The Greatest Books of All Time on Identity

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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
10283 Birth Of A Bridge Maylis de Kerangal 2010 French French
10286 A Bag Of Marbles Joseph Joffo 1973 French French
10294 Mandela Et Moi Lewis Nkosi 2009 Unknown French
10292 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10296 Girl Jamaica Kincaid 1978 Antiguan English
10309 The Broken Spears Miguel Leon-Portilla 1959 Mexican Spanish
10362 The Borrowers Mary Norton 1952 British English
10385 Tiger Daughter Rebecca Lim 2021 Australian English
10390 The Remains Of Love Zeruya Shalev 2011 Israeli Hebrew
10395 Mudwoman Joyce Carol Oates 2012 American English
10397 Sea Of Tranquillity Paul Russell 1994 Unknown English
10404 Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? Lualhati Bautista 1983 Filipino Filipino
10412 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10437 She's Come Undone Wally Lamb 1992 American English
10452 The Testament Of Mary Colm Toibin 2012 Irish English
10454 Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar 2020 American English
10454 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
10454 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10499 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10502 Between The Woods And The Water Patrick Leigh Fermor 1986 British English
10502 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10508 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10510 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
10516 Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz 2020 American English
10521 Father Of Frankenstein Christopher Bram 1995 American English
10538 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
10549 Rat Bohemia Sarah Schulman 1995 American English
10550 Pageboy Elliot Page 2023 Canadian English
10573 Caliban's War James S. A. Corey 2012 American English
10581 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
10586 Heartfire Orson Scott Card 1998 American English
10603 Autobiography Of A Family Photo Jacqueline Woodson 1995 American English
10613 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
10622 Girls To The Front Sara Marcus 2010 American English
10627 The Dog That Saw God Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
10637 The New Me Halle Butler 2019 American English
10639 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
10664 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10681 A Living Remedy Nicole Chung 2023 American English
10696 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10711 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10713 The Dress Diary Kate Strasdin 2023 Unknown English
10701 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10703 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
10734 Big Swiss Jen Beagin 2023 American English
10732 Black Butterflies Priscilla Morris 2022 Unknown English
10752 The Collected Poems 1931 1987 Czesław Miłosz 1988 Polish Polish
10752 The Moor's Account Laila Lalami 2014 American English
10769 Close Quarters William Golding 1987 British English
10769 Collected Poems D. J. Enright 1987 British English
10779 Female Chauvinist Pigs Ariel Levy 2005 American English
10783 An Island Princess Starts A Scandal Adriana Herrera 2023 Unknown English
10796 Lilas Rouge Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker 2012 Unknown French
10803 Kin Miljenko Jergović 2013 Croatian Croatian
10810 La Montagne Jean-Noël Pancrazi 2012 French French
10812 Laurinda Alice Pung 2014 Australian English
10817 ‘Gapô Lualhati Bautista 1988 Filipino Filipino
10829 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
10831 The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 1985 Moroccan French
10843 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
10841 The Story Of The Night Colm Toibin 1996 Irish English
10852 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
10856 The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge 2015 British English
10856 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10856 American Appetites Joyce Carol Oates 1989 American English
10893 Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest 2013 British English
10896 Lola In The Mirror Trent Dalton 2023 Australian English
10904 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
10907 Inside My Mother Ali Cobby Eckermann 2015 Australian English
10907 Liveblog Megan Boyle 2015 American English
10905 Before I Forget Anne Pauly 2019 French French
10920 Guerre Et Pluie Velibor Čolić 2014 Unknown French
10927 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
10927 The Lost Father Marina Warner 1988 British English
10927 Stirrings Still Samuel Beckett 1988 Irish English
10949 Collected Stories John O'Hara 1984 American English
10949 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10949 The Event Juan José Saer 1988 Argentinian Spanish
10949 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
10949 Golden Hill Francis Spufford 2016 British English
10962 The Bird's Nest Shirley Jackson 1954 American English
10975 Jacob’s Ladder Ludmila Ulitskaya 2015 Russian Russian
10979 They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen 2014 Finnish Finnish
10997 The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández 2016 Chilean Spanish
10997 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11000 The History Of Sexuality Michel Foucault 1976 French French
11006 Friend Of My Youth Alice Munro 1990 Canadian English
11040 Babylon's Ashes James S. A. Corey 2016 American English
11052 The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1969 British English
11059 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11062 Look Solmaz Sharif 2016 American English
11068 All The Wrong Places James Fenton 1994 British English
11068 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11068 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11068 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11075 Hit So Hard Patty Schemel 2017 Unknown English
11082 Heaven Mieko Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
11086 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11086 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11086 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11086 Mirror Sydney Vanessa Berry 2017 Australian English
11113 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11134 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11138 An Arrow’s Flight Mark Merlis 1998 American English
11162 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English
11168 Poems Of Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon 1986 Irish English
11168 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11168 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11178 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
11190 How Did I Get Here Ben Brown Unknown English
11189 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11194 Rules Of Civility Amor Towles 2011 American English
11210 Canoës Maylis de Kerangal 2021 French French
11210 The M Case Grégoire Bouillier 2021 French French
11227 Becoming Michelle Obama 2018 American English
11232 The Real Lolita Sarah Weinman 2018 Unknown English
11239 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11257 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11257 Frida Hayden Herrera 1983 American English
11278 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English