The Greatest Drama 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9076 | Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | 2004 | American | English | |
| 9082 | Good Material | Dolly Alderton | 2024 | British | English | |
| 9147 | Boy, Snow, Bird | Helen Oyeyemi | 2014 | British | English | |
| 9194 | Hit Makers | Derek Thompson | 2017 | American | English | |
| 9250 | An Audience Of Chairs | Joan Clark | 2005 | Canadian | English | |
| 9265 | An Immense World | Ed Yong | 2022 | British | English | |
| 9284 | What Hath God Wrought | Daniel Walker Howe | 2007 | American | English | |
| 9319 | Russia Is Burning | Maria Bloshteyn | 2020 | Russian | English | |
| 9514 | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | ZZ Packer | 2003 | American | English | |
| 9539 | The Tiger | John Vaillant | 2010 | Canadian | English | |
| 9539 | Love's End | Pascal Rambert | 2011 | French | French | |
| 9596 | I Am An Emotional Creature | Eve Ensler | 2010 | American | English | |
| 9662 | F Letter | Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse | 2021 | Russian | Russian | |
| 9771 | Un Attieké Pour Elgass | Tierno Monenembo | 2021 | French | French | |
| 9804 | The Shepherd's Hut | Tim Winton | 2018 | Australian | English | |
| 9834 | Country Girl | Edna O'Brien | 2012 | Irish | English | |
| 9906 | Trilobite! | Richard Fortey | 2000 | British | English | |
| 9960 | Actress | Anne Enright | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 9968 | The Wife | Meg Wolitzer | 2003 | American | English | |
| 9968 | San Remo Drive | Leslie Epstein | 2003 | American | English | |
| 10101 | écrits 2003 2014 | Angélica Liddell | 2015 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 10111 | Don Quixote's Delusions | Miranda France | 2001 | British | English | |
| 10141 | Dealers Of Lightning | Michael Hiltzik | 2000 | American | English | |
| 10164 | Banishing Verona | Margot Livesey | 2004 | British | English | |
| 10266 | Forever | Pete Hamill | 2002 | American | English | |
| 10304 | Dirt Music | Tim Winton | 2001 | Australian | English | |
| 10362 | The Colony | Audrey Magee | 2022 | Irish | English | |
| 10370 | Cue The Sun! | Emily Nussbaum | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10372 | Close To Home | Michael Magee | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 10387 | Rogue Forces | Mark Willacy | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 10397 | Mudwoman | Joyce Carol Oates | 2012 | American | English | |
| 10425 | How To Build A Boat | Elaine Feeney | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 10456 | Will In The World | Stephen Greenblatt | 2004 | American | English | |
| 10456 | Crudo | Olivia Laing | 2018 | British | English | |
| 10456 | Early Work | Andrew Martin | 2018 | American | English | |
| 10557 | 18% Gray | Zachary Karabashliev | 2008 | Bulgarian | Bulgarian | |
| 10570 | China’s Great Wall Of Debt | Dinny McMahon | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 10610 | Someone Like Us | Dinaw Mengestu | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10615 | Evenings And Weekends | Oisin McKenna | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10627 | Traveling | Ann Powers | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10700 | Blue Ruin | Hari Kunzru | 2024 | British | English | |
| 10711 | The Extinction Of Irena Rey | Jennifer Croft | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10723 | My Good Bright Wolf | Sarah Moss | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10824 | An Untamed State | Roxane Gay | 2014 | American | English | |
| 10847 | Who Controls The Internet? | Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith | 2006 | American | English | |
| 10895 | Brand New Ancients | Kae Tempest | 2013 | British | English | |
| 10936 | Trilogy | Jon Fosse | 2014 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 10957 | The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | 2007 | American | English | |
| 10978 | The Two Mile Time Machine | Richard Alley | 2000 | American | English | |
| 10981 | They Know Not What They Do | Jussi Valtonen | 2014 | Finnish | Finnish | |
| 11019 | Camino de Perdición | Luis Mateo Díez | 2007 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 11066 | A Vida Como Ela é... | Nelson Rodrigues | 2006 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 11167 | The Destroyers | Christopher Bollen | 2017 | American | English | |
| 11355 | The Anthropocene Reviewed | John Green | 2021 | American | English | |
| 11483 | The Sparsholt Affair | Alan Hollinghurst | 2017 | British | English | |
| 11521 | Spelunky | Derek Yu | 2015 | American | English | |
| 11629 | May We Be Forgiven | A. M. Homes | 2012 | American | English | |
| 11663 | Under The Skin | Linda Villarosa | 2023 | American | English | |
| 11663 | After The Music Stopped | Alan S. Blinder | 2013 | American | English | |
