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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17120 | The Physician Of London | Stephanie Cowell | 1995 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Glass Blowers | Daphne du Maurier | 1963 | British | English | |
| 17120 | White Witch | Elizabeth Goudge | 1958 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Frenchwoman | Jeanne Mackin | 1989 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Vindication | Frances Sherwood | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Sir William | David Stacton | 1965 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Tennants Of Time | Thomas Flannagan | 1988 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The End Of The Hunt | Thomas Flanagan | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Toward The Morning | Hervey Allen | 1978 | American | English | |
| 17120 | A Durable Fire | Virginia Bernhard | 1990 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Pilgrims | Gerard Mac | Unknown | English | ||
| 17120 | O Beulah Land | Mary Lee Settle | 1981 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Cold Journey | Grace Stone | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | The First Rebel | Neil Swanson | 2009 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Long March | Jane Barry | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | The Carolinians | Jane Barry | 1959 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Bounty Lands | William Ellis | 1981 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Liberty Tavern | Thomas Fleming | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Monmouth | Charles Flood | 1977 | Unknown | English | |
| 16769 | Hannah Fowler | Janice Giles | 1956 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Beulah Land | Harold Davis | 1973 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Surveyor | Turman Nelson | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | Know Nothing | Mary Lee Settle | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Jonathan Dearborn | Willard M. Wallace | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | When The War Is Over | Stephen Becker | 1968 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Elkhorn Tavern | Douglas C. Jones | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Falling Hills | Perry Lentz | 1994 | American | English | |
| 17120 | By Antietam Creek | Don Robertson | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Crater | Richard Slotkin | 1980 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Time Of The Gringo | Elliott Arnold | 1970 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Good Way To Die | Del Barton | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | Fancher Train | Amelia Bean | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | Taos | Irwin Blacker | 1959 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Tale Of Valor | Vardis Fisher | 1958 | American | English | |
| 17120 | A Distanr Trumpet | Paul Horgan | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Carrington | Michael Straight | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17120 | A Very Small Remnant | Michael Straight | 1976 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Lord Of The Kongo | Peter Forbath | 1988 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Whales Of Lake Tanganyika | Lennart Hagerfors | 1992 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 17120 | Kenya | John Halkin | 1986 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Deception | Eleanor Cooney, Daniel Altieri | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Dynasty | Robert S. Elegant | 1977 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Manchu | Robert S. Elegant | 1980 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Mandarin | Robert S. Elegant | 1983 | American | English | |
| 17120 | From A Far Land | Robert S. Elegant | 1986 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Peking | Anthony Grey | 1988 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Silk And Steel | Stephen Alter | 1980 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Golden Fire | Jonathan Fast | 1986 | Unknown | English | |
| 16769 | Shadow Of The Moon | M.M. Kaye | 1956 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Raj | Gita Mehta | 1989 | Indian | English | |
| 17120 | Tokaido Road | Lucia St. Clair Robson | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Segaki | David Stacton | 1958 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Sakuran | Edward Tolosko | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | The Signore | Kunio Tsuji | 1990 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17120 | Molokai | O.A. Bushnell | 1960 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Dreaming | Barbara Wood | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17120 | All Soul's Rising | Madison Smartt Bell | 1995 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Sword And The Sun | Gerald Green | 1980 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Drums Of Destiny | Bruce Jeffries | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | The Luck Of Huemac | Daniel Peters | 1981 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Signal Victory | David Stacton | 1960 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Eleni Or Nobody | Rhea Galanaki | 1998 | Greek | Greek | |
| 17120 | The Literature Express | Lasha Bugadze | 2009 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 17120 | Requiem For The Living | Alan Cherchesov | 2005 | Unknown | Russian | |
| 17120 | The Orphan Sky | Ella Leya | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Man Was Going Down The Road | Otar Chiladze | 1973 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 17120 | The Fleeting City | Hovhannes Tekgyozan | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | Dagny, Or A Love Feast | Zurab Karumidze | 2014 | Georgian | English | |
| 17120 | Solar Plexus | Rustam Ibragimbekov | 1996 | Azerbaijani | English | |
| 17120 | The Legacy Of Lost Things | Aida Zilalian | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Moshi Moshi | Banana Yoshimoto | 2010 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17120 | The River Has Roots | Amal El Mohtar | 2025 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Heavenbreaker | Christa Wolf | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | Maya & Natasha | Elyse Durham | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | Crier's War | Francisco J. Varela | 2019 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Waiting For The Galactic Bus | Parke Godwin | 1988 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Beauty | Sheri S. Tepper | 1991 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Last Language | Jennifer duBois | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Menewood | Nicola Griffith | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Heaven And Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | This Is Salvaged | Vauhini Vara | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Worn | Sofi Thanhauser | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Body Neutral | Jessi Kneeland | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus | Nabeel Qureshi | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Girlfriend On Mars | Deborah Willis | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | The Terraformers | Annalee Newitz | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | On Earth As It Is On Television | Emily Jane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Second Chance For Yesterday | RA Sinn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Same Dog | Robert Aickman | 2023 | British | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet | Vandana Singh | 2009 | Indian | English | |
| 17120 | A Half Built Garden | Ruthanna Emrys | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | My Murder | Katie Williams | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Emergency | Kathleen Alcott | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | To Name The Bigger Lie | Sarah Viren | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Beware The Woman | Megan Abbott | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Stolen Coast | Dwyer Murphy | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Mobility | Lydia Kiesling | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Strega | Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel | 2020 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17120 | Obra Maestra | Juan Tallón | 2022 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 17120 | The Skull | Jon Klassen | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing | Melissa Banks | 1999 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Glow | Jessie Gaynor | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Grand Tour | Elisa Gonzalez | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | I Love Russia | Elena Kostyuchenko | 2023 | Unknown | Russian | |
| 17120 | The Lights | Ben Lerner | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Master Slave Husband Wife | Ilyon Woo | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Ordinary Notes | Christina Sharpe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Rediscovery Of America | Ned Blackhawk | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Roman Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Shining | Jon Fosse | 2023 | Norwegian | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Vengeance Is Mine | Marie NDiaye | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | How To Build A Boat | Elaine Feeney | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Wrong Way | Joanne McNeil | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | About Ed | Robert Gluck | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17120 | The Berry Pickers | Amanda Peters | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Correction | Ben Austen | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild | Mathias Énard | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Holler, Child | LaToya Watkins | 2023 | Unknown | English |