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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17074 | Le Locataire Chimérique | Roland Topor | 1964 | French | French | |
| 17171 | Bury Me Standing | Isobel Fonseca | 1995 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | My Brother Jack | George Johnston | 1964 | Australian | English | |
| 17171 | The Wolf Border | Sarah Hall | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17171 | Gerta | Tučková, Kateřina | 2020 | Czech | Czech | |
| 17171 | The Invisible Bridge | Julie Orringer | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Family Chao | Lan Samantha Chang | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17171 | White Tears | Hari Kunzru | 2017 | British | English | |
| 17067 | The Double And The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1846 | Russian | Russian | |
| 16907 | Taran Wanderer | Lloyd Alexander | 1967 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Nona The Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2022 | New Zealand | English | |
| 17171 | Unmasking Autism | Devon Price | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | House Of Suns | Alastair Reynolds | 2008 | British | English | |
| 17171 | The Impersonators | Jessica Anderson | 1980 | Australian | English | |
| 17171 | They're A Wierd Mob | Nino Culotta | 1957 | Australian | English | |
| 17171 | A Woman's Story | Annie Ernaux | 1988 | French | French | |
| 17171 | Moxyland | Lauren Beukes | 2008 | South African | English | |
| 17171 | I’m A Fool To Want You | Camila Sosa Villada, Kit Maude | 2024 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17171 | Re Creating Ourselves | Molara Ogundipe-Leslie | 1994 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17171 | How To Be A Good Savage And Other Poems | Mikeas Sánchez | Unknown | Spanish | ||
| 17171 | An American Sunrise | Joy Harjo | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee | David Treuer | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17171 | You Better Be Lightning | Andrea Gibson | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Come West And See | Maxim Loskutoff | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Another Attempt At Rescue | M. L. Smoker | 2005 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | The Witch's Heart | Genevieve Gornichec | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Crazy Brave | Joy Harjo | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17171 | In Country | Bobbie Ann Mason | 1985 | American | English | |
| 17171 | My Sad Republic | Eric Gamalinda | 2000 | Filipino | English | |
| 17171 | Horse Barbie | Geena Rocero | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | Parachute Kids | Betty C. Tang | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | Soccer In Sun And Shadow | Eduardo Galeano | 1995 | Uruguayan | Spanish | |
| 17171 | The Gift Of Rain | Tan Twang Eng | 2007 | Malaysian | English | |
| 17171 | Saga, Compendium One | Brian K. Vaughan | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Sources Of The Self | Charles Taylor | 1989 | Canadian | English | |
| 17171 | Teaching To Transgress | bell hooks | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Swann | Carol Shields | 1987 | Canadian | English | |
| 17171 | Four Treasures Of The Sky | Jenny Tinghui Zhang | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | 813 | Maurice Leblanc | 1910 | French | French | |
| 17171 | Limehouse Nights | Thomas Burke | 1917 | British | English | |
| 17171 | Paper Lion | George Plimpton | 1966 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Among The Thugs | Bill Buford | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Sports World | Robert Lipsyte | 1975 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Ark Sakura | Kobo Abé | 1984 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17171 | The Republic Of Dreams | Nélida Piñon | 1984 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17171 | The Killer | Patrícia Melo | 1995 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17171 | All Boys Aren’t Blue | George Johnson | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Jednorožce | Barbora Hrínová | 2020 | Slovak | Slovak | |
| 17171 | The Discoverer | Jan Kjærstad | 1999 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17171 | Check & Mate | Ali Hazelwood | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | Sheepfarmers Daughter | Elizabeth Moon | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Bad Blood | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | All In | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Doll People | Ann M. Martin | 2000 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Lyra's Oxford | Philip Pullman | 2003 | British | English | |
| 17171 | A Breath Of Life | Clarice Lispector | 1978 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17171 | The Collected Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Irish | English | ||
| 17171 | A Game Of Thrones / A Clash Of Kings | George R. R. Martin | 1996 | American | English | |
