The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Georgia

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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
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
118 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers 1940 American English
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
208 A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor 1953 American English
350 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor 1971 American English
362 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor 1952 American English
483 The Civil War Shelby Foote 1958 American English
500 Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor 1965 American English
770 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
854 Cane Jean Toomer 1923 American English
925 Deliverance James Dickey 1970 American English
928 Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell 1932 American English
1001 Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1981 American English
1114 Andersonville MacKinlay Kantor 1955 American English
1309 The Member Of The Wedding Carson McCullers 1946 American English
1756 Strange Fruit Lillian Smith 1944 American English
1930 Killing Floor Lee Child 1997 British English
1996 A Childhood Harry Crews 1978 American English
2013 The Habit of Being Flannery O'Connor 1979 American English
2636 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
2850 What Is the What Dave Eggers 2006 American English
3167 Paris Trout Pete Dexter 1988 American English
3218 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil John Berendt 1994 American English
3426 The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O'Connor 1960 American English
3565 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3567 Mystery and Manners Flannery O'Connor 1969 American English
3616 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3833 Повесть о жизни Konstantin Paustovsky 1956 Russian Russian
4204 Darwin's Radio Greg Bear 1999 American English
4310 Ali And Nino Kurban Said 1937 Azerbaijani German
4504 Killers of the Dream Lillian Smith 1949 American English
4867 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
5038 Black Reconstruction In America W. E. B. Du Bois 1935 American English
5046 Chickamauga Ambrose Bierce 1889 American English
5097 Where Do We Go From Here Martin Luther King 1967 American English
5124 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984 American English
5307 Lee's Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1943 American English
5471 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5763 Dear Theo Irving Stone, Jean Stone 1937 American English
5916 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5926 In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens Alice Walker 1983 American English
5933 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
5981 Chiefs Stuart Woods 1981 American English
6005 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
6290 I Have A Dream Martin Luther King 1973 American English
6684 Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli 2015 American English
7206 Flight From The Ussr Dato Turashvili 2010 Georgian Georgian
7216 Poems Of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier 1884 American English
7680 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
7896 King David Levering Lewis 1970 Unknown English
8068 All That She Carried Tiya Miles 2021 American English
8574 Let The Trumpet Sound Stephen B. Oates 1982 American English
8698 Those Bones Are Not My Child Toni Cade Bambara 1999 American English
8704 W.E.B. Du Bois David Levering Lewis 2000 American English
8927 The End Of Men Hanna Rosin 2012 American English
8939 Memorial Drive Natasha Trethewey 2020 American English
9326 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9330 In Search Of Excellence Tom Peters, Robert H. Waterman, Jr. 1982 American English
9613 A Quiet Belief In Angels R. J. Ellory 2007 British English
9806 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
10060 Stars And Bars William Boyd 1984 British English
10082 One Person, No Vote Carol Anderson 2018 American English
10289 There Is No Place For Us Brian Goldstone 2025 Unknown English
10373 Complete Poems James Weldon Johnson 2000 American English
10546 I Am Not Sidney Poitier Percival Everett 2009 American English
10711 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10871 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10887 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
10901 America’s Women Gail Collins 2003 American English
11085 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11455 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller 1933 American English
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11663 Brown Kevin Young 2018 American English
11663 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11861 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11901 Pride Of Family Carole Ione 1988 American English
11941 Bearing the Cross David J. Garrow 1986 American English
11941 Chasing Me To My Grave Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly 2021 American English
12076 Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry 2025 American English
12505 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
13256 Tales From The Haunted South Tiya Miles 2015 Unknown English
13259 The Spoken Word Revolution Mark Eleveld 2003 Unknown English
14011 The Life And Times Of Little Richard Charles White 1984 British English
14056 Sweet Soul Music Peter Guralnick 1986 American English
14680 A Full Life Jimmy Carter 2015 American English
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14899 The Third Life Of Grange Copeland Alice Walker 1970 American English
14985 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
14985 The Sweetness Of Water Nathan Harris 2021 American English
14985 The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 2020 American English
15682 My Book And Heart Corra Harris 1923 American English
15916 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15916 Wallace Marshall Frady 1968 English
15889 Swamp Water Vereen Bell 1941 American English
16620 3 By Flannery O'connor Flannery O'Connor 1964 American English
17163 A Feast of Snakes Harry Crews 1976 American English
17163 A Testament of Hope Martin Luther King 1986 American English
17163 Meridian Alice Walker 1976 American English
17163 Ttyl Lauren Myracle 2004 American English
17163 The Last Widow Karin Slaughter 2019 American English
17163 Blood At The Root Patrick Phillips 2016 British English
17163 Mine Robert R. McCammon 1990 American English
17163 When You See Me Lisa Gardner 2020 American English
17163 Forget Me Not Brenda Jackson 2019 American English
17163 The Glorious Cause Jeff Shaara 2002 American English
17163 The Last Full Measure Jeff Shaara 1998 American English
17163 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17163 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17163 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17163 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17163 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17163 An Academy For Liars Alexis Henderson 2024 Unknown English
17163 Domestic Service In The Soviet Union Alissa Klots 2024 Unknown English
17163 His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham 2020 American English
17163 Lincoln Fred Kaplan 2008 American English
17163 The First American H.W. Brands 2000 American English
17163 Hip Hop Is History Questlove 2024 American Unknown
17163 Black Like Me John Howard Griffin 1961 American English
17163 Days Gone Bye Robert Kirkman 2004 American English
17163 The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 2017 American English