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
7215 Orient Express Graham Greene 1932 British English
7215 Lonely Crusade Chester Himes 1947 American English
7215 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7215 A Mind At Peace Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1949 Turkish Turkish
7215 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7215 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7215 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane 1974 Australian English
7215 The Bloater Rosemary Tonks 1968 English English
7215 The Empty Book Josefina Vicens 1958 Mexican English
7215 The Long View Elizabeth Jane Howard 1956 British English
7561 Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg 1980 American English
7566 Red Scarf Girl Ji-li Jiang 1997 Chinese English
7574 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7601 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein 2012 British English
7605 L'interruption Dominique Noguez 1993 French French
7605 Writing Marguerite Duras 1993 French French
7611 Poems Of Léopold S. Senghor Léopold S. Senghor 1945 Senegalese French
7611 The Short Stories Katherine Mansfield 1945 New Zealander English
7621 Dropbear Evelyn Araluen 2021 Australian English
7646 Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night Sindiwe Magona 1991 South African English
7651 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7655 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7655 The Sunday Of Life Raymond Queneau 1952 French French
7670 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7682 Sophie Calle Sophie Calle 1994 French French
7683 Looking for Alaska John Green 2005 American English
7691 Heroes Like Us Thomas Brussig 1995 German German
7691 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7691 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7691 Das Superweib Hera Lind 1995 German German
7700 Tirza Arnon Grunberg 2006 Dutch Dutch
7704 You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe 1940 American English
7715 The Southpaw Mark Harris 1953 American English
7731 The Story Of Harold Terry Andrews 1974 American English
7734 The Wanderers Richard Price 1974 American English
7736 Becoming Madame Mao Anchee Min 2000 American English
7759 Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 2019 Jamaican English
7761 The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll Heinrich Böll 1972 German German
7762 Too Much Happiness Alice Munro 2009 Canadian English
7780 The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence 1984 American English
7786 Cold Enough For Snow Jessica Au 2022 Australian English
7794 Sleepwalking Land Mia Couto 1992 Mozambican Portuguese
7794 In My Father's House Anthony Appiah 1992 Ghanaian English
7804 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung 2000 Cambodian English
7811 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7811 Shrill Lindy West 2016 American English
7819 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
7819 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
7818 Sister Gin June Arnold 1975 American English
7831 A Spare Life Lidija Dimkovksa 2012 Macedonian Macedonian
7831 Elling Ingvar Ambjørnsen 1996 Norwegian Norwegian
7831 La Larga Marcha Rafael Chirbes 1996 Spanish Spanish
7831 Ein Mann Im Haus Ulla Hahn 1996 German German
7835 Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai 1994 Sri Lankan English
7839 Riverfinger Women Elana Nachman 1974 American English
7852 La Sorcière Marie NDiaye 1996 French French
7860 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7860 The Plains Gerald Murnane 1982 Australian English
7876 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7882 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
7890 Love Toni Morrison 2003 American English
7903 Arab and Jew David K. Shipler 1986 American English
7907 That Deadman Dance Kim Scott 2010 Australian English
7910 The Town William Faulkner 1957 American English
7927 Autobiographie De Mon Pere Pierre Pachet 1997 French French
7943 Lover Bertha Harris 1976 American English
7956 The House Gun Nadine Gordimer 1997 South African English
7961 Tenderwire Claire Kilroy 2006 Irish English
7966 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
7966 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7966 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7977 Anthem Ayn Rand 1938 American English
7985 The History Of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1849 British English
7988 Sita Kate Millett 1976 American English
8006 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
8008 Fire And Hemlock Diana Wynne Jones 1985 British English
8008 Still Life A. S. Byatt 1985 British English
8018 Mirrors Eduardo Galeano 2008 Uruguayan Spanish
8026 Among The Believers V. S. Naipaul 1981 British English
8029 Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007 American English
8050 Rita Angus Jill Trevelyan 2008 New Zealand English
8057 Palestine Hubert Haddad 1989 French French
8058 The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang 2019 American English
8068 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
8073 Chronic City Jonathan Lethem 2009 American English
8075 Clea Lawrence Durrell 1960 British English
8094 Molly Fox’s Birthday Deirdre Madden 2008 Irish English
8098 Selected Poems Tomas Tranströmer 1981 Swedish Swedish
8099 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
8104 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8142 Suspicious River Laura Kasischke 1999 American English
8142 Secrets Nuruddin Farah 1998 Somali English
8142 Society Without The Father Unknown 1998 Unknown German
8142 Simple Stories Ingo Schulze 1998 German German
8142 Vor Uns Die Sintflut Urs Widmer 1998 Swiss German
8161 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 2006 Swedish Swedish
8166 Returning To Reims Didier Eribon 2009 French French
8176 Lilith J.R. Salamanca 1961 American English
8201 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane 2000 British English
8201 Insomnia Drawings Louise Bourgeois 2000 Unknown English
8201 The Day I Wasn't There Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
8214 Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1993 American English
8232 Beyond The Mask, Race, Gender And Identity Amina Mama 1995 British English
8241 19 Knives Mark Anthony Jarman 1997 Canadian English
8243 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8248 Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas 2003 Iranian English
8256 Strangers In Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 American English
8273 The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter 1976 American English
8262 Rosie Carpe & Hilda Marie NDiaye 2001 French French
8274 Tennyson Christopher Ricks 1972 British English
8275 Love And Summer William Trevor 2009 Irish English
8283 The Other Side Of Desire Daniel Bergner 2009 American English
8291 The Author Of Himself Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1999 German German
8299 Lizard Tails Juan Marsé 2004 Spanish Spanish
8322 Collected Stories Nadine Gordimer 1975 South African English
8334 The Rebellion Of Yale Marrat Robert H. Rimmer 1964 American English
8334 The Bat Poet Randall Jarrell 1964 American English
8334 The Light Years Elizabeth Jane Howard 1990 British English
8343 The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 1991 American English
8345 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian