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
17164 The Favorites Layne Fargo Unknown Unknown
17164 The Winthrop Woman Anya Seton 1958 American English
16981 The Big Rock Candy Mountain Wallace Stegner 1943 American English
17164 Honeybee Craig Silvey 2020 Australian English
17164 Gould's Book Of Fish Richard Flanagan 2001 Australian English
17164 Ancient Light John Banville 2012 Irish English
17164 The Power Of Meaning Emily Esfahani Smith 2017 American English
16911 I Am That Nisargadatta Maharaj 1973 Indian Marathi
17164 Conversations With David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace 2012 American English
16856 The Silent Cry Kenzaburō Ōe 1967 Japanese Japanese
17064 Inquisiciones Jorge Luis Borges 1925 Argentinian Spanish
17164 Eleven Minutes Paulo Coelho 2003 Brazilian Portuguese
17164 Historia De Una Gaviota Y Del Gato Que Le Enseñó A Volar Luis Sepúlveda 1996 Chilean Spanish
17164 Saltatempo Stefano Benni 2001 Italian Italian
17164 The Book Of Life Deborah Harkness 2014 American English
17164 The Wishing Spell Chris Colfer 2012 American English
17164 The Magician Michael Scott 2008 Irish English
17164 Miss Nelson Is Missing! Harry Allard 1977 American English
17164 Carry On Rainbow Rowell 2015 American English
17164 Darkfever Karen Marie Moning 2006 American English
17164 The Hunger Games Kate Egan 2008 Unknown English
17164 Bleach, Vol. 1 Tite Kubo 2001 Japanese Japanese
17164 Unravel Me Tahereh Mafi 2013 American English
17164 The English Understand Wool Helen DeWitt 2022 Unknown English
17164 A Place For Us Fatima Farheen Mirza 2018 American English
17164 The Hike Drew Magary 2016 American English
17164 The Rook Daniel O'Malley 2012 Australian English
17164 Strange The Dreamer Laini Taylor 2017 American English
17164 Killer Instinct Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2014 American English
17164 The Benevolent Society Of Ill Mannered Ladies Alison Goodman 2023 Unknown English
17164 One For My Enemy Olivie Blake 2022 Unknown English
17164 Heartless Marissa Meyer 2016 American English
17164 Lights Out Navessa Allen Unknown Unknown
17164 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre David Lodge 1997 Unknown English
17164 Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross 2001 American English
17164 I Am Ozzy Ozzy Osbourne 2009 British English
17164 Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007 American English
17164 Combee Edda L. Fields-Black 2024 Unknown English
17164 The Right To Oblivion Lowry Pressly 2024 Unknown English
17164 Klf John Higgs 2012 British English
17164 Piranesi Jonathan Scott 2020 Unknown English
17164 The Salmon Of Doubt Douglas Adams 2002 British English
17164 Habitus Emma Rooksby Unknown Unknown
17164 The Fabulous Clipjoint Frederick Brown 1947 American English
17164 Post Mortem Guy Cullingford 1953 British English
17164 The Party At No. 5 Shelley Smith 1964 Unknown English
17164 The New Sonia Wayward Michael Innes 1960 British English
17164 The Expendable Man Dorothy B. Hughes 1963 American English
17164 Mr. Splitfoot Helen McCloy 1968 American English
17164 The Tremor Of Forgery Patricia Highsmith 1969 American English
17164 Young Man, I Think You're Dying Joan Fleming 1970 British English
17164 Beyond This Point Are Monsters Margaret Millar 1970 Canadian English
17164 The Players And The Game Julian Symons 1972 British English
17164 Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Stanley Ellin 1972 American English
17164 A Death In The Life Dorothy Salisbury Davis 1976 American English
17164 Nobody's Perfect Donald E. Westlake 1977 American English
17164 Skinflick Joseph Hansen 1979 American English
17164 Kill Claudio P. M. Hubbard 1979 British English
17164 All On A Summer's Day John Wainwright 1981 British English
17164 The Artful Egg James McClure 1984 South African English
17164 Maurice And Maralyn Sophie Elmhirst 2024 Unknown English
