The Greatest Books of All Time on Heritage

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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
260 Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 American English
788 Roots Alex Haley 1976 American English
854 Cane Jean Toomer 1923 American English
1129 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
1702 Oreo Fran Ross 1974 American English
1715 Go Down, Moses William Faulkner 1942 American English
1797 Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau 1992 Martinican French
2145 Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets J. K. Rowling 1998 British English
2207 Dreams from My Father Barack Obama 1995 American English
2338 There There Tommy Orange 2018 American English
2472 The Grey King Susan Cooper 1975 British English
2504 Homegoing Yaa Gyasi 2016 Ghanaian English
2696 Dalva Jim Harrison 1988 American English
2887 Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer 2002 American English
2903 Waverley Sir Walter Scott 1814 British English
3070 Caramelo Sandra Cisneros 2002 American English
3075 Patrimony Philip Roth 1991 American English
3625 The Lost Salt Gift Of Blood Alistair MacLeod 1976 Canadian English
3631 I And My Chimney Herman Melville 1856 American English
3860 Amal'eZulu B. W. Vilakazi 1945 South African Zulu
3860 Ethiopia Unbound J. E. Casely Hayford 1911 Ghanaian English
4079 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
4134 The Cathedral Oles Honchar 1968 Ukrainian Ukrainian
4266 Ancestral Voices Etienne van Heerden 1986 South African Afrikaans
4413 The Iron Candlestick Dimitar Talev 1952 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4467 Samuels bok Sven Delblanc 1981 Swedish Swedish
4568 No Great Mischief Alistair MacLeod 1999 Canadian English
4724 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
5346 The Bells Of Prespa Dimitar Talev 1966 Bulgarian Bulgarian
5416 Kard és Kasza Albert Wass 1939 Hungarian Hungarian
5488 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
5926 In Search Of Our Mother’s Gardens Alice Walker 1983 American English
6005 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6261 Give Me Back My Mountains Albert Wass 1971 Hungarian Hungarian
6343 The Lost Country Luminița Cioabă 2002 Romanian Unknown
6455 The Arrivants Kamau Brathwaite 1973 Barbadian English
6553 The Quilts Of Gee's Bend William Arnett, Alvia Wardlaw, Jane Livingston, John Beardsley 2002 American English
6733 Jubilee Margaret Walker 1966 American English
7178 The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar Syl Cheney-Choker 1990 Sierra Leonean English
7216 The Island Within Ludwig Lewisohn 1928 American English
7216 The Short Fiction Charles W. Chesnutt 1899 American English
7216 The Antiquary Sir Walter Scott 1816 Scottish English
8068 All That She Carried Tiya Miles 2021 American English
8107 The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1913 Canadian English
8404 The Art Of Losing Alice Zeniter 2017 French French
8406 Meek Heritage Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1919 Finnish Finnish
8583 The Last Of The Vikings Johan Bojer 1921 Norwegian Norwegian
8602 Nisei Daughter Monica Itoi Sone 1953 American English
9289 The Lost And Found Bookshop Susan Wiggs 2020 American English
9294 A River Called Time Mia Couto 2002 Mozambican Portuguese
9516 Joe Turner's Come And Gone August Wilson 1984 American English
9550 Poems Of Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Guillén 1972 Cuban Spanish
9699 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9945 Medicine Walk Richard Wagamese 2014 Canadian English
10220 What's Bred In The Bone Robertson Davies 1985 Canadian English
10662 Louisiana Maurice Denuzière 1977 French French
10847 Shadowshaper Daniel José Older 2015 American English
10893 Looking For Alibrandi Melina Marchetta 1992 Australian English
11052 The Roots Of Ticasuk Ticasuk Brown 1981 American English
11256 From The Lanai And Other Hawaii Stories Jessica Saiki 1983 American English
11256 Praisesong For The Widow Paule Marshall 1983 American English
11345 Rituals Of Survival Nicholasa Mohr 1984 American English
11365 The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson Unknown Unknown
11499 The Thirty Names Of Night Zeyn Joukhadar 2020 Unknown English
11581 Getting Home Alive Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales 1986 American English
11643 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11900 Pride Of Family Carole Ione 1988 American English
12084 Tahuri Ngahuia Te Awekotuku 1989 New Zealand English
12419 Desert J. M. G. Le Clezio 1980 French French
12515 All But The Waltz Mary Clearman Blew 1991 American English
12515 Child Of Her People Anne Cameron 1991 Canadian English
12834 Claiming Breath Diane Glancy 1992 American English
12834 Talking Indian Anna Lee Walters 1992 American English
13166 This Is Who I Am Rashmi Sirdeshpande 2025 British English
13269 Ganado Red Susan Lowell 1993 American English
13362 Anne Of Geierstein Sir Walter Scott 1829 Scottish English
13362 Kingsblood Royal Sinclair Lewis 1947 American English
13806 The Chronicles Of The Deryni Katherine Kurtz 1970 American English
13818 The Forests Of Norbio Giuseppe Dessì 1965 Italian Italian
14232 Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman, Lenny Henry, Mónica Faerna 2005 British English
14386 The Deliverance Ellen Glasgow 1904 American English
14983 M.C. Higgins, The Great Virginia Hamilton 1974 American English
14985 A Yellow Raft In Blue Water Michael Dorris 1987 American English
14985 Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 1991 American English
15649 Up Stream Ludwig Lewisohn 1922 American English
15915 The House Of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton 1968 American English
15915 High Are The Mountains Hannah Closs 1945 Unknown English
15915 The Eagle And The Rock Frances Winwar 1944 Unknown English
15915 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
17161 England in Particular Sue Clifford, Angela King 2006 British English
17161 The Lost Leader Mick Imlah 2008 British English
17161 The Uprooted Oscar Handlin 1951 American English
17161 The Bronc People William Eastlake 1958 American English
17161 The Names N. Scott Momaday 1976 American English
17161 Solstice Wood Patricia A. McKillip 2006 American English
17161 The Piano Lesson August Wilson 1987 American English
17161 All The Weyrs Of Pern Anne McCaffrey 1991 American English
17161 La Charte Du Mandé Et Autres Traditions Du Mali Aboubakar Fofana, Jean-Louis Sagot 2003 French Unknown
17161 The Best Of Albert Wendt’s Short Stories Albert Wendt 1999 New Zealand English
17161 Dogside Story Patricia Grace 2001 New Zealand English
17161 This House Of Sky Ivan Doig 1978 American English
16806 The Dead Of The House Hannah Green 1971 American English
17161 The Grandissimes, A Story Of Creole Life George Washington Cable 1880 American English
17161 The Woman Who Owned The Shadows Paula Gunn Allen 1983 American English
17161 Return To Dar Al Basha Ḥasan Naṣr 1994 Tunisian Unknown
17161 Al Wasmiya Abdel-aziz Mishri Unknown Unknown
17161 Dog Flowers Danielle Geller 2021 American English
17161 My Broken Language Quiara Alegría Hudes 2021 American English
17161 Kings In Grass Castles Mary Durack 1959 Australian English
17161 Provenance Ann Leckie 2017 American English
17161 Quicksand And Cactus Juanita Brooks 1982 American English
17161 Just A Minute Yuyi Morales 2003 Unknown English
17161 Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 2021 American English
17161 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17161 Station Island Seamus Heaney 1984 Irish English
17161 The Right Of Cerdic Alfred Duggan 1965 British English
17161 The Lion Of England Margaret Butler Unknown English
17161 The Last Englishman Hebe Weenolson Unknown Unknown
17161 Toward The Morning Hervey Allen 1978 American English
17161 Monmouth Charles Flood 1977 Unknown English