| 17171 | A Song Of Ice And Fire | George R. R. Martin | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Ms. Hempel Chronicles | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17171 | A Girl Named Zippy | Haven Kimmel | 2001 | American | English | |
| 17171 | What Is All This? | Stephen Dixon | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Kingdom Animalia | Aracelis Girmay | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17171 | And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell | 2005 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Ankomst | Gøhril Gabrielsen | 2017 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17171 | The Bird Tribunal | Agnes Ravatn | 2013 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17171 | Zero | Gine Cornelia Pedersen | 2013 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17171 | Will And Testament | Vigdis Hjorth | 2016 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17171 | A Modern Family | Helga Flatland | 2017 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17171 | Loop | Brenda Lozano | 2014 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17171 | Ramifications | Daniel Saldaña París | 2018 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17171 | Season Of The Swamp | Yuri Herrera | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | Umami | Laia Jufresa | 2015 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17171 | On Lighthouses | Jazmina Barrera | 2017 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17171 | Rizal In Saga | Nick Joaquin | 1996 | Philippine | English | |
| 17171 | The Gullet | Clinton Palanca | Philippine | English | ||
| 17171 | Memories Of Philippine Kitchens | Amy Besa, Romy Dorotan | 2006 | Philippine | English | |
| 17171 | The House On Calle Sombra | Marga Ortigas | 2021 | Philippine | English | |
| 17171 | Joy | Angelo Lacuesta | Philippine | English | ||
| 17171 | Hansen’s Children | Ognjen Spahić | 2004 | Montenegrin | Montenegrin | |
| 17171 | Three Elegies For Kosovo | Ismail Kadare | 1998 | Albanian | Albanian | |
| 17171 | The Walnut Mansion | Miljenko Jergović | 2003 | Croatian | Croatian | |
| 17171 | Stork Mountain | Miroslav Penkov | 2016 | Bulgarian | English | |
| 17171 | Dry Season | Gabriela Babnik | 2012 | Unknown | Slovene | |
| 17171 | The Russian Window | Dragan Velikić | 2007 | Unknown | Serbian | |
| 17171 | Border State | Tõnu Õnnepalu | 1993 | Estonian | Estonian | |
| 17171 | The Cavemen Chronicle | Mihkel Mutt | 2012 | Estonian | Estonian | |
| 17171 | The Saviour Of Lasnamäe | Mari Saat | 2009 | Estonian | Estonian | |
| 17171 | Flesh Coloured Dominoes | Zigmunds Skujiņš | 1999 | Latvian | Latvian | |
| 17171 | Breathing Into Marble | Laura Sintija | 2009 | Unknown | Lithuanian | |
| 17171 | Those Whom I Would Like To Meet Again | Giedra Radvilavičiūtė | 2013 | Lithuanian | Lithuanian | |
| 17171 | Tūla | Jurgis Kunčinas | 1993 | Lithuanian | Lithuanian | |
| 17171 | Great Italian Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2023 | Unknown | Italian | |
| 17171 | Great Spanish Stories | Margaret Jull Costa | 2014 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17171 | Bluebeard’s First Wife | Ha Seong-nan | 2002 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17171 | Mina | Kim Sagwa | 2008 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17171 | Blood Sisters | Kim Yideum | 2019 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17171 | The Disaster Tourist | Yun Ko-eun | 2013 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17171 | Thud! | Terry Pratchett | 2005 | British | English | |
| 17171 | Carpe Jugulum | Terry Pratchett | 1998 | British | English | |
| 17171 | The Last Continent | Terry Pratchett | 1998 | British | English | |
| 17171 | Monstrous Regiment | Terry Pratchett | 2003 | British | English | |
| 17171 | Record Of A Spaceborn Few | Becky Chambers | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Provenance | Ann Leckie | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Wintersmith | Terry Pratchett | 2006 | British | English | |
| 17171 | Zima Blue And Other Stories | Alastair Reynolds | 2006 | British | English | |
| 17171 | The Little Bandits | Michael Henry | 2025 | Australian | English | |
| 17171 | Worm | Wildbow | 2011 | Canadian | English | |
| 17171 | We Were Dreamers | Marjorie Liu | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17171 | The Hate You Give | Angie Thomas | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Eyes And The Impossible | Dave Eggers | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Gallant | V. E. Schwab | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Dear Edward | Ann Napolitano | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Unseen World | Liz Moore | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Son | Lois Lowry | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17171 | Messenger | Lois Lowry | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman | 1995 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Selection | Kiera Cass | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17171 | A Gathering Of Days | Joan W. Blos | 1979 | American | English | |
| 17171 | The Favorites | Layne Fargo | Unknown | Unknown |