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
9093 Of Strangers And Bees Hamid Ismailov 2019 Uzbek Uzbek
9111 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
9111 Selected Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1968 Polish Polish
9111 Poems Of Daryl Hine Daryl Hine 1968 Canadian English
9127 My Name Is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout 2016 American English
9131 The Dream Life Of Sukhanov Olga Grushin 2005 Russian English
9134 The Consequences Niña Weijers 2014 Dutch Dutch
9137 My Mother's Castle Marcel Pagnol 1957 French French
9155 Correspondance Avec Le Mur Hélène Cixous 2009 French French
9164 Stars Outside Nathan Alterman Israeli Hebrew
9171 Homeland Fernando Aramburu 2016 Spanish Spanish
9181 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9181 Selected Poems Vasko Popa 1969 Serbian Serbian
9181 Complete Poems Randall Jarrell 1969 American English
9181 Untitled Subjects Richard Howard 1969 American English
9181 By The Sea Abdulrazak Gurnah 2001 British English
9224 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9223 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
9229 Jadviga Párnája Pál Závada 1996 Hungarian Hungarian
9238 Tirra Lirra By The River Jessica Anderson 1978 Australian English
9242 The Complete Dramatic Works Of Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett 1986 Irish English
9257 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9258 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9258 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9289 Poems Of J. V. Foix J. V. Foix 1970 Catalan Catalan
9289 The Double Dream Of Spring John Ashbery 1970 American English
9289 Findings Richard Howard 1970 American Unknown
9289 A River Called Time Mia Couto 2002 Mozambican Portuguese
9312 Russia Is Burning Maria Bloshteyn 2020 Russian English
9312 Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech Paul Celan 2020 German German
9319 The Butterfly’s Burden Mahmoud Darwish 2007 Palestinian Arabic
9329 Acceptance Jeff VanderMeer 2014 American English
9337 Rails Under My Back Jeffery Renard Allen 2000 American English
9349 Our Story Rao Pingru 2013 Chinese Chinese
9351 The Old Garden Hwang Sok-yong 2000 Korean Korean
9360 Night Watch Terry Pratchett 2002 British English
9353 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
9353 Spring Shade Robert Fitzgerald 1971 American English
9353 Selected Poems Jean Garrigue 1971 American English
9353 Poems Of Howard Moss Howard Moss 1971 American English
9532 Love's End Pascal Rambert 2011 French French
9545 The Owl's Insomnia Rafael Alberti 1972 Spanish Spanish
9545 The Libera Me Domine Robert Pinget 1972 French Unknown
9545 Peppercanister Poems Thomas Kinsella 1972 Irish English
9545 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
9545 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
9557 Continuous Tony Harrison 1981 British English
9592 The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 2004 Multiple German
9598 The Interpreter From Java Alfred Birney 2016 Dutch Dutch
9601 Meteor In The Madhouse Leon Forrest 2001 American English
9609 The Three Paradoxes Paul Hornschemeier 2007 American English
9639 Time's Arrow Martin Amis 1991 British English
9644 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown
9644 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
9644 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
9644 Forgetting Elena Edmund White 1973 American English
9644 Living Together Edgar Bowers 1973 American English
9650 The Memory Chalet Tony Judt 2010 British English
9654 Rachel, Monique… Sophie Calle 2012 French French
9669 Strange Shores Arnaldur Indriðason 2010 Icelandic Icelandic
9656 Nedokoro No Kyoudai Kenzaburō Ōe Japanese Japanese
9677 Ordesa Manuel Vilas 2018 Spanish Spanish
9740 Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You Alice Munro 1974 Canadian English
9740 June Rain Jabbour Douaihy 2006 Lebanese Arabic
9751 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9759 The Armies Evelio Rosero 2007 Colombian Spanish
9765 Un Attieké Pour Elgass Tierno Monenembo 2021 French French
9773 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
9769 The Night Bookmobile Audrey Niffenegger 2010 American English
9769 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9780 Dead Collections Isaac Fellman 2022 Unknown English
9792 Crossings Chuang Hua 1968 American English
9798 Axiomatic Maria Tumarkin 2018 Australian English
9806 The Childhood Of Jesus J. M. Coetzee 2013 South African English
9806 Journal Julie Delporte 2013 Unknown French
9825 Tristano Dies Antonio Tabucchi 2004 Italian Italian
9830 Barney's Version Mordecai Richler 1997 Canadian English
9832 Poems Of Pierre Reverdy Pierre Reverdy 1975 French French
9832 Poems Of John Montague John Montague 1975 Irish English
9832 Exile And Return Yannis Ritsos 1975 Greek Greek
9832 Fountain And Tomb Naguib Mahfouz 1975 Egyptian Arabic
9832 Fully Empowered Pablo Neruda 1975 Chilean Spanish
9832 Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall 1975 American English
9847 Entre Les Deux Il N’y A Rien Mathieu Riboulet 2006 French French
9883 The Memory Of War James Fenton 1983 British English
9891 Falling Is Like Flying Manon Uphoff 2019 Dutch Dutch
9901 A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine 2019 American English
9902 A Broken Mirror Merce Rodoreda 1974 Spanish Catalan
9909 The Past Alan Pauls 2003 Argentinian Spanish
9926 Poems Of Umberto Saba Umberto Saba 1976 Italian Italian
9926 A Dress Of Fire Dalia Ravikovitch 1976 Israeli Hebrew
9926 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
9926 Dimensions Of History Jay Wright 1976 American English
9941 Joseph Marie-Hélène Lafon 2014 French French
9943 El Testigo Juan Villoro 2004 Mexican Spanish
9948 The Book Of Fathers Miklós Vámos 2000 Hungarian Hungarian
9959 Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien 1978 American English
9960 Varieties Of Exile Mavis Gallant 2003 Canadian English
9960 San Remo Drive Leslie Epstein 2003 American English
9980 Shadow & Claw Gene Wolfe 1994 American English
9998 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
10009 Three Stories J. M. Coetzee 2014 South African English
10017 Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo 2017 Chinese English
10016 Mending Bodies Hon Lai-Chu 2010 Chinese Chinese
10036 Poems Of Eugénio De Andrade Eugénio de Andrade 1977 Portuguese Portuguese
10036 A Part Of Speech Joseph Brodsky 1977 American Russian
10036 Houseboat Days John Ashbery 1977 American English
10036 Poems Of John Ashbery John Ashbery 1977 American English
10054 Collected Shorter Plays Samuel Beckett 1984 Irish English
10062 In The Café Of Lost Youth Patrick Modiano 2007 French French
10067 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
10090 Time Enough For Love Robert A. Heinlein 1973 American English
10091 Twenty Years And A Day Jorge Semprún 2003 Spanish Spanish
10100 My Life As A Russian Novel Emmanuel Carrère 2007 French French
10105 Lose Your Mother Saidiya Hartman 2007 American English
10109 There Was Never A Once Upon A Time Carmen Naranjo 1972 Costa Rican Unknown
10125 El Tiempo De Las Mujeres Ignacio Martínez de Pisón 2003 Spanish Spanish
10135 Selected Poetry Andrea Zanzotto 1978 Italian Italian
10135 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
10135 What I Love Odysseas Elytis 1978 Greek Greek