The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Kentucky

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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
184 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 American English
1068 The Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton 1948 American English
1623 Corregidora Gayl Jones 1975 American English
1690 Goldfinger Ian Fleming 1959 British English
4101 Aegypt John Crowley 1987 American English
4498 The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry 1977 American English
5307 Lee's Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1943 American English
5576 Audubon Robert Penn Warren 1969 American English
6593 The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis 1983 American English
6871 The Field of Vision Wright Morris 1956 American English
7149 Tempting The Beast Lora Leigh 2003 American English
8107 Weeds Edith Summers Kelley 1923 Canadian English
8187 Feminist Theory bell hooks 1984 American English
8657 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8929 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
9322 Bright Dead Things Ada Limón 2015 American English
9728 Outlaw Culture bell hooks 1994 American English
10028 Wounds Of Passion bell hooks 1997 American English
10043 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Ron Hansen 1983 American English
11483 Ali Jonathan Eig 2017 American English
12393 Abraham Lincoln Michael Burlingame 2008 American English
13564 Betty Tiffany McDaniel 2020 American English
14160 The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come John Fox Jr. 1903 American English
14985 Follow the River James Alexander Thom 1981 American English
14985 The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards 2005 American English
14985 Horse Geraldine Brooks 2022 Australian English
14985 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 2023 American English
15916 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
17165 Recollected Essays Wendell Berry 1981 American English
17165 Sweet Taste of Liberty W. Caleb McDaniel 2019 American English
17165 The Giver Of Stars Jojo Moyes 2019 British English
17165 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17165 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17165 Abraham Lincoln Seth Grahame-Smith 2010 American English
17165 The Patron Saint Of Liars Ann Patchett 1992 American English
17165 The Carrying Ada Limón 2018 American English
17165 This Wretched Valley Jenny Kiefer 2024 Unknown Unknown
17165 A Self Made Man Sidney Blumenthal 2016 American English
17165 Lincoln Fred Kaplan 2008 American English
17165 The Devil Colony James Rollins 2011 American English
17165 The World Ending Fire Wendell Berry 2017 American English
17165 Hannah Coulter Wendell Berry 2004 American English
17165 Sounds Like Titanic Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 2019 American English
17165 In Country Bobbie Ann Mason 1985 American English
17165 Teaching To Transgress bell hooks 1994 American English
17165 A Season On The Brink John Feinstein 1986 American English
17165 Loose Balls Terry Pluto 1990 American English
17165 Big Red Of Meadow Stable William Nack 1988 American English
17165 Muhammad Ali Thomas Hauser 1991 American English
17165 Road Swing Steve Rushin 1998 American English
17165 Native Nations Kathleen DuVal 2024 Unknown English
17165 King Of The World David Remnick 1998 American English
17165 My Father, The Pornographer Andrew J. Offutt 2016 American English
16858 The Frontiersmen Allan W. Eckert 1967 American English
16809 Hannah Fowler Janice Giles 1956 American English
17165 Klan War Fergus M. Bordewich 2023 Unknown English
17165 Blood Horses John Jeremiah Sullivan 2004 American English