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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17161 | The Legacy Of Lost Things | Aida Zilalian | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Moshi Moshi | Banana Yoshimoto | 2010 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17161 | The River Has Roots | Amal El Mohtar | 2025 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17161 | The Last Language | Jennifer duBois | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | This Is Salvaged | Vauhini Vara | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | A Second Chance For Yesterday | RA Sinn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Same Dog | Robert Aickman | 2023 | British | Unknown | |
| 17161 | My Murder | Katie Williams | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Emergency | Kathleen Alcott | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | To Name The Bigger Lie | Sarah Viren | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Obra Maestra | Juan Tallón | 2022 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 17161 | Grand Tour | Elisa Gonzalez | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | I Love Russia | Elena Kostyuchenko | 2023 | Unknown | Russian | |
| 17161 | The Lights | Ben Lerner | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17161 | Liliana’s Invincible Summer | Cristina Rivera Garza | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17161 | Ordinary Notes | Christina Sharpe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Roman Stories | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | A Shining | Jon Fosse | 2023 | Norwegian | Unknown | |
| 17161 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17161 | Time’s Echo | Jeremy Eichler | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | About Ed | Robert Gluck | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild | Mathias Énard | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17161 | Yesterday | Tobias Becker | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17161 | Night Watch | Jayne Anne Phillips | 2023 | American | Unknown | |
| 17161 | Brooklyn Crime Novel | Jonathan Lethem | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Earlier | Sasha Frere‑Jones | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Love Of Singular Men | Victor Heringer | 2023 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17161 | Beyond The Wall | Katja Hoyer | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | A Council Of Dolls | Mona Susan Power | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Long Form | Kate Briggs | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The House Of Doors | Tan Twan Eng | 2023 | Malaysian | English | |
| 17161 | Cross‑Stitch | Jazmina Barrera | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17161 | Monica | Daniel Clowes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | A Volga Tale | Guzel Yakhina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17161 | Artificial | Amy Kurzweil | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Pensive Citadel | Victor Brombert | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17161 | The Body Of The Soul | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17161 | This Is Salvaged | Vauhini Vara | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Wound | Oksana Vasyakina | 2023 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17161 | Pet | Catherine Chidgey | 2023 | New Zealand | English | |
| 17161 | A Man Of Two Faces | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | I Must Be Dreaming | Roz Chast | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Ladies’ Lunch | Lore Segal | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | The Hive And The Honey | Paul Yoon | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Reproduction | Louisa Hall | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Wren, The Wren | Anne Enright | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17161 | A Flat Place | Noreen Masud | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Paris Notebooks | Mavis Gallant | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17161 | The Glint Of Light | Clarence Major | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17161 | Emergency | Kathleen Alcott | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Up Home | Ruth J. Simmons | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Wednesday’s Child | Yiyun Li | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | The Suicide Museum | Ariel Dorfman | 2023 | Chilean | English | |
| 17161 | Beyond The Door Of No Return | David Diop | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17161 | Dragon Palace | Hiromi Kawakami | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17161 | The Details | Ia Genberg | 2023 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17161 | Some Unfinished Chaos | Arthur Krystal | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17161 | A Word Or Two Before I Go | Arthur Krystal | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Witness | Jamel Brinkley | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Father And Son | Jonathan Raban | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17161 | All Souls | Saskia Hamilton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Terrace Story | Hilary Leichter | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Hangman | Maya Binyam | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Information Desk | Robyn Schiff | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | You, Bleeding Childhood | Michele Mari | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17161 | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Retrospective | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | 2023 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 17161 | Ninth Building | Zou Jingzhi | 2023 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17161 | Thunderclap | Laura Cumming | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | How To Love Your Daughter | Hila Blum | 2023 | Unknown | Hebrew | |
| 17161 | So To Speak | Terrance Hayes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Snow Road Station | Elizabeth Hay | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17161 | Elsewhere | Yan Ge | 2023 | Chinese | English | |
| 17161 | Tabula Rasa | John McPhee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | After The Funeral And Other Stories | Tessa Hadley | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17161 | Instructions For The Drowning | Steven Heighton | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17161 | Lament For Julia | Susan Taubes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Wounded World | Chad L. Williams | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Take What You Need | Idra Novey | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | My Father’s Brain | Sandeep Jauhar | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Gravity And Center | Henri Cole | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | The Weeds | Katy Simpson Smith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Postcard | Anne Berest | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17161 | In The Orchard | Eliza Minot | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Nothing Stays Put | Willard Spiegelman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Still Life With Bones | Alexa Hagerty | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | To Anyone Who Ever Asks | Howard Fishman | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Fawn | Magda Szabó | 2023 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 17161 | Künstlers In Paradise | Cathleen Schine | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Fatherland | Burkhard Bilger | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Greek Lessons | Han Kang | 2023 | Korean | Korean | |
| 17161 | The Diary Keepers | Nina Siegal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Skeletons | Deborah Landau | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Great Reclamation | Rachel Heng | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Look At The Lights, My Love | Annie Ernaux | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17161 | Ghosts Of The Orphanage | Christine Kenneally | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Absent Moon | Luiz Schwarcz | 2023 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17161 | Old God’s Time | Sebastian Barry | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17161 | I Am Still With You | Emmanuel Iduma | 2023 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17161 | Collected Works | Lydia Sandgren | 2023 | Unknown | Swedish | |
| 17161 | I Have Some Questions For You | Rebecca Makkai | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | Evil Flowers | Gunnhild Øyehaug | 2023 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17161 | Skull Water | Heinz Insu Fenkl | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Guest Lecture | Martin Riker | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Still Pictures | Janet Malcolm | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | All Souls | Saskia Hamilton | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Ghost Music | An Yu | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | The Hive And The Honey | Paul Yoon | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | I Am Still With You | Emmanuel Iduma | 2023 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17161 | Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go | Cleo Qian | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Terrace Story | Hilary Leichter | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Thin Skin | Jenn Shapland | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | Beyond The Door Of No Return | David Diop | 2021 | French | French | |
| 17161 | Good Girls | Hadley Freeman | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17161 | The Lost Wife | Susanna Moore | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17161 | No One Will Come Back For Us | Premee Mohamed | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17161 | The Lock Up | John Banville | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17161 | Do You Remember? | Sydney Smith | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17161 | No One Prayed Over Their Graves | Khaled Khalifa | 2019 | Syrian | Arabic | |
| 17161 | Straw Dogs Of The Universe | Ye Chun | 2023 | Unknown | English |