The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Ohio

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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
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
184 Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 American English
308 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 American English
311 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1919 American English
560 Sula Toni Morrison 1973 American English
2613 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
3146 A Simple Plan Scott Smith 1993 American English
3244 The Thurber Carnival James Thurber 1945 American English
3569 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
4169 The History of the Standard Oil Company Ida Tarbell 1904 American English
5330 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5569 Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng 2014 American English
5863 My Life and Hard Times James Thurber 1933 American English
6005 Waiting For Nothing And Other Writings Tom Kromer 1935 American English
6005 Testimony Charles Reznikoff 1965 American English
6547 The Boarded Window Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
6593 The Queen's Gambit Walter Tevis 1983 American English
6605 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
6737 The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup Susan Orlean 2001 American English
6947 Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann 2019 British English
7216 The Short Fiction Charles W. Chesnutt 1899 American English
7566 There's Always This Year Hanif Abdurraqib 2024 American English
7920 Mr. Mercedes Stephen King 2014 American English
8846 Our Kids Robert D. Putnam 2015 American English
8927 How Children Succeed Paul Tough 2012 Canadian English
8927 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
9192 But What If We're Wrong? Chuck Klosterman 2016 American English
10026 Wounds Of Passion bell hooks 1997 American English
10448 Buckeye Patrick Ryan 2025 Unknown English
10636 Collected Stories Constance Fenimore Woolson American English
10661 Paper Girl Beth Macy 2025 American English
11140 And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson 1989 American English
11291 The Girls Who Went Away Ann Fessler 2006 American English
11652 Above The River James Wright 1990 American English
11662 During The Reign Of The Queen Of Persia Joan Chase 1983 American English
11662 Cherry Nico Walker 2018 American English
11662 Fly Girls Keith O'Brien 2018 American English
11883 Honor Thrity Umrigar 2022 American English
11940 The Taft Story William S. White 1954 American English
11940 Grant William S. McFeely 1981 American English
11940 Harriet Beecher Stowe Joan D. Hedrick 1994 American English
12084 Real Farm Patricia Tichenor Westfall 1989 American English
12251 Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea Gary Kinder 1998 American English
12290 The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin 2013 American English
13293 My Life Of Absurdity Chester Himes 1990 American English
13340 The Rule Of Four Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason 2004 American English
14677 The Life And Letters Of John Hay William Roscoe Thayer 1915 American English
14695 Interpretations Of Literature Lafcadio Hearn 1915 British English
14985 Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech 1994 American English
14985 The Wright Brothers David McCullough 2015 American English
14985 The Deluge Stephen Markley 2023 Unknown English
14985 The History Of Bees Maja Lunde 2015 Norwegian Norwegian
14985 Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond 2023 American English
15795 Writings And Drawings James Thurber 1973 American English
15825 Half Magic Edward Eager 1954 American English
16581 How The West Was Won Louis L'Amour 1963 American English
16726 The Doctrine And Covenants The Doctrine and Covenants 1835 American English
17161 In the Days of McKinley Margaret Leech 1959 American English
17161 The Devil All The Time Donald Ray Pollock 2011 American English
17161 Thomas And Beulah Rita Dove 1986 American English
16806 The Dead Of The House Hannah Green 1971 American English
17161 A Book Of American Martyrs Joyce Carol Oates 2017 American English
17161 Indignation Philip Roth 2008 American English
17161 A Patriot's History Of The United States Larry Schweikart 2004 American English
17161 Eight Men Out Eliot Asinof 1963 American English
17161 The Civil War Geoffrey C. Ward 1990 American English
17161 American Primitive Mary Oliver 1983 American English
17161 Between Two Kingdoms Suleika Jaouad 2021 Unknown English
17161 Memory Man David Baldacci 2015 American English
17161 My Friend Dahmer Derf Backderf 2012 American English
17161 $2.00 A Day Kathryn J. Edin 2015 American English
17161 Breakfast With Buddha Roland Merullo 2007 American English
17161 Bet Me Jennifer Crusie 2004 American English
17161 The Broom Of The System David Foster Wallace 1987 American English
17161 Assassination Vacation Sarah Vowell 2005 American English
17161 The Only Plane In The Sky Garrett M. Graff 2019 American English
17161 Sounds Like Titanic Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 2019 American English
17161 Await Your Reply Dan Chaon 2009 American English
17161 The Big Sort Bill Bishop 2008 American English
17161 Loose Balls Terry Pluto 1990 American English
17161 Levels Of The Game John McPhee 1969 American English
17161 The Summer Game Roger Angell 1972 American English
17161 The Long Season Jim Brosnan 1960 American English
17161 Veeck As In Wreck Bill Veeck, Ed Linn 1962 American English
17161 The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract Bill James 1985 American English
17161 Baseball's Great Experiment Jules Tygiel 1983 American English
17161 The Glory Of Their Times Lawrence Ritter 1966 American English
17161 The Complete Armchair Book Of Baseball John Thorn 2004 American English
17161 Road Swing Steve Rushin 1998 American English
17161 Beer And Circus Murray Sperber 2000 American English
17161 The Fall Of Roe Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer 2024 Unknown English
17161 Why We Love Baseball Joe Posnanski 2023 American English
17161 Pink And Say Patricia Polacco 1994 American English
16851 The Frontiersmen Allan W. Eckert 1967 American English
17161 The Hospital Brian Alexander 2021 Unknown English
17161 The Man Who Saved The Union H.W. Brands 2012 American English
17161 The Abstainer Ian McGuire 2020 British English
17161 President Garfield C.W. Goodyear 2023 Unknown English
17161 The Undocumented Americans Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 2020 American English
17161 Blended Sharon M. Draper 2018 American English
17161 The Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier 2013 American English
17161 The Book Of Lies Brad Meltzer 2008 American English
17161 1919 Martin W. Sandler 2019 American English