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
13818 Microcosms Claudio Magris 1997 Italian Italian
13818 I Bei Momenti Enzo Siciliano 1997 Italian Italian
13818 Darkness Dacia Maraini 1995 Italian Italian
13818 Il Dolore Perfetto Ugo Riccarelli 2004 Italian Italian
13818 Il Viaggiatore Notturno Maurizio Maggiani 2005 Italian Italian
13818 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
13818 Due Vite Emanuele Trevi 2020 Italian Italian
13879 Edwin Mullhouse Steven Millhauser 1972 American English
13922 Blind Sunflowers Alberto Méndez 2004 Spanish Spanish
13941 Anything Is Possible Elizabeth Strout 2017 American English
13941 A Tale For The Time Being Ruth Ozeki 2013 American English
13941 The Story Of My Teeth Valeria Luiselli 2015 Mexican Spanish
13962 Moonwalking With Einstein Joshua Foer 2011 American English
13969 The Birds Of The Innocent Wood Deirdre Madden 1988 Irish English
13971 Revenant Gun Yoon Ha Lee 2018 Korean-American English
13971 Hotel World Ali Smith 2001 British English
13971 What We Owe Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde 2017 Swedish English
13971 Book Of Mutter Kate Zambreno 2017 American English
14001 A Chronicle Of Ancient Sunlight Henry Williamson 1951 British English
14011 Emperor Of The Air Ethan Canin 1988 American English
14025 The Rosewater Insurrection Tade Thompson 2019 British English
14025 The Rosewater Redemption Tade Thompson 2019 British English
14025 Ardency Kevin Young 2011 American English
14025 The Wife's Tale Aida Edemariam 2018 Canadian English
14042 Surrogate City Hugo Hamilton 1990 Irish Unknown
14046 又見棕櫚, 又見棕櫚 Yu Lihua 1971 Chinese Chinese
14056 Sybil Flora Rheta Schreiber 1973 American English
14063 The Troika Stepan Chapman 1997 American English
14063 Silent Close No. 6 Monika Maron 1991 German German
14074 Pilgrim Timothy Findley 1999 Canadian English
14104 Los Días Azules Fernando Vallejo 2020 Colombian Spanish
14113 The Man Who Saw Everything Deborah Levy 2019 British English
14113 Eyes Bottle Dark With A Mouthful Of Flowers Jake Skeets 2019 American English
14122 Why We Sleep Matthew Walker 2017 American English
14138 ...And Call Me Conrad Roger Zelazny 1965 American English
14155 Mulberry And Peach Hualing Nieh 1976 Chinese Chinese
14212 Thank You and Other Poems Kenneth Koch 1962 American English
14232 Dart Alice Oswald 2002 British English
14232 The Separation Christopher Priest 2002 British English
14232 The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern 2019 American English
14232 Disoriental Négar Djavadi 2016 French French
14232 View With A Grain Of Sand Wislawa Szymborska 1995 Polish Polish
14345 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Roddy Doyle 1996 Irish English
14346 Reading In The Dark Seamus Deane 1996 Irish English
14348 The Waters of Kronos Conrad Richter 1960 American English
14348 Paco's Story Larry Heinemann 1986 American English
14390 Rivers and Mountains John Ashbery 1966 American English
14401 Los Estratos Juan Cárdenas 2013 Colombian Spanish
14411 Youth, A Narrative Joseph Conrad 1898 British English
14426 The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes Tatiana Țîbuleac 2016 Moldovan Romanian
14433 Fault Lines Nancy Huston 2006 French French
14451 A Spool Of Blue Thread Anne Tyler 2015 American English
14458 Nog Rudy Wurlitzer 1969 American English
14458 Collected Stories of Peter Taylor Peter Taylor 1969 American English
14458 Brain Rules John Medina 2008 American English
14481 The Banyan Tree Christopher Nolan 1999 Irish English
14482 Glanz Und Gloria Henning Ahrens 2003 German German
14488 The Jiling Chronicles Li Yung-p'ing 1986 Chinese Unknown
14491 Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 2006 French French
14493 A History Of Burning Janika Oza 2023 Unknown English
