The Greatest Books of All Time on Self Discovery
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17119 | Breakfast With Buddha | Roland Merullo | 2007 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Oona Out Of Order | Margarita Montimore | 2020 | Unknown | English | |
| 16866 | Taran Wanderer | Lloyd Alexander | 1967 | American | English | |
| 17119 | You Better Be Lightning | Andrea Gibson | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Horse Barbie | Geena Rocero | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 16938 | Buddha | Osamu Tezuka | 1972 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17119 | Evening Class | Maeve Binchy | 1996 | Irish | English | |
| 17119 | Better Than The Movies | Lynn Painter | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Ms. Hempel Chronicles | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Ramifications | Daniel Saldaña París | 2018 | Mexican | Spanish | |
| 17119 | The Gullet | Clinton Palanca | Philippine | English | ||
| 17119 | Stork Mountain | Miroslav Penkov | 2016 | Bulgarian | English | |
| 17119 | Dry Season | Gabriela Babnik | 2012 | Unknown | Slovene | |
| 17119 | Border State | Tõnu Õnnepalu | 1993 | Estonian | Estonian | |
| 17119 | Living Untethered | Michael A. Singer | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17119 | We Were Dreamers | Marjorie Liu | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Midwife's Apprentice | Karen Cushman | 1995 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Yoga | Emmanuel Carrère | 2020 | French | French | |
| 17119 | Eleven Minutes | Paulo Coelho | 2003 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17119 | Carry On | Rainbow Rowell | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17119 | The Hike | Drew Magary | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Born Standing Up | Steve Martin | 2007 | American | English | |
| 16990 | Winged Pharaoh | Joan Grant | 1937 | British | English | |
| 17119 | Maurice And Maralyn | Sophie Elmhirst | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 16888 | Family Happiness And Other Stories | Leo Tolstoy | 1973 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17119 | Ripe | Sarah Rose Etter | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Aliens & Anorexia | Chris Kraus | 2000 | American | English | |
| 17119 | I Was Told There'd Be Cake | Sloane Crosley | 2008 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Turtle Diary | Russell Hoban | 1975 | British | English | |
| 17119 | Dancing On The Edge | Han Nolan | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17119 | The Canning Season | Polly Horvath | 2003 | Canadian | English | |
| 17119 | August Blue | Deborah Levy | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17119 | The Day My Bum Went Psycho | Andy Griffiths | 2001 | Australian | English | |
| 17119 | Honus & Me | Dan Gutman | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Judy Moody | Megan McDonald | 2000 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining | Anne Mazer | 2000 | American | English | |
| 16993 | Under The Autumn Star | Knut Hamsun | 1906 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17052 | The Wanderer | Knut Hamsun | 1917 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 17119 | Shrek! | William Steig | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Zpověď Maxe Tivoliho | Andrew Sean Greer | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Rouge | Mona Awad | 2023 | Canadian | English | |
| 17119 | The Captain | Will Wight | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Dyscalculia | Camonghne Felix | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Twisted Lies | Ana Huang | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Him | Sarina Bowen | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Black Girl, Call Home | Jasmine Mans | 2021 | American | English | |
| 17119 | I Want To Eat Your Pancreas | Yoru Sumino | 2015 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17119 | Katherine Carlyle | Rupert Thomson | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17119 | The Ecliptic | Benjamin Wood | 2015 | British | English | |
| 17119 | I Swear I'll Make It Up To You | Mishka Shubaly | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Threshold | Rob Doyle | 2020 | Irish | English | |
| 17119 | The First Bad Man | Miranda July | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Delilah Green Doesn't Care | Ashley Herring Blake | 2022 | American | English | |
| 17012 | Valentino / Sagittarius | Natalia Ginzburg | 1957 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17119 | The Horsemasters | Joan Wolf | 1993 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Ruan | Bryher | 1960 | British | English | |
| 17119 | Nicholas Cooke | Stephanie Cowell | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Frenchwoman | Jeanne Mackin | 1989 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Time Of The Gringo | Elliott Arnold | 1970 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Fancher Train | Amelia Bean | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17119 | The Literature Express | Lasha Bugadze | 2009 | Georgian | Georgian | |
| 17119 | The Orphan Sky | Ella Leya | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Solar Plexus | Rustam Ibragimbekov | 1996 | Azerbaijani | English | |
| 17119 | Maya & Natasha | Elyse Durham | Unknown | Unknown | ||
| 17119 | A Second Chance For Yesterday | RA Sinn | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Mobility | Lydia Kiesling | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing | Melissa Banks | 1999 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Glow | Jessie Gaynor | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Grand Tour | Elisa Gonzalez | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | How To Build A Boat | Elaine Feeney | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | About Ed | Robert Gluck | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Love Of Singular Men | Victor Heringer | 2023 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 17119 | Naked In The Rideshare | Rebecca Shaw, Ben Kronengold | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17119 | Mapping The Darkness | Kenneth Miller | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | January | Sara Gallardo | 2023 | Argentine | Spanish | |
| 17119 | The Dimensions Of A Cave | Greg Jackson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | How To Be Multiple | Helena de Bres | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17119 | Monica | Daniel Clowes | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | This Country | Navied Mahdavian | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | How To Be | Adam Nicolson | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17119 | How To Say Babylon | Safiya Sinclair | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Father And Son | Jonathan Raban | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17119 | Hangman | Maya Binyam | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Temple Folk | Aaliyah Bilal | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Five Sorrowful Mysteries Of Andy Africa | Stephen Buoro | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | My Stupid Intentions | Bernardo Zannoni | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17119 | The Centre | Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Tom Lake | Ann Patchett | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Hope | Andrew Ridker | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Dykette | Jenny Fran Davis | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17119 | Fire Rush | Jacqueline Crooks | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Elsewhere | Yan Ge | 2023 | Chinese | English | |
| 17119 | I Do Everything I’m Told | Megan Fernandes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Book Of Eve | Carmen Boullosa | 2023 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 17119 | Lament For Julia | Susan Taubes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Be Mine | Richard Ford | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | A Life Of One’s Own | Joanna Biggs | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Biting The Hand | Julia Lee | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Girl Juice | Benji Nate | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Shy | Max Porter | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17119 | Impossible People | Julia Wertz | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Romantic Comedy | Curtis Sittenfeld | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | The Fawn | Magda Szabó | 2023 | Hungarian | Hungarian | |
| 17119 | We Should Not Be Friends | Will Schwalbe | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | An Autobiography Of Skin | Lakiesha Carr | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Dog Of The North | Elizabeth McKenzie | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | Big Swiss | Jen Beagin | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17119 | The Half Known Life | Pico Iyer | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17119 | Daughter In Exile | Bisi Adjapon | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Why You’ll Never Find The One | Sarah Akinterinwa | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Sense Of Wonder | Matthew Salesses | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The Guest Lecture | Martin Riker | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | The New Life | Tom Crewe | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Forbidden Notebook | Alba de Céspedes | 2023 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17119 | Holding Pattern | Jenny Xie | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | I Do Everything I’m Told | Megan Fernandes | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go | Cleo Qian | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | None Of The Above | Travis Alabanza | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17119 | Nothing Special | Nicole Flattery | 2023 | Irish | English |