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
6984 Sleeping It Off in Rapid City August Kleinzahler 2008 American English
6983 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 2021 American English
6996 Panegyric Guy Debord 1989 French French
7001 Collected Poems Jack Gilbert 2012 American English
7008 Gente Que Se Fue David Gistau 2010 Spanish Spanish
7016 Dukla Andrzej Stasiuk 1997 Polish Polish
7021 The Girl On The Train Paula Hawkins 2015 British English
7040 Hope Against Hope Nadezhda Mandelstam 1970 Russian Russian
7056 Kaddish For An Unborn Child Imre Kertész 1990 Hungarian Hungarian
7056 Some Thing Black Jacques Roubaud 1990 French French
7086 Klotsvog Margarita Khemlin 2009 Russian Russian
7099 The Dutch House Ann Patchett 2019 American English
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7119 The Optic Nerve Maria Gainza 2015 Argentinian Spanish
7151 The Shawl Cynthia Ozick 1989 American English
7153 Poems Adrienne Rich 1975 American English
7160 The Poems Of Manolis Anagnostakis Manolis Anagnostakis 2001 Greek Greek
7189 Close To The Knives David Wojnarowicz 1991 American English
7205 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7215 The Scarlet Plague Jack London 1912 American English
7215 Oraisons funèbres Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 1689 French French
7215 Selected Poems Freidrich Hölderlin 1800 German German
7215 On Sepulchres Ugo Foscolo 1809 Italian Italian
7215 Poetic Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine 1820 French French
7215 Sylvie Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
7215 Aurelia Gerard de Nerval 1855 French French
7215 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
7215 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
7215 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
7215 Poems Of George Meredith George Meredith 1851 British English
7215 Poems Of Lionel Johnson Lionel Johnson 1895 British English
7215 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
7215 Poems Of Theodor Storm Theodor Storm 1852 German German
7215 A Family Chronicle Sergei Aksakov 1856 Russian Russian
7215 Poems Of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1838 American English
7215 Poems Of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 1860 American English
7215 Poems Of Trumbull Stickney Trumbull Stickney 1905 American English
7215 Orphic Songs Dino Campana 1914 Italian Italian
7215 Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti 1942 Italian Italian
7215 The Buried Harbour Giuseppe Ungaretti 1916 Italian Italian
7215 Selected Poems Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
7215 Poems Of Carles Riba Carles Riba 1943 Spanish Catalan
7215 Exile And Other Poems Saint-John Perse 1942 French French
7215 Poems Of Max Jacob Max Jacob 1917 French French
7215 Poems Of Pierre Jean Jouve Pierre-Jean Jouve 1925 French French
7215 Eurydice Jean Anouilh 1941 French French
7215 Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 1929 British English
7215 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7215 Poems Of Georg Trakl Georg Trakl 1913 Austrian German
7215 Poems Of H. Leivick H. Leivick 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7215 Poems Of Mani Leib Mani Leib 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7215 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7215 Last Poems Elinor Wylie 1943 American English
7215 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
7215 Poems Of Allen Tate Allen Tate 1930 American English
7215 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
7215 Permit Me Voyage James Agee 1934 American English
7215 The Years Virginia Woolf 1937 British English
7215 A Mind At Peace Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1949 Turkish Turkish
7215 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7215 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane 1974 Australian English
7215 The Empty Book Josefina Vicens 1958 Mexican English
7215 The Long View Elizabeth Jane Howard 1956 British English
7562 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
7564 Selected Poems Frank O'Hara 1974 American English
7569 Brain On Fire Susannah Cahalan 2012 American English
7605 Writing Marguerite Duras 1993 French French
7621 Dropbear Evelyn Araluen 2021 Australian English
7634 The Big Music Kirsty Gunn 2012 New Zealander English
7642 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson 1985 American English
7649 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7653 Tropical Night Falling Manuel Puig 1988 Argentinian Spanish
7655 Paterson William Carlos Williams 1946 American English
7682 Sophie Calle Sophie Calle 1994 French French
7691 Quiet Flows The Una Faruk Šehić 2011 Bosnian Bosnian
7698 La Orilla Oscura José María Merino 1985 Spanish Spanish
7711 The Snow Of The Admiral Alvaro Mutis 1986 Colombian Spanish
7724 A Worldly Country John Ashbery 2007 American English
7735 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English
7742 My Life and My Life in the Nineties Lyn Hejinian 1980 American English
7747 Geography Iii Elizabeth Bishop 1976 American English
7762 Too Much Happiness Alice Munro 2009 Canadian English
7764 As If I Am Not There Slavenka Drakulic 1999 Croatian English
7764 Pavel's Letters Monika Maron 1999 German German
7770 Stories And Recollections Umberto Saba 1948 Italian Italian
7770 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
7780 The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence 1984 American English
7786 Cold Enough For Snow Jessica Au 2022 Australian English
7794 Sleepwalking Land Mia Couto 1992 Mozambican Portuguese
7800 Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson 2016 American English
7801 Für Elise Szabó, Magda 1984 Hungarian Hungarian
7819 Transparence Of The World Jean Follain 1949 French French
7831 La Larga Marcha Rafael Chirbes 1996 Spanish Spanish
7838 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
7860 Poems Of René Char René Char 1950 French French
7860 World Enough And Time Robert Penn Warren 1950 American English
7860 The Plains Gerald Murnane 1982 Australian English
7875 World's Fair E. L. Doctorow 1985 American English
7876 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7889 The Dog Star Agneta Pleijel 2023 Swedish Swedish
7890 Love Toni Morrison 2003 American English
7893 Communion Whitley Strieber 1987 American English
7899 The Gentrification of the Mind Sarah Schulman 2012 American English
7910 Poems Of Keith Douglas Keith Douglas 1951 British English
7914 Musicophilia Oliver Sacks 2007 British English
7927 Autobiographie De Mon Pere Pierre Pachet 1997 French French
7939 The Fourth World Diamela Eltit 1988 Chilean Spanish
7940 The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page G. B. Edwards 1981 British English
7953 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
7966 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
7966 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7976 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 2019 American English
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
7995 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
8001 La Visita En El Tiempo Arturo Uslar Pietri 1990 Venezuelan Spanish
8006 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
8008 Poems Of Philippe Jacottet Philippe Jacottet 1953 French French
8008 Victims Of Duty Eugène Ionesco 1953 French French
8008 Poems Of Elizabeth Jennings Elizabeth Jennings 1953 British English
8008 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English