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
8598 Nisei Daughter Monica Itoi Sone 1953 American English
8614 Cooked Michael Pollan 2013 American English
8651 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8694 Inner City Blues Paula L. Woods 1999 American English
8694 Those Bones Are Not My Child Toni Cade Bambara 1999 American English
8745 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
8749 금요일엔 돌아오렴 세월호 참사 기록위원회 작가기록단 엮음 2014 Korean Korean
8822 Harlem Gallery M. B. Tolson 1965 American English
8820 The Sacred Hoop Paula Gunn Allen 1986 American English
8822 Photographs Eudora Welty 1971 American English
8834 The Axeman's Carnival Catherine Chidgey 2023 New Zealander English
8873 How To Survive A Plague David France 2016 American English
8919 In My Father's Court Isaac Bashevis Singer 1966 Polish Yiddish
8923 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
8930 Storm In The Village Miss Read 1958 British English
8953 The Vagrants Yiyun Li 2009 American English
8975 Riwan, Ou Le Chemin De Sable Ken Bugul 1999 French French
8999 Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos Margret Wittmer 1959 German German
9002 Regain Jean Giono 1930 French French
9005 The Yeshiva Chaim Grade 1967 Lithuanian Yiddish
9023 The Other Americans Laila Lalami 2019 Moroccan English
9025 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver 2000 American English
9061 The Tribe Michael Mohammed Ahmad 2014 Australian English
9067 The Town That Forgot How To Breathe Kenneth J. Harvey 2003 Canadian English
9068 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9126 Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan 1991 American English
9149 My Friend Annie Jane Duncan 1961 Scottish English
9180 A Theology Of Liberation Gustavo Gutierrez 1971 Peruvian Spanish
9188 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9188 Happy City Charles Montgomery 2013 Canadian English
9188 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9225 Sun Dancing Geoffrey Moorhouse 1997 British English
9289 A River Called Time Mia Couto 2002 Mozambican Portuguese
9309 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9323 Sylvanus Now Donna Morrissey 2004 Canadian English
9337 Rails Under My Back Jeffery Renard Allen 2000 American English
9502 God Bless The Child Kristin Hunter 1964 American English
9511 Joe Turner's Come And Gone August Wilson 1984 American English
9514 Spheres Of Justice Michael Walzer 1983 American English
9519 A Visitation Of Spirits Randall Kenan 1989 American English
9539 Guests Of The Sheik Elizabeth Warnock Fernea 1965 American English
9614 Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall Neil Bartlett 1990 British English
9619 Efuru Flora Nwapa 1966 Nigerian English
9618 Curse Of The Narrows Laura Mac Donald 2005 Canadian English
9621 Suddenly In The Depth Of The Forest Amos Oz 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9694 I Heard The Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven 1967 Canadian English
9696 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9705 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9727 Wait Five Minutes Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins 2019 Unknown English
9753 Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter 2001 American English
9759 The Armies Evelio Rosero 2007 Colombian Spanish
9832 Fountain And Tomb Naguib Mahfouz 1975 Egyptian Arabic
9846 A Midwife's Tale Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1990 American English
9856 This Child's Gonna Live Sarah E. Wright 1969 American English
9892 Bad Land Jonathan Raban 1996 British English
9911 Miracle Creek Angie Kim 2019 American English
9911 Your House Will Pay Steph Cha 2019 American English
9938 Daddy Was A Number Runner Louise Meriwether 1970 American English
9953 Big Girl, Small Town Michelle Gallen 2020 Irish English
9968 Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens Shankari Chandran 2022 Unknown English
10012 The Zafarani Files Jamal al- Ghitani 1976 Egyptian Arabic
10019 Race Matters Cornel West 1993 American English
10061 The Killings At Badger's Drift Caroline Graham 1987 British English
10093 Deep Down Dark Héctor Tobar 2014 American English
10109 Stradbroke Dreamtime Oodgeroo Noonuccal 1972 Australian English
10135 Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 1978 Israeli Hebrew
10135 The Fisherman's Invocation Gabriel Okara 1978 Nigerian English
10150 December Bride Sam Hanna Bell 1951 British English
10154 Honey in the Horn Harold L. Davis 1935 American English
10164 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10165 Laughing Boy Oliver La Farge 1929 American English
10168 The Solace of Open Spaces Gretel Ehrlich 1985 American English
10191 How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue 2021 Cameroonian English
10239 Protestant, Catholic, Jew Will Herberg 1955 American English
10277 Birth Of A Bridge Maylis de Kerangal 2010 French French
10303 Street Games Rosellen Brown 1974 American English
10303 The Need For Roots Simone Weil 1949 French French
10400 Drama City George P. Pelecanos 2005 American English
10437 The Words Of César Chávez César Chávez 2002 American English
10448 House Tracy Kidder 1985 American English
10496 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10567 Women Of The Shadows Ann Cornelisen 1976 American English
10594 Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley 2021 American English
10617 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
10704 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10694 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10741 Farm Hands Tom Rivers 2012 American English
10738 The Collector Of Treasures Bessie Head 1977 Botswanan English
10767 Halfway Home Reuben Jonathan Miller 2021 American English
10812 Firelight and Woodsmoke Claude Michelet 1979 French French
10826 Six Of One Rita Mae Brown 1978 American English
10826 A Weave Of Women E. M. Broner 1978 American English
10849 Modern Baptists James Wilcox 1983 American English
10878 Kampung Boy Lat 1979 Malaysian Malay
10883 Architecture For The Poor Hassan Fathy 1973 Egyptian English
10883 Sabbatai Sevi Gershom Scholem 1973 German German
10886 Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest 2013 British English
10942 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
10963 That Time Of Year Marie NDiaye 2020 French French
10975 A Belfast Woman Mary Beckett 1980 Irish English
10982 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder 1967 American English
10995 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11046 The Roots Of Ticasuk Ticasuk Brown 1981 American English
11078 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11106 A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker 2019 American English
11182 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11220 Becoming Michelle Obama 2018 American English
11250 From The Lanai And Other Hawaii Stories Jessica Saiki 1983 American English
11250 Lemon Swamp And Other Places Mamie Garvin Fields 1983 American English
11250 Praisesong For The Widow Paule Marshall 1983 American English
11288 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11306 Tarry Flynn Patrick Kavanagh 1948 Irish English
11339 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11339 Rituals Of Survival Nicholasa Mohr 1984 American English
11351 The House Of Youssef Yumna Kassab 2019 Australian English
11359 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1977 American English
11387 Poor Caleb Femi 2020 British English
11404 The Island Robert Merle 1962 French French
11413 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara 2020 Indian English
11413 When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole 2020 American English