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
8518 Os Escravos Castro Alves 1883 Brazilian Portuguese
8566 Third World Express Mongane Wally Serote 1997 South African English
8591 Sold Patricia McCormick 2006 American English
8619 Enrique's Journey Sonia Nazario 2006 American English
8620 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8672 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom 1971 Dutch English
8795 What Work Is Philip Levine 1991 American English
8846 Negative Space Luljeta Lleshanaku 2018 Albanian Albanian
9023 Love Hanne Ørstavik 1997 Norwegian Norwegian
9038 From A To X John Berger 2008 British English
9100 Life Went On Anyway Oleg Sentsov 2019 Ukrainian Russian
9170 Stars Outside Nathan Alterman Israeli Hebrew
9187 Complete Poems Randall Jarrell 1969 American English
9194 A Sliver Of Light Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd 2014 American English
9295 Casualties John Pepper Clark 1970 Nigerian English
9325 The Butterfly’s Burden Mahmoud Darwish 2007 Palestinian Arabic
9508 God Bless The Child Kristin Hunter 1964 American English
9545 Sofia Petrovna Lydia Chukovskaya 1965 Russian Russian
9661 The Cell Horst Bienek German Unknown
9661 The Messiah Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2012 German German
9701 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 1994 American English
9745 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9837 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9837 An Interrupted Life Etty Hillesum 1981 Dutch Dutch
9932 Poems Of Umberto Saba Umberto Saba 1976 Italian Italian
9944 Daddy Was A Number Runner Louise Meriwether 1970 American English
10025 Race Matters Cornel West 1993 American English
10032 The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse Ivan Repila 2013 Spanish Spanish
10032 Obsidio Amie Kaufman 2018 Australian English
10041 Goat Days Benyamin 2008 Indian Malayalam
10085 The Girl With All The Gifts M. R. Carey 2014 British English
10099 Deep Down Dark Héctor Tobar 2014 American English
10122 Angosta Héctor Abad Faciolince 2003 Colombian Spanish
10140 Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 1978 Israeli Hebrew
10197 How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue 2021 Cameroonian English
10237 A Step From Heaven An Na 2001 American English
10264 Selected Poems Miguel Hernández 1979 Spanish Spanish
10285 They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 American English
10306 Anywhere But Here Mona Simpson 1986 American English
10309 Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Victor Serge 1951 French French
10371 Still Can't See Nothin' Comin' Daniel Grey Marshall 2004 American English
10454 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
10454 A Hologram For The King Dave Eggers 2012 American English
10502 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10696 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10826 Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetys 2016 American English
10840 Target Land Svoboda Bachvarova 2010 Bulgarian Unknown
10872 Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 2006 American English
10872 Tyrell Coe Booth 2006 American English
10897 Lola In The Mirror Trent Dalton 2023 Australian English
10908 The Drone Eats With Me Atef Abu Saif 2015 Palestinian English
10944 The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline 2017 Canadian English
11003 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11168 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11204 The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama 2006 American English
11257 Scraps Of Life Marjorie Agosín 1983 Chilean Spanish
11305 A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry 1959 American English
11324 The Children’s Crusade Rebecca Brown 2003 Unknown English
11346 Berji Kristin Latife Tekin 1984 Turkish Turkish
11366 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11393 Collected Poems Primo Levi 1988 Italian Italian
11419 Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line Deepa Anappara 2020 Indian English
11472 Please, Momma Chesya Burke 2015 American Unknown
11489 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 1990 American English
11528 Orpheus and Eurydice Unknown -28 Unknown Ancient greek
11547 Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral 1922 Chilean Spanish
11582 Homemade Love J. California Cooper 1986 American English
11606 Deltora Quest Series Emily Rodda 2000 Australian English
11634 Las Estrellas Son Negras Arnoldo Palacios 1949 Colombian Spanish
11653 Above The River James Wright 1990 American English
11653 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11856 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11882 Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea 2021 French French
11901 Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman 1988 Polish English
11901 Grey Is The Colour Of Hope Irina Ratushinskaya 1988 Russian Russian
12025 Cafe Scheherazade Arnold Zable 2001 Australian English
12036 We Are The Ants Shaun David Hutchinson 2016 American English
12050 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12084 Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 American English
12188 American Street Ibi Zoboi 2017 American English
12222 The Swallows Of Kabul Yasmina Khadra 2002 Algerian French
12259 Seventh Heaven Alice Hoffman 1990 American English
12326 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12438 Imani All Mine Connie Rose Porter 1999 American English
12588 How All This Started Pete Fromm 2000 American English
12615 I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere Anna Gavalda 1999 French French
13228 An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan 1991 British English
13279 This Blinding Absence Of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 2001 French French
13259 True Notebooks Mark Salzman 2003 American English
13337 Change We Can Believe In Barack Obama 2008 American English
13340 Upstate Kalisha Buckhanon 2004 American English
13362 The Christian Year John Keble 1827 British English
13729 Oscar And The Lady In Pink Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt 2002 French French
13760 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
13818 Poveri E Semplici Anna Maria Ortese 1967 Italian Italian
13818 La Morte Del Fiume Guglielmo Petroni 1958 Italian Italian
13818 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
13818 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
13818 Il Viaggiatore Notturno Maurizio Maggiani 2005 Italian Italian
13886 Anne Frank Francine Prose 2009 American English
13921 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
14210 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
14456 The Spell Of The Yukon Robert W. Service 1907 British English
14599 The Cost Of Hope Amanda Bennett 2012 American English