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
17117 Thomas And Beulah Rita Dove 1986 American English
17117 Ugly Ways Tina McElroy Ansa 1993 American English
17117 Fledgling Octavia E. Butler 2005 American English
17117 Soldier Of Sidon Gene Wolfe 2006 American English
17117 The Palace Of Eternity Bob Shaw 1969 British English
17117 The Fifth Head Of Cerberus Gene Wolfe 1972 American English
16764 The Little Girls Elizabeth Bowen 1964 Irish English
17117 A Book Of Common Prayer Joan Didion 1977 American English
17117 The Great World David Malouf 1990 Australian English
17117 On A Sunbeam Tillie Walden 2018 American English
17117 The Empress Of Salt And Fortune Nghi Vo 2020 American English
17117 Recitatif Toni Morrison 1983 American English
17117 South To America Imani Perry 2022 American English
17117 Faith Healer Brian Friel 1979 Irish English
17117 Betrayal Harold Pinter 1978 British English
17117 The Inheritance Matthew Lopez 2020 American English
17117 Dancing At Lughnasa Brian Friel 1990 Irish English
17117 The Throwback Special Chris Bachelder 2016 American English
17117 The Fates Will Find Their Way Hannah Pittard 2011 American English
17117 The Rest Of Life Mary Gordon 1993 American English
17117 The Furies Janet Hobhouse 1984 American English
17117 Winter Ali Smith 2017 British English
17117 Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente 2009 American English
17117 The Silent Land Graham Joyce 2010 British English
17117 Time Warped Claudia Hammond 2012 British English
17117 We Were Liars E. Lockhart 2014 American English
17117 Swimming Studies Leanne Shapton 2012 Canadian English
17117 I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin 2010 South Korean Korean
17117 Otherland Tad Williams 1996 American English
17117 The Rift Nina Allan 2017 British English
17117 End Of The World Blues Jon Courtenay Grimwood 2006 British English
17117 Lavondyss Robert Holdstock 1988 British English
17117 The Book Of Accidents Chuck Wendig 2021 American English
17117 Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee 2015 American English
17117 Thinking The Twentieth Century Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder 2012 American English
17117 All Rivers Run To The Sea Elie Wiesel 1995 American French
17117 Magic Trees Of The Mind Marion Diamond, Janet Hopson 1998 American English
17117 The Invisible Gorilla Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons 2010 American English
17117 The Work Of The Dead Thomas W. Laqueur 2015 American English
17117 No Name In The Street James Baldwin 1972 American English
17117 How Proust Can Change Your Life Alain de Botton 1997 British English
17117 The Feast Of Love Charles Baxter 2000 American English
17117 Company Samuel Beckett 1979 Irish English
17117 This House Of Sky Ivan Doig 1978 American English
17117 Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Gerald M. Edelman 1992 American English
17117 My Father's Fortune Michael Frayn 2010 British English
17117 A Romantic Education Patricia Hampl 1981 American English
16764 The Dead Of The House Hannah Green 1971 American English
17117 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
17117 A Wilderness Station Alice Munro 1996 American English
17117 Are You Somebody? Nuala O'Faolain 1996 Irish English
17117 Landscape And Memory Simon Schama 1995 British English
17117 Forms Of Devotion Diane Schoemperlen 1998 Canadian English
17117 Artful Ali Smith 2012 British English
17117 The Three Golden Keys Petr Sis 1994 Czech English
17117 Map Wislawa Szymborska 2016 Polish Polish
17117 Holy Land D. J. Waldie 1996 American English
17117 Kaddish Leon Wieseltier 1998 Kaddish English
17117 Paper Fish Tina de Rosa 1980 American English
17117 The Girl Who Drank The Moon Kelly Barnhill 2016 American English
17117 Moonglow Michael Chabon 2016 American English
17117 George Sprott Seth 2009 Canadian English
17117 Harlem Is Nowhere Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 2011 American English
17117 The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane 2012 British English
17117 In Search Of Walid Masoud Jabra Ibrahim Jabra 1978 Palestinian Arabic
17117 Rama And The Dragon Edward al Kharrat 1980 Egyptian Arabic
17117 Tattoo Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie 1972 Iraqi Arabic
17117 The Long Way Back Fouad Al-Takarli 1980 Iraqi Arabic
17117 The Decade's Night Muhammad Salih al-Jabri 1982 Unknown Unknown
17117 Memory In The Flesh Ahlam Mosteghanemi 1993 Algerian Arabic
17117 Recognition Ali Abu Al-Rish Emirati Unknown
17117 Return To Exile Abu El Maati Abu El Naga 1972 Egyptian Unknown
17117 Gate Of The Sun Elias Khoury 1998 Lebanese Arabic
17117 The Game Of Forgetting Mohammed Berrada 1987 Moroccan Arabic
17117 Return To Dar Al Basha Ḥasan Naṣr 1994 Tunisian Unknown
17117 The Crane Halim Barakat 1988 Syrian Arabic
17117 Confessions Of A Silencer Mu’nis al-Razzaz 1986 Jordanian Arabic
17117 Granada Radwa Ashour 1994 Egyptian Arabic
17117 The Shadow And The Echo Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar Lebanese Unknown
17117 Les 1001 années de la nostalgie Rachid Boudjedra 1997 Algerian French
17117 Al Khamasseya Ismail Fahd Ismail 2002 Kuwaiti Arabic
17117 Ras Beirut Yasin Rifa’ieh 1987 Unknown Unknown
17117 1952 Jamil Atiyah Ibrahim 1990 Unknown Unknown
17117 Essential Pillars Elias Farkouh 2002 Jordanian Unknown
17117 The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole Gerald Rosen 1977 American English
17117 Making History Carolyn See 1991 American English
17117 Time And Narrative (Time & Narrative) Paul Ricœur 1983 French French
17117 Dog Flowers Danielle Geller 2021 American English
17117 Nothing Ever Dies Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016 American English
17117 Once Upon A Time In The East Xiaolu Guo 2017 British English
17117 Beijing Coma Ma Jian 2008 Chinese Chinese
17117 The Fat Years Chan Koonchung 2009 Chinese Chinese
17117 Zinky Boys Svetlana Alexievich 1989 Belarusian Russian
17117 Dark Places Gillian Flynn 2009 American English
17117 My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell 2020 American English
17117 Look To Windward Iain Banks 2000 British English
17117 Unlimited Memory Kevin Horsley 2014 Unknown English
17117 Recursion Blake Crouch 2019 American English
17117 Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 American English
16844 Coming Up For Air George Orwell 1939 British English
17117 Crash & Burn Lisa Gardner 2015 American English
17117 Hearts In Atlantis Stephen King 1999 American English
17117 Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi 1984 Italian Italian
17117 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
17117 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
17117 Building A Second Brain Tiago Forte 2022 American English
17117 Not Even The Dead Juan Gómez Bárcena 2023 Spanish Spanish
17117 The Wych Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
17117 Still Alice Lisa Genova 2007 American English
17117 Memory Man David Baldacci 2015 American English
17117 The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro 2013 Unknown English
17117 Love Is A Mix Tape Rob Sheffield 2007 American English
17117 A Closed And Common Orbit Becky Chambers 2016 American English
17117 Sleeping Murder Agatha Christie 1976 British English
17117 Oona Out Of Order Margarita Montimore 2020 Unknown English
17117 Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010 American English
17117 M Train Patti Smith 2015 American English
17117 Still Life Sarah Winman 2021 British English
17117 The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire 2009 Canadian English
17117 Edinburgh Alexander Chee 2001 American English