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
8348 Go Ask Alice Beatrice Sparks 1971 American English
8351 China Road Rob Gifford 2007 British English
8357 Tracks Robyn Davidson 1980 Australian English
8360 On Strike Against God Joanna Russ 1980 American English
8389 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8414 The Palace Of Illusions Chitra Banerjee Divakurni 2008 American English
8417 War and Remembrance Herman Wouk 1978 American English
8441 Heaven And Hell Jón Kalman Stefánsson 2007 Icelandic Icelandic
8443 Diaries 1959 1971 Alejandra Pizarnik 2003 Argentinian Spanish
8443 Journal Mireille Havet 2003 French French
8445 Willenbrock Christoph Hein 2000 German German
8445 The Interim Wolfgang Hilbig 2000 German German
8445 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8445 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8445 Der Geliebte Der Mutter Urs Widmer 2000 Swiss German
8473 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8466 The Fiddler In The Subway Gene Weingarten 2010 American English
8473 Textermination Christine Brooke-Rose 1992 British English
8499 Serafim Ponte Grande Oswald De Andrade 1923 Brazilian Portuguese
8502 The Grass Harp Truman Capote 1956 American English
8516 Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson 1996 American English
8535 L'amour, Roman Camille Laurens 2003 French French
8543 Life Studies Robert Lowell 1967 American English
8551 Coffee Boy Austin Chant 2016 Unknown English
8579 The Sorrow Of War Dương Thu Hương 1990 Vietnamese Vietnamese
8580 In Thrall Jane DeLynn 1982 Unknown English
8588 The Postcard Anne Berest 2021 French French
8594 Sonnenschein Daša Drndić 2007 Croatian Croatian
8595 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
8608 Poems Of Robert Hayden Robert Hayden 1962 American English
8618 Enrique's Journey Sonia Nazario 2006 American English
8634 Red Prophet Orson Scott Card 1988 American English
8639 Unformed Landscape Peter Stamm 2001 Swiss German
8643 The Fraud Zadie Smith 2023 British English
8648 The Raj Quartet Paul Scott 1976 British English
8656 Punct și De La Capăt Gabriel Chifu 2014 Romanian Romanian
8653 Jane Maggie Nelson 2005 American English
8653 Pedigree Patrick Modiano 2005 French French
8653 Three Days With My Mother François Weyergans 2005 Belgian French
8672 How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 1996 American English
8676 Marabou Stork Nightmares Irvine Welsh 1995 British English
8676 The Peanuts Treasury Charles M. Schulz 1969 American English
8686 Miss Peabody’s Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley 1983 Australian English
8699 Those Bones Are Not My Child Toni Cade Bambara 1999 American English
8698 Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko 2018 Australian English
8705 W.E.B. Du Bois David Levering Lewis 2000 American English
8723 Dancing With Cuba Alma Guillermoprieto 2004 Mexican Spanish
8724 The Social Construction Of Reality Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann 1966 German English
8734 Butterfly Burning Yvonne Vera 1998 Zimbabwean English
8754 Running Away Jean-Philippe Toussaint 2005 French French
8757 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine 2014 British English
8799 Heave Christy Ann Conlin 2002 Canadian English
8802 Time Regained Marcel Proust 1927 French French
8802 World Light Halldor Laxness 1937 Icelandic Icelandic
8817 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8821 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8826 The Sacred Hoop Paula Gunn Allen 1986 American English
8828 Photographs Eudora Welty 1971 American English
8846 Zeitoun Dave Eggers 2009 American English
8848 Seeing Red Lina Meruane 2012 Chilean Spanish
8851 My Lives Edmund White 2005 American English
8854 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
8860 The Navigator Of New York Wayne Johnston 2002 Canadian English
8863 Mexico Enrique Krauze 1997 Mexican Spanish
8868 O Ateneu Raul Pompéia 1888 Brazilian Portuguese
8873 When Katie Met Cassidy Camille Perri 2018 American English
8877 April Morning Howard Fast 1961 American English
8886 Black and Blur Fred Moten 2017 American English
8893 Chronicles Bob Dylan 2004 American English
8890 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
8904 O Encontro Marcado Fernando Sabino 1956 Brazilian Portuguese
8909 Unravelling Oliver Liz Nugent 2014 Irish English
8919 As Metamorfoses Murilo Mendes 1938 Brazilian Portuguese
8924 Poems Of Louis Mac Neice Louis MacNeice 1966 Irish English
8928 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
8932 A Escrava Isaura Bernardo Guimarães 1875 Brazilian Portuguese
8940 Memorial Drive Natasha Trethewey 2020 American English
8959 Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999 British English
8960 Quarup Antonio Callado 1967 Brazilian Portuguese
8972 Myths Of Gender Anne Fausto-Sterling 1987 American English
8976 Mantra Rodrigo Fresán 2001 Argentinian Spanish
8981 Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 2023 American English
8993 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
9037 Jouer Juste François Bégaudeau 2008 French French
9037 Yama Loka Terminus Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli 2008 French French
9054 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
9055 The Crossover Kwame Alexander 2014 American English
9056 Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes Billy Collins 2000 American English
9067 The Tribe Michael Mohammed Ahmad 2014 Australian English
9075 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9074 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9107 The Art Thief Michael Finkel 2023 Unknown English
9129 Génie Divin Guillaume Dustan 2001 French French
9137 How To Write About Africa Binyavanga Wainaina 2005 Kenyan English
9136 Raised From The Ground José Saramago 1980 Portuguese Portuguese
9140 The Consequences Niña Weijers 2014 Dutch Dutch
9144 Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young 2016 New Zealand English
9160 Decolonising The Mind Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1986 Kenyan English
9161 Correspondance Avec Le Mur Hélène Cixous 2009 French French
9161 La Blessure Et La Soif Laurence Plazenet 2009 French French
9169 Stars Outside Nathan Alterman Israeli Hebrew
9186 Complete Poems Randall Jarrell 1969 American English
9193 How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Kiese Laymon 2013 American English
9193 Talking Back, Talking Black John McWhorter 2017 American English
9193 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9193 What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner 2013 American English
9193 Future Sex Emily Witt 2015 American English
9193 The Geography Of Madness Frank Bures 2016 Unknown English
9193 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9186 By The Sea Abdulrazak Gurnah 2001 British English
9225 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
9229 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9228 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
9248 An Audience Of Chairs Joan Clark 2005 Canadian English
9252 Sor Juana Or, The Traps Of Faith Octavio Paz 1982 Mexican Spanish
9254 Arabs And Israelis Abdel Monem Said Aly, Shai Feldman, Khalil Shikaki 2013 Multiple English
9263 Nothing to be Frightened Of Julian Barnes 2008 British English
9286 1898 Kate Clarke Lemay, Taína Caragol 2017 Unknown English
9290 It’s Been A Pleasure, Noni Blake Claire Christian 2020 Australian English
9290 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English