The Greatest Books of All Time on Tradition

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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
17163 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin 2009 Pakistani English
17163 The Auberge Of The Flowering Hearth Roy Andries De Groot 1973 American English
17163 Passing The Time In Ballymenone Henry Glassie 1982 American English
17163 When French Women Cook Madeleine Kamman 1976 American English
16808 The Dead Of The House Hannah Green 1971 American English
17163 World Of Our Fathers Irving Howe 1976 American English
17163 Voices Of The Old Sea Norman Lewis 1984 British English
17163 Dakota Kathleen Norris 1993 American English
17163 The Village Of Waiting George Packer 1988 American English
17163 Giving Up The Gun Noel Perrin 1979 American English
17163 The Three Golden Keys Petr Sis 1994 Czech English
17163 Kaddish Leon Wieseltier 1998 Kaddish English
17163 Swallow Barn John Pendleton Kennedy 1832 American English
17163 Paper Fish Tina de Rosa 1980 American English
17163 The Woman Who Owned The Shadows Paula Gunn Allen 1983 American English
17163 Lame Deer Richard Erodes, John Fire Lame Deer 1972 Unknown English
17163 The Slynx Tatyana Tolstaya 2000 Russian Russian
16887 The Crisis Of The Modern World (Guenon, Rene. Works.) René Guénon 1927 French French
16852 Revolt Against The Modern World Julius Evola 1934 Italian Italian
17065 The Islandman Tomás Ó Crohan 1929 Irish Irish
17163 The Long Way Back Fouad Al-Takarli 1980 Iraqi Arabic
17163 No One Sleeps In Alexandria Ibrahim Abdel Meguid 1996 Egyptian Arabic
17163 Orbits of the East Nabil Suleiman 1993 Syrian Unknown
17163 The Decade's Night Muhammad Salih al-Jabri 1982 Unknown Unknown
17163 تشريفة آل المر Abdul-Karim Nassif 1998 Syrian Arabic
17163 دار المتعة Dar El Mit3a Walid Ikhlassi 1997 Syrian Arabic
17163 Death In Beirut Tawfiq Yousef Awad 1973 Lebanese Arabic
17163 Najran Under Zero Yaha Yakhlaf 1975 Unknown Unknown
17163 Recognition Ali Abu Al-Rish Emirati Unknown
17163 The Heron Ibrahim Aslan 1983 Egyptian Arabic
17163 The Hostage Zayd Mutee Dammaj 1984 Yemeni Arabic
17163 The Game Of Forgetting Mohammed Berrada 1987 Moroccan Arabic
17163 Winter Wind Mubarak Al-Rabih 1977 Moroccan Unknown
17163 Return To Dar Al Basha Ḥasan Naṣr 1994 Tunisian Unknown
17163 The Windy City Moussa Ould Ebnou 1998 Unknown Unknown
17163 The Seven Days Of Man Abdel-Hakim Qasim 1984 Egyptian Arabic
17163 The Crane Halim Barakat 1988 Syrian Arabic
17163 Wind From The South Abdelhamid Ben Haddouka 1971 Algerian Unknown
17163 Wasmiya Comes Out Of The Sea Laila al-Othman 1984 Kuwaiti Arabic
17163 Sana’a Mohammed Abdul Wali 2005 Yemeni Unknown
17163 After The Sunset Mohamed Abdel-Halim Abdulla Egyptian Unknown
17163 Aisha Al-Bashir bin Salamah Multiple Unknown
17163 Al Daqqala In Arajenha Al-Bashir Khareef 1969 Tunisian Arabic
17163 Les 1001 années de la nostalgie Rachid Boudjedra 1997 Algerian French
17163 And My Share Of The Horizon Abdel Qader Ben Shaikh Tunisian Unknown
17163 Al Khamasseya Ismail Fahd Ismail 2002 Kuwaiti Arabic
17163 Ras Beirut Yasin Rifa’ieh 1987 Unknown Unknown
17163 Eye Of The Sun Khalifa Hussein Mustapha 1999 Lebanese Unknown
17163 Clamor Of The Lake Mohammed El-Bisatie 1994 Egyptian Arabic
17163 The Sleepwalkers Sa’ad Makkawi Egyptian Unknown
17163 1952 Jamil Atiyah Ibrahim 1990 Unknown Unknown
17163 Birds Of September Emily Nasrallah 1962 Lebanese Arabic
17163 Essential Pillars Elias Farkouh 2002 Jordanian Unknown
17163 Al Wasmiya Abdel-aziz Mishri Unknown Unknown
17163 The Berries Of Murr Mohamed Al Aroussi Al Matuie Tunisian Unknown
17163 Sound, Water And Fire Abdulla Khalifa 1995 Unknown Unknown
17163 English Creek Ivan Doig 1984 American English
17163 Coyote Waits Tony Hillerman 1990 American English
