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
1929 Killing Floor Lee Child 1997 British English
1996 A Childhood Harry Crews 1978 American English
2012 The Habit of Being Flannery O'Connor 1979 American English
2635 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 American English
2847 What Is the What Dave Eggers 2006 American English
3166 Paris Trout Pete Dexter 1988 American English
3217 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
3834 Повесть о жизни Konstantin Paustovsky 1956 Russian Russian
4203 Darwin's Radio Greg Bear 1999 American English
4309 Ali And Nino Kurban Said 1937 Azerbaijani German
4503 Killers of the Dream Lillian Smith 1949 American English
4866 The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Dubois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 American English
5035 Black Reconstruction In America W. E. B. Du Bois 1935 American English
5043 Chickamauga Ambrose Bierce 1889 American English
5095 Where Do We Go From Here Martin Luther King 1967 American English
5122 Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns 1984 American English
5306 Lee's Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1943 American English
5469 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5760 Dear Theo Irving Stone, Jean Stone 1937 American English
5914 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 1944 German German
5923 In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens Alice Walker 1983 American English
5997 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
5977 Chiefs Stuart Woods 1981 American English
6002 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
6287 I Have A Dream Martin Luther King 1973 American English
6683 Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli 2015 American English
7205 Flight From The Ussr Dato Turashvili 2010 Georgian Georgian
7215 Poems Of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier 1884 American English
7679 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
7895 King David Levering Lewis 1970 Unknown English
8067 All That She Carried Tiya Miles 2021 American English
8571 Let The Trumpet Sound Stephen B. Oates 1982 American English
8695 Those Bones Are Not My Child Toni Cade Bambara 1999 American English
8701 W.E.B. Du Bois David Levering Lewis 2000 American English
8924 The End Of Men Hanna Rosin 2012 American English
8936 Memorial Drive Natasha Trethewey 2020 American English
9322 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9326 In Search Of Excellence Tom Peters, Robert H. Waterman, Jr. 1982 American English
9609 A Quiet Belief In Angels R. J. Ellory 2007 British English
9802 Dear Martin Nic Stone 2017 American English
10054 Stars And Bars William Boyd 1984 British English
10076 One Person, No Vote Carol Anderson 2018 American English
10284 There Is No Place For Us Brian Goldstone 2025 Unknown English
10368 Complete Poems James Weldon Johnson 2000 American English
10541 I Am Not Sidney Poitier Percival Everett 2009 American English
10706 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10866 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10882 A Man In Full (A Novel) Tom Wolfe 1998 American English
10896 America’s Women Gail Collins 2003 American English
11080 Praying for Sheetrock Melissa Fay Greene 1991 American English
11451 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller 1933 American English
11610 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11660 Brown Kevin Young 2018 American English
11660 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11859 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11899 Pride Of Family Carole Ione 1988 American English
11939 Bearing the Cross David J. Garrow 1986 American English
11939 Chasing Me To My Grave Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly 2021 American English
12075 Great Big Beautiful Life Emily Henry 2025 American English
12503 Distributed Blackness André Brock Jr. 2020 Unknown English
13253 Tales From The Haunted South Tiya Miles 2015 Unknown English
13256 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
14679 A Full Life Jimmy Carter 2015 American English
14826 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14896 The Third Life Of Grange Copeland Alice Walker 1970 American English
14983 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
14983 The Sweetness Of Water Nathan Harris 2021 American English
14983 The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 2020 American English
15674 My Book And Heart Corra Harris 1923 American English
15897 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15897 Wallace Marshall Frady 1968 English
16580 3 By Flannery O'connor Flannery O'Connor 1964 American English
16520 Swamp Water Vereen Bell 1941 American English
17119 A Feast of Snakes Harry Crews 1976 American English
17119 A Testament of Hope Martin Luther King 1986 American English
17119 Meridian Alice Walker 1976 American English
17119 Ttyl Lauren Myracle 2004 American English
17119 The Last Widow Karin Slaughter 2019 American English
17119 Blood At The Root Patrick Phillips 2016 British English
17119 Mine Robert R. McCammon 1990 American English
17119 When You See Me Lisa Gardner 2020 American English
17119 Forget Me Not Brenda Jackson 2019 American English
17119 The Glorious Cause Jeff Shaara 2002 American English
17119 The Last Full Measure Jeff Shaara 1998 American English
17119 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17119 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17119 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17119 Pushkin T. J. Binyon 2002 British English
17119 Diplomacy Henry A. Kissinger 1994 American English
17119 An Academy For Liars Alexis Henderson 2024 Unknown English
17119 Domestic Service In The Soviet Union Alissa Klots 2024 Unknown English
17119 His Truth Is Marching On Jon Meacham 2020 American English
17119 Lincoln Fred Kaplan 2008 American English
17119 The First American H.W. Brands 2000 American English
17119 Hip Hop Is History Questlove 2024 American Unknown
17119 Black Like Me John Howard Griffin 1961 American English
17119 Days Gone Bye Robert Kirkman 2004 American English
17119 The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 2017 American English