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
15610 Going All The Way Dan Wakefield 1970 American English
15630 Brass Charles Gilman Norris 1921 American English
15632 Planet Magnon Leif Randt 2015 German German
15635 Merton Of The Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1922 American English
15636 Surrender Bono 2022 Irish English
15636 The Boatbuilder Daniel Gumbiner 2018 American English
15636 Stray City Chelsey Johnson 2018 American English
15643 Up Stream Ludwig Lewisohn 1922 American English
15643 The Judge Rebecca West 1922 British English
15646 Peter Whiffle Carl Van Vechten 1922 American English
15659 Black Oxen Gertrude Atherton 1923 American English
15661 Born In Blackness Howard W. French 2021 American English
15661 The Nick Adams Stories Ernest Hemingway 1972 American English
15661 Oculus Sally Wen Mao 2019 American English
15671 His Children's Children Arthur Cheney Train 1923 American English
15673 The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1923 American English
15673 Children Of Loneliness Anzia Yezierska 1923 American English
15675 Lummox Fannie Hurst 1923 American English
15680 The Hainish Novels And Stories Ursula K. Le Guin 2017 American English
15680 River Spirit Leila Aboulela 2023 Sudanese English
15680 Knots R.D. Laing Scottish English
15680 Blue Heaven Joe Keenan American English
15680 The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems Diane Wakoski American English
15680 Maybe Lillian Hellman American English
15680 The Funnies J. Robert Lennon American English
15680 The Human Agenda Roderic Gorney Unknown English
15707 Early Plays Eugene O'Neill 1932 American English
15750 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 American English
15771 The Scapegoat Daphne du Maurier 1957 British English
15782 Writings And Drawings James Thurber 1973 American English
15762 The Oedipus Plays Of Sophocles Sophocles -429 Greek Ancient greek
15765 Kitty Foyle Christopher Morley 1939 American English
15777 The Morning Is Near Us Susan Glaspell 1940 American English
15779 Deep Summer Gwen Bristow 1937 American English
15780 Other Gods Pearl S. Buck 1940 American English
15764 Night In Bombay Louis Bromfield 1940 American English
15793 Collected Poems Of T. S. Eliot 1909 1935 T. S. Eliot 1936 American English
15816 Rabbit Angstrom John Updike 1960 American English
15828 The Issa Valley Czesław Miłosz 1955 Polish Polish
15814 The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
15792 The English Air D.E. Stevenson 1940 Scottish English
15796 A Sea Island Lady Francis Griswold 1939 American Unknown
15799 Gypsy, Gypsy Rumer Godden 1940 British English
15810 The Family Nina Fedorova 1940 Unknown English
15817 A World I Never Made James T. Farrell 1936 American English
15867 A Sibila Agustina Bessa-Luís 1954 Portuguese Portuguese
15869 No Beast So Fierce Edward Bunker 1973 American English
15864 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
15899 A Walker in the City Alfred Kazin 1951 American English
15899 The Black Woman Toni Cade Bambara 1970 American English
15899 Sketches Of Etruscan Places And Other Italian Essays D. H. Lawrence 1932 British English
15899 The Thing On The Doorstep H. P. Lovecraft 1937 American English
15899 Man Of Smoke Aldo Palazzeschi 1911 Italian Italian
15899 My Carso Scipio Slataper 1912 Italian Italian
15892 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 American English
15899 The Vienna Melody Ernst Lothar 1944 Austrian German
16487 The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry 1966 American English
15899 America Is In The Heart Carlos Bulosan 1946 Filipino English
15899 The Woman Who Had Two Navels Nick Joaquin 1961 Filipino English
15899 In A German Pension Katherine Mansfield 1911 British English
15899 De Perfil José Agustín 1966 Mexican Spanish
15899 10,000 Light Years From Home James Tiptree Jr. 1973 American English
16492 Sun & Steel Yukio Mishima 1968 Japanese Japanese
15888 At The Mind's Limits Jean Améry 1966 German German
15899 The Sands Of Windee Arthur William Upfield 1931 Australian English
15899 The Wheel Spins Ethel Lina White 1936 British English
15899 The Purple Land Jay William Hudson 1885 Unknown Unknown
15899 My Left Foot Christy Brown 1954 Irish English
15899 Amiel's Journal Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1883 Swiss French
15899 Commando Deneys Reitz 1930 South African English
15899 La Femme De Gilles Madeleine Bourdouxhe 1937 Belgian French
15899 Proceed, Sergeant Lamb Robert Graves 1940 British English
16493 An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures Clarice Lispector 1969 Brazilian Portuguese
15899 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming 1963 British English
15899 Montage Of A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes 1951 American English
15899 The Corn King And The Spring Queen Naomi Mitchison 1931 British English
15899 Josephus Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
15899 The Jew Of Rome Lion Feuchtwanger 1932 German German
15899 Moses Shalom Asch 1951 Unknown Yiddish
15899 The Exodus Konrad Bercovici 1920 Unknown English
15899 The Tentmaker Julius Berstl 1935 Unknown German
15899 Blood Of The Martyrs Naomi Mitchison 1948 British English
15899 Conscience Of The King Alfred Duggan 1951 British English
15899 Fourteenth Of October Bryher 1952 British English
15899 High Are The Mountains Hannah Closs 1945 Unknown English
15899 The Cornerstone Zoe Oldenbourg 1953 French French
15899 The Unhurrying Chase Hilda Prescott 1949 British English
15899 Son Of Dust Hilda Prescott 1952 British English
15899 The Scarlet City Hella S. Haases 1952 Dutch Dutch
15899 The Florentine Carl Spinatelli 1953 Unknown English
15899 The Fifth Queen Ford Madox Ford 1908 British English
15899 I, John Mordaunt Virgil Scott 1952 Unknown English
15899 The Eagle And The Rock Frances Winwar 1944 Unknown English
15899 The Forest And The Fort Hervey Allen 1943 American English
15899 Bedford Village Hervey Allen 1944 American English
15899 In The Hands Of The Senecas Walter D. Edmonds 1950 American English
15899 Roanoke Hundred Inglis Fletcher 1948 American English
15899 Northwest Passage Kenneth Roberts 1937 American English
15899 Drums James Boyd 1928 American English
15899 Richard Caqrvel Winston Churchill 1899 American English
15899 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
15899 Drums Along The Mohawk Walter D. Edmonds 1936 American English
15899 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
15899 Blind Journey Bruce Lancaster 1953 American English
15899 Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker S. Weir Mitchell 1896 American English
15899 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15899 Rabble In Arms Kenneth Roberts 1933 American English
15899 Captain Caution Kenneth Roberts 1934 American English
15899 Lydia Bailey Kenneth Roberts 1940 American English
15899 The Unconquered Ben Ames Williams 1953 American English
15899 Marching On James Boyd 1927 American English
15899 Long Remember MacKinlay Kantor 1934 American English
15899 House Divided Ben Ames Williams 1947 American English
15899 So Red The Rose Stark Young 1934 American English
15899 The Feud Amelia Bean 1952 Unknown English
15899 Cimarron Edna Ferber 1929 American English
15899 Children Of God Vardis Fisher 1939 American English
15899 The Turning Wheel Stuart Cloete 1937 South African English
15899 Nightrunners Of Bengal John Masters 1951 British English
15899 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English