The Greatest Books of All Time on Resilience

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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
5234 Intensity Dean R. Koontz 1995 American English
5259 Cockroaches Scholastique Mukasonga 2006 French French
5292 Padre Padrone Gavino Ledda 1975 Italian Italian
5349 A Street In Bronzeville Gwendolyn Brooks 1945 American English
5372 Endurance Alfred Lansing 1959 American English
5460 The Yellow House Sarah M. Broom 2019 American English
5517 Dolores Claiborne Stephen King 1992 American English
5612 Zuleikha Guzel Yakhina 2015 Russian Russian
5667 A Wake For The Living Radmila Lazić 1996 Serbian Serbian
5699 The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg 1962 Italian Italian
5773 The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway 1989 Australian English
5819 Perma Red Debra Magpie Earling 2002 American English
5938 Die Bertinis Ralph Giordano 1982 German German
5957 The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena Elsa Joubert 1978 South African Afrikaans
5970 Falling Leaves Adeline Yen Mah 1997 Chinese English
5996 The Coddling Of The American Mind Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff 2018 American English
6004 A Woman Named Solitude André Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6004 Night Edgar Hilsenrath 1964 German German
6004 Travaux Georges Navel 1945 French French
6082 The Lamplighter Maria Susanna Cummins 1854 American English
6194 Know My Name Chanel Miller 2019 American English
6216 The Sound Of Our Steps Ronit Matalon 2008 Israeli Hebrew
6225 Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane 1986 South African English
6260 Give Me Back My Mountains Albert Wass 1971 Hungarian Hungarian
6276 The Narrow Road To The Deep North Richard Flanagan 2013 Australian English
6303 A Life Of Her Own Émilie Carles 1977 French French
6321 A Fortunate Life A. B. Facey 1981 Australian English
6342 The Lost Country Luminița Cioabă 2002 Romanian Unknown
6369 All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones 2006 American English
6376 Beartown Fredrik Backman 2016 Swedish Swedish
6446 The Bridge Of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart 1972 French French
6482 Year Of Wonders Geraldine Brooks 2001 Australian English
6492 A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Isabella L. Bird 1879 British English
6493 Ruth Hall Fanny Fern 1854 American English
6537 Hunger Roxane Gay 2017 American English
6605 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
6655 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
6657 A Dream In Polar Fog Yuri Rytkheu 2005 Russian Russian
6676 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6733 Jubilee Margaret Walker 1966 American English
6736 The Women On The Island Ho Ahn Thai 1991 Vietnamese Vietnamese
6748 The Silent Steppe Mukhamet Shayakhmetov 2006 Kazakh English
6748 Sturmzeit Charlotte Link 1990 German German
6756 The Corpse Walker Liao Yiwu 2008 Chinese Chinese
6788 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
6821 Collected Stories Of William Saroyan William Saroyan 1943 American English
6835 There Are No Children Here Alex Kotlowitz 1991 American English
6845 For Those I Loved Martin Gray 1971 French French
6896 Doomsday Book Connie Willis 1992 American English
7063 Nightcrawling Leila Mottley 2022 American English
7067 Adventures Of A Breath Hayam Abbas Al-Homi 1989 Egyptian Unknown
7105 Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat 2007 Haitian English
7110 Journey Into The Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg 1967 Russian Russian
7122 127 Hours Aaron Ralston 2004 American English
7180 Retold African American Folktales David Haynes 1996 American Unknown
7195 The Storm Tomás González 1985 Colombian Spanish
7215 Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow 1935 American English
7214 The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture Janet Campbell Hale 1985 American English
7215 Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay 1929 Indian Bengali
7574 I Have Lived a Thousand Years Livia Bitton-Jackson 1997 Hungarian English
7592 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley 1974 American English
7624 Hard Times Studs Terkel 1970 American English
7646 Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night Sindiwe Magona 1991 South African English
7711 Child Of The Dark Carolina Maria De Jesus 1960 Brazilian Portuguese
7756 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
7763 Too Much Happiness Alice Munro 2009 Canadian English
7765 As If I Am Not There Slavenka Drakulic 1999 Croatian English
7795 Sleepwalking Land Mia Couto 1992 Mozambican Portuguese
7805 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung 2000 Cambodian English
7831 A Spare Life Lidija Dimkovksa 2012 Macedonian Macedonian
7877 Blackout/All Clear Connie Willis 2010 American English
7992 A World Apart Gustaw Herling 1951 Polish Polish
7995 Black Rain Masuji Ibuse 1965 Japanese Japanese
8057 Palestine Hubert Haddad 1989 French French
8063 A Paradise Built In Hell Rebecca Solnit 2009 American English
8067 All That She Carried Tiya Miles 2021 American English
8102 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Maryse Condé 1986 Guadeloupean French
8106 Thirty Years As A Slave And Four Years In The White House Elizabeth Keckley 1868 American English
8106 Call Home The Heart Olive Tilford Dargan 1932 American English
8106 The History Of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave Mary Prince 1831 British English
8106 The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson 1913 Canadian English
8106 Winter Wheat Mildred Walker 1944 American English
8173 Life Keith Richards 2010 British English
8197 A Daughter Of Han Ning Lao Tai-Tai, told to Ida Pruitt 1945 Chinese English
8244 The Work Of A Common Woman Judy Grahn 1978 American English
8274 The Education of Little Tree Forrest Carter 1976 American English
8323 Collected Stories Nadine Gordimer 1975 South African English
8420 Mary O'grady Mary Lavin 1950 Irish English
8458 The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander 2015 American English
8472 The Patrick Melrose Novels Edward St Aubyn 1992 British English
8595 Homecoming Cynthia Voigt 1981 American English
8601 Nisei Daughter Monica Itoi Sone 1953 American English
8606 Poems Of Robert Hayden Robert Hayden 1962 American English
8616 Enrique's Journey Sonia Nazario 2006 American English
8654 The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954 American English
8670 How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 1996 American English
8680 Adapt Tim Harford 2011 British English
8752 금요일엔 돌아오렴 세월호 참사 기록위원회 작가기록단 엮음 2014 Korean Korean
8793 Viper In The Fist Hervé Bazin 1948 French French
8799 The Valley Of The Moon Jack London 1913 American English
8843 Negative Space Luljeta Lleshanaku 2018 Albanian Albanian
8844 Zeitoun Dave Eggers 2009 American English
8846 Seeing Red Lina Meruane 2012 Chilean Spanish
8926 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
8935 The White Girl Tony Birch 2019 Australian English
8975 The Mother Pearl S. Buck 1934 American English
8976 Clavícula Marta Sanz 2015 Spanish Spanish
9005 Regain Jean Giono 1930 French French
9035 Them Old Cowboy Songs Annie Proulx 2008 American English
9052 Built From The Fire Victor Luckerson 2023 Unknown English
9072 Stone Upon Stone Wiesław Myśliwski 1984 Polish Polish
9191 How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Kiese Laymon 2013 American English
9191 The Rise Sarah Lewis 2014 Unknown English
9191 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9191 A Sliver Of Light Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd 2014 American English
9191 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9227 That's How It Was Natalia Ginzburg Italian Italian
9246 An Audience Of Chairs Joan Clark 2005 Canadian English
9340 Rails Under My Back Jeffery Renard Allen 2000 American English
9505 God Bless The Child Kristin Hunter 1964 American English