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
5500 After the Flood P. C. Jersild 1982 Swedish Swedish
5513 Riders In The Chariot Patrick White 1961 Australian English
5520 Nós Os Do Makulusu José Luandino Vieira 1974 Angolan Portuguese
5530 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 2023 American English
5622 The Thing About December Donal Ryan 2013 Irish English
5662 Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 2017 American English
5707 The Sum Of Us Heather McGhee 2021 American English
5709 Woof, Woof, Dear Lord Sotiris Dimitriou 1987 Greek Unknown
5749 Open Secrets Alice Munro 1994 Canadian English
5758 Brown Girl In The Ring Nalo Hopkinson 1998 Canadian English
5763 Cotton Comes To Harlem Chester Himes 1965 American English
5833 Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega 1619 Spanish Spanish
5939 Hurramabad Andrei Volos 1998 Russian Russian
5963 This Is Happiness Niall Williams 2019 Irish English
6000 After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre 1981 British English
6005 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6125 Obabakoak Bernardo Atxaga 1988 Spanish Basque
6205 The Earth Émile Zola 1887 French French
6230 Idu Flora Nwapa 1970 Nigerian English
6254 The Craftsman Richard Sennett 2008 American English
6257 Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass 1966 American English
6285 Earth Abides George Rippey Stewart 1949 American English
6303 Lord Of The Barnyard Tristan Egolf 1998 American English
6334 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich 2020 American English
6343 The Lost Country Luminița Cioabă 2002 Romanian Unknown
6361 The Library Book Susan Orlean 2018 American English
6370 All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones 2006 American English
6377 Beartown Fredrik Backman 2016 Swedish Swedish
6447 The Bridge Of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6462 Air Geoff Ryman 2005 British English
6470 The Spinning Heart Donal Ryan 2012 Irish English
6482 Year Of Wonders Geraldine Brooks 2001 Australian English
6485 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
6508 Arcadia Jim Crace 1992 British English
6553 The Quilts Of Gee's Bend William Arnett, Alvia Wardlaw, Jane Livingston, John Beardsley 2002 American English
6554 The Bottom Of The Harbor Joseph Mitchell 1959 American English
6654 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
6676 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6700 It's A Good Life Jerome Bixby 1953 American English
6717 The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher 1932 American English
6737 Silver Stallion Junghyo Ahn 1990 Korean Korean
6746 The Seven Solitudes Of Lorsa Lopez Sony Labou Tansi 1985 Congolese French
6755 I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 American English
6767 Sotileza Jose M. de Pereda 1885 Spanish Spanish
6791 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
7178 The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar Syl Cheney-Choker 1990 Sierra Leonean English
7181 Retold African American Folktales David Haynes 1996 American Unknown
7206 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7216 Poems Of George Crabbe George Crabbe 1807 British English
7216 Hermann And Dorothea Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1797 German German
7216 Lead Us Into Temptation Breandán Ó hEithir 1976 Irish English
7593 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7625 Hard Times Studs Terkel 1970 American English
7643 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson 1985 American English
7644 The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh 2004 Indian English
7646 All About Love bell hooks 2000 American English
7647 Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night Sindiwe Magona 1991 South African English
7652 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7692 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7712 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
7799 Dreamsnake Vonda N. McIntyre 1978 American English
7820 Women Of Messina Elio Vittorini 1949 Italian Italian
7819 Sister Gin June Arnold 1975 American English
7850 The Birth House Ami McKay 2006 Canadian English
7856 Salvation on Sand Mountain Dennis Covington 1995 American English
7900 The Gentrification of the Mind Sarah Schulman 2012 American English
7900 Capital John Lanchester 2012 British English
7915 The Devil and Miss Prym Paulo Coelho 2000 Brazilian Portuguese
7941 The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page G. B. Edwards 1981 British English
7963 The Good Hope William Heinesen 1964 Danish Danish
7996 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
7997 Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 American English
8032 From A Chinese City Gontran de Poncins 1957 French English
8064 A Paradise Built In Hell Rebecca Solnit 2009 American English
8069 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
8073 How To Do Nothing Jenny Odell 2019 American English
8107 Call Home The Heart Olive Tilford Dargan 1932 American English
8107 Daughter Of The Hills Myra Page 1938 American English
8107 Islanders Helen R. Hull 1927 American English
8107 The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1913 Canadian English
8107 Purple Springs Nellie L. McClung 1921 Canadian English
8189 A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich Alice Childress 1973 American English
8280 Three Plays Thornton Wilder 1957 American English
8287 The Last Days Of Old Beijing Michael Meyer 2008 Unknown English
8305 The Ghost Riders Of Ordebec Fred Vargas 2011 French French
8310 This Present Darkness Frank Peretti 1986 American English
8326 Lush Life Richard Price 2008 American English
8323 Dream Of Ding Village Yan Lianke 2006 Chinese Chinese
8345 The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 1991 American English
8363 Moral Man And Immoral Society Reinhold Niebuhr 1932 American English
8363 Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1949 German German
8388 Our Souls At Night Kent Haruf 2015 American English
8389 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8394 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
8421 Mary O'grady Mary Lavin 1950 Irish English
8424 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8445 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8473 A Dance Of The Forest Wole Soyinka 1960 Nigerian English
8473 The Maximus Poems Charles Olson 1960 American English
8503 Soul of a Citizen Paul Rogat Loeb 1999 American English
8502 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
8564 Sosu's Call Meshack Asare 1997 Ghanaian English
8564 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8583 The Last Of The Vikings Johan Bojer 1921 Norwegian Norwegian