The Greatest Drama, Fiction, and Friendship Books Since 2000
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 488 '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 |
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210 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Michael Chabon | 2000 | American | English | |
551 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | 2011 | Italian | Italian | |
553 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 | Afghan | English | |
624 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 2005 | Australian | English | |
697 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | 2004 | British | English | |
863 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 2013 | American | English | |
1233 | Normal People | Sally Rooney | 2018 | American | English | |
1572 | Small Island | Andrea Levy | 2004 | British | English | |
1818 | A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | 2015 | American | English | |
1853 | NW | Zadie Smith | 2012 | British | English | |
1958 | Empire Falls | Richard Russo | 2001 | American | English | |
2070 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | 2011 | British | English | |
2140 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | 2012 | American | English | |
2592 | Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | 2022 | American | English | |
2674 | The Neapolitan Novels | Elena Ferrante | 2011 | Italian | Italian | |
2811 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 2007 | Afghan | English | |
2848 | What I Loved | Siri Hustvedt | 2003 | American | English | |
3027 | What Is the What | Dave Eggers | 2006 | American | English | |
3088 | A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | 2012 | Swedish | Swedish | |
3127 | Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | 2009 | American | English | |
3137 | Blanche Passes Go | Barbara Neely | 2000 | American | English | |
3179 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | 2017 | American | English | |
3303 | Fates and Furies | Lauren Groff | 2015 | American | English | |
3622 | Deacon King Kong | James McBride | 2020 | American | English | |
3703 | Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | 2019 | British | English | |
3708 | 11 22 63 | Stephen King | 2011 | American | English | |
3846 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett | 2009 | American | English | |
3941 | In The Woods | Tana French | 2007 | Irish | English | |
4012 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 2014 | Australian | English | |
4243 | Netherland | Joseph O'Neill | 2008 | Irish | English | |
4298 | All My Puny Sorrows | Miriam Toews | 2014 | Canadian | English | |
4563 | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 2003 | Australian | English | |
4815 | The Crossover | Kwame Alexander | 2014 | American | English | |
4885 | Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid | 2017 | American | English | |
5063 | The Emperor's Children | Claire Messud | 2006 | American | English | |
5188 | A Horse Walks Into A Bar | David Grossman | 2014 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
5210 | Lives Other Than My Own | Emmanuel Carrère | 2009 | French | French | |
5294 | Chanda's Secrets | Allan Stratton | 2004 | Canadian | English | |
5338 | The Death of Vivek Oji | Akwaeke Emezi | 2020 | Nigerian | English | |
5858 | Beartown | Fredrik Backman | 2016 | Swedish | Swedish | |
6286 | Notes on a Scandal | Zoë Heller | 2003 | British | English | |
6424 | Blankets | Craig Thompson | 2003 | American | English | |
6486 | Code Talker | Joseph Bruchac | 2005 | American | English | |
6559 | American Rust | Philipp Meyer | 2009 | American | English | |
6650 | The Slap | Christos Tsiolkas | 2008 | Australian | English | |
6983 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | 2017 | American | English | |
7022 | Ten Thousand Saints | Eleanor Henderson | 2011 | American | English | |
7261 | Night Boat To Tangier | Kevin Barry | 2019 | Irish | English | |
7261 | The Association Of Small Bombs | Karan Mahajan | 2016 | Indian | English | |
7527 | Me Before You | Jojo Moyes | 2012 | British | English | |
7652 | Dear Martin | Nic Stone | 2017 | American | English | |
7759 | Tiger Daughter | Rebecca Lim | 2021 | Australian | English | |
7813 | The Half Brother | Lars Saabye Christensen | 2001 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
7828 | Daisy Jones & The Six | Taylor Jenkins Reid | 2019 | American | English | |
7929 | Sweat | Lynn Nottage | 2015 | American | English | |
8301 | The Woman Upstairs | Claire Messud | 2013 | American | English | |
8333 | American Street | Ibi Zoboi | 2017 | American | English | |
9113 | The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta | 2019 | British | English | |
9220 | Stonedogs | Craig Marriner | 2002 | New Zealander | English | |
9214 | This Blinding Absence Of Light | Tahar Ben Jelloun | 2001 | French | French | |
10804 | Three Junes | Julia Glass | 2002 | American | English | |
10914 | Cafe Scheherazade | Arnold Zable | 2001 | Australian | English | |
10967 | Mr. Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Koran | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | 2001 | French | French | |
11184 | LaRose | Louise Erdrich | 2016 | American | English | |
11238 | Anxious People | Fredrik Backman | 2019 | Swedish | Swedish | |
11278 | Lovecraft Country | Matt Ruff | 2016 | American | English | |
11278 | Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | 2016 | American | English | |
11348 | Crank | Ellen Hopkins | 2004 | American | English | |
11358 | Ttyl | Lauren Myracle | 2004 | American | English | |
11807 | The Destroyers | Christopher Bollen | 2017 | American | English | |
11823 | A Long Way Down | Nick Hornby | 2005 | British | English | |
11879 | Ttfn | Lauren Myracle | 2006 | American | English | |
11946 | L8r, G8r | Lauren Myracle | 2007 | American | English | |
12034 | Heroine | Mindy McGinnis | 2019 | American | English | |
12163 | I Loved You More | Tom Spanbauer | 2014 | American | English | |
12470 | Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo | 2019 | American | English | |
12508 | Mars Room | Rachel Kushner | 2018 | American | English | |
12552 | The Children | Carolina Sanin | 2016 | Colombian | Spanish | |
12584 | These Violent Delights | Micah Nemerever | 2020 | American | English | |
12632 | The Paper Palace | Miranda Cowley Heller | 2021 | American | English | |
12701 | Five Point Someone | Chetan Bhagat | 2004 | Indian | English | |
13255 | The History Boys | Alan Bennett | 2004 | British | English | |
14371 | Intimate Apparel | Lynn Nottage | 2003 | American | English | |
14371 | The Flick | Annie Baker | 2014 | American | English | |
14371 | 4000 Miles | Amy Herzog | 2011 | American | English | |
14371 | The Aliens | Annie Baker | 2010 | American | English | |
14371 | The Inheritance | Matthew Lopez | 2020 | American | English | |
14371 | Good People | David Lindsay-Abaire | 2011 | American | English | |
14371 | The Motherf**Ker With The Hat | Stephen Adly Guirgis | 2011 | American | English | |
14371 | Between Riverside & Crazy | Stephen Adly Guirgis | 2014 | American | English | |
14371 | The Wolves | Sarah DeLappe | 2016 | American | English | |
14371 | Queenie | Candice Carty-Williams | 2019 | British | English | |
14371 | I'll Be Right There | Kyung-sook Shin | 2010 | South Korean | Korean | |
14371 | The Spare Room | Helen Garner | 2008 | Australian | English | |
14371 | The End Of Loneliness | Benedict Wells | 2016 | German | German |