The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Virginia

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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
351 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
483 The Civil War Shelby Foote 1958 American English
552 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1895 American English
574 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003 American English
906 Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington 1901 American English
1197 Light Years James Salter 1975 American English
1434 R. E. Lee Douglas Southall Freeman 1934 American English
1541 The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 1967 American English
1557 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 1974 American English
1817 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
1925 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano 1789 African English
2602 Darkness Visible William Styron 1990 American English
2613 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
2858 A Mercy Toni Morrison 2008 American English
2961 Jefferson and His Time Dumas Malone 1948 American English
3271 Postmortem Patricia Daniels Cornwell 1990 American English
3311 Growing Up Russell Baker 1982 American English
3809 The Writing Life Annie Dillard 1989 American English
3842 An Extraordinary Union Alyssa Cole 2017 American English
3952 Clotel William Wells Brown 1853 American English
4164 The Good Lord Bird James McBride 2013 American English
4166 Confederates Thomas Keneally 1979 Australian English
4572 The Taste Of Country Cooking Edna Lewis 1976 American English
4752 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
5307 Lee's Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1943 American English
5311 The Adams Jefferson Letters Lester J. Cappon 1959 American English
5330 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5424 The City And The Pillar Gore Vidal 1948 American English
5863 Barren Ground Ellen Glasgow 1925 American English
6096 True Betrayals Nora Roberts 1995 American English
6493 The Hidden Hand Or, Capitola The Madcap E. D. E. N. Southworth 1859 American English
6541 Hold Still Sally Mann 2015 American English
6582 Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi 2018 Nigerian English
6681 Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby 2020 American English
7000 The Gray Man Mark Greaney 2009 American English
7135 To All The Boys I've Loved Before Jenny Han 2014 American English
7149 Tempting The Beast Lora Leigh 2003 American English
7169 The Man In Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart 1909 American English
7216 Vein Of Iron Ellen Glasgow 1935 American English
7588 Commonwealth Ann Patchett 2016 American English
7672 The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater 2012 American English
7961 The Starr Report Kenneth W. Starr 1998 American English
7967 The Long March William Styron 1952 American English
8107 Thirty Years As A Slave And Four Years In The White House Elizabeth Keckley 1868 American English
8107 Virginia Ellen Glasgow 1913 American English
8402 Genie Russ Rymer 1993 American English
8724 King Of Ashes S. A. Cosby 2025 Unknown English
8746 All The Sinners Bleed S. A. Cosby 2023 American English
8779 Proud Shoes Pauli Murray 1956 American English
8856 The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 2019 American English
8927 The End Of Men Hanna Rosin 2012 American English
9029 Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver 2000 American English
9192 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell 2017 American English
9262 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9287 Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Tom Robbins 1976 American English
9326 The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 American English
9914 Miracle Creek Angie Kim 2019 American English
10008 Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Hobson Quinn 1941 American English
10173 March Geraldine Brooks 2005 American English
10173 Night Watch Jayne Anne Phillips 2023 American English
10203 The Life of John Marshall Albert J. Beveridge 1916 American English
10453 Dopesick Beth Macy 2018 American English
10453 Early Work Andrew Martin 2018 American English
10453 Arthur Ashe: A Life Raymond Arsenault 2018 Unknown English
10501 The Second Oldest Profession Phillip Knightley 1986 British English
10726 The Amalgamation Polka Stephen Wright 2006 American English
10788 Washington Ron Chernow 2010 American English
10832 Six Of One Rita Mae Brown 1978 American English
10888 Things We Never Got Over Lucy Score 2022 American English
10901 America’s Women Gail Collins 2003 American English
10907 Liveblog Megan Boyle 2015 American English
10921 Classified David E. Bernstein 2022 American English
11162 Lie Down In Darkness William Styron 1951 American English
11310 James Tiptree, Jr. Julie Phillips 2006 Unknown English
11362 America's God Mark Noll 2002 American English
11455 In This Our Life Ellen Glasgow 1941 American English
11663 The Burning House Ann Beattie 1982 American English
11663 American Dialogue Joseph Ellis 2018 American English
11663 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11663 We The Corporations Adam Winkler 2018 American English
11854 Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Allen Guelzo 2004 American English
11861 Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall 1994 American English
11941 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters Ray Stannard Baker 1927 American English
11941 Crusader in Crinoline Forrest Wilson 1941 American English
11941 Edmund Pendleton 1721–1803 David J. Mays 1952 American English
11941 George Washington Douglas Southall Freeman 1948 American English
11941 Fortunate Son Lewis B. Puller 1991 American English
12082 Shop Class As Soulcraft Matthew B. Crawford 2009 American English
12084 River Time Janet Lembke 1989 American English
12120 Culpability Bruce Holsinger 2025 Unknown English
12287 To Change The World James Davison Hunter 2010 American English
12316 Our Savage Neighbors Peter Silver 2008 Unknown English
12393 Abraham Lincoln Michael Burlingame 2008 American English
12428 The Twenty Six Words That Created The Internet Jeff Kosseff 2019 American English
12470 And The Pursuit Of Happiness Maira Kalman 2010 American English
12834 A Woman's Civil War Cornelia Peake McDonald 1992 American English
13067 Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 1977 American English
13533 The Writings Of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson 1903 American English
13742 Darconville's Cat Alexander Theroux 1981 American English
13968 In The Matter Of Nat Turner Christopher Tomlins 2020 Unknown English
14065 Thomas Jefferson Thomas S. Kidd 2022 Unknown English
14160 The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come John Fox Jr. 1903 American English
14226 To Have And To Hold Mary Johnston 1900 American English
14386 The Deliverance Ellen Glasgow 1904 American English
14486 Mislaid Nell Zink 2015 American English
14547 Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1911 American English
14985 A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton 1953 American English
14985 The Hemingses of Monticello Annette Gordon-Reed 2008 American English
14985 The Internal Enemy Alan Taylor 2013 American English
14985 Follow the River James Alexander Thom 1981 American English
14985 The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones 2020 American English
14985 Razorblade Tears S. A. Cosby 2021 American English
14985 Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks 2005 American English
15916 Iola Leroy Frances Harper 1892 American English
15916 The Sheltered Life Ellen Glasgow 1932 American English
15916 An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States Charles A. Beard 1913 American English
15916 The Crossing Winston Churchill 1904 American English
15916 Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1899 American English
15916 Tree Of Liberty Elizabeth Page 1939 Unknown English
15916 Roll, Shenandoah Bruce Lancaster 1949 American English