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
17120 Last Boat Out Of Shanghai Zia, Helen 2019 Unknown English
17120 The Loneliest Americans Jay Caspian Kang 2021 American English
17120 Wanting Tom Burgis 2021 Unknown English
16922 The Romance Of 'Antar Unknown 1100 Multiple Arabic
17120 The Gospel According To The New World Maryse Condé, Richard Philcox 2021 French French
17120 Girl In Pieces Kathleen Glasgow 2016 American English
17120 The Golden Spruce John Vaillant 2005 Canadian English
17120 Autobiography Of A Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky 2013 Russian Russian
17120 Bark, George Jules Feiffer 1999 American English
17120 Ben’s Trumpet Rachel Isadora 1979 American English
17120 Chains Laurie Halse Anderson 2008 American English
17120 Grandfather’s Journey Allen Say 1993 American English
17120 Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson 2003 American English
17120 Meet Danitra Brown Nikki Grimes 1984 American English
17120 Rickshaw Girl Mitali Perkins 2007 American English
17120 Starry River Of The Sky Grace Lin 2012 American English
17120 The Lion And The Lily Ira Mukhoty 2023 Unknown English
17120 Audacious Hope Indrajit Roy Unknown English
17120 Yellow Book Amitava Kumar 2023 Unknown English
17120 Daybreak In Gaza Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller Unknown English
17120 Day Michael Cunningham American Unknown
17120 A Shining Jon Fosse Unknown Norwegian
17120 Tokyo Express Taiyō Matsumoto Unknown Unknown
17120 Zpověď Maxe Tivoliho Andrew Sean Greer 2004 American English
17120 Of Women And Salt Gabriela Garcia 2021 Unknown English
17120 Svolení Vanessa Springora 2020 French French
17120 The Broken String Neil Bennun 2004 Unknown English
17120 The Afrikaners John Fisher 1969 Unknown English
17120 Marrying Winterborne Lisa Kleypas 2016 American English
17120 Binding 13 Chloe Walsh 2018 Unknown English
17120 One Of Us Knows Alyssa Cole Unknown Unknown
17120 Cursed Fates Caroline Peckham 2022 Unknown English
17120 Gold Raven Kennedy 2020 Unknown English
17120 A Dowry Of Blood S.T. Gibson 2021 Unknown English
17120 Rouge Mona Awad 2023 Canadian English
17120 A Fate Inked In Blood Danielle L. Jensen 2023 Unknown English
17120 Masters Of Death Olivie Blake 2023 Unknown English
17120 A Curse For True Love Stephanie Garber 2023 American English
17120 The Captain Will Wight 2023 Unknown English
17120 Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix 2023 Unknown English
17120 River Sing Me Home Eleanor Shearer 2023 Unknown English
17120 Sirens & Muses Antonia Angress 2022 Unknown English
17120 Broken Bonds J. Bree 2021 Unknown English
17120 Twisted Lies Ana Huang 2022 Unknown English
17120 Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion 2021 American English
17120 Him Sarina Bowen 2015 Unknown English
17120 A History Of Wild Places Shea Ernshaw 2021 American English
17120 Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 2021 American English
17120 This Woven Kingdom Tahereh Mafi 2022 American English
17120 Velvet Was The Night Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2021 Mexican English
17120 Almond Sohn Won-Pyung 2017 Korean Korean
17120 House Of Hollow Krystal Sutherland 2021 Australian English
17120 Wordslut Amanda Montell 2023 American English
17120 The Queen Of The Tearling Erika Johansen 2014 American English
17120 The Beautiful Struggle Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 American English
17120 All The Tides Of Fate Adalyn Grace 2021 American English
17120 Time's Convert Deborah Harkness 2018 American English
17120 Lord Of The Mysteries Volume 1 Ai Qianshui de Wuzei 2018 Chinese Chinese
16796 A Moth To A Flame Stig Dagerman 1948 Swedish Swedish
17120 To Calais In Ordinary Time James Meek 2019 British English
17120 Inventario Di Alcune Cose Perdute Judith Schalansky 2018 German German
17120 Il Paradiso Degli Orchi Daniel Pennac 1985 French Italian
17120 Tutti I Nomi José Saramago 1997 Portuguese Italian
17120 Q Luther Blissett 1999 Italian Italian
17120 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17120 The Seducer Jan Kjærstad 1993 Norwegian Norwegian
17120 The Five Gates Of Hell Rupert Thomson 1991 British English
17120 Communion Town Sam Thompson 2012 British English
17120 The Year Of The Ladybird Graham Joyce 2013 British English
17120 Wolves Simon Ings 2014 British English
17120 The Race Nina Allan 2014 British English
17120 Katherine Carlyle Rupert Thomson 2015 British English
17120 The Ecliptic Benjamin Wood 2015 British English
17120 Universal Harvester John Darnielle 2017 American English
17120 Threshold Rob Doyle 2020 Irish English
17120 Sphinx Anne Garréta 1986 French French
17120 The First Bad Man Miranda July 2015 American English
17120 Europe In Autumn Dave Hutchinson 2014 British English
17120 The Wake Paul Kingsnorth 2014 British English
17120 Cave & Julia M. John Harrison 2014 British English
17120 Our Ecstatic Days Steve Erickson 2005 American English
17120 Angelmaker Nick Harkaway 2012 British English
17120 To Be Taught, If Fortunate Becky Chambers 2019 American English
17120 Still Pictures Janet Malcolm 2023 American English
17120 The World And All That It Holds Aleksandar Hemon 2023 Bosnian English
17120 Here Goes Nothing Steve Toltz 2022 Australian English
17120 People From Bloomington Budi Darma 1980 Indonesian Indonesian
17120 The Wrong End Of The Telescope Rabih Alameddine 2021 American English
17120 Devil House John Darnielle 2022 American English
17120 Eichmann Before Jerusalem Bettina Stangneth 2011 German German
17120 The Bartender's Tale Ivan Doig 2012 American English
17120 Five Carat Soul James McBride 2017 American English
17120 Janesville Amy Goldstein Unknown Unknown
17120 Audience Of One James Poniewozik 2019 American English
17120 Dracula Jon J. Muth Unknown Unknown
16807 No Surrender Hiroo Onoda 1974 Japanese Japanese
17120 King Of The World David Remnick 1998 American English
17120 Rabbit Cake Annie Hartnett 2017 American English
17120 My Father, The Pornographer Andrew J. Offutt 2016 American English
17120 The Red Parts Maggie Nelson 2007 American English
17120 Night Etel Adnan 2016 Unknown English
17120 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me Sherman Alexie 2017 American English
17120 White Egrets Derek Walcott 2010 Saint Lucian English
16903 Notes From Underground & The Double Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864 Russian Russian
17120 Entered From The Sun George Garrett 1990 American English
17120 The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore 2008 American English
17120 Breaking And Entering Joy Williams 1988 American English
17120 Servants Of The Map Andrea Barrett 2023 American English
17120 The Tender Bar J.R. Moehringer 2005 American English
17120 The Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17120 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
17120 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17120 Delilah Green Doesn't Care Ashley Herring Blake 2022 American English
17120 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17120 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17120 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17120 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17120 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17120 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17120 The Drowned Moniro Ravanipour 1989 Unknown Persian