The Greatest Books Since 2000 on Friendship

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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
409 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 2012 American Italian
443 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Nigerian English
475 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 American English
741 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 American English
837 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 American English
892 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 Afghan English
947 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 American English
1085 The Book Thief Markus Zusak 2005 Australian English
1101 Outline Rachel Cusk 2014 British English
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
1354 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout 2008 American English
1369 Veronica Mary Gaitskill 2005 American English
1413 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2014 American English
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
1790 The Master Colm Toibin 2004 Irish English
1809 The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 2001 Spanish Spanish
1818 Barbarian Days William Finnegan 2015 American English
1827 Experience Martin Amis 2000 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
1958 Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann 2009 Irish English
1983 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
2002 Freedom Jonathan Franzen 2010 American English
2058 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007 Afghan English
2107 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 American English
2115 Just Kids Patti Smith 2010 American English
2218 The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 2011 British English
2224 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 American English
2229 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
2317 To The End Of The Land David Grossman 2008 Israeli Hebrew
2353 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie 2000 Chinese French
2366 Brooklyn Colm Toibin 2009 Irish English
2408 That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern 2002 Irish English
2466 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro 2001 Canadian English
2467 On Beauty Zadie Smith 2005 British English
2485 Small Island Andrea Levy 2004 British English
2487 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann 2005 German German
2523 Old Filth Jane Gardam 2004 British English
2533 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
2586 Empire Falls Richard Russo 2001 American English
2617 The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante 2011 Italian Italian
2650 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie 2007 American English
2680 El Día Del Watusi Francisco Casavella 2002 Spanish Spanish
2682 Twilight Stephenie Meyer 2005 American English
2708 The Help Kathryn Stockett 2009 American English
2804 Fates and Furies Lauren Groff 2015 American English
2817 The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard 2003 Australian English
2828 Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 American English
2842 10:04 Ben Lerner 2014 American English
2847 What Is the What Dave Eggers 2006 American English
2866 The Story Of The Lost Child Elena Ferrante 2014 Italian Italian
2881 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
2903 What I Loved Siri Hustvedt 2003 American English
2969 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 2000 British English
2988 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
3052 Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston 2019 American English
3061 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem 2003 American English
3062 Home Land Sam Lipsyte 2004 American English
3097 Open City Teju Cole 2011 American English
3102 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 2003 Iranian English
3130 Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
3179 The Quick And The Dead Joy Williams 2000 American English
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3214 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See 2005 Chinese English
3281 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3282 Blankets Craig Thompson 2003 American English
3318 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 2003 Australian English
3398 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
3401 Brothers Yu Hua 2005 Chinese Chinese
3417 The Housekeeper And The Professor Yōko Ogawa 2003 Japanese Japanese
3450 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
3453 Magic for Beginners Kelly Link 2005 American English
3477 American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang 2006 American English
3501 Borges Adolfo Bioy Casares 2006 Argentine Spanish
3526 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews 2014 Canadian English
3531 An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine 2013 Lebanese English
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3535 Netherland Joseph O'Neill 2008 Irish English
3564 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3568 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
3576 The Possessed Elif Batuman 2010 Turkish English
3590 Do Everything in the Dark Gary Indiana 2003 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
3613 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
3838 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage 2006 Canadian English
3848 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
3855 Breath Tim Winton 2008 Australian English
3910 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen 2006 American English
3922 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English
3926 In The Woods Tana French 2007 Irish English
3927 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
3945 The Arrival Shaun Tan 2006 Australian English
4065 The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot 2000 American English
4066 Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère 2009 French French
4096 Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall 2020 British English
4143 Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2012 American English
4149 The Devotion Of Suspect X Keigo Higashino 2005 Japanese Japanese
4188 An Ember In The Ashes Sabaa Tahir 2015 American English
4290 Mystic River Dennis Lehane 2001 American English
4295 The Emperor's Babe Bernardine Evaristo 2001 British English
4392 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018 American English
4415 Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters 2021 American English
4442 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4468 The History of Love Nicole Krauss 2005 American English
4500 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 2010 Canadian English
4507 The Book about Blanche and Marie Per Olov Enquist 2004 Swedish Swedish
4536 Special Topics In Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl 2006 American English
4539 Rules Of Summer Shaun Tan 2013 Australian English
4588 The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead 2019 American English
4591 Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney 2017 Irish English
4630 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
4631 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4681 A Horse Walks Into A Bar David Grossman 2014 Israeli Hebrew
4805 Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante 2013 Italian Italian
4933 Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 2010 Nigerian English
4977 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
4996 The Sun Is Also A Star Nicola Yoon 2016 American English
5003 Feel Free Zadie Smith 2018 British English
5006 Against the Day Thomas Pynchon 2006 American English