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 | Yesterday | Tobias Becker | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Night Watch | Jayne Anne Phillips | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Foreign Bodies | Simon Schama | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Brooklyn Crime Novel | Jonathan Lethem | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Earlier | Sasha Frere‑Jones | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Love Of Singular Men | Victor Heringer | 2023 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17120 | Beyond The Wall | Katja Hoyer | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Naked In The Rideshare | Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Flee North | Scott Shane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | January | Sara Gallardo | 2023 | Argentine | Spanish | |
| 17120 | A Council Of Dolls | Mona Susan Power | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Long Form | Kate Briggs | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Lies And Sorcery | Elsa Morante | 2023 | Italian | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Necessity Of Exile | Shaul Magid | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | A Haunting On The Hill | Elizabeth Hand | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The House Of Doors | Tan Twan Eng | 2023 | Malaysian | English | |
| 17120 | Cross‑Stitch | Jazmina Barrera | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17120 | The Vulnerables | Sigrid Nunez | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Romney | McKay Coppins | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Dimensions Of A Cave | Greg Jackson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | How To Be Multiple | Helena de Bres | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Mysteries | Bill Watterson | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | On Marriage | Devorah Baum | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | What The Taliban Told Me | Ian Fritz | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Monica | Daniel Clowes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | A Volga Tale | Guzel Yakhina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17120 | Artificial | Amy Kurzweil | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Omega Farm | Martha McPhee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Body Of The Soul | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17120 | American Poly | Christopher M. Gleason | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | This Is Salvaged | Vauhini Vara | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Wound | Oksana Vasyakina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17120 | The Boy From Kyiv | Marina Harss | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | This Country | Navied Mahdavian | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Black Friend | Ziwe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Our Hideous Progeny | C. E. McGill | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Pet | Catherine Chidgey | 2023 | New Zealand | English | |
| 17120 | A Man Of Two Faces | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | I Must Be Dreaming | Roz Chast | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Fire In The Canyon | Daniel Gumbiner | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Life And Times Of Hannah Crafts | Gregg Hecimovich | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Ladies’ Lunch | Lore Segal | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The English Experience | Julie Schumacher | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Hive And The Honey | Paul Yoon | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Reproduction | Louisa Hall | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Unsettled | Ayana Mathis | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | How To Be | Adam Nicolson | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Wren, The Wren | Anne Enright | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17120 | How To Say Babylon | Safiya Sinclair | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Flat Place | Noreen Masud | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Paris Notebooks | Mavis Gallant | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | Sparks | Ian Johnson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Glint Of Light | Clarence Major | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Pole | J. M. Coetzee | 2023 | South African | English | |
| 17120 | Pockets | Hannah Carlson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Console | Colin Channer | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Rigor Of Angels | William Egginton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Emergency | Kathleen Alcott | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Up Home | Ruth J. Simmons | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Betty Friedan | Rachel Shteir | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Young Queens | Leah Redmond Chang | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Anansi’s Gold | Yepoka Yeebo | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Wednesday’s Child | Yiyun Li | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Suicide Museum | Ariel Dorfman | 2023 | Chilean | English | |
| 17120 | Beyond The Door Of No Return | David Diop | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Unreliable Narrator | Aparna Nancherla | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | I’m A Fan | Sheena Patel | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Dragon Palace | Hiromi Kawakami | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17120 | The Details | Ia Genberg | 2023 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17120 | Some Unfinished Chaos | Arthur Krystal | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Witness | Jamel Brinkley | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Father And Son | Jonathan Raban | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Marriage Question | Clare Carlisle | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | My Husband | Maud Ventura | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | The Great White Bard | Farah Karim‑Cooper | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | All Souls | Saskia Hamilton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Why The Bible Began | Jacob L. Wright | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Terrace Story | Hilary Leichter | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Hangman | Maya Binyam | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Temple Folk | Aaliyah Bilal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Disruptions | Steven Millhauser | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17120 | The Peacock And The Sparrow | I. S. Berry | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa | Stephen Buoro | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | My Stupid Intentions | Bernardo Zannoni | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17120 | Still Born | Guadalupe Nettel | 2023 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17120 | August Wilson | Patti Hartigan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Information Desk | Robyn Schiff | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | You, Bleeding Childhood | Michele Mari | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17120 | The Migrant Chef | Laura Tillman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Centre | Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Hope | Andrew Ridker | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Dykette | Jenny Fran Davis | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Retrospective | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | 2023 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 17120 | Last Call At Coogan’s | Jon Michaud | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17120 | Fire Rush | Jacqueline Crooks | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Ninth Building | Zou Jingzhi | 2023 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17120 | Thunderclap | Laura Cumming | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | How To Love Your Daughter | Hila Blum | 2023 | Unknown | Hebrew | |
| 17120 | So To Speak | Terrance Hayes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Snow Road Station | Elizabeth Hay | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | Elsewhere | Yan Ge | 2023 | Chinese | English | |
| 17120 | Tabula Rasa | John McPhee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | After The Funeral And Other Stories | Tessa Hadley | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | I Do Everything I’m Told | Megan Fernandes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Lost Sons Of Omaha | Joe Sexton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The 272 | Rachel L. Swarns | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Book Of Eve | Carmen Boullosa | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17120 | A History Of Burning | Janika Oza | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Art Thief | Michael Finkel | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Winnie And Nelson | Jonny Steinberg | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Covenant Of Water | Abraham Verghese | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Tomorrow Perhaps The Future | Sarah Watling | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Sullivanians | Alexander Stille | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Late Americans | Brandon Taylor | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Instructions For The Drowning | Steven Heighton | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | Easily Slip Into Another World | Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards | 2023 | Unknown | English |