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 | Lament For Julia | Susan Taubes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Owlish | Dorothy Tse | 2023 | Unknown | Chinese | |
| 17120 | Be Mine | Richard Ford | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | A Life Of One’s Own | Joanna Biggs | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Wounded World | Chad L. Williams | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Talk | Darrin Bell | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Commitment | Mona Simpson | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Take What You Need | Idra Novey | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | My Father’s Brain | Sandeep Jauhar | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Gravity And Center | Henri Cole | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Biting The Hand | Julia Lee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | When The World Didn’t End | Guinevere Turner | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Weeds | Katy Simpson Smith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Hungry Ghosts | Kevin Jared Hosein | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Girl Juice | Benji Nate | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Parfit | David Edmonds | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Go Back And Get It | Dionne Ford | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness | Jai Chakrabarti | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Postcard | Anne Berest | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | In The Orchard | Eliza Minot | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Shy | Max Porter | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Hit Parade Of Tears | Izumi Suzuki | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17120 | Writers And Missionaries | Adam Shatz | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Impossible People | Julia Wertz | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Stealing | Margaret Verble | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | To Anyone Who Ever Asks | Howard Fishman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Fawn | Magda Szabó | 2023 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 17120 | Künstlers In Paradise | Cathleen Schine | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Fatherland | Burkhard Bilger | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Best Minds | Jonathan Rosen | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Small Mercies | Dennis Lehane | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Spoiled | Anne Mendelson | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Benjamin Banneker And Us | Rachel Jamison Webster | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | In Memoriam | Alice Winn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Is It Hot In Here? | Zach Zimmerman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Greek Lessons | Han Kang | 2023 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17120 | Raving | McKenzie Wark | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Laughter | Sonora Jha | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Diary Keepers | Nina Siegal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Steady Rollin | Fred Noland | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17120 | Pineapple Street | Jenny Jackson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Courting India | Nandini Das | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Skeletons | Deborah Landau | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | A Spell Of Good Things | Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ | 2023 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17120 | White Cat, Black Dog | Kelly Link | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Great Reclamation | Rachel Heng | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Siblings | Brigitte Reimann | 2023 | German | German | |
| 17120 | Picasso The Foreigner | Annie Cohen‑Solal | 2023 | Unknown | French | |
| 17120 | Spoken Word | Joshua Bennett | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Look At The Lights, My Love | Annie Ernaux | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs | Kerry Howley | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Ringmaster | Abraham Riesman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Kingdom Of Prep | Maggie Bullock | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Absent Moon | Luiz Schwarcz | 2023 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17120 | An Autobiography Of Skin | Lakiesha Carr | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Old God’s Time | Sebastian Barry | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17120 | The Dog Of The North | Elizabeth McKenzie | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Users | Colin Winnette | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | I Am Still With You | Emmanuel Iduma | 2023 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17120 | A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs | Gulchehra Hoja | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Eastbound | Maylis de Kerangal | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Big Swiss | Jen Beagin | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Half Known Life | Pico Iyer | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Sun Walks Down | Fiona McFarlane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Iron Curtain | Vesna Goldsworthy | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Collected Works | Lydia Sandgren | 2023 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17120 | Life On Delay | John Hendrickson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Brooklyn’s Last Secret | Leslie Stein | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | I Have Some Questions For You | Rebecca Makkai | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Evil Flowers | Gunnhild Øyehaug | 2023 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17120 | Daughter In Exile | Bisi Adjapon | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | This Other Eden | Paul Harding | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Wife Of Bath | Marion Turner | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | After Sappho | Selby Wynn Schwartz | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Why You’ll Never Find The One | Sarah Akinterinwa | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Skull Water | Heinz Insu Fenkl | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Sense Of Wonder | Matthew Salesses | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Guest Lecture | Martin Riker | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The New Life | Tom Crewe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Pirate Enlightenment | David Graeber | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Spare | Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Forbidden Notebook | Alba de Céspedes | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17120 | Wade In The Water | Nyani Nkrumah | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Still Pictures | Janet Malcolm | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | All Souls | Saskia Hamilton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Chrome Valley | Mahogany L. Browne | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Fair Play | Katie Barnes | Unknown | English | ||
| 17120 | Ghost Music | An Yu | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Hive And The Honey | Paul Yoon | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Holding Pattern | Jenny Xie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Holler, Child | Latoya Watkins | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | I Am Still With You | Emmanuel Iduma | 2023 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17120 | I Do Everything I’m Told | Megan Fernandes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go | Cleo Qian | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Male Gazed | Manuel Betancourt | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Mott Street | Ava Chin | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | None Of The Above | Travis Alabanza | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17120 | Owner Of A Lonely Heart | Beth Nguyen | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Temple Folk | Aaliyah Bilal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Terrace Story | Hilary Leichter | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Thin Skin | Jenn Shapland | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Three Of Us | Ore Agbaje‑Williams | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | To Free The Captives | Tracy K. Smith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Vengeance Is Mine | Marie NDiaye | 2021 | French | English | |
| 17120 | Beyond The Door Of No Return | David Diop | 2021 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Couplets | Maggie Millner | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Flee North | Scott Shane | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | Good Girls | Hadley Freeman | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Lost Wife | Susanna Moore | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Palestine 1936 | Oren Kessler | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | No One Will Come Back For Us | Premee Mohamed | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | The Strange | Nathan Ballingrud | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Fixit | Joe Ide | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Lock Up | John Banville | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17120 | My Men | Victoria Kielland | 2023 | Unknown | Norwegian | |
| 17120 | Prom Mom | Laura Lippman | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Many Assassinations Of Samir, The Seller Of Dreams | Daniel Nayeri | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17120 | The Magicians | Blexbolex, Karin Snelson | 2022 | Unknown | French |