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
8513 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8560 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8585 Sold Patricia McCormick 2006 American English
8613 Enrique's Journey Sonia Nazario 2006 American English
8614 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8666 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
8788 What Work Is Philip Levine 1991 American English
8840 Negative Space Luljeta Lleshanaku 2018 Albanian Albanian
9017 Love Hanne Ørstavik 1997 Norwegian Norwegian
9032 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
9093 Life Went On Anyway Oleg Sentsov 2019 Ukrainian Russian
9164 Stars Outside Nathan Alterman Israeli Hebrew
9181 Complete Poems Randall Jarrell 1969 American English
9188 A Sliver Of Light Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd 2014 American English
9289 Casualties John Pepper Clark 1970 Nigerian English
9319 The Butterfly’s Burden Mahmoud Darwish 2007 Palestinian Arabic
9502 God Bless The Child Kristin Hunter 1964 American English
9539 Sofia Petrovna Lydia Chukovskaya 1965 Russian Russian
9656 The Cell Horst Bienek German Unknown
9656 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9696 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9740 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9832 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9832 An Interrupted Life Etty Hillesum 1981 Dutch Dutch
9926 Poems Of Umberto Saba Umberto Saba 1976 Italian Italian
9938 Daddy Was A Number Runner Louise Meriwether 1970 American English
10019 Race Matters Cornel West 1993 American English
10026 The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse Ivan Repila 2013 Spanish Spanish
10026 Obsidio Amie Kaufman 2018 Australian English
10034 Goat Days Benyamin 2008 Indian Malayalam
10079 The Girl With All The Gifts M. R. Carey 2014 British English
10093 Deep Down Dark Héctor Tobar 2014 American English
10117 Angosta Héctor Abad Faciolince 2003 Colombian Spanish
10135 Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 1978 Israeli Hebrew
10191 How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue 2021 Cameroonian English
10230 A Step From Heaven An Na 2001 American English
10258 Selected Poems Miguel Hernández 1979 Spanish Spanish
10279 They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 American English
10300 Anywhere But Here Mona Simpson 1986 American English
10303 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10365 Still Can't See Nothin' Comin' Daniel Grey Marshall 2004 American English
10448 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
10448 A Hologram For The King Dave Eggers 2012 American English
10496 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10689 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10818 Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetys 2016 American English
10833 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
10864 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10864 Tyrell Coe Booth 2006 American English
10889 Lola In The Mirror Trent Dalton 2023 Australian English
10900 The Drone Eats With Me Atef Abu Saif 2015 Palestinian English
10936 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
10995 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11161 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11197 The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama 2006 American English
11250 Scraps Of Life Marjorie Agosín 1983 Chilean Spanish
11299 A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry 1959 American English
11317 The Children’s Crusade Rebecca Brown 2003 Unknown English
11339 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11360 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11387 Collected Poems Primo Levi 1988 Italian Italian
11413 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara 2020 Indian English
11468 Please, Momma Chesya Burke 2015 American Unknown
11485 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 1990 American English
11525 Orpheus and Eurydice Unknown -28 Unknown Ancient greek
11544 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral 1922 Chilean Spanish
11579 Homemade Love J. California Cooper 1986 American English
11603 Deltora Quest Series Emily Rodda 2000 Australian English
11631 Las Estrellas Son Negras Arnoldo Palacios 1949 Colombian Spanish
11650 Above The River James Wright 1990 American English
11650 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11854 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11880 Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea 2021 French French
11899 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
11899 Grey Is The Colour Of Hope Irina Ratushinskaya 1988 Russian Russian
12023 Cafe Scheherazade Arnold Zable 2001 Australian English
12034 We Are The Ants Shaun David Hutchinson 2016 American English
12048 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12083 Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 American English
12187 American Street Ibi Zoboi 2017 American English
12221 The Swallows Of Kabul Yasmina Khadra 2002 Algerian French
12258 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12324 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12436 Imani All Mine Connie Rose Porter 1999 American English
12586 How All This Started Pete Fromm 2000 American English
12613 I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere Anna Gavalda 1999 French French
13225 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan 1991 British English
13276 This Blinding Absence Of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 2001 French French
13256 True Notebooks Mark Salzman 2003 American English
13334 Change We Can Believe In Barack Obama 2008 American English
13337 Upstate Kalisha Buckhanon 2004 American English
13359 The Christian Year John Keble 1827 British English
13728 Oscar And The Lady In Pink Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2002 French French
13759 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13817 Poveri E Semplici Anna Maria Ortese 1967 Italian Italian
13817 La Morte Del Fiume Guglielmo Petroni 1958 Italian Italian
13817 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
13817 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
13817 Il Viaggiatore Notturno Maurizio Maggiani 2005 Italian Italian
13885 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
13920 Book Of Psalms Alabaster Co. 2018 Unknown Hebrew
13941 The Noonday Demon Andrew Solomon 2001 American English
13941 Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand 2010 American English
13941 Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout 2017 American English
13941 The Siege Helen Dunmore 2001 British English
13991 Eureka Street Robert McLiam Wilson 1996 Irish English
14025 My New American Life Francine Prose 2011 American English
14025 Ardency Kevin Young 2011 American English
14078 Riot Baby Tochi Onyebuchi 2020 American English
14106 L'éducation D'une Fée Didier van Cauwelaert 2000 French French
14122 The Choice Dr. Edith Eva Eger 2017 American English
14138 On Fragile Waves E. Lily Yu 2021 American English
14172 The Human Comedy William Saroyan 1943 American English
14209 Awake And Sing! Clifford Odets 1935 American English
14232 The Postman David Brin 1985 American English
14232 The Passage Justin Cronin 2010 American English
14232 Ruined Lynn Nottage 2009 American English
14232 Esperanza Rising Pam Muñoz Ryan 2000 American English
14455 The Spell Of The Yukon Robert W. Service 1907 British English
14598 The Cost Of Hope Amanda Bennett 2012 American English