The Greatest Books of All Time on Exile

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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
70 The Aeneid Virgil -19 Roman Latin
307 Medea Euripides -431 Greek Ancient greek
383 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles -401 Greek Ancient greek
422 Ramayana Valmiki -200 Indian Sanskrit
431 Memoirs From Beyond the Grave François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1849 French French
534 Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 British English
559 Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Levi 1945 Italian Italian
617 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov 1957 Russian English
732 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul 1979 Trinidadian English
783 Anabasis Xenophon -390 Greek Ancient greek
922 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
923 The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig 1942 Austrian German
960 The Gift Vladimir Nabokov 1938 Russian Russian
1093 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera 1979 Czech Czech
1098 Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer 1952 Austrian German
1118 Germany, a Winter Tale Heinrich Heine 1844 German German
1270 Omeros Derek Walcott 1990 Saint Lucian English
1340 As You Like it William Shakespeare 1600 British English
1344 The Emigrants W. G. Sebald 1992 German German
1410 Poem of the Cid Unknown 1207 Spanish Old spanish
1538 Snow Orhan Pamuk 2002 Turkish Turkish
1683 The Life Written By Himself the Archpriest Avvakum 1666 Russian Russian
1724 Logbook George Seferis 1940 Greek Greek
1784 Marks of Identity Juan Goytisolo 1966 Spanish Spanish
1794 My Past And Thoughts Alexander Herzen 1861 Russian Russian
1796 Collected Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1982 Polish English
1824 The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Škvorecký 1977 Czech Czech
1845 Drifting Cities Stratis Tsirkas 1960 Greek Greek
1860 Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land Aimé Césaire 1939 French French
1999 The Poetry of Luis Cernuda Luis Cernuda 1901 Spanish Spanish
2062 The Last World Christoph Ransmayr 1988 Austrian German
2082 Στροφή George Seferis 1931 Greek Greek
2185 In a Free State V. S. Naipaul 1971 Trinidadian English
2202 Arch Of Triumph Erich Maria Remarque 1945 German German
2299 Poems Of George Seferis George Seferis 1931 Greek Greek
2441 Poems Of Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova 1912 Russian Russian
2547 Martín Fierro José Hernández 1872 Argentinian Spanish
2725 The Book Of Questions Edmond Jabès 1963 French French
2792 The Island Of Second Sight Albert Vigoleis Thelen 1953 German English
2849 The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Dubravka Ugrešić 1997 Croatian Croatian
2927 The Return Hisham Matar 2016 Libyan English
3132 The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura 2009 Cuban Spanish
3144 Poems Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
3279 Holy Week Louis Aragon 1958 French French
3280 Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 1992 Cuban Spanish
3297 Maps Nuruddin Farah 1986 Somali English
3324 Retreat Without Song Shahan Shahnur 1929 Armenian Armenian
3390 La Realidad Y El Deseo Luis Cernuda 1936 Spanish Spanish
3419 Taipei People Pai Hsien-yung 1971 Chinese Chinese
3428 Count Julian Juan Goytisolo 1970 Spanish Spanish
3623 Sepharad Antonio Muñoz Molina 2001 Spanish Spanish
3637 Trans-Atlantyk Witold Gombrowicz 1953 Polish Polish
3637 Childe Harold Of Dysna Moyshe Kulbak 1939 Belarusian Yiddish
3637 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Lord Byron 1812 British English
3637 Exile Lion Feuchtwanger 1940 German German
3927 The Vice-Consul Marguerite Duras 1966 French French
3953 Mythistorema George Seferis 1935 Greek Greek
3953 The Complete Works Dionysios Solomos 1818 Greek Greek
