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
10290 Mandela Et Moi Lewis Nkosi 2009 Unknown French
10288 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10292 Girl Jamaica Kincaid 1978 Antiguan English
10305 The Broken Spears Miguel Leon-Portilla 1959 Mexican Spanish
10358 The Borrowers Mary Norton 1952 British English
10381 Tiger Daughter Rebecca Lim 2021 Australian English
10386 The Remains Of Love Zeruya Shalev 2011 Israeli Hebrew
10391 Mudwoman Joyce Carol Oates 2012 American English
10393 Sea Of Tranquillity Paul Russell 1994 Unknown English
10400 Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa? Lualhati Bautista 1983 Filipino Filipino
10408 The Free Frenchman Piers Paul Read 1986 British English
10433 She's Come Undone Wally Lamb 1992 American English
10448 The Testament Of Mary Colm Toibin 2012 Irish English
10450 Nothing to be Frightened Of Julian Barnes 2008 British English
10450 Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar 2020 American English
10450 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
10450 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10495 Dekada '70 Lualhati Bautista 1984 Filipino Filipino
10498 Between The Woods And The Water Patrick Leigh Fermor 1986 British English
10498 Redhill Rococo Shena Mackay 1986 British English
10504 A Voyage To India Gonçalo M. Tavares 2010 Portuguese Portuguese
10506 Trinity Leon Uris 1976 American English
10512 Postcolonial Love Poem Natalie Diaz 2020 American English
10517 Father Of Frankenstein Christopher Bram 1995 American English
10534 Colonize This! Daisy Hernandez, Bushra Rehman 2002 Multiple English
10545 Rat Bohemia Sarah Schulman 1995 American English
10546 Pageboy Elliot Page 2023 Canadian English
10569 Caliban's War James S. A. Corey 2012 American English
10577 Take What You Need Idra Novey 2023 American English
10582 Heartfire Orson Scott Card 1998 American English
10599 Autobiography Of A Family Photo Jacqueline Woodson 1995 American English
10609 The 272 Rachel L. Swarns 2023 Unknown English
10618 Girls To The Front Sara Marcus 2010 American English
10622 The Dog That Saw God Dino Buzzati Italian Italian
10631 The New Me Halle Butler 2019 American English
10634 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
10659 Men At Arms Terry Pratchett 1993 British English
10676 A Living Remedy Nicole Chung 2023 American English
10691 The Faraway World Patricia Engel 2023 American English
10706 Black Folk Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 Unknown English
10708 The Dress Diary Kate Strasdin 2023 Unknown English
10696 The Great Reclamation Rachel Heng 2023 Unknown English
10698 Commitment Mona Simpson 2023 American English
10729 Big Swiss Jen Beagin 2023 American English
10727 Black Butterflies Priscilla Morris 2022 Unknown English
10747 The Collected Poems 1931 1987 Czesław Miłosz 1988 Polish Polish
10747 The Moor's Account Laila Lalami 2014 American English
10764 Close Quarters William Golding 1987 British English
10764 Collected Poems D. J. Enright 1987 British English
10774 Female Chauvinist Pigs Ariel Levy 2005 American English
10778 An Island Princess Starts A Scandal Adriana Herrera 2023 Unknown English
10791 Lilas Rouge Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker 2012 Unknown French
10798 Kin Miljenko Jergović 2013 Croatian Croatian
10805 La Montagne Jean-Noël Pancrazi 2012 French French
10807 Laurinda Alice Pung 2014 Australian English
10812 ‘Gapô Lualhati Bautista 1988 Filipino Filipino
10824 This Bridge We Call Home Gloria Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating 2002 Multiple English
10826 The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 1985 Moroccan French
10839 The End Of Days Jenny Erpenbeck 2012 German German
10837 The Story Of The Night Colm Toibin 1996 Irish English
10851 The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge 2015 British English
10851 Berlin Noir Philip Kerr 1989 British English
10851 American Appetites Joyce Carol Oates 1989 American English
10888 Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest 2013 British English
10891 Lola In The Mirror Trent Dalton 2023 Australian English
10899 The Hooligan's Return Norman Manea 2003 Romanian Romanian
10902 Inside My Mother Ali Cobby Eckermann 2015 Australian English
10902 Liveblog Megan Boyle 2015 American English
10900 Before I Forget Anne Pauly 2019 French French
10915 Guerre Et Pluie Velibor Čolić 2014 Unknown French
10922 Fear No Evil Natan Sharansky 1988 Israeli English
10922 The Lost Father Marina Warner 1988 British English
10922 Stirrings Still Samuel Beckett 1988 Irish English
10944 Collected Stories John O'Hara 1984 American English
10944 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10944 The Event Juan José Saer 1988 Argentinian Spanish
10944 Five Spice Street Can Xue 1988 Chinese Chinese
10944 Golden Hill Francis Spufford 2016 British English
10957 The Bird's Nest Shirley Jackson 1954 American English
10970 Jacob’s Ladder Ludmila Ulitskaya 2015 Russian Russian
10974 They Know Not What They Do Jussi Valtonen 2014 Finnish Finnish
10992 The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández 2016 Chilean Spanish
10992 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
10995 The History Of Sexuality Michel Foucault 1976 French French
11001 Friend Of My Youth Alice Munro 1990 Canadian English
11035 Babylon's Ashes James S. A. Corey 2016 American English
11047 The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1969 British English
11054 Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 2015 British English
11057 Look Solmaz Sharif 2016 American English
11063 All The Wrong Places James Fenton 1994 British English
11063 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11063 The Flood John Broderick 2000 Irish English
11063 Manila Envelope James Fenton Unknown Unknown
11070 Hit So Hard Patty Schemel 2017 Unknown English
11077 Heaven Mieko Kawakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
11081 Tell Them I Said No Martin Herbert 2017 Unknown English
11081 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 American English
11081 When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017 American English
11081 Mirror Sydney Vanessa Berry 2017 Australian English
11108 Moving Mars Greg Bear 1993 American English
11129 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11133 An Arrow’s Flight Mark Merlis 1998 American English
11157 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English
11163 Poems Of Paul Muldoon Paul Muldoon 1986 Irish English
11163 Selected Poetry Jaroslav Seifert 1986 Czech Czech
11163 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11173 Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982 American English
11185 How Did I Get Here Ben Brown Unknown English
11184 Lost In The City Edward P. Jones 1992 American English
11189 Rules Of Civility Amor Towles 2011 American English
11205 Canoës Maylis de Kerangal 2021 French French
11205 The M Case Grégoire Bouillier 2021 French French
11222 Becoming Michelle Obama 2018 American English
11227 The Real Lolita Sarah Weinman 2018 Unknown English
11234 Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water António Lobo Antunes 2017 Portuguese Portuguese
11252 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11252 Frida Hayden Herrera 1983 American English
11273 Shella Andrew Vachss 1993 American English
11273 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11297 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish