The Greatest Books of All Time on Orphans

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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
14099 Eben Holden Irving Bacheller 1900 American English
14102 The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner 1942 American English
14160 The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come John Fox Jr. 1903 American English
14232 The Lies Of Locke Lamora Scott Lynch 2006 American English
14232 The Invention Of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick 2007 American English
14448 Q & A Vikas Swarup 2005 Indian English
14541 The Children Carolina Sanin 2016 Colombian Spanish
14646 Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter 1913 American English
14674 An Orphan World Giuseppe Caputo 2019 Colombian Spanish
14868 Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1903 American English
14983 Eva Luna Isabel Allende 1987 Chilean Spanish
14983 Lila Marilynne Robinson 2014 American English
14983 Ombria in Shadow Patricia A. McKillip 2002 American English
14983 A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher 2020 American English
14983 The Chimes Anna Smaill 2015 New Zealand English
14983 Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis 1999 American English
14983 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 2023 American English
15815 Children Of The Atom Wilmar H. Shiras 1953 American English
15897 Night And Morning Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1841 British English
15897 The King's Own Frederick Marryat 1830 British English
15897 Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1834 British English
15897 Adventures Of Sanmao The Orphan Zhang Leping 1935 Chinese Chinese
17117 The Names N. Scott Momaday 1976 American English
17117 Passager Jane Yolen 1996 American English
17117 The Folk Keeper Franny Billingsley 1999 American English
17117 The Hollow Kingdom Clare B. Dunkle 2003 American English
17117 Auē Becky Manawatu 2019 New Zealander English
17117 A Spell Of Winter Helen Dunmore 1995 British English
17117 The Rowan Anne McCaffrey 1990 American English
17117 Diaspora Greg Egan 1997 Australian English
17117 Adam's Breed Radclyffe Hall 1926 British English
17117 The Looking Glass Wars Frank Beddor 2004 American English
17117 Madouc Jack Vance 1989 American English
17117 Lamb Bernard MacLaverty 1980 Irish English
17117 Rooftoppers Katherine Rundell 2013 British English
17117 The Orphans’ Home Cycle Horton Foote 2009 American English
17117 The Way Of Shadows Brent Weeks 2008 American English
17117 Little Eve Catriona Ward 2018 British English
16925 The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1883 British English
17117 The Higher Power Of Lucky Susan Patron 2006 American English
17117 The Girl Who Drank The Moon Kelly Barnhill 2016 American English
17117 Claire Of The Sea Light Edwidge Danticat 2013 Haitian English
17117 The Book Of Aron Jim Shepard 2015 American English
17117 The Palm And El Jabran Gha’ib Ti’ma Firman Iraqi Unknown
17117 Unknown Grave Ahmed Ould Abdel-Qader Mauritanian Unknown
17117 Jisr Banat Yacoub Hassan Hamid 2017 Syrian Arabic
17117 The Flowers Of War Yan Geling 2006 Chinese Chinese
17117 Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate 2017 American English
17117 Crooked Kingdom Leigh Bardugo 2016 American English
17117 The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket 1999 American English
17117 Dickens Peter Ackroyd 1990 British English
17117 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket 2005 American English
17117 Bloody Jack L.A. Meyer 2002 American English
17117 The Republic Of Thieves Scott Lynch 2013 American English
17117 Gathering Blue Lois Lowry 2000 American English
16902 Capitães Da Areia Jorge Amado 1937 Brazilian Portuguese
17117 Aria Nazanine Hozar 2019 Unknown English
17117 Ghosts Of The Orphanage Christine Kenneally 2023 Unknown English
17014 Jane Eyre Emily Bronte 1847 English English
17117 The Ogress And The Orphans Kelly Barnhill 2022 American English
17117 Journey To The River Sea Eva Ibbotson 2001 British English