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
12324 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12378 Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson 2022 American English
12383 Eclipse Fever Walter Abish 1993 American English
12383 Time Remaining James McCourt 1993 American English
12383 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12383 Dark Harbor Mark Strand 1993 American English
12383 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
12410 Tidelines Sarah Sasson 2024 Unknown English
12410 Daller Gut Dream Department Store Miye Lee Unknown Unknown
12486 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
12513 All But The Waltz Mary Clearman Blew 1991 American English
12513 A Bag Of Stories Edla Van Steen 1991 Brazilian Portuguese
12513 Eve's Tattoo Emily Prager 1991 American English
12513 Family Album Claribel Alegría 1991 Nicaraguan Spanish
12513 The Gates Of Ivory Margaret Drabble 1991 British English
12513 The Loom And Other Stories R. A. Sasaki 1991 American English
12513 The Seventh Garment Eugenia Fakinou 1991 Greek Greek
12549 Minimosca Gustavo Faverón Patriau 2024 Peruvian Spanish; castilian
12574 My Half Century Anna Akhmatova 1997 Russian Russian
12586 The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu 2007 American English
12655 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12655 Poems Of Nathan Zach Nathan Zach 2020 Israeli Hebrew
12655 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
12655 And The Stars Were Shining John Ashbery 1994 American English
12655 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
12655 Earthly Measures Edward Hirsch 1994 American English
12655 Record Of A Night Too Brief Kawakami Hiromi Japanese Japanese
12655 The Spiral Ascent Edward Upward British English
12751 Border Districts Gerald Murnane 2017 Australian English
12754 Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin 2005 Russian Russian
12771 The Consequences Of Love Sulaiman Addonia 2008 British English
12794 Exit Zero Marie-Helene Bertino 2025 Unknown Unknown
12832 A Chorus Of Stones Susan Griffin 1992 American English
12832 Claiming Breath Diane Glancy 1992 American English
12832 Fortunate Lives Robb Forman Dew 1992 American English
12832 Still Loved By The Sun Migael Scherer 1992 American English
12878 Birchwood John Banville 1973 Irish English
12970 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
12971 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
12973 The Death Of Us Abigail Dean 2025 Unknown Unknown
12974 Boustany Sami Tamimi 2025 Unknown Unknown
13003 Thus Were Their Faces Silvina Ocampo 1988 Argentinian Spanish
13047 The Words Of Dr. L Karen E. Bender 2025 American English
13063 Evensong Stewart O'Nan 2025 American English
13075 Thrilled To Death Lynne Tillman 2025 American English
13090 How To Cook A Coyote Betty Fussell 2025 American English
13099 The Autobiography Of H. Lan Thao Lam Lana Lin 2025 American English
13100 Art Work Sally Mann 2025 American English
13101 The Life And Poetry Of Frank Stanford James McWilliams 2025 American English
13125 We Did Ok, Kid Sir Anthony Hopkins 2025 British Unknown
13149 The Book Of Jonah Luke Kennard 2025 British English
13150 The New Carthaginians Nick Makoha 2025 Ugandan English
13217 One Hundred Demons Lynda Barry 2002 American English
13236 Harrow The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2020 New Zealand English
13276 Idaho Emily Ruskovich 2017 American English
13256 The Corpse Washer Sinan Antoon 2010 Iraqi Arabic
13283 How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu 2010 American English
13285 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13313 Who Will Remember The People... Jean Raspail 1986 French French
13335 Last Orders Graham Swift 1996 British English
13336 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
13337 Candyfreak Steve Almond 2004 American English
13337 Name All The Animals Alison Smith 2004 American English
13350 Si Bob Ong 2014 Filipino Filipino
13351 In My Brother's Shadow Uwe Timm 2005 German German
13498 The Ship Of Fools Cristina Peri Rossi 2021 Uruguayan Spanish
13359 First Love And Other Sorrows Harold Brodkey 1957 American English
13359 Il Grande Meaulnes Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
13511 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13542 The Spectator Bird Wallace Stegner 1976 American English
13542 Three Junes Julia Glass 2002 American English
13559 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990 American English
13577 One With Others C. D. Wright 2010 American English
13580 Out Of The Dark Patrick Modiano 1990 French French
13582 Heartland Wilson Harris 1964 Guyanese English
13594 A Family Record Patrick Modiano 1977 French French
13599 Not Everybody Lives the Same Way Jean-Paul Dubois 2019 French French
13599 Live Fast Brigitte Giraud 2022 French French
13599 Die Gasse Der Dunklen Läden Patrick Modiano 1978 French French
13599 La Maison Vide Laurent Mauvignier French French
13599 Le Chèvrefeuille, Le Purgatoire, Le Chapitre Xiii Thierry Sandre French French
13599 A Man Scans His Past Maurice Constantin-Weyer French French
13599 The Long Holiday Francis Ambrière 1946 French English
13599 Vent De Mars Henri Pourrat 1941 French French
13599 Mon Village à L'heure Allemande Jean-Louis Bory 1945 French French
13599 Les Bêtes Pierre Gascar 1953 French French
13599 Les Eaux Mêlées Roger Ikor 1955 French French
13599 God Was Born In Exile Vintilă Horia 1960 Unknown Spanish
13599 The Lost Shore Anna Langfus 1962 French French
13599 To Forget Palermo Edmonde Charles-Roux 1966 French French
13599 Les Flamboyants Patrick Grainville 1976 French French
13599 Cronus' Children Yves Navarre 1980 French French
13599 Anne Marie Lucien Bodard 1981 French French
13599 The Lost Ones Frédérick Tristan 1983 French French
13599 Trading Secrets Paule Constant 1998 French French
13599 The Roving Shadows Pascal Quignard 2002 French English
13599 Cry, Mother Spain Lydie Salvayre 2014 French French
13715 Radiance Catherynne M. Valente 2015 American English
13715 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13762 Invisible Ink Patrick Modiano 2019 French French
13771 When We Get There Shauna Seliy 2008 Unknown English
13771 The Sunken Cathedral Kate Walbert 2015 American English
13792 Vampires In The Lemon Grove Karen Russell 2013 American English
13814 The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak 2006 Turkish English
13817 Villa Tarantola Vincenzo Cardarelli 1948 Italian Unknown
13817 La Memoria Giambattista Angioletti 1939 Italian Unknown
13817 Quasi Una Vita Corrado Alvaro 1950 Italian Italian
13817 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
13817 L'ombra Delle Colline Giovanni Arpino 1964 Italian Italian
13817 L'occhio Del Gatto Alberto Bevilacqua 1968 Italian Italian
13817 La Morte Del Fiume Guglielmo Petroni 1958 Italian Italian
13817 Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger Fausta Cialente 1976 Italian Italian
13817 La Vita Ingenua Vittorio Gorresio 1956 Italian Unknown
13817 Solitudes Goffredo Parise 1984 Italian Italian
13817 Il Natale Del 1833 Mario Pomilio 1983 Italian Italian
13817 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
13817 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13817 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13817 La Casa Del Padre Giorgio Montefoschi 1994 Italian Italian
13817 Passaggio In Ombra Mariateresa Di Lascia 1995 Italian Italian