The Greatest Books of All Time on Memory

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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
11328 The French Art Of War Alexis Jenni 2011 French French
11339 The Collected Prose Elizabeth Bishop 1984 American English
11339 Heartwork Solveig von Schoultz 1984 Finnish Swedish
11349 Memory And Dream Charles de Lint 1994 Canadian English
11351 Walking On The Ceiling Ayşegül Savaş 2019 Turkish English
11351 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds In This Strange World Elif Shafak 2019 Turkish English
11358 Une Façon D'aimer Dominique Barbéris 2019 French French
11360 La Patrie Empaillée Jacques Izoard Belgian French
11360 My Love Ishikawa Takuboku Japanese Japanese
11360 Où Sont Ils Maintenant. Anthologie Personnelle Laura Kasischke Unknown French
11360 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11360 The Watch Nikos Kavvadias Greek Greek
11387 Collected Poems Primo Levi 1988 Italian Italian
11387 His Daughter Yoram Kaniuk 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11387 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
11387 The One Day Donald Hall 1988 American English
11387 Elaine's Book Jay Wright 1988 American Unknown
11387 River Writing James Applewhite 1988 American English
11400 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
11408 Spin Robert Charles Wilson 2005 Canadian English
11412 Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003 Cuban English
11432 Philadelphia fire John Edgar Wideman 1990 American English
11449 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 American English
11439 Awaiting Trespass Linda Ty-Casper 1985 Philippine English
11439 A Farm Under A Lake Martha Bergland 1985 American English
11439 The Land Of Look Behind Michelle Cliff 1985 American English
11439 Later The Same Day Grace Paley 1985 American English
11439 The Magnificent Spinster May Sarton 1985 American English
11439 Various Miracles Carol Shields 1985 Canadian English
11496 What The Colonists Never Knew Dennis Foley, Peter Read 2020 Unknown English
11501 Hibakusha Gaynor Sekimori 1986 Hibakusha Unknown
11505 The Coming Bad Days Sarah Bernstein 2021 Canadian English
11563 Nox Anne Carson 2010 Canadian English
11579 Landscape For A Good Woman Carolyn Kay Steedman 1986 British English
11602 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11627 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
11637 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11641 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11641 Gentle And Fierce Vanessa Berry 2021 Australian English
11641 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11641 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11650 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
11650 Above The River James Wright 1990 American English
11650 The Continuous Life Mark Strand 1990 American English
11650 The World Of The Ten Thousand Things Charles Wright 1990 American English
11650 Westward Amy Clampitt 1990 American English
11660 Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett 2021 Irish English
11660 The Furrows Namwali Serpell 2022 Unknown English
11660 On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed 2021 American English
11660 War And Turpentine Stefan Hertmans 2013 Belgian Dutch
11660 Falling Through The Earth Danielle Trussoni 2006 American English
11660 Bronx Primitive Kate Simon 1982 British English
11660 During The Reign Of The Queen Of Persia Joan Chase 1983 American English
11660 The Moons Of Jupiter Alice Munro 1982 Canadian English
11660 Lives Of The Poets E. L. Doctorow 2001 American English
11660 Staring At The Sun Julian Barnes 1986 British English
11660 Arabesques Anton Shammas 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11660 The Magic Lantern Ingmar Bergman 1987 Swedish Swedish
11660 Everything Under Daisy Johnson 2018 British English
11660 The House Of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea 2018 American English
11660 The Witch Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
11805 The Meursault Investigation Kamel Daoud 2013 Algerian French
11811 Memory Board Jane Rule 1987 Canadian English
11811 My Father's House Sylvia Fraser 1987 Canadian English
11811 On The Golden Porch Tatyana Tolstaya 1987 Russian Russian
11824 The Wax Child Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken 2023 Danish English
11855 Mahmoud Ou La Montée Des Eaux Antoine Wauters 2021 Belgian French
11854 You Left On A May Day Yannis Ritsos Greek Greek
11863 More Happy Than Not Adam Silvera 2015 American English
11878 Sololand Hassan Blasim 2021 Iraqi Arabic
11880 Watching Over Her Jean-Baptiste Andrea 2021 French French
11888 The Rabbiter's Bounty Les A. Murray 1991 Australian English
11888 Flow Chart John Ashbery 1991 American English
11882 Root And Branch Eda Gunaydin 2022 Unknown English
11882 This All Come Back Now Mykaula Saunders 2022 Unknown English
11894 Kinder Than Solitude Yiyun Li 2014 American English
11899 Coming Home And Other Stories Farida Karodia 1988 South African English
11899 Sans Souci And Other Stories Dionne Brand 1988 Canadian English
11899 A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid 1988 Antiguan English
11899 Twilight And Other Stories Shulamith Hareven 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11939 Chasing Me To My Grave Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly 2021 American English
12008 The Echo Maker Richard Powers 2006 American English
12009 Mr. Mani A. B. Yehoshua 1990 Israeli Hebrew
12018 Memories Of Peking Lin Hai-yin 1960 Chinese Chinese
12017 La Danseuse Patrick Modiano 2023 French French
12023 Cafe Scheherazade Arnold Zable 2001 Australian English
12028 The Heather Blazing Colm Toibin 1992 Irish English
12027 Night Train To Lisbon Pascal Mercier 2004 Swiss German
12047 Landing Light Don Paterson 2003 British English
12046 Species Of Spaces And Other Pieces Georges Perec 1974 French French
12048 Omega Minor Paul Verhaeghen 2004 Belgian Dutch
12061 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12076 Rosewater Tade Thompson 2016 Nigerian English
12076 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
12083 Sweet Summer Bebe Moore Campbell 1989 American English
12112 Hotel Lautréamont John Ashbery 1992 American English
12122 Songs For The Dead And The Living Sara M. Saleh 2023 Unknown English
12172 The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall 2004 British English
12200 Memorial Ferdinando Camon 1983 Italian Italian
12200 The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone 2000 Italian Italian
12258 Beirut Fragments Jean Said Makdisi 1990 Lebanese English
12258 Dreams Of An Insomniac Irena Klepfisz 1990 American English
12258 The Dust Roads Of Monferrato Rosetta Loy 1990 Italian Italian
12258 Floating In My Mother's Palm Ursula Hegi 1990 German English
12258 Lantern Slides Edna O'Brien 1990 Irish English
12258 A Natural History Of The Senses Diane Ackerman 1990 American English
12258 Silent Dancing Judith Ortiz Cofer 1990 American English
12258 The Worry Girl Andrea Freud Loewenstein 1990 American English
12300 Languages Of Home John Edgar Wideman 2025 American English
12321 Worsted Garielle Lutz 2025 American English
12324 Vladimir Nabokov Brian Boyd 1990 British English
12324 Holocaust Testimonies Lawrence L. Langer 1991 American English
12324 The Journals Of John Cheever John Cheever 1991 American English
12324 Two Lives William Trevor 1991 Irish English
12324 The Island Gustaw Herling 1958 Polish Polish
12324 Mazurka For Two Dead Men Camilo José Cela 1983 Spanish Spanish
12324 A Way In The World V. S. Naipaul 1994 American English
12324 After Rain William Trevor 1996 Irish English
12324 The Collected Stories Of Mavis Gallant Mavis Gallant 1996 Canadian English
12324 Toward The End Of Time John Updike 1997 American English