17164 جای خالی سلوچ Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 1979 Iranian Persian
17164 Great Expectations Kathy Acker 1989 American English
17164 Diary Of A Void Emi Yagi 2020 Japanese Japanese
17164 Ripe Sarah Rose Etter 2023 Unknown English
17164 Aliens & Anorexia Chris Kraus 2000 American English
17164 Mayakovsky's Revolver Matthew Dickman 2012 American English
17164 Angry Candy Harlan Ellison 1988 American English
17164 I Was Told There'd Be Cake Sloane Crosley 2008 American English
17028 The Fate Of A Man And Early Stories Mikhail Sholokhov 1967 Russian Russian
17164 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell 2017 British English
17164 Turtle Diary Russell Hoban 1975 British English
17164 All The Names They Used For God Anjali Sachdeva 2018 American English
17164 In The Country Mia Alvar 2015 Unknown English
17164 Congo David Van Reybrouck 2010 Belgian Dutch
17164 Practical Demonkeeping Christopher Moore 1992 American English
16958 Trout Fishing In America / The Pill Vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
17164 An Intimate History Of Humanity Theodore Zeldin 1994 British English
17164 Sombrero Fallout Richard Brautigan 1976 American English
17164 Numbers In The Dark And Other Stories Italo Calvino 1995 Italian Italian
17164 The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare's Memory Jorge Luis Borges 1977 Argentinian Spanish
17164 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
17164 The Canning Season Polly Horvath 2003 Canadian English
17164 Godless Pete Hautman 2004 American English
17164 Goblin Secrets William Alexander 2012 American English
17164 What I Saw And How I Lied Judy Blundell 2008 American English
17164 Inside Out & Back Again Thanhhà Lại 2011 American English
17164 Pulp Charles Bukowski 1994 American English
17164 Don't Call Us Dead Danez Smith 2017 American English
17164 All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 2014 American English
17164 St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves Karen Russell 2024 American English
17164 August Blue Deborah Levy 2023 British English
17164 China Room Sunjeev Sahota 2021 British English
17164 Trick Domenico Starnone 2016 Italian Italian
17164 Okay For Now Gary D. Schmidt 2011 American English
17164 The Day My Bum Went Psycho Andy Griffiths 2001 Australian English
17164 The Beast Walter Dean Myers 2003 American English
17164 Judy Moody Megan McDonald 2000 American English
17164 Dead Street Mickey Spillane 2007 American English
17164 End Games Michael Dibdin 2007 British English
17164 Quicksand And Cactus Juanita Brooks 1982 American English
17164 Winter Count Barry Lopez 1981 American English
17164 Graven Images Paul Fleischman 1982 American English
17164 Having Our Say Amy Hill Hearth, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Sarah Louise Delany 1993 American English
16993 Rosa Knut Hamsun 1908 Norwegian Norwegian
17009 Under The Autumn Star Knut Hamsun 1906 Norwegian Norwegian
17089 The Wanderer Knut Hamsun 1917 Norwegian Norwegian
17164 May Contain Lies Alex Edmans Unknown Unknown
17164 Misericórdia Lídia Jorge Portuguese Portuguese
17164 This Thing Of Darkness Harry Thompson 2005 British English
17164 Soviet Milk Nora Ikstena 2015 Latvian Latvian
17164 I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko 2023 Russian Russian
17164 The Identity Trap Yascha Mounk 2023 Unknown English
17164 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17164 A Stranger In Your Own City Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 2023 Unknown English
17164 The Middle Kingdoms Martyn Rady 2023 Unknown English
17164 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy 2020 Australian English
17164 Un Monde à Portée De Main Maylis de Kerangal 2018 French French
17164 Out Of Mesopotamia Salar Abdoh 2020 Iranian English
17164 Censoring An Iranian Love Story Shahriar Mandanipour 2009 Iranian Persian