The Greatest Psychological Books Since 2000
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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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 232 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | 2004 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 237 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 | American | English | |
| 248 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 | British | English | |
| 370 | The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | 2005 | American | English | |
| 574 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones | 2003 | American | English | |
| 607 | House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 2000 | American | English | |
| 701 | The Feast of the Goat | Mario Vargas Llosa | 2000 | Peruvian | Spanish | |
| 741 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 2013 | American | English | |
| 747 | Blonde | Joyce Carol Oates | 2000 | American | English | |
| 791 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 2012 | American | English | |
| 804 | The Vegetarian | Han Kang | 2007 | Korean | Korean | |
| 922 | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2015 | American | English | |
| 1010 | Fingersmith | Sarah Waters | 2002 | British | English | |
| 1201 | Kafka On The Shore | Haruki Murakami | 2002 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 1261 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | 2000 | Canadian | English | |
| 1366 | The Adversary | Emmanuel Carrère | 2000 | French | French | |
| 1369 | Veronica | Mary Gaitskill | 2005 | American | English | |
| 1435 | Life After Life | Kate Atkinson | 2013 | British | English | |
| 1538 | Snow | Orhan Pamuk | 2002 | Turkish | Turkish | |
| 1563 | Runaway | Alice Munro | 2004 | Canadian | English | |
| 1693 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 2002 | American | English | |
| 1700 | The Hunger Angel | Herta Müller | 2009 | German | German | |
| 1723 | 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | 2009 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 1765 | A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | 2015 | American | English | |
| 1790 | The Master | Colm Toibin | 2004 | Irish | English | |
| 1989 | Your Face Tomorrow | Javier Marias | 2002 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 1995 | Say Nothing | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2002 | Freedom | Jonathan Franzen | 2010 | American | English | |
| 2076 | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 2011 | Israeli | English | |
| 2101 | Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson | 2007 | American | English | |
| 2189 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | 2005 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 2218 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | 2011 | British | English | |
| 2224 | My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Ottessa Moshfegh | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2242 | Milkman | Anna Burns | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 2244 | The Gathering | Anne Enright | 2007 | Irish | English | |
| 2498 | Room | Emma Donoghue | 2010 | Irish | English | |
| 2608 | Heavy | Kiese Laymon | 2018 | American | English | |
| 2647 | Hurricane Season | Fernanda Melchor | 2017 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 2706 | Lost Children Archive | Valeria Luiselli | 2019 | Mexican | English | |
| 2805 | Fates and Furies | Lauren Groff | 2015 | American | English | |
| 2902 | Cremation | Rafael Chirbes | 2007 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 2904 | What I Loved | Siri Hustvedt | 2003 | American | English | |
| 2908 | Love Life | Zeruya Shalev | 2000 | Israeli | Hebrew | |
| 2919 | Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel | 2012 | British | English | |
| 2967 | The Sea | John Banville | 2005 | Irish | English | |
| 2973 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 2008 | Indian | English | |
| 3049 | Fever Dream | Samanta Schweblin | 2014 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 3060 | Trust | Hernan Díaz | 2022 | Argentinian | English | |
| 3083 | Under the Skin | Michel Faber | 2000 | British | English | |
| 3132 | The Man Who Loved Dogs | Leonardo Padura | 2009 | Cuban | Spanish | |
| 3136 | Mother's Milk | Edward St Aubyn | 2005 | British | English | |
| 3164 | Dept. of Speculation | Jenny Offill | 2014 | American | English | |
| 3172 | The Bee Sting | Paul Murray | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 3183 | Minor Detail | Adania Shibli | 2017 | Palestinian | Arabic | |
| 3227 | Millennium Trilogy | Stieg Larsson | 2005 | Swedish | Swedish | |
| 3265 | The Days Of Abandonment | Elena Ferrante | 2002 | Italian | Italian | |
| 3443 | Transit | Rachel Cusk | 2016 | British | English | |
| 3508 | Joe Cinque's Consolation | Helen Garner | 2004 | Australian | English | |
