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 Humans Matt Haig 2013 British English
17164 Last Night At The Lobster Stewart O'Nan 2007 American English
17164 Restore Me Tahereh Mafi 2018 American English
17164 Delilah Green Doesn't Care Ashley Herring Blake 2022 American English
17164 Man Of My Time Dalia Sofer 2020 Unknown English
17164 My Part Of Her Javad Djavahery 2017 Unknown French
17164 A Door Between Us Ehsaneh Sadr 2020 Unknown English
17164 Then The Fish Swallowed Him Amir Ahmadi Arian 2020 Iranian English
17164 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17164 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17164 The Drowned Moniro Ravanipour 1989 Unknown Persian
17164 The Woman Who Read Too Much Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 2015 Unknown English
17164 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17164 Better Than War Siamak Vossoughi 2015 Unknown English
17164 Song Of A Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2018 American English
17164 A Good Country Laleh Khadivi 2017 American English
17164 The Last Days Of Cafe Leila Donia Bijan 2017 Unknown English
17164 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17164 Rituals Of Restlessness Yaghoub Yadali 2016 Iranian Persian
17164 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17164 Children Of The Jacaranda Tree Sahar Delijani 2013 Unknown English
17164 The Luminous Heart Of Jonah S. Gina B. Nahai 2014 American English
17164 Brief Encounters With The Enemy Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 2013 American English
17164 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian
17164 The Neighbors Ahmad Mahmoud 1974 Unknown Persian
17164 The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2009 Iranian Persian
17164 Paris To The Moon Adam Gopnik 2000 American English
17164 Looking For The Stranger Alice Kaplan 2016 Unknown English
17164 Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men Harold Bloom 2000 American English
17164 The Secret History Of Twin Peaks Robert Frost 2016 Unknown English
16969 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Other Stories Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
17164 The Master And Margarita: A Critical Companion Laura Weeks 1996 Unknown English
17164 The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer Jennifer Lynch 1990 American English
17164 Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 Naoki Urasawa 1994 Japanese Japanese
17164 Homunculus 1 Hideo Yamamoto 2003 Japanese Japanese
17164 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17164 Once Upon A Time In The North Philip Pullman 2008 British English
17164 By The Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle 2024 Unknown English
17164 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17164 Percy Jackson And The Olympians Boxed Set Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17164 The Necromancer Michael Scott 2010 Irish English
17164 Red Army Amanda Peters 1989 Unknown Unknown
17164 Teresa Degli Oracoli Cecconi 2020 Unknown Italian
17098 Valentino / Sagittarius Natalia Ginzburg 1957 Italian Italian
17164 Thunderclap Laura Cumming 2023 British English
17164 Kick The Latch Kathryn Scanlan 2022 American English
17164 Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben 1995 Italian Italian
16950 The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg 1947 Italian Italian
16991 The Disconnected Oğuz Atay 1972 Turkish Turkish
17164 No One Writes Back Jang Jin-sung 2013 Unknown Korean
17164 Extracting The Stone Of Madness Alejandra Pizarnik 2016 Argentine Spanish
17164 The Weight Of Things Marianne Fritz 1978 Austrian German
17164 Dandelions Yasunari Kawabata Japanese Japanese
17130 Heaven Has No Favorites Erich Maria Remarque 1961 German German
17164 I, The Supreme Augusto Roa Bastos 1974 Paraguayan Spanish
17164 An Insular Possession Timothy Mo 1986 British English
17164 The Third Man And Other Stories Graham Greene 2011 British English
17164 The Beastly Beatitudes Of Balthazar B J. P. Donleavy 1967 American English
17164 Family Values Wendy Cope 2011 British English
17164 The Man With Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1992 British English
17164 Station Island Seamus Heaney 1984 Irish English
17164 Ghosts Unknown 2017 Unknown English
17164 Insignificance Terry Johnson 1982 British English
17164 The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford 2002 British English
17164 The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break Steven Sherrill 2000 American English
17164 Addicted Tony Adams 1998 British English
17164 On Bullfighting AL Kennedy 1999 British English
17164 How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won The Fa Cup JL Carr 1975 British English
17164 All The Horses Of Iceland Sarah Tolmie 2022 Unknown English
17164 Mass Effect Drew Karpyshyn 2010 Canadian English
17164 What ʿīsā Ibn Hishām Told Us Muhammad Salih al-Jabri Unknown Arabic
17164 Lost In Time A.G. Riddle 2022 American English
17164 Worlds Of Exile And Illusion Ursula K. Le Guin 1996 American English
17164 North America's Forgotten Past Series Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 1990 American English
17164 Daughter Of The Red Dear Joan Wolf 1991 American English
17164 The Reindeer Hunters Joan Wolf 1994 Unknown English
17164 The Twelfth Transforming Pauline Gedge 1984 Canadian English
17164 Lady Of The Reeds Pauline Gedge 1994 Canadian English
17164 King Of The Two Lands Jacquetta Hawkes 1966 British English
17164 Pharaoh Eloise J. McGraw 1958 Unknown English
17164 Pillar Of Fire Judith Tarr 1995 American English
17164 King And Goddess Judith Tarr 1996 American English
17164 The Praise Singer Mary Renault 1978 British English
17164 My Name Is Sappho Martha Rofheart 1974 Unknown English
17164 The Coin Of Carthage Bryher 1963 British English
16809 Winter Quarters Alfred Duggan 1956 British English
17164 Three's Company Alfred Duggan 1958 British English
17164 Children Of The Wolf Alfred Duggan 1959 British English
17164 The Antagonists Ernest K. Gahn 1971 Unknown English
17164 City Of Libertines William G. Hardy 1957 Unknown English
17164 Augustus Allan Massie 1986 British English
17164 The Young Caesar Rex Warner 1958 British English
17164 The Converts Rex Warner 1967 British English
17164 The Son Of Laughter Frederick Buechner 1993 American English
17164 Man Of Nazareth Anthony Burgess 1979 British English
17164 Ruan Bryher 1960 British English
17164 The Right Of Cerdic Alfred Duggan 1965 British English
17164 The Unspeakables Laverne Gay Unknown Unknown
17164 The Wicked Day Mary Stewart 1983 British English
17164 The Sword Of Sunset Rosemary Sutcliff 1963 British English
17164 The Year Of The Horsetails R.F. Tapsell 1967 Unknown English
17164 Red Queen, White Queen Henry Treece 1958 British English
17164 The Road To Avalon Joan Wolf 1988 American English
17164 The Edge Of Light Joan Wolf 1990 American English
17164 The Hooded Falcon Prudence Andrew 1960 Unknown English
17164 Ordeal By Silence Prudence Andrew Unknown Unknown
17164 The Constant Star Prudence Andrew 1963 Unknown Unknown
17164 This January Tale Bryher 1966 British English
17164 The Lion Of England Margaret Butler Unknown English
17164 Deep Are The Valleys Hannah Closs 1960 Unknown English
17164 The Silent Tarn Hannah Closs 1963 Unknown English
17164 King's Man C.M. Edmondston, M.L.F. Hyde Unknown Unknown
17164 The Firedrake Cecelia Holland 1966 American English
17164 Antichrist Cecelia Holland 1970 Unknown English
17164 Harry Of Monmouth A. Maugham Unknown Unknown
17164 Thomas Shelley Mydans 1965 Unknown English
17164 Cities Of The Flesh Zoe Oldenbourg 1961 French French
17164 The Heirs Of The Kingdom Zoe Oldenbourg 1970 French French
17164 White Boar Marian Palmer 1988 Unknown English
17164 The Reckoning Sharon Kay Penman 1991 American English