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
14428 1979 Christian Kracht 2001 German German
14434 Lost In The Funhouse John Barth 1968 American English
14481 Glanz Und Gloria Henning Ahrens 2003 German German
14492 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
14519 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald 1989 American English
14549 April Witch Majgull Axelsson 1997 Swedish Swedish
14553 Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets Don Paterson 2010 British English
14553 Love And Death In The American Novel Leslie Fiedler 1960 American English
14598 Running The Rift Naomi Benaron 2010 American English
14598 Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff 2008 American English
14621 Mark Twain, A Biography Albert Bigelow Paine 1912 American English
14622 The Promised Land Mary Antin 1912 American English
14643 Sinister Street Compton Mackenzie 1913 British English
14649 Night Watch Sergei Lukyanenko 1998 Russian Russian
14648 Wetlands Charlotte Roche 2008 German German
14649 I Would Have Saved Them If I Could Leonard Michaels 1975 American English
14672 The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1915 American English
14673 The Genius Theodore Dreiser 1915 American English
14679 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
14679 Teenage Jon Savage 2007 British English
14730 The Death Of Rex Nhongo C. B. George 2015 Unknown English
14730 Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem 2013 American English
14730 The Secret Of Santa Vittoria Robert Crichton 1966 American English
14759 The Nazarene Sholem Asch 1939 Polish Yiddish
14766 Millions Of Cats Wanda Gág 1928 American English
14771 The Tree Of Heaven May Sinclair 1917 British English
14774 Slippy Mc Gee Marie Conway Oemler 1917 American English
14779 Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
14788 The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1951 Indian English
14826 Bad Habit Alana S. Portero Unknown Unknown
14827 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14862 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Sigmund Freud 1921 Austrian German
14855 All Of A Kind Family Sydney Taylor 1951 American English
14867 Donovan's Brain Curt Siodmak 1942 American English
14897 Great River Paul Horgan 1954 American English
14897 Devil Take The Blue Tail Fly John Franklin Bardin 1948 American English
14934 Digenes Akritas Unknown 1050 Multiple Greek
14957 The High Window Raymond Chandler 1942 American English
14984 Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes 1997 British English
14975 The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo César Vallejo 1968 Peruvian Spanish
14984 Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi 2016 American English
14984 Iron Council China Miéville 2004 British English
14984 Hawkeye Matt Fraction 2012 American English
14984 Exit Strategy Martha Wells 2018 American English
14984 Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card 1999 American English
14984 The Warrior's Apprentice Lois McMaster Bujold 1986 American English
14976 Time Out Of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 American English
14984 Tales From Firozsha Baag Rohinton Mistry 1987 Indian English
14984 Brazzaville Beach William Boyd 1990 British English
14984 A Little Devil In America Hanif Abdurraqib 2021 American English
14984 Tokyo Ghoul Sui Ishida 2011 Japanese Japanese
14984 The Anglo Saxons Marc Morris 2021 British English
14984 The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones 2020 American English
14984 A Clash Of Kings George R. R. Martin 1998 American English
14984 A Feast For Crows George R. R. Martin 2005 American English
14984 A Dance With Dragons George R. R. Martin 2011 American English
14984 The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
14984 Altered Carbon Richard Morgan 2002 British English
14984 The Rediscovery Of Man Cordwainer Smith 1975 American English
14984 Pyramids Terry Pratchett 1989 British English
14984 Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson 2017 American English
14984 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 2010 American English
14979 The Complete Poems Of Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg 1970 American English
14984 The Culture Of Narcissism Christopher Lasch 1979 American English
14984 Dark Matter Blake Crouch 2016 American English
14984 You Had Me At Hola Alexis Daria 2020 American English
14984 English, August Upamanyu Chatterjee 1988 Indian English
14984 The Heart Of Redness Zakes Mda 2000 South African English
14984 Horse Geraldine Brooks 2022 Australian English
14984 The Glass Hotel Emily St John Mandel 2020 Canadian English
14984 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14970 The Stepford Wives Ira Levin 1972 American English
14984 Notes Of A Crocodile Qiu Miaojin 1994 Taiwanese Chinese
14968 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14984 The Englishman's Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe 1996 Canadian English
14984 Mouth To Mouth Antoine Wilson 2022 American English
14984 Winter's Orbit Everina Maxwell 2021 British English
14984 The Water Outlaws S. L. Huang 2023 Unknown English
14984 Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli 1990 American English
14984 The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt 2007 American English
14984 Faces In The Crowd Valeria Luiselli 2011 Mexican Spanish
14984 Please Look After Mom Kyung-sook Shin 2008 Korean Korean
14984 Starter Villain John Scalzi 2023 American English
14984 The Man Who Killed Himself Julian Symons 1967 British English
14984 The Glass Sided Ants’ Nest Peter Dickinson 1968 British English
14984 The Blue Hammer Ross Macdonald 1976 American English
14984 The Fairy Tale Detectives Michael Buckley 2005 American English
14984 Fatherland Burkhard Bilger 2023 Unknown English
14984 Of Boys And Men Richard Reeves 2022 Unknown English
14984 Women Without Men Shahrnush Parsipur 1989 Iranian Persian
14984 My Name Is Yoon Helen Recorvits 2003 American English
14984 Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 1991 American English
14984 Rosarita Anita Desai 2024 Unknown English
14984 Held Anne Michaels 2023 Unknown English
14984 All My Rage Sabaa Tahir 2022 American English
14984 Death In Spring Merce Rodoreda 1986 Spanish Catalan
14984 The Unit Ninni Holmqvist 2006 Swedish Swedish
14984 The Vegan Andrew Lipstein 2023 Unknown English
14984 How Much Of These Hills Is Gold C Pam Zhang 2020 American English
14984 The New Confessions William Boyd 1987 British English
14984 Harold Steven Wright 2023 Unknown English
14984 Other People's Clothes Calla Henkel 2022 Unknown English
14984 The Road To Roswell Connie Willis 2023 American English
14984 The Latecomer Jean Hanff Korelitz 2022 American English
14984 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
14984 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
14984 The Blazing World Jonathan Healey 2023 Unknown English
14984 Above Ground Clint Smith 2023 American English
14984 Absolution Alice McDermott 2023 American English
14984 Affinities Brian Dillon 2023 British English
14984 We Were Once A Family Roxanna Asgarian 2023 Unknown English
14984 Sharks In The Time Of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn 2020 American English
14984 The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 2020 American English
14984 Evening Edged In Gold Arno Schmidt 1975 German German
14984 Normal Women Philippa Gregory 2023 British English
14984 Siete Casas Vacías Samanta Schweblin 2015 Argentinian Spanish
15561 Music For Wartime Rebecca Makkai 2015 American English
15583 Ghana Must Go Taiye Selasi 2013 American English
15588 The Mandela Plot Kenneth Bonert 2018 Canadian English
15610 Zelda Nancy Milford 1970 American English