| 3568 | Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | 2017 | American | English | |
| 3580 | Call Me By Your Name | André Aciman | 2007 | Italian | English | |
| 3590 | Do Everything in the Dark | Gary Indiana | 2003 | American | English | |
| 3875 | We Need To Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver | 2003 | American | English | |
| 3926 | In The Woods | Tana French | 2007 | Irish | English | |
| 4067 | The Story Of Lucy Gault | William Trevor | 2002 | Irish | English | |
| 4101 | Purge | Sofi Oksanen | 2008 | Finnish | Finnish | |
| 4149 | The Devotion Of Suspect X | Keigo Higashino | 2005 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 4306 | It Ends With Us | Colleen Hoover | 2016 | American | English | |
| 4392 | The Friend | Sigrid Nunez | 2018 | American | English | |
| 4533 | Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | American | English | |
| 4558 | Star Of The Sea | Joseph O'Connor | 2003 | Irish | English | |
| 4587 | Columbine | Dave Cullen | 2009 | American | English | |
| 4591 | Conversations With Friends | Sally Rooney | 2017 | Irish | English | |
| 4886 | The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | 2008 | Irish | English | |
| 4977 | Klara And The Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2021 | British | English | |
| 5012 | The Lesser Bohemians | Eimear McBride | 2016 | Irish | English | |
| 5108 | The Ministry Of Pain | Dubravka Ugrešić | 2004 | Croatian | Croatian | |
| 5120 | In The Night Of Time | Antonio Muñoz Molina | 2012 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 5280 | At Last | Edward St Aubyn | 2011 | British | English | |
| 5283 | Strangers To Ourselves | Rachel Aviv | 2022 | American | English | |
| 5316 | Faithless | Joyce Carol Oates | 2001 | American | English | |
| 5421 | What The Dead Know | Laura Lippman | 2007 | American | English | |
| 5485 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | 2014 | Australian | English | |
| 5490 | The Slap | Christos Tsiolkas | 2008 | Australian | English | |
| 5568 | Everything I Never Told You | Celeste Ng | 2014 | American | English | |
| 5596 | The Sound Of Things Falling | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | 2011 | Colombian | Spanish | |
| 5693 | Night Boat To Tangier | Kevin Barry | 2019 | Irish | English | |
| 5739 | Anil's Ghost | Michael Ondaatje | 2000 | Canadian | English | |
| 5740 | One Of Us | Asne Seierstad | 2013 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 5969 | The Perfect Nanny | Leïla Slimani | 2016 | French | French | |
| 6254 | Six Four | Hideo Yokoyama | 2012 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 6255 | Midwinter Break | Bernard MacLaverty | 2017 | Irish | English | |
| 6257 | A Novel About My Wife | Emily Perkins | 2008 | New Zealand | English | |
| 6323 | Opportunity | Charlotte Grimshaw | 2007 | New Zealand | English | |
| 6341 | Nothing Holds Back The Night | Delphine de Vigan | 2011 | French | French | |
| 6439 | The Snowman | Jo Nesbø | 2007 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 6477 | Case Histories | Kate Atkinson | 2004 | British | English | |
| 6481 | I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti | 2001 | Italian | Italian | |
| 6537 | Hunger | Roxane Gay | 2017 | American | English | |
| 6567 | Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming | László Krasznahorkai | 2016 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 6662 | You | Caroline Kepnes | 2014 | American | English | |
| 6699 | The Little Stranger | Sarah Waters | 2009 | British | English | |
| 6730 | Saturday | Ian McEwan | 2005 | British | English | |
| 6757 | Breasts And Eggs | Mieko Kawakami | 2008 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 6801 | Bird Box | Josh Malerman | 2014 | American | English | |
| 6859 | A Head Full Of Ghosts | Paul Tremblay | 2015 | American | English | |
| 6913 | With The Animals | Noëlle Revaz | 2002 | Swiss | French | |
| 7022 | The Girl On The Train | Paula Hawkins | 2015 | British | English | |
| 7115 | Seven Years | Peter Stamm | 2009 | Swiss | German | |
| 7163 | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | 2003 | American | English | |
| 7179 | The Blue Tango | Eoin McNamee | 2001 | Irish | English | |
| 7203 | The Surgeon | Tess Gerritsen | 2001 | American | English | |
| 7562 | Compass | Mathias Enard | 2015 | French | French | |
| 7584 | Verity | Colleen Hoover | 2018 | American | English | |
| 7700 | Tirza | Arnon Grunberg | 2006 | Dutch | Dutch | |
| 7708 | Moral Hazard | Kate Jennings | 2002 | Australian | English | |
| 7763 | Too Much Happiness | Alice Munro | 2009 | Canadian | English | |
| 7778 | The Cold Moon | Jeffrey Deaver | 2006 | American | English | |
| 7919 | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | 2014 | American | English | |
| 7929 | Winterwood | Patrick McCabe | 2006 | Irish | English | |
| 7976 | Trust Exercise | Susan Choi | 2019 | American | English |