The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Missouri

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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
22 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 American English
243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 American English
791 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 2012 American English
899 Stoner John Williams 1965 American English
2029 The Land Of Laughs Jonathan Carroll 1980 American English
2614 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
2807 James Percival Everett 2024 American English
3428 Short Letter, Long Farewell Peter Handke 1972 Austrian German
3610 Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell 2006 American English
3638 The Jazz Book Joachim-Ernst Berendt 1953 German German
4508 Truman David McCullough 1992 American English
4682 The Autobiography of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1924 American English
5330 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5340 Days Without End Sebastian Barry 2016 Irish English
6005 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
8377 The Perfect Play Jaci Burton 2011 American English
8645 Orality And Literacy Walter J. Ong 1982 American English
8728 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
9342 The Tender Land Kathleen Finneran 2000 American English
10042 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford Ron Hansen 1983 American English
10454 The Life Of Langston Hughes Arnold Rampersad 1986 American English
11455 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Robert Lewis Taylor 1958 American English
11541 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1869 American English
11582 A Country Year Sue Hubbell 1986 American English
11941 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Justin Kaplan 1966 American English
12816 Flanagan's Run Tom McNab 1982 British English
13217 The Crisis Winston Churchill 1901 British English
13293 My Life Of Absurdity Chester Himes 1990 American English
13330 Olio Tyehimba Jess 2016 American English
13340 Candyfreak Steve Almond 2004 American English
13878 Guilty Pleasures Laurell K. Hamilton 1993 American English
14455 The Shepherd Of The Hills Harold Bell Wright 1907 American English
14622 Mark Twain, A Biography Albert Bigelow Paine 1912 American English
14985 Anita Blake Laurell K. Hamilton 1993 American English
14985 The Wedding People Alison Espach 2024 Unknown English
15652 The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1922 American English
15839 The Little House Collection Laura Ingalls Wilder 1932 American English
15873 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1876 American English
15916 The Selected Letters Of William James William James 1920 American English
15916 You Can’t Win Jack Black 1926 American English
15916 The Shame Of The Cities Lincoln Steffens 1904 American English
15916 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
15916 None Dare Call It Treason John A. Stormer 1964 American English
15916 La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West Francis Parkman 1869 American English
16579 How The West Was Won Louis L'Amour 1963 American English
16687 Factotum Charles Bukowski 1975 American English
16726 The Doctrine And Covenants The Doctrine and Covenants 1835 American English
17163 Theory of War Joan Brady 1993 American English
17163 Across the Wide Missouri Bernard A. DeVoto 1947 American English
17163 The Dred Scott Case Don E. Fehrenbacher 1978 American English
17163 Sharp Objects Gillian Flynn 2006 American English
17163 The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot Lyndall Gordon 1998 British English
17163 The Barefoot Brigade By Douglas C. Jones Douglas C. Jones 1979 American English
17163 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17163 Undaunted Courage Stephen E. Ambrose 1996 American English
17163 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17163 Ours Phillip B. Williams 2024 Unknown English
17163 I'll Have What He's Having Adib Khorram 2024 American English
17163 Lincoln Fred Kaplan 2008 American English
17163 Trans Atlantic Colum McCann 2013 Irish English
17163 The Oregon Trail Rinker Buck 2015 American English
17163 Jack Marilynne Robinson 2020 American English
17163 Life On The Run Bill Bradley 1976 American English
17163 St. Louis Black Women’s Quilting And Cuisine Rev. Paulette Sankofa 2024 Unknown Unknown
17163 Mapping St. Louis Andy Hahn 2024 Unknown Unknown
17163 The Summer Game Roger Angell 1972 American English
17163 The Long Season Jim Brosnan 1960 American English
17163 Veeck As In Wreck Bill Veeck, Ed Linn 1962 American English
17163 The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract Bill James 1985 American English
17163 Baseball's Great Experiment Jules Tygiel 1983 American English
17163 The Glory Of Their Times Lawrence Ritter 1966 American English
17163 The Complete Armchair Book Of Baseball John Thorn 2004 American English
17163 Lords Of The Realm John Helyar 1994 American English
17163 Out Of Their League Dave Meggyesy 1971 American English
17163 Only The Ball Was White Robert Peterson 1970 Unknown English
17163 Road Swing Steve Rushin 1998 American English
17163 The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars And Motor Kings William Brashler 1973 American English
17163 Why We Love Baseball Joe Posnanski 2023 American English
17163 Native Nations Kathleen DuVal 2024 Unknown English
17163 Desperadoes Ron Hansen 1979 American English
17163 Percy Jackson 5 Books Collection And The Demigod Files / The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17004 Astoria Washington Irving 1835 American English
17163 Klan War Fergus M. Bordewich 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Ferguson Report Nicole Sealey 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Silence Of The Lambs And Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1991 American Unknown