14499 Why Don't Students Like School? Daniel T. Willingham 2009 American English
14545 In The Valley Of The Sun Andy Davidson American English
14554 The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje 2011 Canadian English
14589 Primera Persona Margarita García Robayo 2017 Colombian Spanish
14599 Our Story Begins Tobias Wolff 2008 American English
14617 Chess King Shi-Kuo Chang 1988 Chinese Chinese
14642 Somos Luces Abismales Carolina Sanin 2018 Colombian Spanish
14646 Fin De Siècle Splendor Chu Tʽien-wen 1990 Chinese Chinese
14650 Searching for Caleb Anne Tyler 1975 American English
14650 I Would Have Saved Them If I Could Leonard Michaels 1975 American English
14680 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
14731 I, etcetera Susan Sontag 1978 American English
14828 The Story Of A Life Konstantin Paustovsky 1945 Russian Russian
14869 Palm Of The Hand Stories Yasunari Kawabata 1949 Japanese Japanese
14939 The City And The Stars Arthur C. Clarke 1956 British English
14936 Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Philip K. Dick 1974 American English
14947 Double Or Nothing Raymond Federman 1971 American English
14963 Dying Inside Robert Silverberg 1972 American English
14967 Greybeard Brian Aldiss 1964 British English
14985 If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Jon McGregor 2002 British English
14985 Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat 1994 Haitian English
14985 Binocular Vision Edith Pearlman 2011 American English
14985 The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell 2010 British English
14985 A Drinking Life Pete Hamill 1994 American English
14985 Animal Dreams Barbara Kingsolver 1990 American English
14985 Lucy Jamaica Kincaid 1990 Antiguan English
14985 South of the Border, West of the Sun Haruki Murakami 1992 Japanese Japanese
14985 Call Me Zebra Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 2018 American English
14985 Passage Connie Willis 2001 American English
14985 Song Of Time Ian R. MacLeod 2008 British English
14985 Before I Go To Sleep S. J. Watson 2011 British English
14985 Memory Lois McMaster Bujold 1996 American English
14978 Time Out Of Joint Philip K. Dick 1959 American English
14985 Downriver Iain Sinclair 1991 British English
14985 Crossing The River Caryl Phillips 1993 British English
14985 The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst 1994 British English
14985 The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright 2011 Irish English
14985 A Little Devil In America Hanif Abdurraqib 2021 American English
14985 Native Guard Natasha Trethewey 2006 American English
14985 The Shadow Year Jeffrey Ford 2008 American English
14985 The Chimes Anna Smaill 2015 New Zealand English
14985 The Sudden Appearance Of Hope Claire North 2016 British English
14985 Engine Summer John Crowley 1979 American English
14985 From The Fifteenth District Mavis Gallant 1979 Canadian English
14985 A Strange And Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri 1991 Indian English
14985 John Annie Baker 2015 American English
14972 All That Fall Samuel Beckett 1957 Irish English
14985 The Weir Conor McPherson 1997 Irish English
14985 Away Jane Urquhart 1993 Canadian English
14985 Summer Ali Smith 2020 British English
14985 A Brightness Long Ago Guy Gavriel Kay 2019 Canadian English
14985 Some Kind Of Fairy Tale Graham Joyce 2012 British English
14985 Dear Life Alice Munro 2012 Canadian English
14985 Chasm City Alastair Reynolds 2001 British English
14985 Feersum Endjinn Iain Banks 1994 British English
14985 The Maze Runner James Dashner 2009 American English
14985 Dreamcatcher Stephen King 2001 American English
14985 Bliss Montage Ling Ma 2022 American English
14985 Red Memory Tania Branigan 2023 Chinese English
14985 How To Read The Air Dinaw Mengestu 2010 American English