The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Oxford

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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
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
805 Gaudy Night Dorothy L. Sayers 1935 British English
963 Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm 1911 British English
1214 The Moving Toyshop Edmund Crispin 1946 British English
2110 Oxford English Dictionary Oxford University Press 1884 British English
2402 Last Seen Wearing Colin Dexter 1976 British English
2569 Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1864 British English
2569 The Idea Of A University John Henry Newman 1852 British English
3638 The Seven Lamps Of Architecture John Ruskin 1849 British English
3890 The Concept Of Law H. L. A. Hart 1961 British English
4310 The Case Of The Gilded Fly Edmund Crispin 1944 British English
4605 Babel R. F. Kuang 2022 American English
4688 Christianity And Culture T. S. Eliot 1939 British English
4817 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
4878 The Golden String Bede Griffiths 1954 British English
5323 The Remorseful Day Colin Dexter 1999 British English
5826 Conundrum Jan Morris 1974 British English
6005 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English
6147 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova 2005 American English
6246 A Discovery Of Witches Deborah Harkness 2011 American English
6701 The House In Norham Gardens Penelope Lively 1974 British English
6896 Doomsday Book Connie Willis 1992 American English
6969 Collected Shorter Poems W. H. Auden 1966 British English
7112 The Inklings Humphrey Carpenter 1978 British English
7216 A Grammar Of Assent John Henry Newman 1870 British English
7648 Hitch 22 Christopher Hitchens 2010 British English
7931 Four Essays On Liberty Isaiah Berlin 1969 British English
7980 Berta Isla Javier Marias 2017 Spanish Spanish
8095 The Dictionary Of Lost Words Pip Williams 2020 Australian English
8422 The Man Who Loved China Simon Winchester 2008 British English
8429 To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 1997 American English
8473 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8710 The Dead Of Jericho Colin Dexter 1981 British English
8872 Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry 2018 American English
9192 How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Kiese Laymon 2013 American English
9685 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
9887 Man And The Natural World Keith Thomas 1983 British English
9910 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
10927 Robert Grosseteste R. W. Southern 1988 British English
11299 No Way Out Cara Hunter 2019 British English
11311 Mysteries Of The Middle Ages Thomas Cahill 2006 American English
11483 The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst 2017 British English
11663 Everything Under Daisy Johnson 2018 British English
14458 Tom Brown At Oxford Thomas Hughes 1861 British English
14644 Sinister Street Compton Mackenzie 1913 British English
14788 The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1951 Indian English
14930 Surprised By Joy C. S. Lewis 1955 British English
14985 Citizen Clem John Bew 2016 British English
15916 An Oxford Tragedy J. C. Masterman 1933 British English
17163 Young Shoulders John Wain 1982 British English
17163 If You're An Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? G. A. Cohen 2000 British English
17163 A Classical Education Richard Cobb 2009 American English
17163 A Column Of Fire Ken Follett 2017 British English
16973 An Autobiography RG Collingwood 1939 British English
17163 Harold Wilson Ben Pimlott 1992 British English
17163 Roy Jenkins John Campbell 1983 British English
17163 La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman 2017 British English
17163 An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison 1995 American English
17163 The Women Are Up To Something Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb 2022 Unknown English
17163 When Christ And His Saints Slept Sharon Kay Penman 1995 American English
17163 In The Wake Of The Plague Norman F. Cantor 2001 American English
17163 Politics On The Edge Rory Stewart 2023 British English
17163 Some Kids I Taught And What They Taught Me Kate Clanchy 2019 British English
17163 Three Daughters Of Eve Elif Shafak 2016 Turkish English
17163 The It Girl Ruth Ware 2022 British English
17163 Welcome To Our Hillbrow Phaswane Mpe 2001 South African English
17163 The Secret Book Of Flora Lea Patti Callahan Henry 2023 American English
17163 Lyra's Oxford Philip Pullman 2003 British English
17163 The Collected Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Irish English
17163 The Book Of Life Deborah Harkness 2014 American English
17163 The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman 2019 British English
17163 Falls The Shadow Sharon Kay Penman 1988 American English
17163 The Dictionary People Sarah Ogilvie 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan 2023 British English
17163 J.L. Austin M.W. Rowe 2004 Unknown English