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
2533 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
2584 Bokhandlaren som slutade bada Fritiof Nilsson Piraten 1937 Swedish Swedish
2593 Tales Of Hulan River Xiao Hong 1942 Chinese Chinese
2612 Book of Common Prayer Thomas Cranmer 1549 British English
2741 Jerusalem Selma Lagerlöf 1901 Swedish Swedish
2750 Dust Tracks on a Road Zora Neale Hurston 1942 American English
2783 North Of Boston Robert Frost 1914 American English
2799 Delta Wedding Eudora Welty 1946 American English
2813 The Golden Apples Eudora Welty 1949 American English
2829 A Contract With God Will Eisner 1978 American English
2836 Facing Mount Kenya Jomo Kenyatta 1938 Kenyan English
2864 Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer 1953 Polish Yiddish
2866 House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday 1968 American English
2896 Indigo Beverly Jenkins 1996 American English
2948 Redwall Brian Jacques 1986 British English
2986 Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan 1945 Canadian English
3012 Friday Night Lights H. G. Bissinger 1990 American English
3019 Whisky Galore Compton Mackenzie 1947 British English
3039 South Riding Winifred Holtby 1936 British English
3048 Centennial James A. Michener 1974 American English
3049 Our Town Thornton Wilder 1938 American English
3065 Montaillou Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 1975 French French
3103 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
3122 Carpentaria Alexis Wright 2006 Australian English
3134 Ake Wole Soyinka 1981 Nigerian English
3144 Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 1975 American English
3218 The Long Loneliness Dorothy Day 1952 American English
3232 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3277 Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell 1992 American English
3280 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
3438 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
3805 The Ponder Heart Eudora Welty 1954 American English
3818 The Beach Alex Garland 1996 British English
3820 The Commitments Roddy Doyle 1987 Irish English
3828 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
3861 Tales of Amadou Koumba Birago Diop 1947 Togolese French
3861 The Wrath of the Ancestors Archibald Campbell Jordan 1940 South African English
3881 The River Between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1965 Kenyan English
3885 Mother London Michael Moorcock 1988 British English
3932 Mean Spirit Linda Hogan 1990 American English
3953 Η Αυλή των Θαυμάτων Iakovos Kambanellis 1962 Greek Greek
3953 The Complete Works Of Alexandros Papadiamantis Alexandros Papadiamantis 1952 Greek Greek
3953 Στου Χατζηφράγκου Kosmas Politis 1929 Greek Greek
3953 The End Of Our Small Town Dimitris Hatzis 1963 Greek Greek
4088 Love and Rockets Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez 1982 American English
4105 Wolfskin Hans Lebert 1960 Austrian German
4114 Brick Lane Monica Ali 2003 British English
4120 Voices In The Evening Natalia Ginzburg 1961 Italian Italian
4133 The Cathedral Oles Honchar 1968 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4140 Climbié Bernard Dadié 1956 French French
4173 Sandro of Chegem Fazil Iskander 1966 Russian Russian
4222 A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander 1977 American English
4232 Mariette In Ecstasy Ron Hansen 1991 American English
4298 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg 1987 American English
4300 The Fairy Gunmother Daniel Pennac 1987 French French
4309 Love On The Dole Walter Greenwood 1933 British English
4454 The City in History Lewis Mumford 1961 American English
4491 All The Little Live Things Wallace Stegner 1967 American English
4496 The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry 1977 American English
4570 The Taste Of Country Cooking Edna Lewis 1976 American English
4573 Moominvalley In November Tove Jansson 1970 Finnish Swedish
4595 Nora Webster Colm Toibin 2014 Irish English
4617 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
4632 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 1993 Irish English
4637 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Louise Erdrich 2001 American English
4644 Friday The Rabbi Slept Late Harry Kemelman 1964 American English
4718 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Luis Sepúlveda 1989 Chilean Spanish
4722 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
4799 Home to Harlem Claude McKay 1928 American English
4847 Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey Lillian Schiessel 1982 American English
4854 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith 1998 Scottish English
4855 Best of Simple Langston Hughes 1961 American English
4865 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
4928 The Poorhouse Fair John Updike 1959 American English
4940 Ghettoside Jill Leovy 2015 American English
4942 Mama Day Gloria Naylor 1988 American English
5010 The Hungry Moon Ramsey Campbell 1986 British English
5026 Theophilus North Thornton Wilder 1973 American English
5089 Fireflies Shiva Naipaul 1970 Trinidadian English
5109 The Winter Of Our Discontent John Steinbeck 1961 American English
5121 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984 American English
5148 Ilinden Dimitar Talev 1951 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5246 Jews Without Money Michael Gold 1930 American English
5255 The Collected Stories Grace Paley 1994 American English
5259 St. Peter's Umbrella Kálmán Mikszáth 1895 Hungarian Hungarian
5291 Tante Jolesch Or The Decline Of The West In Anecdotes Friedrich Torberg 1975 Austrian German
5340 A Funtineli Boszorkány Albert Wass 1959 Hungarian Hungarian
5341 Plainsong Kent Haruf 1999 American English
5348 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5355 Tropic Of Ruislip Leslie Thomas 1974 British English
5375 The Town in Black Kálmán Mikszáth 1910 Hungarian Hungarian
5414 The Brodeck Report Philippe Claudel 2007 French French
5415 A Dictionary Of Maqiao Han Shaogong 1996 Chinese Chinese
5418 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass 1968 American English
5445 A Winter In Hakkari Ferit Edgü 1977 Turkish Turkish
5455 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5458 The Yellow House Sarah M. Broom 2019 American English
5492 All Creatures Great And Small James Herriot 1972 British English