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
1732 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
3954 Υψικαμινος Andreas Embiricos 1935 Greek Greek
5893 Antic Hay Aldous Huxley 1923 British English
5994 Writing Degree Zero Roland Barthes 1953 French French
6524 Le Coq Et L'arlequin Jean Cocteau 1918 French French
7664 Against Interpretation Susan Sontag 1966 American English
7688 The Rest is Noise Alex Ross 2007 American English
7820 Hugo Von Hofmannsthal And His Time Hermann Broch 1949 Austrian German
7967 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
8393 de Kooning Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan 2004 American English
10309 Ornament And Crime Adolf Loos 1908 German German
10982 Portrait Of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1980 American English
11141 Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Carl E. Schorske 1980 American English
11337 How New York Stole The Idea Of Modern Art Serge Guilbaut 1983 American English
11518 The Intellectuals And The Masses John Carey 1992 British English
11941 The Man From New York Benjamin Lawrence Reid 1968 American English
14650 A Homemade World Hugh Kenner 1975 American English
15896 Winds Of Doctrine George Santayana 1913 American English
16808 The Pound Era Hugh Kenner 1971 Canadian English
17163 A Moment's Liberty Virginia Woolf 1990 British English
17163 Los Angeles Reyner Banham 1971 British English