The Greatest Books of All Time on Cultural Differences
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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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | The Loved One | Evelyn Waugh | 1948 | British | English | |
| 1775 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 1999 | American | English | |
| 2008 | Bosnian Chronicle | Ivo Andrić | 1945 | Bosnian | Serbo-croatian | |
| 2998 | Staying On | Paul Scott | 1977 | British | English | |
| 3016 | The American | Henry James | 1877 | American | English | |
| 3286 | Three Strong Women | Marie NDiaye | 2009 | French | French | |
| 5085 | Nowhere In Africa | Stefanie Zweig | 1995 | German | German | |
| 5115 | Le Lion | Joseph Kessel | 1958 | French | French | |
| 5701 | Fear And Trembling | Amélie Nothomb | 1999 | Belgian | French | |
| 5929 | Go Went Gone | Jenny Erpenbeck | 2015 | German | German | |
| 6508 | Memories of Rain | Sunetra Gupta | 1992 | Indian | English | |
| 7580 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 1986 | American | English | |
| 8250 | Funny in Farsi | Firoozeh Dumas | 2003 | Iranian | English | |
| 10871 | Tokyo Fiancée | Amélie Nothomb | 2007 | Belgian | French | |
| 11219 | Memorial | Bryan Washington | 2020 | American | English | |
| 13818 | Spatriati | Mario Desiati | 2021 | Italian | Italian | |
| 14105 | The Character Of Rain | Amélie Nothomb | 2000 | Belgian | French | |
| 14138 | Hominids | Robert J. Sawyer | 2002 | Canadian | English | |
| 14899 | The Room On The Roof | Ruskin Bond | 1956 | Indian | English | |
| 14938 | Java Head | Joseph Hergesheimer | 1919 | American | English | |
| 14985 | My Brother's Husband | Gengoroh Tagame | 2014 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 15766 | Dodsworth | Sinclair Lewis | 1929 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Christy | Catherine Marshall | 1967 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, And Five | Doris May Lessing | 1980 | British | English | |
| 17162 | The Indian In The Cupboard | Lynne Reid Banks | 1980 | British | English | |
| 17162 | The Grandissimes, A Story Of Creole Life | George Washington Cable | 1880 | American | English | |
| 17162 | My Favourite Wife | Tony Parsons | 2008 | British | English | |
| 16849 | The Keys Of The Kingdom | A. J. Cronin | 1941 | British | English | |
| 17162 | Dry Season | Gabriela Babnik | 2012 | Unknown | Slovene | |
| 17162 | The English Understand Wool | Helen DeWitt | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | A Door Between Us | Ehsaneh Sadr | 2020 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Space Between Us | Zoya Pirzad | 1997 | Iranian | Persian | |
| 17162 | Dance Of The Tiger | Bjorn Kurten | 1980 | Finnish | English | |
| 17162 | Black Friend | Ziwe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Pole | J. M. Coetzee | 2023 | South African | English | |
| 17162 | Barbara Isn’t Dying | Alina Bronsky | 2021 | German | German | |
| 17162 | Embassy Wife | Katie Crouch | 2021 | American | English |