The Greatest Farm Life and Social & Cultural Fiction Books of All Time
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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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28 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | American | English | |
247 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | American | English | |
313 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | James Agee | 1941 | American | English | |
360 | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 1931 | American | English | |
594 | Adam Bede | George Eliot | 1859 | British | English | |
1011 | A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 1991 | American | English | |
1107 | Nectar in a Sieve | Kamala Markandaya | 1954 | Indian | English | |
1225 | Barefoot | Zaharia Stancu | 1948 | Romanian | Romanian | |
1258 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey | 1964 | American | English | |
1400 | The Country of the Pointed Firs | Sarah Orne Jewett | 1896 | American | English | |
1698 | Broad and Alien is the World | Ciro Alegría | 1941 | Peruvian | Spanish | |
1813 | The Hamlet | William Faulkner | 1940 | American | English | |
2526 | Close Range | Annie Proulx | 1999 | American | English | |
2764 | In the Heart of the Country | J. M. Coetzee | 1977 | South African | English | |
3368 | Crow Lake | Mary Lawson | 2002 | Canadian | English | |
3493 | Weeds | Edith Summers Kelley | 1923 | Canadian | English | |
3870 | Sunset Song | Lewis Grassic Gibbon | 1932 | Scottish | English | |
4174 | The Morometes | Marin Preda | 1955 | Romanian | Romanian | |
4543 | Plainsong | Kent Haruf | 1999 | American | English | |
4703 | Harvest | Jim Crace | 2013 | British | English | |
4867 | Under The Feet Of Jesus | Helena María Viramontes | 1995 | American | English | |
5773 | That They May Face the Rising Sun | John McGahern | 2002 | Irish | English | |
7076 | Tarry Flynn | Patrick Kavanagh | 1948 | Irish | English | |
10831 | Moo | Jane Smiley | 1995 | American | English | |
11539 | The Able McLaughlins | Margaret Wilson | 1923 | American | English | |
11539 | So Big | Edna Ferber | 1924 | American | English | |
11539 | Scarlet Sister Mary | Julia Peterkin | 1928 | American | English | |
11539 | The Town | Conrad Richter | 1950 | American | English | |
12249 | The Dogs of March | Ernest Hebert | 1979 | American | English | |
13025 | Barren Ground | Ellen Glasgow | 1925 | American | English |