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 Better Than War Siamak Vossoughi 2015 Unknown English
17120 Song Of A Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2018 American English
17120 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17120 The Last Days Of Cafe Leila Donia Bijan 2017 Unknown English
17120 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17120 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17120 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17120 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17120 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17120 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17120 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17120 The Neighbors Ahmad Mahmoud 1974 Unknown Persian
17120 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17120 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17120 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17120 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17120 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
16797 The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1955 American English
16966 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17120 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
17120 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17120 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17120 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17120 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17120 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
17120 By The Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle 2024 Unknown English
17120 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17120 Percy Jackson And The Olympians Boxed Set Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17120 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17120 Red Army Amanda Peters 1989 Unknown Unknown
17120 Teresa Degli Oracoli Cecconi 2020 Unknown Italian
17052 Valentino / Sagittarius Natalia Ginzburg 1957 Italian Italian
17120 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
17120 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17120 Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 1995 Italian Italian
16904 The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg 1947 Italian Italian
16953 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17120 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17120 The Weight Of Things Marianne Fritz 1978 Austrian German
17120 Dandelions Yasunari Kawabata Japanese Japanese
17116 Heaven Has No Favorites Erich Maria Remarque 1961 German German
17120 I, The Supreme Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 Paraguayan Spanish
17120 An Insular Possession Timothy Mo 1986 British English
17120 The Third Man And Other Stories Graham Greene 2011 British English
17120 The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B J. P. Donleavy 1967 American English
17120 Family Values Wendy Cope 2011 British English
17120 The Man With Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1992 British English
17120 Station Island Seamus Heaney 1984 Irish English
17120 Ghosts Unknown 2017 Unknown English
17120 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17120 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17120 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill 2000 American English
17120 Addicted Tony Adams 1998 British English
17120 On Bullfighting AL Kennedy 1999 British English
17120 How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The Fa Cup JL Carr 1975 British English
17120 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17120 Mass Effect Drew Karpyshyn 2010 Canadian English
17120 What ʿīsā Ibn Hishām Told Us Muhammad Salih al-Jabri Unknown Arabic
17120 Lost In Time A.G. Riddle 2022 American English
17120 Worlds Of Exile And Illusion Ursula K. Le Guin 1996 American English
17120 North America's Forgotten Past Series Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 1990 American English
17120 Daughter Of The Red Dear Joan Wolf 1991 American English
17120 The Reindeer Hunters Joan Wolf 1994 Unknown English
17120 The Twelfth Transforming Pauline Gedge 1984 Canadian English
17120 Lady Of The Reeds Pauline Gedge 1994 Canadian English
17120 King Of The Two Lands Jacquetta Hawkes 1966 British English
17120 Pharaoh Eloise J. McGraw 1958 Unknown English
17120 Pillar Of Fire Judith Tarr 1995 American English
17120 King And Goddess Judith Tarr 1996 American English
17120 The Praise Singer Mary Renault 1978 British English
17120 My Name Is Sappho Martha Rofheart 1974 Unknown English
17120 The Coin Of Carthage Bryher 1963 British English
16769 Winter Quarters Alfred Duggan 1956 British English
17120 Three's Company Alfred Duggan 1958 British English
17120 Children Of The Wolf Alfred Duggan 1959 British English
17120 The Antagonists Ernest K. Gahn 1971 Unknown English
17120 City Of Libertines William G. Hardy 1957 Unknown English
17120 Augustus Allan Massie 1986 British English
17120 The Young Caesar Rex Warner 1958 British English
17120 The Converts Rex Warner 1967 British English
17120 The Son Of Laughter Frederick Buechner 1993 American English
17120 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17120 Ruan Bryher 1960 British English
17120 The Right Of Cerdic Alfred Duggan 1965 British English
17120 The Unspeakables Laverne Gay Unknown Unknown
17120 The Wicked Day Mary Stewart 1983 British English
17120 The Sword Of Sunset Rosemary Sutcliff 1963 British English
17120 The Year Of The Horsetails R.F. Tapsell 1967 Unknown English
17120 Red Queen, White Queen Henry Treece 1958 British English
17120 The Road To Avalon Joan Wolf 1988 American English
17120 The Edge Of Light Joan Wolf 1990 American English
17120 The Hooded Falcon Prudence Andrew 1960 Unknown English
17120 Ordeal By Silence Prudence Andrew Unknown Unknown
17120 The Constant Star Prudence Andrew 1963 Unknown Unknown
17120 This January Tale Bryher 1966 British English
17120 The Lion Of England Margaret Butler Unknown English
17120 Deep Are The Valleys Hannah Closs 1960 Unknown English
17120 The Silent Tarn Hannah Closs 1963 Unknown English
17120 King's Man C.M. Edmondston, M.L.F. Hyde Unknown Unknown
17120 The Firedrake Cecelia Holland 1966 American English
17120 Antichrist Cecelia Holland 1970 Unknown English
17120 Harry Of Monmouth A. Maugham Unknown Unknown
17120 Thomas Shelley Mydans 1965 Unknown English
17120 Cities Of The Flesh Zoe Oldenbourg 1961 French French
17120 The Heirs Of The Kingdom Zoe Oldenbourg 1970 French French
17120 White Boar Marian Palmer 1988 Unknown English
17120 The Reckoning Sharon Kay Penman 1991 American English
17120 Golden Hand Edith Simon 1961 Unknown English
17120 The Last Englishman Hebe Weenolson Unknown Unknown
17120 Nicodemus Sidney Alexander 1965 Unknown English
17120 Vittoria Robert Merle 1986 French French
17120 The Agony And The Ecstacy Irving Stone 1961 American English
17120 Stage Of Fools Charles Brady Unknown English
16769 Immortal Queen Elizabeth Byrd 1956 American English
17120 Feversham Diane Davidson 1969 Unknown Unknown
17120 Heart Of A Queen Josephine Delves-Broughton Unknown Unknown
17120 I, Elizabeth Rosalind Miles 1993 British English
17120 The Cat And The King Louis Auchincloss 1981 American English
17120 Campion Towers John Beatty, Patricia Beatty 1965 Unknown English
17120 Nicholas Cooke Stephanie Cowell 1993 Unknown English