The Greatest Books of All Time on Modernism

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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
730 Petersburg Andrei Bely 1913 Russian Russian
1733 Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein 1914 American English
3324 Tarr Wyndham Lewis 1918 British English
3528 Poetry and the Age Randall Jarrell 1953 American English
3638 Childe Harold Of Dysna Moyshe Kulbak 1939 Belarusian Yiddish
3638 Blasting And Bombardiering Wyndham Lewis 1937 British English
3953 Υψικαμινος Andreas Embiricos 1935 Greek Greek
5890 Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 1923 British English
5990 Writing Degree Zero Roland Barthes 1953 French French
6522 Le Coq Et L'arlequin Jean Cocteau 1918 French French
7663 Against Interpretation Susan Sontag 1966 American English
7687 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7819 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal And His Time Hermann Broch 1949 Austrian German
7966 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
8390 de Kooning Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan 2004 American English
10303 Ornament And Crime Adolf Loos 1908 German German
10975 Portrait Of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1980 American English
11134 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Carl E. Schorske 1980 American English
11330 How New York Stole The Idea Of Modern Art Serge Guilbaut 1983 American English
11515 The Intellectuals And The Masses John Carey 1992 British English
11939 The Man From New York Benjamin Lawrence Reid 1968 American English
14649 A Homemade World Hugh Kenner 1975 American English
15885 Winds Of Doctrine George Santayana 1913 American English
16764 The Pound Era Hugh Kenner 1971 Canadian English
17117 A Moment's Liberty Virginia Woolf 1990 British English
17117 Los Angeles Reyner Banham 1971 British English