| 11663 | Days Of Fire | Peter Baker | 2013 | American | English | |
| 11663 | Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It | Maile Meloy | 2009 | American | English | |
| 11663 | The Good Soldiers | David Finkel | 2009 | American | English | |
| 11663 | Last Stories | William Trevor | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 11663 | Your Duck Is My Duck | Deborah Eisenberg | 2018 | American | English | |
| 12025 | Cafe Scheherazade | Arnold Zable | 2001 | Australian | English | |
| 12050 | The Detour | Gerbrand Bakker | 2010 | Dutch | Dutch | |
| 12070 | Mr. Ibrahim And The Flowers Of The Koran | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | 2001 | French | French | |
| 12108 | The Ferryman And His Wife | Frode Grytten, Alison McCullough | 2023 | Norwegian | English | |
| 12402 | The History Boys | Alan Bennett | 2004 | British | English | |
| 12497 | This Mournable Body | Tsitsi Dangarembga | 2018 | Zimbabwean | English | |
| 12589 | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears | Dinaw Mengestu | 2007 | American | English | |
| 12658 | Owls Of The Eastern Ice | Jonathan C. Slaght | 2020 | American | English | |
| 12996 | Boleyn Traitor | Philippa Gregory | 2025 | English | English | |
| 13067 | Evensong | Stewart O'Nan | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13121 | Gunk | Saba Sams | 2025 | British | English | |
| 13123 | Havoc | Rebecca Wait | 2025 | British | English | |
| 13280 | Even The Dogs | Jon McGregor | 2010 | British | English | |
| 13280 | Marzahn, Mon Amour | Katja Oskamp | 2019 | German | German | |
| 13280 | The Adversary | Michael Crummey | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 13318 | Schubert’s Winter Journey | Ian Bostridge | 2015 | British | English | |
| 13354 | Si | Bob Ong | 2014 | Filipino | Filipino | |
| 13533 | Born To Run | Bruce Springsteen | 2016 | American | English | |
| 13544 | Three Junes | Julia Glass | 2002 | American | English | |
| 13578 | Anxious People | Fredrik Backman | 2019 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 13818 | Don't Move | Margaret Mazzantini | 2001 | Italian | Italian | |
| 13818 | The Catholic School | Edoardo Albinati | 2016 | Italian | Italian | |
| 13818 | Celestial Bodies | Jokha Alharthi | 2010 | Omani | Arabic | |
| 13922 | Blind Sunflowers | Alberto Méndez | 2004 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 13941 | Anything Is Possible | Elizabeth Strout | 2017 | American | English | |
| 13971 | What We Owe | Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde | 2017 | Swedish | English | |
| 14078 | Riot Baby | Tochi Onyebuchi | 2020 | American | English | |
| 14232 | LaRose | Louise Erdrich | 2016 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Catherine The Great | Robert K. Massie | 2011 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Topdog Underdog | Suzan-Lori Parks | 2001 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Sweat | Lynn Nottage | 2015 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Freedom Is A Constant Struggle | Angela Davis | 2016 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth | 2009 | British | English | |
| 14232 | Doubt | John Patrick Shanley | 2004 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Ruined | Lynn Nottage | 2009 | American | English | |
| 14232 | The Imperfectionists | Tom Rachman | 2010 | British | English | |
| 14232 | Under A White Sky | Elizabeth Kolbert | 2021 | American | English | |
| 14432 | American Innovations | Rivka Galchen | 2014 | American | English | |
| 14435 | Train | Pete Dexter | 2003 | American | English | |
| 14449 | Q & A | Vikas Swarup | 2005 | Indian | English | |
| 14520 | The Coast Of Utopia | Tom Stoppard | 2002 | British | English | |
| 14542 | The Children | Carolina Sanin | 2016 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 14548 | Queenie | Candice Carty-Williams | 2019 | British | English | |
| 14589 | Primera Persona | Margarita García Robayo | 2017 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 14986 | Let's Talk About Love | Carl Wilson | 2007 | Canadian | English | |
| 14986 | This House of Grief | Helen Garner | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 14986 | Lila | Marilynne Robinson | 2014 | American | English | |
| 14986 | John | Annie Baker | 2015 | American | English | |
| 14986 | August | Tracy Letts | 2008 | American | English | |
| 14986 | Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris | 2010 | American | English | |
| 14986 | God Of Carnage | Yasmina Reza | 2006 | French | French | |
| 14986 | The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? | Edward Albee | 2000 | American | English | |
| 14986 | The Humans | Stephen Karam | 2014 | American | English | |
| 14986 | The Pillowman | Martin McDonagh | 2003 | Irish | English | |
| 14986 | The Lieutenant Of Inishmore | Martin McDonagh | 2001 | Irish | English | |
| 14986 | White Trash | Nancy Isenberg | 2016 | American | English |