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
11305 James Tiptree, Jr. Julie Phillips 2006 Unknown English
11307 The Simple Truth Philip Levine 1994 American English
11312 Bad Art Mother Edwina Preston 2022 Unknown English
11315 Lamb Christopher Moore 2002 American English
11325 Learning To Drive Katha Pollitt 2007 American English
11329 Molnfri Bombnatt Vibeke Olsson 1995 Swedish Swedish
11330 The French Art Of War Alexis Jenni 2011 French French
11353 Walking On The Ceiling Ayşegül Savaş 2019 Turkish English
11353 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds In This Strange World Elif Shafak 2019 Turkish English
11353 The House Of Youssef Yumna Kassab 2019 Australian English
11360 Une Façon D'aimer Dominique Barbéris 2019 French French
11362 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11362 Against Poets Witold Gombrowicz Polish Polish
11362 La Fin D'amor Jean-Claude Marol French Unknown
11362 La Patrie Empaillée Jacques Izoard Belgian French
11362 La Vie Chinoise De Marianne Pêche Lisa Bresner French French
11362 La Vie Rêvée Antonia Pozzi Italian Italian
11362 Le Monde Tel Qu'il Est Salvat Etchart French Unknown
11362 Lessons On The French Language Pierre Guyotat French French
11362 Notes Boulet French Unknown
11362 Où Sont Ils Maintenant. Anthologie Personnelle Laura Kasischke Unknown French
11362 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11362 The Lantern Bearers Robert Louis Stevenson Unknown Unknown
11362 The Pencil Territory Robert Walser Swiss Unknown
11362 The Watch Nikos Kavvadias Greek Greek
11362 Échappée Agnès Dargent Unknown Unknown
11362 Évangile Des égarés Georgina Tacou Unknown French
11385 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11389 Collected Poems Primo Levi 1988 Italian Italian
11389 Love Me Tender Constance Debré 2020 French French
11389 Poor Caleb Femi 2020 British English
11407 Hildegarde Léo Henry 2018 French French
11451 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11451 The Town Conrad Richter 1950 American English
11468 Batouala René Maran 1921 French French
11486 I Shall Not Be Moved Maya Angelou 1990 American English
11497 Azadi Arundhati Roy 2020 Indian English
11497 What The Colonists Never Knew Dennis Foley, Peter Read 2020 Unknown English
11497 The Thirty Names Of Night Zeyn Joukhadar 2020 Unknown English
11505 The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead 1995 Canadian English
11505 The Coming Bad Days Sarah Bernstein 2021 Canadian English
11510 Race Experts Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn 2001 American English
11511 On The Line Joseph Ponthus 2019 French French
11512 Le Recensement Des Intellos De Gauche Giacomo Papi 2019 Unknown French
11537 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11565 The Sickness Unto Death Soren Kierkegaard 1849 Danish Danish
11579 Women's Ways Of Knowing Mary Field Belenky 1986 American English
11598 The Dissertation R. M. Koster 1975 Unknown English
11602 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11603 Deltora Quest Series Emily Rodda 2000 Australian English
11613 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11637 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11641 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11641 Gentle And Fierce Vanessa Berry 2021 Australian English
11641 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11641 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11650 Mammoth Eva Baltasar 2022 Catalan Catalan
11660 Everything Under Daisy Johnson 2018 British English
11660 Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2018 American English
11660 The House Of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea 2018 American English
11660 A View Of The Empire At Sunset Caryl Phillips 2018 British English
11660 The Witch Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
11660 No Ashes In The Fire C. L. Moore 2018 Unknown English
11660 She Has Her Mother's Laugh Carl Zimmer 2018 American English
11796 The Uplift War David Brin 1987 American English
11805 The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daoud 2013 Algerian French
11809 Little Labors Rivka Galchen 2016 American English
11810 Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? Elizabeth Blackburn 2022 Unknown English
11811 When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago 1993 American English
11824 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
11825 Lilith's Brood Octavia E. Butler 1987 American English
11848 Of All Sizes Her Boydan Unknown Unknown
11855 Mahmoud Ou La Montée Des Eaux Antoine Wauters 2021 Belgian French
11854 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11857 I Is Another Arthur Rimbaud French French
11859 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11859 Highwire Moon Susan Straight 2001 American English
11866 The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde 1997 American English
11878 Sololand Hassan Blasim 2021 Iraqi Arabic
11882 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
11882 Root And Branch Eda Gunaydin 2022 Unknown English
11882 Translating Myself And Others Jhumpa Lahiri 2022 Multiple English
11882 Losing Face George Haddad 2022 Unknown English
11882 This All Come Back Now Mykaula Saunders 2022 Unknown English
11882 All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien 2022 Unknown English
11888 Whittaker Chambers Sam Tanenhaus 1997 American English
11930 Bad Dirt Annie Proulx 2004 American English
11932 This Young Monster Charlie Fox 2017 British English
11932 Animals Strike Curious Poses Elena Passarello 2017 American English
11936 Rule Of The Bone Russell Banks 1995 American English
11936 Coffee Will Make You Black April Sinclair 1995 American English
11939 The American Leonardo Carleton Mabee 1943 American English
11939 Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann 1987 American English
11939 God Jack Miles 1995 American English
12009 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
12017 La Danseuse Patrick Modiano 2023 French French
12024 Biotope Orly Castel-Bloom 2022 Israeli Hebrew
12030 American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld 2008 American English
12034 We Are The Ants Shaun David Hutchinson 2016 American English
12048 The White Castle Orhan Pamuk 1985 Turkish Turkish
12048 The Book Of Chameleons José Eduardo Agualusa 2004 Angolan Portuguese
12048 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12048 Irakisk Kristus Hassan Blasim 2009 Unknown Arabic
12048 The Death Of Napoleon Simon Leys 1986 Belgian French
12048 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12048 Blooms Of Darkness Aharon Appelfeld 2005 Israeli Hebrew
12048 The Detour Gerbrand Bakker 2010 Dutch Dutch
12061 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12063 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
12081 Shop Class As Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford 2009 American English
12076 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
12122 Songs For The Dead And The Living Sara M. Saleh 2023 Unknown English
12131 The House Of The Mosque Kader Abdolah 2005 Dutch Dutch
12136 Mandragon R. M. Koster 1979 Unknown English
12148 Snow In August Pete Hamill 1997 American English
12148 What Girls Learn Karin Cook 1997 American English
12148 Awkward And Definition Ariel Schrag 1997 American English
12165 Running Close To The Wind Alexandra Rowland 2024 Unknown English
12225 Shades Of Grey Jasper Fforde 2009 British English
12231 Kanak Sprak Feridun Zaimoğlu 1995 German German