The Greatest Experimental Books Since 2010
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1022 | Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | 2017 | American | English | |
| 1101 | Outline | Rachel Cusk | 2014 | British | English | |
| 1703 | The Argonauts | Maggie Nelson | 2015 | American | English | |
| 1861 | Citizen | Claudia Rankine | 2014 | American | English | |
| 2311 | Solenoid | Mircea Cărtărescu | 2015 | Romanian | Romanian | |
| 2334 | How to be both | Ali Smith | 2014 | British | English | |
| 2805 | James | Percival Everett | 2024 | American | English | |
| 2842 | 10:04 | Ben Lerner | 2014 | American | English | |
| 3097 | Open City | Teju Cole | 2011 | American | English | |
| 3164 | Dept. of Speculation | Jenny Offill | 2014 | American | English | |
| 3469 | Solar Bones | Mike McCormack | 2016 | Irish | English | |
| 3539 | C | Tom McCarthy | 2010 | British | English | |
| 3603 | A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing | Eimear McBride | 2013 | Irish | English | |
| 3848 | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | 2020 | British | English | |
| 3889 | There But For The | Ali Smith | 2011 | British | English | |
| 3944 | In The Dream House | Carmen Maria Machado | 2019 | American | English | |
| 4135 | The Faraway Nearby | Rebecca Solnit | 2013 | American | English | |
| 4392 | The Friend | Sigrid Nunez | 2018 | American | English | |
| 4608 | Here | Richard McGuire | 2014 | American | English | |
| 4660 | The Complete Stories | Clarice Lispector | 2016 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 4664 | Building Stories | Chris Ware | 2012 | American | English | |
| 5012 | The Lesser Bohemians | Eimear McBride | 2016 | Irish | English | |
| 5153 | Cursed Bunny | Bora Chung | 2021 | Korean | Korean | |
| 5462 | The Animals In That Country | Laura Jean McKay | 2020 | Australian | English | |
| 5581 | This Is How You Lose The Time War | Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone | 2019 | Multiple | English | |
| 5622 | Biography Of X | Catherine Lacey | 2023 | American | English | |
| 5719 | Warlight | Michael Ondaatje | 2018 | Canadian | English | |
| 5801 | Kruso | Lutz Seiler | 2014 | German | German | |
| 5803 | Martyr! | Kaveh Akbar | 2024 | American | English | |
| 6282 | Sur La Scène Intérieure | Marcel Cohen | 2013 | French | French | |
| 6460 | Never Did The Fire | Diamela Eltit | 2022 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 6566 | Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming | László Krasznahorkai | 2016 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 6607 | The Anomaly | Hervé Le Tellier | 2020 | French | French | |
| 6787 | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments | Saidiya Hartman | 2019 | American | English | |
| 6851 | Apeirogon | Colum McCann | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 6947 | Ducks, Newburyport | Lucy Ellmann | 2019 | British | English | |
| 6981 | Hawthorn & Child | Keith Ridgway | 2012 | Irish | English | |
| 6991 | The Employees | Olga Ravn | 2018 | Danish | Danish | |
| 7001 | Collected Poems | Jack Gilbert | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7080 | The Blazing World | Siri Hustvedt | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7103 | Get In Trouble | Kelly Link | 2015 | American | English | |
| 7205 | Animalinside | László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann | 2010 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 7212 | Question 7 | Richard Flanagan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 7585 | After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 7602 | The Beginning Of Infinity | David Deutsch | 2011 | British | English | |
| 7631 | Telephone | Percival Everett | 2020 | American | English | |
| 7634 | The Big Music | Kirsty Gunn | 2012 | New Zealander | English | |
| 7753 | Mr. Fox | Helen Oyeyemi | 2011 | British | English | |
| 7899 | Spreadeagle | Kevin Killian | 2012 | American | English | |
| 7941 | Phantom Pain Wings | Kim Hye-soon | 2019 | Korean | Korean | |
| 8071 | Taipei | Tao Lin | 2013 | American | English | |
| 8142 | Walker On Water | Kristiina Ehin | 2014 | Estonian | Estonian | |
| 8142 | Alindarka’s Children | Alhierld Bakharevich | 2014 | Belarusian | Belarusian | |
| 8191 | The Order Of Time | Carlo Rovelli | 2017 | Italian | Italian | |
| 8443 | Panorama | Dušan Šarotar | 2016 | Slovenian | Slovene | |
| 8459 | Headshot | Rita Bullwinkel | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8494 | Margaret The First | Danielle Dutton | 2016 | American | English | |
| 8679 | The Chronology Of Water | Lidia Yuknavitch | 2011 | American | English | |
| 8786 | The Diaries Of Emilio Renzi | Ricardo Piglia | 2015 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 8842 | Negative Space | Luljeta Lleshanaku | 2018 | Albanian | Albanian | |
| 8845 | Seeing Red | Lina Meruane | 2012 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 8883 | Black and Blur | Fred Moten | 2017 | American | English | |
