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
7022 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
7190 Close To The Knives David Wojnarowicz 1991 American English
7206 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7216 The Scarlet Plague Jack London 1912 American English
7216 Oraisons funèbres Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 1689 French French
7216 Selected Poems Freidrich Hölderlin 1800 German German
7216 On Sepulchres Ugo Foscolo 1809 Italian Italian
7216 Poetic Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine 1820 French French
7216 Sylvie Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
7216 Aurelia Gerard de Nerval 1855 French French
7216 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
7216 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
7216 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
7216 Poems Of George Meredith George Meredith 1851 British English
7216 Poems Of Lionel Johnson Lionel Johnson 1895 British English
7216 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
7216 Poems Of Theodor Storm Theodor Storm 1852 German German
7216 A Family Chronicle Sergei Aksakov 1856 Russian Russian
7216 Poems Of John Greenleaf Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1838 American English
7216 Poems Of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 1860 American English
7216 Poems Of Trumbull Stickney Trumbull Stickney 1905 American English
7216 Orphic Songs Dino Campana 1914 Italian Italian
7216 Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti 1942 Italian Italian
7216 The Buried Harbour Giuseppe Ungaretti 1916 Italian Italian
7216 Selected Poems Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
7216 Poems Of Carles Riba Carles Riba 1943 Spanish Catalan
7216 Exile And Other Poems Saint-John Perse 1942 French French
7216 Poems Of Max Jacob Max Jacob 1917 French French
7216 Poems Of Pierre Jean Jouve Pierre-Jean Jouve 1925 French French
7216 Eurydice Jean Anouilh 1941 French French
7216 Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 1929 British English
7216 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Poems Of Georg Trakl Georg Trakl 1913 Austrian German
7216 Poems Of H. Leivick H. Leivick 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Poems Of Mani Leib Mani Leib 1918 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7216 Last Poems Elinor Wylie 1943 American English
7216 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
7216 Poems Of Allen Tate Allen Tate 1930 American English
7216 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
7216 Permit Me Voyage James Agee 1934 American English
7216 The Years Virginia Woolf 1937 British English
7216 A Mind At Peace Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1949 Turkish Turkish
7216 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7216 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane 1974 Australian English
7216 The Empty Book Josefina Vicens 1958 Mexican English
7216 The Long View Elizabeth Jane Howard 1956 British English
7563 Compass Mathias Enard 2015 French French
7565 Selected Poems Frank O'Hara 1974 American English
7570 Brain On Fire Susannah Cahalan 2012 American English
7606 Writing Marguerite Duras 1993 French French
7622 Dropbear Evelyn Araluen 2021 Australian English
7635 The Big Music Kirsty Gunn 2012 New Zealander English
7643 Fiskadoro Denis Johnson 1985 American English
7650 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7654 Tropical Night Falling Manuel Puig 1988 Argentinian Spanish
7656 Paterson William Carlos Williams 1946 American English
7683 Sophie Calle Sophie Calle 1994 French French
7692 Quiet Flows The Una Faruk Šehić 2011 Bosnian Bosnian
7699 La Orilla Oscura José María Merino 1985 Spanish Spanish
7713 The Snow Of The Admiral Alvaro Mutis 1986 Colombian Spanish
7726 A Worldly Country John Ashbery 2007 American English
7737 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English
7744 My Life and My Life in the Nineties Lyn Hejinian 1980 American English
7749 Geography Iii Elizabeth Bishop 1976 American English
7764 Too Much Happiness Alice Munro 2009 Canadian English
7766 As If I Am Not There Slavenka Drakulic 1999 Croatian English
7766 Pavel's Letters Monika Maron 1999 German German
7772 Stories And Recollections Umberto Saba 1948 Italian Italian
7772 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
7782 The Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci Jonathan Spence 1984 American English
7788 Cold Enough For Snow Jessica Au 2022 Australian English
7796 Sleepwalking Land Mia Couto 1992 Mozambican Portuguese
7802 Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson 2016 American English
7803 Für Elise Szabó, Magda 1984 Hungarian Hungarian
7820 Transparence Of The World Jean Follain 1949 French French
7832 La Larga Marcha Rafael Chirbes 1996 Spanish Spanish
7839 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
7861 Poems Of René Char René Char 1950 French French
7861 World Enough And Time Robert Penn Warren 1950 American English
7861 The Plains Gerald Murnane 1982 Australian English
7876 World's Fair E. L. Doctorow 1985 American English
7877 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7890 The Dog Star Agneta Pleijel 2023 Swedish Swedish
7891 Love Toni Morrison 2003 American English
7894 Communion Whitley Strieber 1987 American English
7900 The Gentrification of the Mind Sarah Schulman 2012 American English
7911 Poems Of Keith Douglas Keith Douglas 1951 British English
7915 Musicophilia Oliver Sacks 2007 British English
7928 Autobiographie De Mon Pere Pierre Pachet 1997 French French
7940 The Fourth World Diamela Eltit 1988 Chilean Spanish
7941 The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page G. B. Edwards 1981 British English
7954 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
7967 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
7967 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7977 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 2019 American English
7984 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
7996 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
8002 La Visita En El Tiempo Arturo Uslar Pietri 1990 Venezuelan Spanish
8007 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
8009 Poems Of Philippe Jacottet Philippe Jacottet 1953 French French
8009 Victims Of Duty Eugène Ionesco 1953 French French
8009 Poems Of Elizabeth Jennings Elizabeth Jennings 1953 British English
8009 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English