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
17161 The Nature Of Blood Caryl Phillips 1997 British English
17161 Thomas And Beulah Rita Dove 1986 American English
17161 Ugly Ways Tina McElroy Ansa 1993 American English
17161 Fledgling Octavia E. Butler 2005 American English
17161 Soldier Of Sidon Gene Wolfe 2006 American English
17161 The Palace Of Eternity Bob Shaw 1969 British English
17161 The Fifth Head Of Cerberus Gene Wolfe 1972 American English
16806 The Little Girls Elizabeth Bowen 1964 Irish English
17161 A Book Of Common Prayer Joan Didion 1977 American English
17161 The Great World David Malouf 1990 Australian English
17161 On A Sunbeam Tillie Walden 2018 American English
17161 The Empress Of Salt And Fortune Nghi Vo 2020 American English
17161 Recitatif Toni Morrison 1983 American English
17161 South To America Imani Perry 2022 American English
17161 Faith Healer Brian Friel 1979 Irish English
17161 Betrayal Harold Pinter 1978 British English
17161 The Inheritance Matthew Lopez 2020 American English
17161 Dancing At Lughnasa Brian Friel 1990 Irish English
17161 The Throwback Special Chris Bachelder 2016 American English
17161 The Fates Will Find Their Way Hannah Pittard 2011 American English
17161 The Rest Of Life Mary Gordon 1993 American English
17161 The Furies Janet Hobhouse 1984 American English
17161 Winter Ali Smith 2017 British English
17161 Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente 2009 American English
17161 The Silent Land Graham Joyce 2010 British English
17161 Time Warped Claudia Hammond 2012 British English
17161 We Were Liars E. Lockhart 2014 American English
17161 Swimming Studies Leanne Shapton 2012 Canadian English
17161 I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin 2010 South Korean Korean
17161 Otherland Tad Williams 1996 American English
17161 The Rift Nina Allan 2017 British English
17161 End Of The World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood 2006 British English
17161 Lavondyss Robert Holdstock 1988 British English
17161 The Book Of Accidents Chuck Wendig 2021 American English
17161 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee 2015 American English
17161 Thinking The Twentieth Century Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder 2012 American English
17161 All Rivers Run To The Sea Elie Wiesel 1995 American French
17161 Magic Trees Of The Mind Marion Diamond, Janet Hopson 1998 American English
17161 The Invisible Gorilla Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons 2010 American English
17161 The Work Of The Dead Thomas W. Laqueur 2015 American English
17161 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17161 How Proust Can Change Your Life Alain de Botton 1997 British English
17161 The Feast Of Love Charles Baxter 2000 American English
17161 Company Samuel Beckett 1979 Irish English
17161 This House Of Sky Ivan Doig 1978 American English
17161 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Gerald M. Edelman 1992 American English
17161 My Father's Fortune Michael Frayn 2010 British English
17161 A Romantic Education Patricia Hampl 1981 American English
16806 The Dead Of The House Hannah Green 1971 American English
17161 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
17161 A Wilderness Station Alice Munro 1996 American English
17161 Are You Somebody? Nuala O'Faolain 1996 Irish English
17161 Landscape And Memory Simon Schama 1995 British English
17161 Forms Of Devotion Diane Schoemperlen 1998 Canadian English
17161 Artful Ali Smith 2012 British English
17161 The Three Golden Keys Petr Sis 1994 Czech English
17161 Map Wislawa Szymborska 2016 Polish Polish
17161 Holy Land D. J. Waldie 1996 American English
17161 Kaddish Leon Wieseltier 1998 Kaddish English
17161 Paper Fish Tina de Rosa 1980 American English
17161 The Girl Who Drank The Moon Kelly Barnhill 2016 American English
17161 Moonglow Michael Chabon 2016 American English
17161 George Sprott Seth 2009 Canadian English
17161 Harlem Is Nowhere Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 2011 American English
17161 The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane 2012 British English
17161 In Search Of Walid Masoud Jabra Ibrahim Jabra 1978 Palestinian Arabic
17161 Rama And The Dragon Edward al Kharrat 1980 Egyptian Arabic
17161 Tattoo Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie 1972 Iraqi Arabic
17161 The Long Way Back Fouad Al-Takarli 1980 Iraqi Arabic
17161 The Decade's Night Muhammad Salih al-Jabri 1982 Unknown Unknown
17161 Memory In The Flesh Ahlam Mosteghanemi 1993 Algerian Arabic
17161 Recognition Ali Abu Al-Rish Emirati Unknown
17161 Return To Exile Abu El Maati Abu El Naga 1972 Egyptian Unknown
17161 Gate Of The Sun Elias Khoury 1998 Lebanese Arabic
17161 The Game Of Forgetting Mohammed Berrada 1987 Moroccan Arabic
17161 Return To Dar Al Basha Ḥasan Naṣr 1994 Tunisian Unknown
17161 The Crane Halim Barakat 1988 Syrian Arabic
17161 Confessions Of A Silencer Mu’nis al-Razzaz 1986 Jordanian Arabic
17161 Granada Radwa Ashour 1994 Egyptian Arabic
17161 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17161 Les 1001 années de la nostalgie Rachid Boudjedra 1997 Algerian French
17161 Al Khamasseya Ismail Fahd Ismail 2002 Kuwaiti Arabic
17161 Ras Beirut Yasin Rifa’ieh 1987 Unknown Unknown
17161 1952 Jamil Atiyah Ibrahim 1990 Unknown Unknown
17161 Essential Pillars Elias Farkouh 2002 Jordanian Unknown
17161 The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole Gerald Rosen 1977 American English
17161 Making History Carolyn See 1991 American English
17161 Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) Paul Ricœur 1983 French French
17161 Dog Flowers Danielle Geller 2021 American English
17161 Nothing Ever Dies Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016 American English
17161 Once Upon A Time In The East Xiaolu Guo 2017 British English
17161 Beijing Coma Ma Jian 2008 Chinese Chinese
17161 The Fat Years Chan Koonchung 2009 Chinese Chinese
17161 Zinky Boys Svetlana Alexievich 1989 Belarusian Russian
17161 Dark Places Gillian Flynn 2009 American English
17161 My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell 2020 American English
17161 Look To Windward Iain Banks 2000 British English
17161 Unlimited Memory Kevin Horsley 2014 Unknown English
17161 Recursion Blake Crouch 2019 American English
17161 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 American English
16869 Coming Up For Air George Orwell 1939 British English
17161 Crash & Burn Lisa Gardner 2015 American English
17161 Hearts In Atlantis Stephen King 1999 American English
17161 Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi 1984 Italian Italian
17161 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
17161 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
17161 Building A Second Brain Tiago Forte 2022 American English
17161 Not Even The Dead Juan Gómez Bárcena 2023 Spanish Spanish
17161 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
17161 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2007 American English
17161 Memory Man David Baldacci 2015 American English
17161 The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro 2013 Unknown English
17161 Love Is A Mix Tape Rob Sheffield 2007 American English
17161 A Closed And Common Orbit Becky Chambers 2016 American English
17161 The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana Umberto Eco 2004 Italian Italian
17161 Sleeping Murder Agatha Christie 1976 British English
17161 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17161 Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010 American English
17161 M Train Patti Smith 2015 American English
17161 Still Life Sarah Winman 2021 British English