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
11278 Gospel Wilton Barnhardt 1993 American English
11302 The Adventures Of China Iron Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 2017 Argentinian Spanish
11310 James Tiptree, Jr. Julie Phillips 2006 Unknown English
11312 The Simple Truth Philip Levine 1994 American English
11317 Bad Art Mother Edwina Preston 2022 Unknown English
11320 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11330 Learning To Drive Katha Pollitt 2007 American English
11334 Molnfri Bombnatt Vibeke Olsson 1995 Swedish Swedish
11335 The French Art Of War Alexis Jenni 2011 French French
11358 Walking On The Ceiling Ayşegül Savaş 2019 Turkish English
11358 The House Of Youssef Yumna Kassab 2019 Australian English
11364 Une Façon D'aimer Dominique Barbéris 2019 French French
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11366 Against Poets Witold Gombrowicz Polish Polish
11366 La Fin D'amor Jean-Claude Marol French Unknown
11366 La Patrie Empaillée Jacques Izoard Belgian French
11366 La Vie Chinoise De Marianne Pêche Lisa Bresner French French
11366 La Vie Rêvée Antonia Pozzi Italian Italian
11366 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
11366 Lessons On The French Language Pierre Guyotat French French
11366 Notes Boulet French Unknown
11366 Où Sont Ils Maintenant. Anthologie Personnelle Laura Kasischke Unknown French
11366 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11366 The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson Unknown Unknown
11366 The Pencil Territory Robert Walser Swiss Unknown
11366 The Watch Nikos Kavvadias Greek Greek
11366 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11366 Évangile Des égarés Georgina Tacou Unknown French
11389 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11393 Collected Poems Primo Levi 1988 Italian Italian
11393 Love Me Tender Constance Debré 2020 French French
11393 Poor Caleb Femi 2020 British English
11411 Hildegarde Léo Henry 2018 French French
11455 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11455 The Town Conrad Richter 1950 American English
11471 Batouala René Maran 1921 French French
11489 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 1990 American English
11500 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11500 What The Colonists Never Knew Dennis Foley, Peter Read 2020 Unknown English
11500 The Thirty Names Of Night Zeyn Joukhadar 2020 Unknown English
11508 The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead 1995 Canadian English
11508 The Coming Bad Days Sarah Bernstein 2021 Canadian English
11513 Race Experts Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn 2001 American English
11514 On The Line Joseph Ponthus 2019 French French
11515 Le Recensement Des Intellos De Gauche Giacomo Papi 2019 Unknown French
11540 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11566 The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1849 Danish Danish
11582 Women's Ways Of Knowing Mary Field Belenky 1986 American English
11601 The Dissertation R. M. Koster 1975 Unknown English
11605 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11606 Deltora Quest Series Emily Rodda 2000 Australian English
11616 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11640 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11644 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11644 Gentle And Fierce Vanessa Berry 2021 Australian English
11644 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11644 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11653 Mammoth Eva Baltasar 2022 Catalan Catalan
11663 Everything Under Daisy Johnson 2018 British English
11663 Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2018 American English
11663 The House Of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea 2018 American English
11663 A View Of The Empire At Sunset Caryl Phillips 2018 British English
11663 The Witch Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
11663 No Ashes In The Fire C. L. Moore 2018 Unknown English
11663 She Has Her Mother's Laugh Carl Zimmer 2018 American English
11798 The Uplift War David Brin 1987 American English
11807 The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daoud 2013 Algerian French
11811 Little Labors Rivka Galchen 2016 American English
11812 Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? Elizabeth Blackburn 2022 Unknown English
11813 When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago 1993 American English
11826 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
11827 Lilith's Brood Octavia E. Butler 1987 American English
11850 Of All Sizes Her Boydan Unknown Unknown
11857 Mahmoud Ou La Montée Des Eaux Antoine Wauters 2021 Belgian French
11856 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11859 I Is Another Arthur Rimbaud French French
11861 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11861 Highwire Moon Susan Straight 2001 American English
11868 The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 1997 American English
11880 Sololand Hassan Blasim 2021 Iraqi Arabic
11884 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
11884 Root And Branch Eda Gunaydin 2022 Unknown English
11884 Translating Myself And Others Jhumpa Lahiri 2022 Multiple English
11884 Losing Face George Haddad 2022 Unknown English
11884 This All Come Back Now Mykaula Saunders 2022 Unknown English
11884 All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien 2022 Unknown English
11890 Whittaker Chambers Sam Tanenhaus 1997 American English
11932 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
11934 This Young Monster Charlie Fox 2017 British English
11934 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
11938 Rule Of The Bone Russell Banks 1995 American English
11938 Coffee Will Make You Black April Sinclair 1995 American English
11941 The American Leonardo Carleton Mabee 1943 American English
11941 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann 1987 American English
11941 God Jack Miles 1995 American English
12011 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
12019 La Danseuse Patrick Modiano 2023 French French
12026 Biotope Orly Castel-Bloom 2022 Israeli Hebrew
12032 American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld 2008 American English
12036 We Are The Ants Shaun David Hutchinson 2016 American English
12050 The White Castle Orhan Pamuk 1985 Turkish Turkish
12050 The Book Of Chameleons José Eduardo Agualusa 2004 Angolan Portuguese
12050 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12050 Irakisk Kristus Hassan Blasim 2009 Unknown Arabic
12050 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12050 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12050 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12050 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12063 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12082 Shop Class As Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford 2009 American English
12077 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
12123 Songs For The Dead And The Living Sara M. Saleh 2023 Unknown English
12132 The House Of The Mosque Kader Abdolah 2005 Dutch Dutch
12137 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
12149 Snow In August Pete Hamill 1997 American English
12149 What Girls Learn Karin Cook 1997 American English
12149 Awkward And Definition Ariel Schrag 1997 American English
12166 Running Close To The Wind Alexandra Rowland 2024 Unknown English
12226 Shades Of Grey Jasper Fforde 2009 British English
12232 Kanak Sprak Feridun Zaimoğlu 1995 German German