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
11432 Philadelphia fire John Edgar Wideman 1990 American English
11449 The Able McLaughlins Margaret Wilson 1923 American English
11449 Scarlet Sister Mary Julia Peterkin 1928 American English
11449 The Store Thomas Sigismund Stribling 1932 American English
11449 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller 1933 American English
11449 Elbow Room James Alan McPherson 1977 American English
11439 Later The Same Day Grace Paley 1985 American English
11439 Mohawk Trail Beth Brant 1985 Canadian English
11467 Batouala René Maran 1921 French French
11496 The Thirty Names Of Night Zeyn Joukhadar 2020 Unknown English
11500 Hjortronlandet Sara Lidman 1955 Swedish Swedish
11509 Bowlaway Elizabeth McCracken 2019 American English
11578 Paradise Toni Morrison 1997 American English
11579 The Devil Is Loose Antonine Maillet 1986 Canadian French
11579 Frangipani House Beryl Gilroy 1986 Caribbean English
11579 Getting Home Alive Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales 1986 American English
11579 Homemade Love J. California Cooper 1986 American English
11579 The Last Of The Menu Girls Denise Chávez 1986 American English
11579 A Midwife's Story Penny Armstrong, Sheryl Feldman 1986 American English
11620 Finding Beauty In A Broken World Terry Tempest Williams 2008 American English
11631 Las Estrellas Son Negras Arnoldo Palacios 1949 Colombian Spanish
11641 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11660 Disappearing Earth Julia Phillips 2019 American English
11660 Little Heathens Mildred Armstrong Kalish 2007 American English
11660 Mayflower Nathaniel Philbrick 2006 American English
11660 World Without End Francine du Plessix Gray 1981 American English
11660 Bronx Primitive Kate Simon 1982 British English
11660 The Vanished Imam Fouad Ajami 1986 Lebanese English
11811 The Riverhouse Stories Andrea Carlisle 1987 American English
11811 Windbreak Linda M. Hasselstrom 1987 American English
11811 Ecology, Community And Lifestyle Arne Naess 1989 Norwegian Norwegian
11859 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11882 Root And Branch Eda Gunaydin 2022 Unknown English
11882 This All Come Back Now Mykaula Saunders 2022 Unknown English
11882 All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien 2022 Unknown English
11899 Coming Home And Other Stories Farida Karodia 1988 South African English
11899 Sans Souci And Other Stories Dionne Brand 1988 Canadian English
11899 Twilight And Other Stories Shulamith Hareven 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11899 Waterlily Ella Cara Deloria 1988 American English
11899 The Woman Who Was Not All There Paula Sharp 1988 American English
11930 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
11936 Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun Geoffrey Canada 1995 American English
12016 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English
12018 Memories Of Peking Lin Hai-yin 1960 Chinese Chinese
12083 The Big Mama Stories Shay Youngblood 1989 American English
12083 Real Farm Patricia Tichenor Westfall 1989 American English
12083 Tahuri Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 1989 New Zealand English
12148 Snow In August Pete Hamill 1997 American English
12258 And They Didn't Die Lauretta Ngcobo 1990 South African English
12258 Floating In My Mother's Palm Ursula Hegi 1990 German English
12258 Her Cherry Muhanji 1990 American English
12258 Quiet Odyssey Mary Paik Lee 1990 Korean American English
12258 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12300 Languages Of Home John Edgar Wideman 2025 American English
12324 The Lost Upland W. S. Merwin 1992 American English
12383 Small Congregations Thylias Moss 1993 American English
12401 The Future Homemakers Of America Laurie Graham 2001 British English
12404 Shapeshifters Aimee Cox 2015 American English
12410 Growing Up In Australia Various authors Unknown Unknown
12410 As Good A Woman As Ever Broke Bread Alex McInnis Unknown English
12436 Imani All Mine Connie Rose Porter 1999 American English
12513 Bake Face And Other Guava Stories Opal Palmer Adisa 1991 Jamaican English
12513 Child Of Her People Anne Cameron 1991 Canadian English
12513 Doc Susie Virginia Cornell 1991 American English
12513 Rebellion Minnie Bruce Pratt 1991 American English
12513 The Road Through Miyama Leila Philip 1991 American English
12586 Jim The Boy Tony Earley 2000 American English
12586 Counting Coup Larry Colton 2000 American English
12586 Geeks Jon Katz 2000 American English
12785 The Marriage Of Young Blacky Zhao Shuli 1943 Chinese Chinese
12832 I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen And Licked Out All The Pots Susan Straight 1992 American English
12832 Magic Eyes Wendy Ewald 1992 American English
12832 Margins Terri de la Peña 1992 American English
12832 Mrs. Vargas And The Dead Naturalist Kathleen Alcalá 1992 American English
12832 Talking Indian Anna Lee Walters 1992 American English
12974 Boustany Sami Tamimi 2025 Unknown Unknown
13048 Marguerite By The Lake Mary Dixie Carter 2025 Unknown English
13054 Sons And Daughters Chaim Grade 2025 American Yiddish
13058 Detective Aunty Uzma Jalaluddin 2025 Canadian English
13073 Sacrament Susan Straight 2025 American English
13276 Marzahn, Mon Amour Katja Oskamp 2019 German German
13266 Deals With The Devil And Other Reasons To Riot Pearl Cleage 1993 American English
13266 Forged Under The Sun Fran Leeper Buss 1993 American English
13266 Ganado Red Susan Lowell 1993 American English
13266 Two Old Women Velma Wallis 1993 American English
13256 The Spoken Word Revolution Mark Eleveld 2003 Unknown English
13276 The Adversary Michael Crummey 2024 Canadian English
13306 Lotus Creek Sun Li 1950 Chinese Unknown
13334 Change We Can Believe In Barack Obama 2008 American English
13349 New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson 2017 American English
13359 The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper 1823 American English
13359 An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen 1882 Norwegian Norwegian
13498 Once Upon An Eskimo Time Edna Wilder 2009 American English
13506 Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian English
13511 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13519 My Native Land Chung Li-ho 1956 Chinese Chinese
13521 Island Aldous Huxley 1962 British English
13527 More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon 1953 American English
13542 Morte D'Urban J. F. Powers 1962 American English
13566 Sammy And Juliana In Hollywood Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2006 American English
13577 One With Others C. D. Wright 2010 American English
13599 Le Peuple De La Mer Marc Elder 1913 French French
13599 Nêne Ernest Pérochon 1920 French French
13599 Rabevel Ou Le Mal Des Ardents Lucien Fabre French French
13599 Mon Village à L'heure Allemande Jean-Louis Bory 1945 French French
13599 The Law Roger Vailland 1957 French French
13599 The Fruits Of Winter Bernard Clavel 1968 French French
13771 Necessity Jo Walton 2016 Canadian English
13771 The Flowers Dagoberto Gilb 2008 American English
13789 Make Way For Ducklings Robert McCloskey 1941 American English
13794 艷陽天 Hao Ran 1964 Chinese Chinese
13817 Poveri E Semplici Anna Maria Ortese 1967 Italian Italian
13817 The Forests Of Norbio Giuseppe Dessì 1965 Italian Italian
13817 La Morte Del Fiume Guglielmo Petroni 1958 Italian Italian
13817 La Miglior Vita Fulvio Tomizza 1977 Italian Italian
13817 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
13817 The Mussolini Canal Antonio Pennacchi 2010 Italian Italian
13885 The Vanishing Of Katharina Linden Helen Grant 2009 British English
13941 Clockers Richard Price 1992 American English
13991 Eureka Street Robert McLiam Wilson 1996 Irish English