The Greatest Books of All Time on Nostalgia

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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
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
160 My Antonia Willa Cather 1918 American English
302 The Lost Estate Henri Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
335 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Giorgio Bassani 1962 Italian Italian
426 The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese 1950 Italian Italian
680 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever 1978 American English
727 The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz 1934 Polish Polish
758 Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury 1957 American English
798 The Life Of Arseniev Ivan Bunin 1930 Russian Russian
890 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 1995 British English
923 The World Of Yesterday Stefan Zweig 1942 Austrian German
1016 Poems Of C. P. Cavafy C. P. Cavafy 1935 Greek Greek
1020 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion 1968 American English
1027 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2013 Belarusian Russian
1415 Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1883 American English
1453 The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 American English
1619 Nostalgia Mircea Cărtărescu 1989 Romanian Romanian
1633 In Watermelon Sugar Richard Brautigan 1968 American English
1717 Lake Wobegon Days Garrison Keillor 1985 American English
1857 A Lost Lady Willa Cather 1923 American English
1972 The Virgin Suicides Jeffrey Eugenides 1993 American English
2164 Essays Charles Lamb 1823 British English
2215 The Lake of the Bees Theodor Storm 1849 German German
2396 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos 1989 American English
2653 Sleepless Nights Elizabeth Hardwick 1979 American English
2680 Generation X Douglas Coupland 1991 Canadian English
2803 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis 1986 British English
2849 The Museum of Unconditional Surrender Dubravka Ugrešić 1997 Croatian Croatian
2997 Childhood Leo Tolstoy 1852 Russian Russian
3063 Home Land Sam Lipsyte 2004 American English
3419 Taipei People Pai Hsien-yung 1971 Chinese Chinese
3423 The Back Room Carmen Martín Gaite 1978 Spanish Spanish
3431 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury 1980 American English
3637 So Tender Was Suleyken Siegfried Lenz 1955 German German
3637 Stopfkuchen Wilhelm Karl Raabe 1891 German German
3637 Kuttel Daddeldu Joachim Ringelnatz 1920 German German
3637 Die Feuerzangenbowle Heinrich Spoerl 1933 German German
3885 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
4073 The Song Of Everlasting Sorrow Wang Anyi 1995 Chinese Chinese
4145 Krapp's Last Tape Samuel Beckett 1958 Irish English
4171 Trout Fishing In America Richard Brautigan 1967 American English
4266 The Old World Landowners Nikolai Gogol 1835 Ukrainian Russian
4480 Revenge Of The Lawn Richard Brautigan 1971 American English
4947 Les Regrets Joachim Du Bellay 1558 French French
5110 The Ministry Of Pain Dubravka Ugrešić 2004 Croatian Croatian
5133 The Snows Of Yesteryear Gregor von Rezzori 1989 Austrian German
5285 από το στόμα της παλιάς Remington Giannis Panou 1981 Greek Greek
5301 The Museum Of Innocence Orhan Pamuk 2008 Turkish Turkish
5293 Tadellöser & Wolff Walter Kempowski 1975 German German
5329 Pushkin Hills Sergei Dovlatov 1983 Russian Russian
5391 Tom Lake Ann Patchett 2023 American English
5421 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country William H. Gass 1968 American English
5636 Pictures From Home Larry Sultan 1992 American English
5939 Hurramabad Andrei Volos 1998 Russian Russian
5950 Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon 2009 American English
6197 Bezzeg Az én Időmben Klára Fehér 1966 Hungarian Hungarian
6304 Les Lieux De Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras 1977 French French
6312 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6363 Girlfriend In A Coma Douglas Coupland 1998 Canadian English
6441 Who Will Run The Frog Hospital Lorrie Moore 1994 American English
6548 Kindheit In Ostpreußen Marion Gräfin Dönhoff 1988 German German
6581 So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away Richard Brautigan 1982 American English
6668 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
6821 Tales Of The Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
6878 Lettres Aux Années De Nostalgie Kenzaburō Ōe 1987 Japanese Japanese
6920 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2007 Pakistani English
6984 Sleeping It Off in Rapid City August Kleinzahler 2008 American English
7016 Dukla Andrzej Stasiuk 1997 Polish Polish
7206 Voroshilovgrad Serhiy Zhadan 2010 Ukrainian Ukrainian
7216 Sylvie Gerard de Nerval 1853 French French
7216 Complete Poems Ernest Dowson 1905 British English
7216 Poems Of Moshe Leib Halpern Moshe-Leib Halpern 1919 Yiddish Yiddish
7216 H. M. Pulham, Esquire John P. Marquand 1941 American English
7216 A Mind At Peace Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar 1949 Turkish Turkish
7216 Tamarisk Row Gerald Murnane 1974 Australian English
7216 The Fortnight In September R. C. Sherriff 1931 British English
7876 World's Fair E. L. Doctorow 1985 American English
8107 Memorias De Mama Blanca Teresa de la Parra 1929 Venezuelan Spanish
8177 Cuando Ya No Importe Juan Carlos Onetti 1993 Uruguayan Spanish
8355 Libertinagem Manuel Bandeira 1930 Brazilian Portuguese
8386 Ella Cantaba Boleros Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1992 Cuban Spanish
8445 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8445 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8473 Babylon Revisited And Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1960 American English
8473 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
9022 Memories Of My Father Watching Tv Curtis White 1998 American English
9680 Ordesa Manuel Vilas 2018 Spanish Spanish
9899 Modern Lovers Emma Straub 2016 American English
9912 The Past Alan Pauls 2003 Argentinian Spanish
10067 In The Café Of Lost Youth Patrick Modiano 2007 French French
10139 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
10284 They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 American English
10840 Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon 2013 American English
10884 Kampung Boy Lat 1979 Malaysian Malay
10948 Travelling In The Family Carlos Drummond de Andrade 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
11085 Mirror Sydney Vanessa Berry 2017 Australian English
11229 Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2001 American English
11295 This Life Karel Schoeman 1993 South African Afrikaans
11363 Une Façon D'aimer Dominique Barbéris 2019 French French
11365 Où Sont Ils Maintenant. Anthologie Personnelle Laura Kasischke Unknown French
11417 Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003 Cuban English
11643 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11662 The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010 American English
11812 On The Golden Porch Tatyana Tolstaya 1987 Russian Russian
12019 Memories Of Peking Lin Hai-yin 1960 Chinese Chinese
12077 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
12385 Time Remaining James McCourt 1993 American English
12796 Exit Zero Marie-Helene Bertino 2025 Unknown Unknown
13340 Candyfreak Steve Almond 2004 American English
13353 Si Bob Ong 2014 Filipino Filipino
13362 Il Grande Meaulnes Alain-Fournier 1913 French French
13581 Out Of The Dark Patrick Modiano 1990 French French
13594 The Book Of Joe Jonathan Tropper 2004 American English
13600 En France Marius-Ary Leblond 1909 French French
13600 A Man Scans His Past Maurice Constantin-Weyer French French
13600 God Was Born In Exile Vintilă Horia 1960 Unknown Spanish
13600 And Their Children After Them Nicolas Mathieu 2018 French French
13728 Riley Songs Of Summer James Whitcomb Riley 1883 American English
13818 I Bei Momenti Enzo Siciliano 1997 Italian Italian