The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Hope

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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
3638 The City Beyond The River Hermann Kasack 1947 German German
3638 The Embezzled Heaven Franz Werfel 1940 Austrian German
3828 Cloudstreet Tim Winton 1991 Australian English
3903 Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy 1998 American English
3946 The Arrival Shaun Tan 2006 Australian English
3953 Το φως που καίει Kostas Varnalis 1922 Greek Greek
3953 Amorgos Nikos Gatsos 1943 Greek Greek
3953 Η Αυλή των Θαυμάτων Iakovos Kambanellis 1962 Greek Greek
3953 Το Πλατύ Ποτάμι Yiannis Beratis 1946 Greek Greek
3953 The Twelve Lays Of The Gypsy Kostis Palamas 1907 Greek Greek
3953 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
4120 Life's Good, Brother Nâzim Hikmet 1962 Turkish Turkish
4124 A Very Long Engagement Sebastien Japrisot 1991 French French
4153 Collected Poems Nils Ferlin 1947 Swedish Swedish
4178 De Kellner En De Levenden Simon Vestdijk 1949 Dutch Dutch
4430 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
4452 Zurita Raul Zurita 1979 Chilean Spanish
4493 The Little Match Girl Unknown 1845 Unknown Danish
4573 The Moomins And The Great Flood Tove Jansson 1945 Finnish Swedish
4575 The Black Brothers Lisa Tetzner 1941 German German
4631 The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo 2006 American English
4632 Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti 2001 British English
4662 The Swan Book Alexis Wright 2013 Australian English
4740 Tell Me How It Ends Valeria Luiselli 2017 Mexican English
4745 Nos Matamos O Cão Tinhoso Bernardo Honwana 1964 Mozambican Portuguese
4786 Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan 1985 American English
4798 If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin 1974 American English
4816 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
4949 Paper Children Mariana Marin 1987 Romanian Romanian
4977 Klara And The Sun Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 British English
5043 Selected Poems Of George Sterling George Sterling 1923 American English
5130 All But My Life Gerda Weissmann Klein 1957 American English
5186 Kincskereső Kisködmön Ferenc Móra 1918 Hungarian Hungarian
5248 Orphalina Zsigmond Móricz 1937 Hungarian Hungarian
5267 A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 2007 Sierra Leonean English
5269 Under The Feet Of Jesus Helena María Viramontes 1995 American English
5337 Ellis Island Georges Perec 1980 French French
5344 Epileptic David B 1996 French French
5349 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5406 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Marra 2013 American English
5456 Mercy Among The Children David Adams Richards 2000 Canadian English
5500 Warsaw Diary Kazimierz Brandys 1978 Polish Polish
5529 Torzo Naděje František Halas 1939 Czech Czech
5592 World War Z Max Brooks 2006 American English
5651 Reasons to Live Amy Hempel 1985 American English
5729 In The Presence Of Absence Mahmoud Darwish 2006 Palestinian Arabic
5750 Shadows On The Tundra Dalia Grinkevičiutė 1997 Lithuanian Lithuanian
5780 Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli Anna Maria Ortese 1953 Italian Italian
5844 The Last Shot Darcy Frey 1994 American English
5915 Hard Labor Cesare Pavese 1938 Italian Italian
5924 Sylvester And The Magic Pebble William Steig 1969 American English
5925 Hope in the Dark Rebecca Solnit 2004 American English
6002 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English
6002 Les Murs De Fresnes Henri Calet 1945 French French
6202 A Geração Da Utopia Pepetela 1992 Angolan Portuguese
6211 The Unconquered Country Geoff Ryman 1986 Canadian English
6223 Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane 1986 South African English
6401 Crossing The Threshold Of Hope Pope John Paul II 1994 Italian Italian
6439 The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud 1958 American English
6445 Warngedichte Erich Fried 1987 Austrian German
6491 Life In The Iron Mills Rebecca Harding Davis 1861 American English
6621 Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima 1993 Czech Czech
6651 The Beast Óscar Martínez 2013 Salvadoran Spanish
6653 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
6667 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
6675 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6716 Track Ernst Bloch 1949 German Unknown
6736 Silver Stallion Junghyo Ahn 1990 Korean Korean
6747 Psalm At Journey's End Erik Fosnes Hansen 1990 Norwegian Norwegian
6821 Collected Stories Of William Saroyan William Saroyan 1943 American English
6835 There Are No Children Here Alex Kotlowitz 1991 American English
6851 Apeirogon Colum McCann 2020 Irish English
6915 Other Fires Maxim Gorky 1900 Russian Unknown
6974 The Good Life Elsewhere Vladimir Lorchenkov 2008 Russian Russian
7037 Bright Shiny Morning James Frey 2008 American English
7067 Adventures Of A Breath Hayam Abbas Al-Homi 1989 Egyptian Unknown
7074 The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier 1956 British English
7105 Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat 2007 Haitian English
7110 Journey Into The Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg 1967 Russian Russian
7136 Chronicler Of The Winds Henning Mankell 1995 Swedish Swedish
7160 The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis 2001 Greek Greek
7211 Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton 2018 Australian English
7213 Prophet Song Paul Lynch 2023 Irish English
7215 Juives Robert Garnier 1583 French French
7215 Poetic Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine 1820 French French
7215 Poems Of Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold 1853 British English
7215 Poems Of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough 1862 British English
7215 From The Other Shore Alexander Herzen 1850 Russian Russian
7215 Poems Of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1838 American English
7215 Poems Of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier 1884 American English
7215 Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti 1942 Italian Italian
7215 The Buried Harbour Giuseppe Ungaretti 1916 Italian Italian
7215 Poems Of Paul éluard Paul Éluard 1920 French French
7215 Man's Hope Andre Malraux 1937 French French
7215 Perched On Nothing's Branch Attila József 1932 Hungarian Hungarian
7215 Poems Of H. Leivick H. Leivick 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7215 Shirot Bialik Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
7215 Poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 American English
7215 Little Boy Lost Marghanita Laski 1949 British English
7215 Lonely Crusade Chester Himes 1947 American English
7574 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7642 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson 1985 American English
7654 A Better World Than This Marie Joseph 1982 British English
7670 The One And Only Ivan Katherine Applegate 2012 American English
7794 Sleepwalking Land Mia Couto 1992 Mozambican Portuguese
7819 Women Of Messina Elio Vittorini 1949 Italian Italian
7836 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
7860 Poems Of Blas De Otero Blas de Otero 1950 Spanish Spanish
7860 Poems Of René Char René Char 1950 French French
7871 Poor Cow Nell Dunn 1967 British English
7966 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
7992 A World Apart Gustaw Herling 1951 Polish Polish
8142 Suspicious River Laura Kasischke 1999 American English
8167 One Day In December Josie Silver 2018 British English
8169 A Long Way Down Nick Hornby 2005 British English
8187 A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich Alice Childress 1973 American English
8223 The Lincoln Highway Amor Towles 2021 American English
8386 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8469 La Pell De Brau Salvador Espríu 1960 Catalan Catalan
8499 Soul of a Citizen Paul Rogat Loeb 1999 American English