The Greatest Books of All Time on Drugs
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 497 | Murder Must Advertise | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1933 | British | English | |
| 668 | Rabbit Redux | John Updike | 1971 | American | English | |
| 723 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | 2004 | British | English | |
| 893 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | American, Canadian | English | |
| 968 | Jesus' Son | Denis Johnson | 1992 | American | English | |
| 1390 | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | 2014 | Jamaican | English | |
| 1433 | Random Family | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | 2003 | American | English | |
| 1729 | Requiem for a Dream | Hubert Selby | 1978 | American | English | |
| 1868 | Junky | William S. Burroughs | 1953 | American | English | |
| 2188 | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 2005 | American | English | |
| 2384 | Less Than Zero | Bret Easton Ellis | 1985 | American | English | |
| 2416 | Bright Lights, Big City | Jay McInerney | 1984 | American | English | |
| 2453 | The Sign of Four | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1890 | British | English | |
| 2599 | Almost Transparent Blue | Ryū Murakami | 1976 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 2926 | The Great Shark Hunt | Hunter S. Thompson | 1979 | American | English | |
| 2952 | Dog Soldiers | Robert Stone | 1974 | American | English | |
| 3060 | The Fortress of Solitude | Jonathan Lethem | 2003 | American | English | |
| 3187 | City, Sister, Silver | Jáchym Topol | 1994 | Czech | Czech | |
| 3320 | Our Lady of the Assassins | Fernando Vallejo | 1994 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 3324 | Insatiability | Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz | 1930 | Polish | Polish | |
| 3396 | Cities of the Red Night | William S. Burroughs | 1981 | American | English | |
| 3631 | Really The Blues | Bernard Wolfe, Milton Mezz Mezzrow | 1946 | American | English | |
| 3857 | Closer | Dennis Cooper | 1989 | American | English | |
| 3877 | Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 | Hunter S. Thompson | 1973 | American | English | |
| 4569 | The Rules Of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis | 1987 | American | English | |
| 4591 | Vurt | Jeff Noon | 1993 | British | English | |
| 4627 | The Opium War | Julia Lovell | 2011 | British | English | |
| 5368 | White Jazz | James Ellroy | 1992 | American | English | |
| 5690 | Period | Dennis Cooper | 1994 | American | English | |
| 5691 | Night Boat To Tangier | Kevin Barry | 2019 | Irish | English | |
| 5696 | Tapping The Source | Kem Nunn | 1984 | American | English | |
| 5809 | John Dies At The End | David Wong | 2007 | American | English | |
| 5947 | Inherent Vice | Thomas Pynchon | 2009 | American | English | |
| 6191 | Fletch | Gregory Mcdonald | 1974 | American | English | |
| 6563 | Candy | Mian Mian | 2000 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 6945 | A Cool Breeze On The Underground | Don Winslow | 1991 | American | English | |
| 7096 | Try | Dennis Cooper | 1994 | American | English | |
| 7096 | Guide | Dennis Cooper | 1994 | American | English | |
| 7197 | Hide And Seek | Ian Rankin | 1991 | British | English | |
| 8071 | Taipei | Tao Lin | 2013 | American | English | |
| 8590 | The Monkey's Raincoat | Robert Crais | 1987 | American | English | |
| 8793 | Here Are The Young Men | Rob Doyle | 2014 | Irish | English | |
| 9139 | Bangkok 8 | John Burdett | 2003 | British | English | |
| 9365 | Rosario Tijeras | Jorge Franco | 1999 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 9526 | King Suckerman | George P. Pelecanos | 1997 | American | English | |
| 10012 | Wonder Boys | Michael Chabon | 1995 | American | English | |
| 10597 | Firekeeper's Daughter | Angeline Boulley | 2021 | American | English | |
| 11190 | High Price | Carl Hart | 2013 | American | English | |
| 11564 | Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino | 2019 | American | English | |
| 11831 | 61 Hours | Lee Child | 2010 | British | English | |
| 11936 | Rule Of The Bone | Russell Banks | 1995 | American | English | |
| 13136 | The Acid Queen | Susannah Cahalan | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13941 | Clockers | Richard Price | 1992 | American | English | |
| 14001 | The Eye In The Pyramid | Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson | 1975 | American | English | |
| 14232 | Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth | 2009 | British | English | |
| 14977 | The Soft Machine | William S. Burroughs | 1961 | American | English | |
| 15898 | The Hasheesh Eater | Fitz Hugh Ludlow | 1857 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Stonedogs | Craig Marriner | 2002 | New Zealander | English | |
| 17120 | The Centauri Device | M. John Harrison | 1974 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Crank | Ellen Hopkins | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17120 | This Is Our Youth | Kenneth Lonergan | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace | Jeff Hobbs | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Love Is The Drug | Alaya Dawn Johnson | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Without Remorse | Tom Clancy | 1993 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Negative Space | B.R. Yeager | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Acid House | Irvine Welsh | 1994 | British | English | |
| 17120 | North Dallas Forty | Peter Gent | 1973 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Blitzed | Norman Ohler | 2015 | German | German | |
| 17120 | Porno | Irvine Welsh | 2002 | Scottish | English | |
| 16960 | The Anarchist Cookbook | William Powell | 1971 | American | English |