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
8347 Go Ask Alice Beatrice Sparks 1971 American English
8350 China Road Rob Gifford 2007 British English
8356 Tracks Robyn Davidson 1980 Australian English
8359 On Strike Against God Joanna Russ 1980 American English
8388 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8413 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
8416 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8440 Heaven And Hell Jón Kalman Stefánsson 2007 Icelandic Icelandic
8442 Diaries 1959 1971 Alejandra Pizarnik 2003 Argentinian Spanish
8442 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
8444 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8444 The Interim Wolfgang Hilbig 2000 German German
8444 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8444 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8444 Der Geliebte Der Mutter Urs Widmer 2000 Swiss German
8472 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8465 The Fiddler In The Subway Gene Weingarten 2010 American English
8472 Textermination Christine Brooke-Rose 1992 British English
8498 Serafim Ponte Grande Oswald De Andrade 1923 Brazilian Portuguese
8501 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
8515 Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1996 American English
8533 L'amour, Roman Camille Laurens 2003 French French
8541 Life Studies Robert Lowell 1967 American English
8549 Coffee Boy Austin Chant 2016 Unknown English
8577 The Sorrow Of War Dương Thu Hương 1990 Vietnamese Vietnamese
8578 In Thrall Jane DeLynn 1982 Unknown English
8586 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8592 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
8593 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
8606 Poems Of Robert Hayden Robert Hayden 1962 American English
8616 Enrique's Journey Sonia Nazario 2006 American English
8632 Red Prophet Orson Scott Card 1988 American English
8637 Unformed Landscape Peter Stamm 2001 Swiss German
8641 The Fraud Zadie Smith 2023 British English
8646 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
8654 Punct și De La Capăt Gabriel Chifu 2014 Romanian Romanian
8651 Jane Maggie Nelson 2005 American English
8651 Pedigree Patrick Modiano 2005 French French
8651 Three Days With My Mother François Weyergans 2005 Belgian French
8670 How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 1996 American English
8674 Marabou Stork Nightmares Irvine Welsh 1995 British English
8674 The Peanuts Treasury Charles M. Schulz 1969 American English
8684 Miss Peabody’s Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley 1983 Australian English
8697 Those Bones Are Not My Child Toni Cade Bambara 1999 American English
8696 Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko 2018 Australian English
8703 W.E.B. Du Bois David Levering Lewis 2000 American English
8721 Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto 2004 Mexican Spanish
8722 The Social Construction Of Reality Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann 1966 German English
8731 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8751 Running Away Jean-Philippe Toussaint 2005 French French
8754 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine 2014 British English
8796 Heave Christy Ann Conlin 2002 Canadian English
8799 Time Regained Marcel Proust 1927 French French
8799 World Light Halldor Laxness 1937 Icelandic Icelandic
8814 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8818 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8823 The Sacred Hoop Paula Gunn Allen 1986 American English
8825 Photographs Eudora Welty 1971 American English
8844 Zeitoun Dave Eggers 2009 American English
8846 Seeing Red Lina Meruane 2012 Chilean Spanish
8849 My Lives Edmund White 2005 American English
8852 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
8858 The Navigator Of New York Wayne Johnston 2002 Canadian English
8861 Mexico Enrique Krauze 1997 Mexican Spanish
8866 O Ateneu Raul Pompéia 1888 Brazilian Portuguese
8871 When Katie Met Cassidy Camille Perri 2018 American English
8875 April Morning Howard Fast 1961 American English
8884 Black and Blur Fred Moten 2017 American English
8891 Chronicles Bob Dylan 2004 American English
8888 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
8902 O Encontro Marcado Fernando Sabino 1956 Brazilian Portuguese
8907 Unravelling Oliver Liz Nugent 2014 Irish English
8917 As Metamorfoses Murilo Mendes 1938 Brazilian Portuguese
8922 Poems Of Louis Mac Neice Louis MacNeice 1966 Irish English
8926 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
8930 A Escrava Isaura Bernardo Guimarães 1875 Brazilian Portuguese
8938 Memorial Drive Natasha Trethewey 2020 American English
8957 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
8958 Quarup Antonio Callado 1967 Brazilian Portuguese
8970 Myths Of Gender Anne Fausto-Sterling 1987 American English
8974 Mantra Rodrigo Fresán 2001 Argentinian Spanish
8979 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
8991 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
9035 Jouer Juste François Bégaudeau 2008 French French
9035 Yama Loka Terminus Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli 2008 French French
9052 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
9053 The Crossover Kwame Alexander 2014 American English
9054 Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes Billy Collins 2000 American English
9065 The Tribe Michael Mohammed Ahmad 2014 Australian English
9073 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9072 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9105 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
9127 Génie Divin Guillaume Dustan 2001 French French
9135 How To Write About Africa Binyavanga Wainaina 2005 Kenyan English
9134 Raised From The Ground José Saramago 1980 Portuguese Portuguese
9138 The Consequences Niña Weijers 2014 Dutch Dutch
9142 Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young 2016 New Zealand English
9158 Decolonising The Mind Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1986 Kenyan English
9159 Correspondance Avec Le Mur Hélène Cixous 2009 French French
9159 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French
9167 Stars Outside Nathan Alterman Israeli Hebrew
9184 Complete Poems Randall Jarrell 1969 American English
9191 How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Kiese Laymon 2013 American English
9191 Talking Back, Talking Black John McWhorter 2017 American English
9191 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9191 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9191 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9191 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
9191 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9184 By The Sea Abdulrazak Gurnah 2001 British English
9223 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
9227 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9226 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
9246 An Audience Of Chairs Joan Clark 2005 Canadian English
9250 Sor Juana Or, The Traps Of Faith Octavio Paz 1982 Mexican Spanish
9252 Arabs And Israelis Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman, Khalil Shikaki 2013 Multiple English
9283 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
9287 It’s Been A Pleasure, Noni Blake Claire Christian 2020 Australian English
9287 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English
9287 Spoiler Alert Olivia Dade 2020 American English