| 8902 | Blackouts | Justin Torres | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 8975 | Clavícula | Marta Sanz | 2015 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 9059 | Pond | Claire-Louise Bennett | 2015 | Irish | English | |
| 9137 | The Consequences | Niña Weijers | 2014 | Dutch | Dutch | |
| 9141 | Can You Tolerate This? | Ashleigh Young | 2016 | New Zealand | English | |
| 9223 | The Passenger | Cormac McCarthy | 2022 | American | English | |
| 9234 | Panthers And The Museum Of Fire | Jen Craig | 2015 | Australian | English | |
| 9345 | Hera Lindsay Bird | Hera Lindsay Bird | 2016 | New Zealand | English | |
| 9373 | Their Brilliant Careers | Ryan O’Neill | 2016 | Australian | English | |
| 9640 | Tram 83 | Fiston Mwanza Mujila | 2014 | Congolese | French | |
| 9655 | Rachel, Monique… | Sophie Calle | 2012 | French | French | |
| 9657 | F Letter | Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse | 2021 | Russian | Russian | |
| 9674 | Easy Reading | Cristina Morales | 2018 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 9769 | Animal Money | Michael Cisco | 2015 | American | English | |
| 9781 | Dead Collections | Isaac Fellman | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 9807 | Journal | Julie Delporte | 2013 | Unknown | French | |
| 9958 | On The Calculation Of Volume | Solvej Balle | 2025 | Danish | Danish | |
| 10010 | Multiple Choice | Alejandro Zambra | 2014 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 10060 | Campo De Retamas | Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio | 2013 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 10094 | écrits 2003 2014 | Angélica Liddell | 2015 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 10167 | The Pale King | David Foster Wallace | 2011 | American | English | |
| 10205 | Peripathetic | Cher Tan | 2020 | Unknown | English | |
| 10206 | Neuromaani | Jaakko Yli-Juonikas | 2012 | Finnish | Finnish | |
| 10357 | Liars | Sarah Manguso | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10381 | The Airways | Jennifer Mills | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 10381 | Human Looking | Andy Jackson | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 10388 | Spent Light | Lara Pawson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10436 | Bluff | Danez Smith | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10450 | Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story | Jim Holt | 2012 | American | English | |
| 10523 | Splinters | Leslie Jamison | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10540 | My Struggle: Book 6 | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2011 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 10597 | Strange Sally Diamond | Liz Nugent | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 10602 | All Things Are Too Small | Becca Rothfeld | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10666 | 36 Ways Of Writing A Vietnamese Poem | Nam Le | 2024 | Multiple | English | |
| 10694 | Blue Ruin | Hari Kunzru | 2024 | British | English | |
| 10709 | Hum | Helen Phillips | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10707 | The Lodgers | Holly Pester | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10876 | The Vitals | Tracy Sorensen | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10876 | The Pole And Other Stories | J. M. Coetzee | 2023 | South African | English | |
| 10889 | Brand New Ancients | Kae Tempest | 2013 | British | English | |
| 10937 | The Art Of Cruelty | Maggie Nelson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 10966 | That Time Of Year | Marie NDiaye | 2020 | French | French | |
| 11011 | Birthday | César Aira | 2019 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 11022 | Alphabetical Diaries | Sheila Heti | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 11054 | Gliff | Ali Smith | 2024 | British | English | |
| 11058 | Look | Solmaz Sharif | 2016 | American | English | |
| 11073 | Life Adjustment Center | Ryan McGinley | 2010 | American | Unknown | |
| 11073 | About a Mountain | John D'Agata | 2010 | American | English | |
| 11164 | Scattered All Over The Earth | Yoko Tawada | 2018 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 11180 | In Every Moment We Still Are Alive | Tom Malmquist | 2015 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 11206 | The M Case | Grégoire Bouillier | 2021 | French | French | |
| 11506 | The Coming Bad Days | Sarah Bernstein | 2021 | Canadian | English | |
| 11564 | Nox | Anne Carson | 2010 | Canadian | English | |
| 11631 | The Instructions | Adam Levin | 2010 | American | English | |
| 11638 | On The Calculation Of Volume Ii | Solvej Balle | 2020 | Unknown | Danish | |
| 11660 | Videogames For Humans | Merritt Kopas | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 11661 | Checkout 19 | Claire-Louise Bennett | 2021 | Irish | English | |
| 11661 | Friday Black | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | 2018 | American | English |