The Greatest Postmodern Books Since 2018

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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
2225 My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 2018 American English
2706 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 Mexican English
2736 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
3059 Trust Hernan Díaz 2022 Argentinian English
3204 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
3467 Kudos Rachel Cusk 2018 British English
3946 In The Dream House Carmen Maria Machado 2019 American English
4157 Asymmetry Lisa Halliday 2018 American English
4163 No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood 2021 American English
4579 Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov 2020 Bulgarian Bulgarian
4829 The Largesse of the Sea Maiden Denis Johnson 2018 American English
5006 Feel Free Zadie Smith 2018 British English
5624 Biography Of X Catherine Lacey 2023 American English
5805 Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 2024 American English
6302 Rejection Tony Tulathimutte 2024 American English
6461 Never Did The Fire Diamela Eltit 2022 Chilean Spanish
6608 The Anomaly Hervé Le Tellier 2020 French French
6710 The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 Zambian English
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
6947 Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann 2019 British English
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7129 Knife Salman Rushdie 2024 British English
7213 Question 7 Richard Flanagan 2023 Unknown English
7632 Telephone Percival Everett 2020 American English
7633 When The Clock Broke John Ganz 2024 Unknown English
7650 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7877 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7977 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 2019 American English
8462 Headshot Rita Bullwinkel 2024 Unknown English
8556 Our Evenings Alan Hollinghurst 2024 Unknown English
8855 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
9042 Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here Jonathan Blitzer 2024 Unknown English
9184 Red Clocks Leni Zumas 2018 American English
9226 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
9264 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9717 Eros Is More Juan Antonio González Iglesias 2018 Spanish Spanish
9724 Someone You Can Build A Nest In John Wiswell 2024 Unknown English
9765 Show Them A Good Time Nicole Flattery 2019 Irish English
9950 An Apartment On Uranus Paul B. Preciado 2019 Spanish French
9963 On The Calculation Of Volume Solvej Balle 2025 Danish Danish
10024 The End Of The World Is A Cul De Sac Louise Kennedy 2021 Irish English
10103 Colored Television Danzy Senna 2024 Unknown English
10128 White City Kevin Power 2021 Irish English
10138 Change Machine Jaya Savige 2020 Australian English
10156 You Dreamed Of Empires Alvaro Enrigue 2024 Unknown English
10210 Peripathetic Cher Tan 2020 Unknown English
10279 This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud 2024 Unknown English
10361 Liars Sarah Manguso 2024 American English
10454 The Topeka School Ben Lerner 2019 American English
10454 Crudo Olivia Laing 2018 British English
10492 The Book Of Love Kelly Link 2024 Unknown English
10539 A Sunny Place For Shady People Mariana Enríquez 2024 Unknown Unknown
10605 All Things Are Too Small Becca Rothfeld 2024 Unknown English
10655 Chinese Postman Brian Castro 2024 Unknown English
10693 Consent Jill Ciment 2024 American English
10707 The Hypocrite Jo Hamya 2024 British English
10711 The Lodgers Holly Pester 2024 Unknown English
10852 Strange Pictures Uketsu 2022 Unknown Unknown
10880 The Vitals Tracy Sorensen 2023 Unknown English
10880 The Pole And Other Stories J. M. Coetzee 2023 South African English
11005 Shifting The Silence Etel Adnan 2020 Unknown English
11026 Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti 2024 Unknown Unknown
11058 Gliff Ali Smith 2024 British English
11210 The M Case Grégoire Bouillier 2021 French French
11640 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11644 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11663 Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett 2021 Irish English
11663 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11663 Your Duck Is My Duck Deborah Eisenberg 2018 American English
12026 Biotope Orly Castel-Bloom 2022 Israeli Hebrew
12063 O Tamanho Do Mundo António Lobo Antunes 2022 Portuguese Portuguese
12866 The Extreme Self Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist 2021 Multiple English
13500 The Power Of Horses And Other Stories Elizabeth Cook 2021 British Unknown
13500 The Ship Of Fools Cristina Peri Rossi 2021 Uruguayan Spanish
14164 Am Weltenrand Sitzen Die Menschen Und Lachen Philipp Weiss 2018 Austrian German
14232 Your Utopia Bora Chung 2024 Unknown Unknown
14328 Where You Come From Saša Stanišić 2019 German German
14371 Aus Der Zuckerfabrik Dorothee Elmiger 2020 Swiss German
14371 Allegro Pastell Leif Randt 2020 German German
14405 Die Inkommensurablen Raphaela Edelbauer 2021 Austrian German
14985 Call Me Zebra Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 2018 American English
14985 The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk 2024 Polish English
14985 The Dead Cat Tail Assassins P. Djèlí Clark 2024 American English
14985 The Third Realm Karl Ove Knausgård 2024 Norwegian Norwegian
14985 The Crisis Of Narration Byung-Chul Han 2023 German German
14985 Harold Steven Wright 2023 Unknown English
14985 Treacle Walker Alan Garner 2023 British English
14985 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2023 Senegalese French
17165 Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong 2020 American English
17165 Pink Slime Fernanda Trías 2024 Uruguayan Spanish
17165 The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild Mathias Enard 2023 French French
17165 Anita De Monte Laughs Last Xóchitl González 2024 Unknown Unknown
17165 Coup De Grâce Sofia Ajram 2024 Unknown Unknown
17165 House Of Bone And Rain Gabino Iglesias 2024 Unknown Unknown
17165 Godwin Joseph O'Neill 2024 Unknown English
17165 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 Emil Ferris 2024 American English
17165 Set My Heart On Fire Izumi Suzuki 2024 Unknown English
17165 My Lesbian Novel Renee Gladman 2024 American English
17165 Blurry Dash Shaw 2024 Unknown English
17165 Attachments Lucas Mann 2024 Unknown English
17165 Waiting For The Fear Oğuz Atay 2024 Unknown English
17165 States Of Emergency Chris Knapp 2024 Unknown English
17165 Some Strange Music Draws Me In Griffin Hansbury 2024 Unknown Unknown
17165 Lesser Ruins Mark Haber 2024 Unknown English
17165 Ghost Pains Jessi Jesewska Stevens 2024 Unknown English
17165 American Woman Katie Rogers 2024 Unknown English
17165 Banal Nightmare Halle Butler 2024 American English
17165 Gretel And The Great War Adam Erlich Sachs 2024 Unknown English
17165 I Was Working Ariel Yelen 2024 Unknown English
17165 Navola Paolo Bacigalupi 2024 Unknown English
17165 Suggested In The Stars Yoko Tawada 2024 Unknown English
17165 Tokyo These Days Taiyō Matsumoto 2024 Japanese Unknown
17165 Stories Are Weapons Annalee Newitz 2024 Unknown English
17165 The City In Glass Nghi Vo 2024 Unknown English
17165 The Stars Too Fondly Emily Hamilton 2024 Unknown English
17165 The Glutton A. K. Blakemore 2024 Unknown English
17165 Art Monster Marin Kosut 2024 Unknown English
17165 Final Cut Charles Burns 2024 Unknown English
17165 Between The Night And Its Music A.B. Spellman 2024 Unknown Unknown
17165 The Book Makers Adam Smyth 2024 Unknown Unknown