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
8602 Nisei Daughter Monica Itoi Sone 1953 American English
8618 Cooked Michael Pollan 2013 American English
8655 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8698 Inner City Blues Paula L. Woods 1999 American English
8698 Those Bones Are Not My Child Toni Cade Bambara 1999 American English
8750 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
8754 금요일엔 돌아오렴 세월호 참사 기록위원회 작가기록단 엮음 2014 Korean Korean
8827 Harlem Gallery M. B. Tolson 1965 American English
8825 The Sacred Hoop Paula Gunn Allen 1986 American English
8827 Photographs Eudora Welty 1971 American English
8838 The Axeman's Carnival Catherine Chidgey 2023 New Zealander English
8877 How To Survive A Plague David France 2016 American English
8923 In My Father's Court Isaac Bashevis Singer 1966 Polish Yiddish
8927 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
8934 Storm In The Village Miss Read 1958 British English
8957 The Vagrants Yiyun Li 2009 American English
8979 Riwan, Ou Le Chemin De Sable Ken Bugul 1999 French French
9003 Floreana: A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos Margret Wittmer 1959 German German
9006 Regain Jean Giono 1930 French French
9009 The Yeshiva Chaim Grade 1967 Lithuanian Yiddish
9027 The Other Americans Laila Lalami 2019 Moroccan English
9029 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver 2000 American English
9053 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
9066 The Tribe Michael Mohammed Ahmad 2014 Australian English
9072 The Town That Forgot How To Breathe Kenneth J. Harvey 2003 Canadian English
9073 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9131 Mutant Message Down Under Marlo Morgan 1991 American English
9154 My Friend Annie Jane Duncan 1961 Scottish English
9184 A Theology Of Liberation Gustavo Gutierrez 1971 Peruvian Spanish
9192 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9192 Happy City Charles Montgomery 2013 Canadian English
9192 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9229 Sun Dancing Geoffrey Moorhouse 1997 British English
9294 A River Called Time Mia Couto 2002 Mozambican Portuguese
9314 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9328 Sylvanus Now Donna Morrissey 2004 Canadian English
9342 Rails Under My Back Jeffery Renard Allen 2000 American English
9507 God Bless The Child Kristin Hunter 1964 American English
9516 Joe Turner's Come And Gone August Wilson 1984 American English
9519 Spheres Of Justice Michael Walzer 1983 American English
9524 A Visitation Of Spirits Randall Kenan 1989 American English
9544 Guests Of The Sheik Elizabeth Warnock Fernea 1965 American English
9618 Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall Neil Bartlett 1990 British English
9623 Efuru Flora Nwapa 1966 Nigerian English
9622 Curse Of The Narrows Laura Mac Donald 2005 Canadian English
9625 Suddenly In The Depth Of The Forest Amos Oz 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9698 I Heard The Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven 1967 Canadian English
9700 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9710 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9731 Wait Five Minutes Shelley Ingram, Willow G. Mullins 2019 Unknown English
9757 Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter 2001 American English
9763 The Armies Evelio Rosero 2007 Colombian Spanish
9836 Fountain And Tomb Naguib Mahfouz 1975 Egyptian Arabic
9850 A Midwife's Tale Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1990 American English
9860 This Child's Gonna Live Sarah E. Wright 1969 American English
9896 Bad Land Jonathan Raban 1996 British English
9915 Miracle Creek Angie Kim 2019 American English
9915 Your House Will Pay Steph Cha 2019 American English
9943 Daddy Was A Number Runner Louise Meriwether 1970 American English
9958 Big Girl, Small Town Michelle Gallen 2020 Irish English
9973 Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens Shankari Chandran 2022 Unknown English
10017 The Zafarani Files Jamal al- Ghitani 1976 Egyptian Arabic
10024 Race Matters Cornel West 1993 American English
10067 The Killings At Badger's Drift Caroline Graham 1987 British English
10099 Deep Down Dark Héctor Tobar 2014 American English
10115 Stradbroke Dreamtime Oodgeroo Noonuccal 1972 Australian English
10140 Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 1978 Israeli Hebrew
10140 The Fisherman's Invocation Gabriel Okara 1978 Nigerian English
10155 December Bride Sam Hanna Bell 1951 British English
10159 Honey in the Horn Harold L. Davis 1935 American English
10169 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10170 Laughing Boy Oliver La Farge 1929 American English
10173 The Solace of Open Spaces Gretel Ehrlich 1985 American English
10197 How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue 2021 Cameroonian English
10216 Hjortronlandet Sara Lidman 1955 Swedish Swedish
10246 Protestant, Catholic, Jew Will Herberg 1955 American English
10283 Birth Of A Bridge Maylis de Kerangal 2010 French French
10309 Street Games Rosellen Brown 1974 American English
10309 The Need For Roots Simone Weil 1949 French French
10406 Drama City George P. Pelecanos 2005 American English
10443 The Words Of César Chávez César Chávez 2002 American English
10454 House Tracy Kidder 1985 American English
10502 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10574 Women Of The Shadows Ann Cornelisen 1976 American English
10601 Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley 2021 American English
10711 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10701 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10748 Farm Hands Tom Rivers 2012 American English
10745 The Collector Of Treasures Bessie Head 1977 Botswanan English
10774 Halfway Home Reuben Jonathan Miller 2021 American English
10819 Firelight and Woodsmoke Claude Michelet 1979 French French
10832 Six Of One Rita Mae Brown 1978 American English
10832 A Weave Of Women E. M. Broner 1978 American English
10856 Modern Baptists James Wilcox 1983 American English
10885 Kampung Boy Lat 1979 Malaysian Malay
10890 Architecture For The Poor Hassan Fathy 1973 Egyptian English
10890 Sabbatai Sevi Gershom Scholem 1973 German German
10893 Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest 2013 British English
10949 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
10970 That Time Of Year Marie NDiaye 2020 French French
10982 A Belfast Woman Mary Beckett 1980 Irish English
10989 The Eighth Day Thornton Wilder 1967 American English
11002 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11053 The Roots Of Ticasuk Ticasuk Brown 1981 American English
11085 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11113 A Song for a New Day Sarah Pinsker 2019 American English
11189 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11227 Becoming Michelle Obama 2018 American English
11257 From The Lanai And Other Hawaii Stories Jessica Saiki 1983 American English
11257 Lemon Swamp And Other Places Mamie Garvin Fields 1983 American English
11257 Praisesong For The Widow Paule Marshall 1983 American English
11295 Le Pietre Claudio Morandini 2017 Italian Italian
11313 Tarry Flynn Patrick Kavanagh 1948 Irish English
11346 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11346 Rituals Of Survival Nicholasa Mohr 1984 American English
11358 The House Of Youssef Yumna Kassab 2019 Australian English
11365 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle 1977 American English
11393 Poor Caleb Femi 2020 British English
11410 The Island Robert Merle 1962 French French
11419 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara 2020 Indian English