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
17169 Stick Out Your Tongue Ma Jian 1987 Chinese Chinese
17169 Please Don’t Call Me Human Wang Shuo 1991 Chinese Chinese
17169 Ocean Of Words Ha Jin 1996 American English
17169 Once Upon A Time In The East Xiaolu Guo 2017 British English
17169 Beijing Coma Ma Jian 2008 Chinese Chinese
17169 Wolf Totem Jiang Rong 2004 Chinese Chinese
17169 Happy Dreams Jia Pingwa 2007 Chinese Chinese
17169 The Fat Years Chan Koonchung 2009 Chinese Chinese
17169 Lotus Lijia Zhang 2017 Chinese English
17169 Permafrost Eva Baltasar 2018 Spanish Catalan
17169 A Girl Returned Donatella Di Pietrantonio 2017 Italian Italian
17169 Motherhood Sheila Heti 2018 Canadian English
17169 Accabadora Michela Murgia 2009 Italian Italian
17169 The Love Object Edna O'Brien 2013 Irish English
17169 44 Scotland Street Collection Alexander McCall Smith 2005 British English
17169 Wild Robot Peter Brown 2016 American English
17169 Carrie Soto Is Back Taylor Jenkins Reid 2022 American English
17169 Ready Player Two Ernest Cline 2020 American English
17169 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17169 The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell 2004 British English
17169 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 1999 American English
17169 My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell 2020 American English
17169 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate 2017 American English
17169 My Cat Yugoslavia Pajtim Statovci 2014 Finnish Finnish
16861 Laughable Loves Milan Kundera 1969 Czech Czech
17169 Divergent Veronica Roth 2011 American English
17169 I Am The Messenger Markus Zusak 2002 Australian English
17169 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 American English
17169 Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 1998 American English
17169 The Drawing Of The Three Stephen King 1987 American English
16887 Coming Up For Air George Orwell 1939 British English
17169 Only Time Will Tell Jeffrey Archer 2011 British English
17169 The Hammer Of Thor Rick Riordan 2016 American English
17169 Crash & Burn Lisa Gardner 2015 American English
17169 Song Of Susannah Stephen King 2004 American English
17169 The Emperor's Soul Brandon Sanderson 2012 American English
17169 Hannibal Thomas Harris 1999 American English
17169 The Acid House Irvine Welsh 1994 British English
17169 Havana Black Leonardo Padura 1998 Cuban Spanish
17169 The Desert Spear Peter V. Brett 2010 American English
17169 The Bride Test Helen Hoang 2019 American English
17169 The Master Of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee 1994 South African English
17169 Playing In The Dark Toni Morrison 1992 American English
17169 Le Avventure Di Guizzardi Gianni Celati 1973 Italian Italian
17169 Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi 1984 Italian Italian
17169 Utopia Avenue David Mitchell 2020 British English
17169 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
17169 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17169 The Burnt Forehead Of Max Saul Indrajit Hazra 2000 Indian English
17169 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
17169 The Lie Of Dawns Jayanta Mahapatra 2000 Indian English
17169 Indivisible Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam 2010 Multiple English
17169 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17169 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17169 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17169 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17169 The Global Soul Pico Iyer 2000 British English
17169 Naoko Keigo Higashino 1998 Japanese Japanese
17169 Caribbean James A. Michener 1989 American English
17169 The Rum Diary Hunter S. Thompson 1998 American English
17169 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
17169 The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider 1982 German German
17169 The Shadow Boxing Woman Inka Parei 1999 German German
17169 Berlin Blues Sven Regener 2001 German German
17169 Broken Glass Park Alina Bronsky 2008 German German
17169 The Monk Of Mokha Dave Eggers 2018 American English
17169 The Man In The Red Coat Julian Barnes 2019 British English
17169 The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell 2022 British English
17169 Not Even The Dead Juan Gómez Bárcena 2023 Spanish Spanish
17169 Funny Girl Nick Hornby 2014 British English
17169 When The Stars Go Dark Paula McLain 2021 American English
17169 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
17169 The Searcher Tana French 2020 Irish English
17169 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2007 American English
17169 The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro 2013 Unknown English
17169 Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008 British English
17169 Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen 1993 American English
17169 From The Ruins Of Empire Pankaj Mishra 2012 Indian English
17169 The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 2010 American English
17169 White Horse Erika T. Wurth 2022 Unknown English
17169 A Closed And Common Orbit Becky Chambers 2016 American English
17169 Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell 2012 American English
17169 The Story Of A New Name Elena Ferrante 2012 Italian Italian
17169 Self Mythology Saba Keramati 2024 Unknown Unknown
17169 Mary Coin Marisa Silver 2013 American English
17169 The Crooked Hinge John Dickson Carr 1937 American English
17169 Because I Am Not Myself, You See Ariane Beetson 2024 Unknown Unknown
17169 Rock Flight Hasib Hourani 2021 Unknown English
17169 New Animal Ella Baxter 2021 Australian English
17169 Burn Man Mark Anthony Jarman (Biblioasis 2024 Unknown English
17169 The City And Its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami 2023 Japanese Japanese
17169 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17169 The Antagonist Lynn Coady 2011 Canadian English
17137 The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood 1969 Canadian English
17169 My Year Of Meat Ruth Ozeki 1998 American English
17169 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket 2005 American English
17169 The Last White Man Mohsin Hamid 2022 Pakistani English
17169 A Week To Be Wicked Tessa Dare 2012 American English
16813 Capricornia Xavier Herbert 1938 Australian English
17169 Winter In Sokcho Elisa Shua Dusapin 2016 French French
17169 After Dark Haruki Murakami 2004 Japanese Japanese
17169 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 2021 British English
17169 Still Life Sarah Winman 2021 British English
17169 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17169 Edinburgh Alexander Chee 2001 American English
17169 The Broom Of The System David Foster Wallace 1987 American English
17169 The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 2017 American English
16929 Set This House On Fire William Styron 1960 American English
17169 The Great American Novel Philip Roth 1973 American English
17169 Palestinian Walks Raja Shehadeh 2008 Palestinian English
17169 The Bedwetter Sarah Silverman 2010 American English
17169 The Country Without A Post Office Agha Shahid Ali 1997 Indian English
17169 Annabel Kathleen Winter 2010 Canadian English
17169 Certainty Madeleine Thien 2006 Canadian English
17169 Elizabeth And After Matt Cohen 1999 Canadian English
17169 Green Grass, Running Water Thomas King 1993 Canadian English
17169 Sweetness In The Belly Camilla Gibb 2005 Canadian English
17169 The Book Of Secrets M.G. Vassanji 1994 Canadian English
17169 The Lesser Blessed Richard Van Camp 1996 Canadian English
17169 Latro In The Mist Gene Wolfe 2003 American English