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
5497 After the Flood P. C. Jersild 1982 Swedish Swedish
5510 Riders In The Chariot Patrick White 1961 Australian English
5517 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5528 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5619 The Thing About December Donal Ryan 2013 Irish English
5659 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 2017 American English
5704 The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee 2021 American English
5706 Woof, Woof, Dear Lord Sotiris Dimitriou 1987 Greek Unknown
5746 Open Secrets Alice Munro 1994 Canadian English
5755 Brown Girl In The Ring Nalo Hopkinson 1998 Canadian English
5760 Cotton Comes To Harlem Chester Himes 1965 American English
5828 Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega 1619 Spanish Spanish
5935 Hurramabad Andrei Volos 1998 Russian Russian
5959 This Is Happiness Niall Williams 2019 Irish English
5996 After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre 1981 British English
6002 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6122 Obabakoak Bernardo Atxaga 1988 Spanish Basque
6201 The Earth Émile Zola 1887 French French
6226 Idu Flora Nwapa 1970 Nigerian English
6251 The Craftsman Richard Sennett 2008 American English
6254 Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass 1966 American English
6282 Earth Abides George Rippey Stewart 1949 American English
6300 Lord Of The Barnyard Tristan Egolf 1998 American English
6331 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich 2020 American English
6340 The Lost Country Luminița Cioabă 2002 Romanian Unknown
6358 The Library Book Susan Orlean 2018 American English
6367 All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones 2006 American English
6374 Beartown Fredrik Backman 2016 Swedish Swedish
6444 The Bridge Of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6460 Air Geoff Ryman 2005 British English
6468 The Spinning Heart Donal Ryan 2012 Irish English
6480 Year Of Wonders Geraldine Brooks 2001 Australian English
6483 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
6506 Arcadia Jim Crace 1992 British English
6551 The Quilts Of Gee's Bend William Arnett, Alvia Wardlaw, Jane Livingston, John Beardsley 2002 American English
6552 The Bottom Of The Harbor Joseph Mitchell 1959 American English
6652 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
6675 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6699 It's A Good Life Jerome Bixby 1953 American English
6716 The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher 1932 American English
6736 Silver Stallion Junghyo Ahn 1990 Korean Korean
6745 The Seven Solitudes Of Lorsa Lopez Sony Labou Tansi 1985 Congolese French
6754 I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 American English
6766 Sotileza Jose M. de Pereda 1885 Spanish Spanish
6790 The True Deceiver Tove Jansson 1982 Finnish Swedish
6813 La Barraca Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1898 Spanish Spanish
6815 The Little Minister J. M. Barrie 1891 Scottish English
6835 There Are No Children Here Alex Kotlowitz 1991 American English
6846 King Solomon's Carpet Barbara Vine 1991 British English
6905 The Van Roddy Doyle 1991 Irish English
6929 Jayber Crow Wendell Berry 2000 American English
6939 Shipwrecks Akira Yoshimura 1982 Japanese Japanese
6951 Mamy Wata and the Monster Veronique Tadjo 1988 French French
6951 Bones Chenjerai Hove 1988 Zimbabwean English
6963 Sheeper Irving Rosenthal 1967 American English
6965 Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam 2000 American English
6974 The Good Life Elsewhere Vladimir Lorchenkov 2008 Russian Russian
7034 Democracy And Power In An American City Robert Dahl 1961 American English
7062 Then We Came To The End Joshua Ferris 2007 American English
7067 Stories From A Shona Childhood Charles Mungoshi 1989 Zimbabwean English
7127 Blanche Passes Go Barbara Neely 2000 American English
7177 The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar Syl Cheney-Choker 1990 Sierra Leonean English
7180 Retold African American Folktales David Haynes 1996 American Unknown
7205 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7215 Poems Of George Crabbe George Crabbe 1807 British English
7215 Hermann And Dorothea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1797 German German
7215 Lead Us Into Temptation Breandán Ó hEithir 1976 Irish English
7592 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7624 Hard Times Studs Terkel 1970 American English
7642 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson 1985 American English
7643 The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh 2004 Indian English
7645 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
7646 Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night Sindiwe Magona 1991 South African English
7651 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7710 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
7797 Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre 1978 American English
7819 Women Of Messina Elio Vittorini 1949 Italian Italian
7818 Sister Gin June Arnold 1975 American English
7849 The Birth House Ami McKay 2006 Canadian English
7855 Salvation on Sand Mountain Dennis Covington 1995 American English
7899 The Gentrification of the Mind Sarah Schulman 2012 American English
7899 Capital John Lanchester 2012 British English
7914 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 2000 Brazilian Portuguese
7940 The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page G. B. Edwards 1981 British English
7962 The Good Hope William Heinesen 1964 Danish Danish
7995 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
7996 Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 American English
8031 From A Chinese City Gontran de Poncins 1957 French English
8063 A Paradise Built In Hell Rebecca Solnit 2009 American English
8068 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
8072 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English
8105 Call Home The Heart Olive Tilford Dargan 1932 American English
8105 Daughter Of The Hills Myra Page 1938 American English
8105 Islanders Helen R. Hull 1927 American English
8105 The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1913 Canadian English
8105 Purple Springs Nellie L. McClung 1921 Canadian English
8187 A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich Alice Childress 1973 American English
8278 Three Plays Thornton Wilder 1957 American English
8285 The Last Days Of Old Beijing Michael Meyer 2008 Unknown English
8303 The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec Fred Vargas 2011 French French
8308 This Present Darkness Frank Peretti 1986 American English
8324 Lush Life Richard Price 2008 American English
8321 Dream Of Ding Village Yan Lianke 2006 Chinese Chinese
8343 The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 1991 American English
8360 Moral Man And Immoral Society Reinhold Niebuhr 1932 American English
8360 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
8385 Our Souls At Night Kent Haruf 2015 American English
8386 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8391 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
8417 Mary O'grady Mary Lavin 1950 Irish English
8420 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8441 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8468 A Dance Of The Forest Wole Soyinka 1960 Nigerian English
8468 The Maximus Poems Charles Olson 1960 American English
8498 Soul of a Citizen Paul Rogat Loeb 1999 American English
8497 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
8560 Sosu's Call Meshack Asare 1997 Ghanaian English
8560 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8579 The Last Of The Vikings Johan Bojer 1921 Norwegian Norwegian