17163 Rabbit Boss Thomas Sanchez 1973 American English
17163 Fools Crow James Welch 1986 American English
17078 The Splendid Idle Forties Gertrude Atherton 1902 American English
17163 Stick Out Your Tongue Ma Jian 1987 Chinese Chinese
17163 Frog Yan Mo 2009 Chinese Chinese
17163 Wolf Totem Jiang Rong 2004 Chinese Chinese
17163 Lotus Lijia Zhang 2017 Chinese English
17163 Accabadora Michela Murgia 2009 Italian Italian
17163 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17163 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17163 Chocolat Joanne Harris 1999 British English
17163 Bury Me Standing Isobel Fonseca 1995 Unknown English
17163 Gathering Blue Lois Lowry 2000 American English
17163 Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 2017 Nigerian English
17163 Finding Them Gone Red Pine 2015 Chinese English
17163 How To Be A Good Savage And Other Poems Mikeas Sánchez Unknown Spanish
17163 The Republic Of Dreams Nélida Piñon 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
17163 Šeptuchy Alena Sabuchová 2019 Slovak Slovak
17163 Season Of The Swamp Yuri Herrera 2022 Unknown English
17163 The Gullet Clinton Palanca Philippine English
17163 Memories Of Philippine Kitchens Amy Besa, Romy Dorotan 2006 Philippine English
17163 Stork Mountain Miroslav Penkov 2016 Bulgarian English
17163 The Cavemen Chronicle Mihkel Mutt 2012 Estonian Estonian
17163 Great Italian Stories Jhumpa Lahiri 2023 Unknown Italian
17163 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
17163 Thud! Terry Pratchett 2005 British English
17163 Carpe Jugulum Terry Pratchett 1998 British English
17163 The Last Continent Terry Pratchett 1998 British English
17163 Record Of A Spaceborn Few Becky Chambers 2018 American English
17163 Wintersmith Terry Pratchett 2006 British English
17163 Why Liberalism Failed Patrick J. Deneen 2018 American English
16865 The Silent Cry Kenzaburō Ōe 1967 Japanese Japanese
17163 A Place For Us Fatima Farheen Mirza 2018 American English
17163 جای خالی سلوچ Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 1979 Iranian Persian
17163 The Thing About Luck Cynthia Kadohata 2013 American English
17163 China Room Sunjeev Sahota 2021 British English
17163 The Marriage Of Sense And Soul Ken Wilber 1998 American English
17163 Quicksand And Cactus Juanita Brooks 1982 American English
17163 Misericórdia Lídia Jorge Portuguese Portuguese
17163 The Bright Book Of Life Harold Bloom 2020 American English
17163 Magisteria Nicholas Spencer Unknown Unknown
17163 The Underground Girls Of Kabul Jenny Nordberg 2014 Unknown English
17163 Heavenly Participation Boersma, Hans 2011 Canadian English
17088 Epic Of Sundiata Unknown 1235 Multiple Mandinka
17145 Daredevils Of Sassoun Unknown 800 Multiple Armenian
17163 The Bossy Gallito El Gallo De Bodas Lucía M. González 1994 Unknown English
17163 Joseph Had A Little Overcoat Simms Taback 1977 American English
17163 Just A Minute Yuyi Morales 2003 Unknown English
17163 Rickshaw Girl Mitali Perkins 2007 American English
17163 Starry River Of The Sky Grace Lin 2012 American English
17163 The Tales Of Uncle Remus Julius Lester 1987 American English
17163 Tomie De Paola’s Mother Goose Tomie dePaola 1985 American English
17163 The Broken String Neil Bennun 2004 Unknown English
17163 The Rise & Fall Of The Zulu Nation John Laband 1995 Unknown English
16808 دایی جان ناپلئون Iraj Pezeshkzad 1973 Iranian Persian
17163 Christmas Days Jeanette Winterson 2016 British English
17163 The Immortals Of Tehran Ali Araghi 2020 Unknown English
17163 The Drowned Moniro Ravanipour 1989 Unknown Persian
17163 To Keep The Sun Alive Rabeah Ghaffari 2019 Unknown English
17163 The Gardens Of Consolation Parisa Reza 2015 Unknown French
17163 Space Between Us Zoya Pirzad 1997 Iranian Persian
17163 The Pomegranate Lady And Her Sons Goli Taraghi 2013 Iranian Persian