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
7216 Orient Express Graham Greene 1932 British English
7216 Lonely Crusade Chester Himes 1947 American English
7216 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Horace McCoy 1948 American English
7216 A Mind At Peace Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1949 Turkish Turkish
7216 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7216 Seasons Of Anomy Wole Soyinka 1973 Nigerian English
7216 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane 1974 Australian English
7216 The Bloater Rosemary Tonks 1968 English English
7216 The Empty Book Josefina Vicens 1958 Mexican English
7216 The Long View Elizabeth Jane Howard 1956 British English
7562 Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg 1980 American English
7567 Red Scarf Girl Ji-li Jiang 1997 Chinese English
7575 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7602 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein 2012 British English
7606 L'interruption Dominique Noguez 1993 French French
7606 Writing Marguerite Duras 1993 French French
7612 Poems Of Léopold S. Senghor Léopold S. Senghor 1945 Senegalese French
7612 The Short Stories Katherine Mansfield 1945 New Zealander English
7622 Dropbear Evelyn Araluen 2021 Australian English
7647 Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night Sindiwe Magona 1991 South African English
7652 The Republic Of Nothing Lesley Choyce 1994 Canadian English
7656 Collected Poetry Aimé Césaire 1946 French French
7656 The Sunday Of Life Raymond Queneau 1952 French French
7672 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
7683 Sophie Calle Sophie Calle 1994 French French
7684 Looking for Alaska John Green 2005 American English
7692 Heroes Like Us Thomas Brussig 1995 German German
7692 Opernball Josef Haslinger 1995 Austrian German
7692 Nikolaikirche Erich Loest 1995 German German
7692 Das Superweib Hera Lind 1995 German German
7701 Tirza Arnon Grunberg 2006 Dutch Dutch
7705 You Can't Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe 1940 American English
7717 The Southpaw Mark Harris 1953 American English
7733 The Story Of Harold Terry Andrews 1974 American English
7736 The Wanderers Richard Price 1974 American English
7738 Becoming Madame Mao Anchee Min 2000 American English
7761 Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 2019 Jamaican English
7763 The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll Heinrich Böll 1972 German German
7764 Too Much Happiness Alice Munro 2009 Canadian English
7782 The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence 1984 American English
7788 Cold Enough For Snow Jessica Au 2022 Australian English
7796 Sleepwalking Land Mia Couto 1992 Mozambican Portuguese
7796 In My Father's House Anthony Appiah 1992 Ghanaian English
7806 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung 2000 Cambodian English
7812 Cain José Saramago 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
7812 Shrill Lindy West 2016 American English
7820 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
7820 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
7819 Sister Gin June Arnold 1975 American English
7832 A Spare Life Lidija Dimkovksa 2012 Macedonian Macedonian
7832 Elling Ingvar Ambjørnsen 1996 Norwegian Norwegian
7832 La Larga Marcha Rafael Chirbes 1996 Spanish Spanish
7832 Ein Mann Im Haus Ulla Hahn 1996 German German
7836 Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai 1994 Sri Lankan English
7840 Riverfinger Women Elana Nachman 1974 American English
7853 La Sorcière Marie NDiaye 1996 French French
7861 The Barbarous Coast Ross Macdonald 1956 American English
7861 The Plains Gerald Murnane 1982 Australian English
7877 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7883 Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2020 Mexican English
7891 Love Toni Morrison 2003 American English
7904 Arab and Jew David K. Shipler 1986 American English
7908 That Deadman Dance Kim Scott 2010 Australian English
7911 The Town William Faulkner 1957 American English
7928 Autobiographie De Mon Pere Pierre Pachet 1997 French French
7944 Lover Bertha Harris 1976 American English
7957 The House Gun Nadine Gordimer 1997 South African English
7962 Tenderwire Claire Kilroy 2006 Irish English
7967 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
7967 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7967 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7978 Anthem Ayn Rand 1938 American English
7986 The History Of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1849 British English
7989 Sita Kate Millett 1976 American English
8007 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
8009 Fire And Hemlock Diana Wynne Jones 1985 British English
8009 Still Life A. S. Byatt 1985 British English
8019 Mirrors Eduardo Galeano 2008 Uruguayan Spanish
8027 Among The Believers V. S. Naipaul 1981 British English
8030 Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007 American English
8051 Rita Angus Jill Trevelyan 2008 New Zealand English
8058 Palestine Hubert Haddad 1989 French French
8059 The Dragon Republic R. F. Kuang 2019 American English
8069 Minor Angels Antoine Volodine 1999 French French
8074 Chronic City Jonathan Lethem 2009 American English
8076 Clea Lawrence Durrell 1960 British English
8096 Molly Fox’s Birthday Deirdre Madden 2008 Irish English
8100 Selected Poems Tomas Tranströmer 1981 Swedish Swedish
8101 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
8106 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8144 Suspicious River Laura Kasischke 1999 American English
8144 Secrets Nuruddin Farah 1998 Somali English
8144 Society Without The Father Unknown 1998 Unknown German
8144 Simple Stories Ingo Schulze 1998 German German
8144 Vor Uns Die Sintflut Urs Widmer 1998 Swiss German
8163 The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson 2006 Swedish Swedish
8168 Returning To Reims Didier Eribon 2009 French French
8178 Lilith J.R. Salamanca 1961 American English
8203 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane 2000 British English
8203 Insomnia Drawings Louise Bourgeois 2000 Unknown English
8203 The Day I Wasn't There Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
8217 Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1993 American English
8235 Beyond The Mask, Race, Gender And Identity Amina Mama 1995 British English
8244 19 Knives Mark Anthony Jarman 1997 Canadian English
8246 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8251 Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas 2003 Iranian English
8259 Strangers In Their Own Land Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 American English
8276 The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter 1976 American English
8265 Rosie Carpe & Hilda Marie NDiaye 2001 French French
8277 Tennyson Christopher Ricks 1972 British English
8278 Love And Summer William Trevor 2009 Irish English
8286 The Other Side Of Desire Daniel Bergner 2009 American English
8294 The Author Of Himself Marcel Reich-Ranicki 1999 German German
8302 Lizard Tails Juan Marsé 2004 Spanish Spanish
8325 Collected Stories Nadine Gordimer 1975 South African English
8337 The Rebellion Of Yale Marrat Robert H. Rimmer 1964 American English
8337 The Bat Poet Randall Jarrell 1964 American English
8337 The Light Years Elizabeth Jane Howard 1990 British English
8346 The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon Tom Spanbauer 1991 American English
8348 The Art Of Joy Goliarda Sapienza 1998 Italian Italian