The Greatest Books of All Time on Fatherhood
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 290 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2006 | American | English | |
| 475 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 | American | English | |
| 898 | My Struggle | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2009 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 1532 | Arturo's Island | Elsa Morante | 1957 | Italian | Italian | |
| 1637 | The Sportswriter | Richard Ford | 1986 | American | English | |
| 1827 | Experience | Martin Amis | 2000 | British | English | |
| 2163 | A Personal Matter | Kenzaburō Ōe | 1964 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 2295 | My Father's Glory | Marcel Pagnol | 1957 | French | French | |
| 2308 | The Dead Father | Donald Barthelme | 1975 | American | English | |
| 2340 | Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware | 2000 | American | English | |
| 2732 | Seize The Day | Saul Bellow | 1956 | American | English | |
| 3055 | The Invention of Solitude | Paul Auster | 1982 | American | English | |
| 3074 | Patrimony | Philip Roth | 1991 | American | English | |
| 3374 | A Man's Place | Annie Ernaux | 1983 | French | French | |
| 4565 | Mortal y rosa | Francisco Umbral | 1975 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 4999 | Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness | Kenzaburō Ōe | 1969 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 5241 | My Father And Myself | J. R. Ackerley | 1968 | British | English | |
| 7056 | Kaddish For An Unborn Child | Imre Kertész | 1990 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 8143 | Society Without The Father | Unknown | 1998 | Unknown | German | |
| 9021 | Memories Of My Father Watching Tv | Curtis White | 1998 | American | English | |
| 9949 | The Book Of Fathers | Miklós Vámos | 2000 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 10305 | Renoir, My Father | Jean Renoir | 1962 | French | French | |
| 10901 | Before I Forget | Anne Pauly | 2019 | French | French | |
| 11434 | Man And Boy | Tony Parsons | 1999 | British | English | |
| 11506 | Collected Poems | John Berryman | 1989 | American | English | |
| 11661 | The Boy In The Moon | Ian Brown | 2009 | Canadian | English | |
| 13360 | The Rocket Man | Ray Bradbury | 1951 | American | English | |
| 14011 | Emperor Of The Air | Ethan Canin | 1988 | American | English | |
| 14629 | Dad Is Fat | Jim Gaffigan | 2013 | American | English | |
| 14984 | Of Boys And Men | Richard Reeves | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 16726 | Life With Father | Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse | 1939 | American | English | |
| 16722 | Os Miseráveis 2 | Victor Hugo | 1862 | French | French | |
| 17126 | This House Of Sky | Ivan Doig | 1978 | American | English | |
| 17126 | My Father's Fortune | Michael Frayn | 2010 | British | English | |
| 17126 | Fathers | Herb Gold | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Master Of Petersburg | J. M. Coetzee | 1994 | South African | English | |
| 17126 | Good Talk, Dad | Bill Geist, Willie Geist | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Dear Lupin | Roger Mortimer, Charlie Mortimer | 2011 | British | English | |
| 17126 | The Shiralee | D'Arcy Niland | 1955 | Australian | English | |
| 17126 | The Beautiful Struggle | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17126 | My Father, The Pornographer | Andrew J. Offutt | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Raising Men | Davis, Eric, Santorelli, Dina | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | Father And Son | Jonathan Raban | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17126 | Be Mine | Richard Ford | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Book Of Lies | Brad Meltzer | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Hunting Accident | David Carlson | 2017 | Unknown | English | |
| 17126 | A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself | Peter Davies | 2021 | British | English | |
| 17126 | The Blade Artist | Irvine Welsh | 2016 | British | English | |
| 17126 | The Way Home | George P. Pelecanos | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17126 | Fault Lines | James Carroll | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17126 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2006 | American | English |