4153 Like A Tear In The Ocean Manès Sperber 1961 Unknown German
4221 The Shadow of the Torturer Gene Wolfe 1980 American English
4289 Pélagie Antonine Maillet 1979 Canadian French
4309 The Polyglots William Gerhardie 1925 British English
4389 James Joyce Richard Ellmann 1959 American English
4403 Fortunes Of War Olivia Manning 1960 British English
4490 Voyage In The Dark Jean Rhys 1934 British English
4801 The Confessions Of Lady Nijo Lady Nijo 1307 Japanese Japanese
4803 Dictee Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 1982 American English
4889 The Book of Salt Monique Truong 2003 American English
4937 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina García 1992 Cuban English
4947 Les Regrets Joachim Du Bellay 1558 French French
4997 Persepolis Two Marjane Satrapi 2004 Iranian French
5110 The Ministry Of Pain Dubravka Ugrešić 2004 Croatian Croatian
5110 Dancing In Odessa Ilya Kaminsky 2004 Ukrainian English
5122 In The Night Of Time Antonio Muñoz Molina 2012 Spanish Spanish
5329 Pushkin Hills Sergei Dovlatov 1983 Russian Russian
5338 Ellis Island Georges Perec 1980 French French
5405 Our Sister Killjoy Ama Ata Aidoo 1977 Ghanaian English
5448 The Burn Vassily Aksyonov 1975 Russian Russian
5497 Signs Of Fire Jorge de Sena 1979 Portuguese Portuguese
5613 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
5668 Le Polygone Etoile Kateb Yacine 1961 French French
5730 I, The Divine Rabih Alameddine 2001 Lebanese English
5732 In The Presence Of Absence Mahmoud Darwish 2006 Palestinian Arabic
5753 Shadows On The Tundra Dalia Grinkevičiutė 1997 Lithuanian Lithuanian
5939 Hurramabad Andrei Volos 1998 Russian Russian
6005 Poem Of The End Marina Tsvetaeva 1923 Russian Russian
6174 Ludo Conrad Detrez 1974 Belgian French
6284 Sur La Scène Intérieure Marcel Cohen 2013 French French
6304 Les Lieux De Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras 1977 French French
6508 The Triple Mirror of the Self Zulfikar Ghose 1992 Pakistani English
6668 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
6698 Landscapes After the Battle Juan Goytisolo 1982 Spanish Spanish
6717 My Life Leon Trotsky 1930 Russian Russian
6748 The Silent Steppe Mukhamet Shayakhmetov 2006 Kazakh English
7008 Gente Que Se Fue David Gistau 2010 Spanish Spanish
7023 La Vida Exagerada De Martín Romaña Alfredo Bryce Echenique 1981 Peruvian Spanish
7086 A Short Border Handbook Gazmend Kapllani 2009 Greek Albanian
7120 The Color Of Summer Reinaldo Arenas 1991 Cuban Spanish
7216 Last Letters Of Jacopo Ortis Ugo Foscolo 1802 Italian Italian
7216 Complete Poems Heinrich Heine 1856 German German
7216 Exile And Other Poems Saint-John Perse 1942 French French
7216 Poems Of H. Leivick H. Leivick 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Shirot Bialik Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
7216 The Spider's House Paul Bowles 1955 American English
7612 Poems Of Léopold S. Senghor Léopold S. Senghor 1945 Senegalese French
7623 The Little Red Chairs Edna O'Brien 2015 Irish English
7639 An Imaginary Life David Malouf 1978 Australian English
7656 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7700 El vuelo de la reina Tomás Eloy Martínez 1986 Argentinian Spanish
7772 Napoleon Vincent Cronin 1971 British English
8062 Santo Oficio De La Memoria Mempo Giardinelli 1991 Argentinian Spanish
8167 In A State Of Memory Tununa Mercado 1990 Argentinian Spanish
8285 Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon 2002 Bosnian English
8293 The Author Of Himself Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1999 German German
8389 Poems Of Edmond Jabès Edmond Jabès 1959 French French
8445 Panorama Dušan Šarotar 2016 Slovenian Slovene
8473 La Pell De Brau Salvador Espríu 1960 Catalan Catalan
8501 Shadows Osvaldo Soriano 1993 Argentine Unknown
8618 Sidewalks Valeria Luiselli 2013 Mexican Spanish
8696 It's Me, Eddie Eduard Limonov 1978 Russian Russian