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
12326 Reading The Holocaust Inga Clendinnen 1999 Australian English
12380 Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson 2022 American English
12385 Eclipse Fever Walter Abish 1993 American English
12385 Time Remaining James McCourt 1993 American English
12385 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12385 Dark Harbor Mark Strand 1993 American English
12385 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
12412 Tidelines Sarah Sasson 2024 Unknown English
12412 Daller Gut Dream Department Store Miye Lee Unknown Unknown
12488 Sea Of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel 2022 Canadian English
12515 All But The Waltz Mary Clearman Blew 1991 American English
12515 A Bag Of Stories Edla Van Steen 1991 Brazilian Portuguese
12515 Eve's Tattoo Emily Prager 1991 American English
12515 Family Album Claribel Alegría 1991 Nicaraguan Spanish
12515 The Gates Of Ivory Margaret Drabble 1991 British English
12515 The Loom And Other Stories R. A. Sasaki 1991 American English
12515 The Seventh Garment Eugenia Fakinou 1991 Greek Greek
12551 Minimosca Gustavo Faverón Patriau 2024 Peruvian Spanish; castilian
12576 My Half Century Anna Akhmatova 1997 Russian Russian
12588 The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Dinaw Mengestu 2007 American English
12657 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12657 Poems Of Nathan Zach Nathan Zach 2020 Israeli Hebrew
12657 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
12657 And The Stars Were Shining John Ashbery 1994 American English
12657 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
12657 Earthly Measures Edward Hirsch 1994 American English
12657 Record Of A Night Too Brief Kawakami Hiromi Japanese Japanese
12657 The Spiral Ascent Edward Upward British English
12753 Border Districts Gerald Murnane 2017 Australian English
12756 Maidenhair Mikhail Shishkin 2005 Russian Russian
12773 The Consequences Of Love Sulaiman Addonia 2008 British English
12796 Exit Zero Marie-Helene Bertino 2025 Unknown Unknown
12834 A Chorus Of Stones Susan Griffin 1992 American English
12834 Claiming Breath Diane Glancy 1992 American English
12834 Fortunate Lives Robb Forman Dew 1992 American English
12834 Still Loved By The Sun Migael Scherer 1992 American English
12880 Birchwood John Banville 1973 Irish English
12973 When We Were Real Daryl Gregory 2025 American Unknown
12974 Once Was Willem M. R. Carey 2025 Unknown Unknown
12976 The Death Of Us Abigail Dean 2025 Unknown Unknown
12977 Boustany Sami Tamimi 2025 Unknown Unknown
13006 Thus Were Their Faces Silvina Ocampo 1988 Argentinian Spanish
13050 The Words Of Dr. L Karen E. Bender 2025 American English
13066 Evensong Stewart O'Nan 2025 American English
13078 Thrilled To Death Lynne Tillman 2025 American English
13093 How To Cook A Coyote Betty Fussell 2025 American English
13102 The Autobiography Of H. Lan Thao Lam Lana Lin 2025 American English
13103 Art Work Sally Mann 2025 American English
13104 The Life And Poetry Of Frank Stanford James McWilliams 2025 American English
13128 We Did Ok, Kid Sir Anthony Hopkins 2025 British Unknown
13152 The Book Of Jonah Luke Kennard 2025 British English
13153 The New Carthaginians Nick Makoha 2025 Ugandan English
13220 One Hundred Demons Lynda Barry 2002 American English
13239 Harrow The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2020 New Zealand English
13279 Idaho Emily Ruskovich 2017 American English
13259 The Corpse Washer Sinan Antoon 2010 Iraqi Arabic
13286 How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Charles Yu 2010 American English
13288 Nocilla Dream Agustín Fernández Mallo 2006 Spanish Spanish
13316 Who Will Remember The People... Jean Raspail 1986 French French
13338 Last Orders Graham Swift 1996 British English
13339 Home Toni Morrison 2012 American English
13340 Candyfreak Steve Almond 2004 American English
13340 Name All The Animals Alison Smith 2004 American English
13353 Si Bob Ong 2014 Filipino Filipino
13354 In My Brother's Shadow Uwe Timm 2005 German German
13500 The Ship Of Fools Cristina Peri Rossi 2021 Uruguayan Spanish
13362 First Love And Other Sorrows Harold Brodkey 1957 American English
13362 Il Grande Meaulnes Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
13513 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13543 The Spectator Bird Wallace Stegner 1976 American English
13543 Three Junes Julia Glass 2002 American English
13560 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons 1990 American English
13578 One With Others C. D. Wright 2010 American English
13581 Out Of The Dark Patrick Modiano 1990 French French
13583 Heartland Wilson Harris 1964 Guyanese English
13595 A Family Record Patrick Modiano 1977 French French
13600 Not Everybody Lives the Same Way Jean-Paul Dubois 2019 French French
13600 Live Fast Brigitte Giraud 2022 French French
13600 Die Gasse Der Dunklen Läden Patrick Modiano 1978 French French
13600 La Maison Vide Laurent Mauvignier French French
13600 Le Chèvrefeuille, Le Purgatoire, Le Chapitre Xiii Thierry Sandre French French
13600 A Man Scans His Past Maurice Constantin-Weyer French French
13600 The Long Holiday Francis Ambrière 1946 French English
13600 Vent De Mars Henri Pourrat 1941 French French
13600 Mon Village à L'heure Allemande Jean-Louis Bory 1945 French French
13600 Les Bêtes Pierre Gascar 1953 French French
13600 Les Eaux Mêlées Roger Ikor 1955 French French
13600 God Was Born In Exile Vintilă Horia 1960 Unknown Spanish
13600 The Lost Shore Anna Langfus 1962 French French
13600 To Forget Palermo Edmonde Charles-Roux 1966 French French
13600 Les Flamboyants Patrick Grainville 1976 French French
13600 Cronus' Children Yves Navarre 1980 French French
13600 Anne Marie Lucien Bodard 1981 French French
13600 The Lost Ones Frédérick Tristan 1983 French French
13600 Trading Secrets Paule Constant 1998 French French
13600 The Roving Shadows Pascal Quignard 2002 French English
13600 Cry, Mother Spain Lydie Salvayre 2014 French French
13716 Radiance Catherynne M. Valente 2015 American English
13716 When We Were Romans Matthew Kneale 2007 British English
13764 Invisible Ink Patrick Modiano 2019 French French
13772 When We Get There Shauna Seliy 2008 Unknown English
13772 The Sunken Cathedral Kate Walbert 2015 American English
13793 Vampires In The Lemon Grove Karen Russell 2013 American English
13815 The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak 2006 Turkish English
13818 Villa Tarantola Vincenzo Cardarelli 1948 Italian Unknown
13818 La Memoria Giambattista Angioletti 1939 Italian Unknown
13818 Quasi Una Vita Corrado Alvaro 1950 Italian Italian
13818 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
13818 L'ombra Delle Colline Giovanni Arpino 1964 Italian Italian
13818 L'occhio Del Gatto Alberto Bevilacqua 1968 Italian Italian
13818 La Morte Del Fiume Guglielmo Petroni 1958 Italian Italian
13818 Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger Fausta Cialente 1976 Italian Italian
13818 La Vita Ingenua Vittorio Gorresio 1956 Italian Unknown
13818 Solitudes Goffredo Parise 1984 Italian Italian
13818 Il Natale Del 1833 Mario Pomilio 1983 Italian Italian
13818 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
13818 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
13818 La Casa Del Padre Giorgio Montefoschi 1994 Italian Italian
13818 Passaggio In Ombra Mariateresa Di Lascia 1995 Italian Italian