American English
5092 Fireflies Shiva Naipaul 1970 Trinidadian English
5112 The Winter Of Our Discontent John Steinbeck 1961 American English
5124 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984 American English
5152 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5248 Jews Without Money Michael Gold 1930 American English
5257 The Collected Stories Grace Paley 1994 American English
5261 St. Peter's Umbrella Kálmán Mikszáth 1895 Hungarian Hungarian
5293 Tante Jolesch Or The Decline Of The West In Anecdotes Friedrich Torberg 1975 Austrian German
5342 A Funtineli Boszorkány Albert Wass 1959 Hungarian Hungarian
5343 Plainsong Kent Haruf 1999 American English
5350 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5357 Tropic Of Ruislip Leslie Thomas 1974 British English
5377 The Town in Black Kálmán Mikszáth 1910 Hungarian Hungarian
5417 The Brodeck Report Philippe Claudel 2007 French French
5418 A Dictionary Of Maqiao Han Shaogong 1996 Chinese Chinese
5421 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass 1968 American English
5448 A Winter In Hakkari Ferit Edgü 1977 Turkish Turkish
5458 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5461 The Yellow House Sarah M. Broom 2019 American English
5495 All Creatures Great And Small James Herriot 1972 British English